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My boss says a Senior PM should show more commitment
As a PM I am working with a team and I almost always define our times, however, sometimes my boss stipulates a deadline to the presentation, and even when I discuss it with him he explains the project won't be on budget if we don't get it on…
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Should project management and business analysis be seperate roles and teams?
We are doing a review or several teams and in certain cases the PM and BA roles are combined into one and in other cases they are seperated out into completely independent teams. I am looking at this from 2 angles.
1. Whats best for the efficiency…
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How to estimate accurate velocity when team members are on leave
I am a Scrum Master of a team with 12 members. I know that the size of the team is large at this point, but as we grow further we will divide the team into multiple Scrum Teams. Our estimations for the User Stories are based on Story Points. For the…
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Need an advice on Project management and company structure for a small social media agency (10-15 ppl)
I need your advice folks!
I know the question may be quite trivial but I haven't found any related to my situation answers. And I don't know where to start
We have new start-up company, that has grown in to 10-15 ppl too quickly, that we even…
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How can I update a MS Project plan to show schedule slippage?
Once I've set up my baseline, I like to use the Tracking view to see schedule slippage (ie: is a project going to be "late"?). The problem occurs when I'm updating the % Complete, but a task that was supposed to be complete (or in progress) has not…
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How does a team (new to product and domain) estimate user stories of a ten year old product?
I am the scrum master for one of the products in a software development company. Our team, including me, operates from India. However my product owner is in USA. We are working on the feature development for this product that exists for ten years…
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Is interspersing different teams a good idea?
Update: (a PM-specific concern) Having developers working close together is valuable to my team - people tend to naturally ask more questions, get involved in code-related conversations they overhear, do more pair programming sessions etc. With the…
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Should meeting minutes be captured during Scrums of Scrums?
We hold daily Scrum of Scrums meetings on our project. The participants (i.e. non-technical managers) each manage several smaller projects and provide updates on their projects (from their daily scrums the day before). During the Scrum of Scrums,…
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What should a project manager do to on-board remote team members efficiently?
What can I do as a project manager to ensure new team members are quickly brought up to speed within the project team?
The team is multidisciplinary, having mobile software engineers, UI & UX designers, front-end and back-end web developers, and…
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When a full-time project member is better than a part-time one?
Under what circumstances a full-time member of a project team is more preferred than a part-time one? And vise versa.
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Slow client answers
Let's say, I have a project with well fixed deadlines, and a pretty good specification. Every specification needs additional discussion, with taking in consideration the client's requirements (I mean, this additional specifications won't be…
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Physical board/overview for multiple projects with many participants
We're a webdesign agency with numerous simultaneous projects, and a lot of people working on different projects. We already have an online PM-system which works fairly well, but we'd like a physical board to represent the current status.
Is there…
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Is "what browser do we have to support" in SCRUM an impediment or a user story?
The PO defined a user story, roughly saying: "As an employee want to use functionality X in our web interface". The functionality is well defined and for internal use in a large company, but during planning the dev-team asks: what is our minimum…
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Interview preparation tips for junior project manager position or project manager with no experiences
What kind of preparations or any helpful tips should be done/handle ahead for going in interview for junior project manager position or project manager position? ( A person who has no PM experiences like advancing career or a fresh grad)
What are…
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Can we use a electronic Kanban board to track actual time spent?
My title sums up my question pretty well. We're investigating whether we can use a Kanban-based system to manage and track some internal projects and one of our requirements is to track time spent on activities. This will allow us to collect stats…
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