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Tool suggestion to manage multiple projects / people working on several projects at once?

This is the situation in our office and I would need a recommendation which tool to you to facilitate our work. At the moments, things are slowly slipping out of my hands. What we have: many projects with its own tasks many people working…
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Communication/Handoff Checklists

I have been having many issues getting bug/tasks provided with the correct information in them. And other points where a task is handed off along the workflow require the recipient to get certain bits of information. For tomorrows meeting our PM…
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What should I do in my weekly updates to project plans

Project plans don't update themselves, sadly. So I'm trying to figure out what I need to do to keep them up to date. I can update work complete as tasks get done, but what should I be doing to ensure that we're on schedule according to the plan?
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How to organize multiple releases/feature sets

I'm the product manager for two of my company's application sets, and I've been running into some difficulties trying to manage future releases and how best to move them around. If I have version 2.2 currently in development, I have versions…
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Trust issues with a client

I've been negotiating recently with a client who is... well... a bit difficult to work with, to say the least. He was the first to contact me and request my services. He wants me to build an enterprise class app for his company but he is very…
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As a project manager, how do you manage interpersonal conflicts between your team members?

I am talking about a personality conflict, between two people or more, that builts up tension in the team, ruins the team spirit and worsen the quality of life at work. Most of the time, those are not open conflicts, but unspoken; but you can…
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How detailed should my time management be?

I work as a freelancer and want to start tracking my time, but how do I decide how detailed this should be? Currently, I just keep track of the time I spend on various projects, but I don't subdivide my time between different parts of those…
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Would you hire a project manager with no programmer background in an IT environment?

As a team member, or as a programmer, would you accept a boss like that? If he wants to learn and he is interested by programming and what a programmer does? Can somebody with not programming background understands quickly how an IT environment…
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What are alternative methods of deciding how much employees get paid?

In almost every company I've been to, pay is decided by a yearly review using feedback garnered from colleagues. This has a lot of negatives associated with it. People save feedback until the year end, instead of giving it regularly. They end up…
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How to integrate Project Managers within an organisation

We do have around 50 PMs in the organisation and they all manage different projects; for different clients; different technologies, different teams. So they are a bit isolated from each other. The integration is quite good within a team, but not as…
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Should I do reference checks on an experienced candidate?

We're looking at a candidate who has 20 years of experience (largely consulting) who we're thinking of hiring. Our hiring manager thinks we shouldn't check references saying things like "It's not prudent to check references for someone with over 20…
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How to effectively prepare for a Program Manager internship?

I've been offered one of my dream internships for this next summer. I'll be working as a "Program Manager" for a top notch software company. For some examples of what I mean by PM, take a look at Joel's article as well as Microsoft's PM internship…
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Buffers, tolerances - how do you approach them in your project management practice?

How do you apply them in practice? What tools do you use / what would you recommend?
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Pay raise linked to velocity?

Is it a good idea to link a team's sprint velocity to bonuses or salary increases? For example, if one increases the average sprint velocity by 10 percent at the end of a year? Or are there other metrics that could be more useful?
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How to improve Scrum Master performance

Update: I think we can assume that my manager does not see me as a pure scrum master but more like a leader of the team. I am a Scrum Master and my manager has told me basically that I am not performing because my teams are not delivering enough…
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