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How to approach a supervisor about the high risk of failure of his/her project?

In the event a manager takes on a particularly ambitious project, it is quite possible s/he has done so with a lack of understanding of the level of expertise or time needed to complete the task. It's also quite possible the manager may not be…
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How to add value beyond collecting tasks and their dates?

As a project manager I catalogue a group's tasks, definitions, dependencies, milestones, resources, and similar other elements of a project. The managers use this to report up, estimate project health, and anticipate problems with deadlines. This…
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What Information to have on project planning sticky notes?

I've been assigned as PM to an ongoing project that had a few issues when I started. It looks like these have been resolved but the team will have to review and update the project plan to address changes in scope, delays that have occurred to get to…
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Do I Need to Match-up the Functional Spec with the Spec in the Contract

This maybe a bit of a noob question to you client facing PM's out there, but I'm a PM with a pre-sales background, so please bear with me. I'm used to working on projects where you have an initial scope (high level) and you work with the customer to…
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How to encourage people to use a physical board?

Recently, we introduced a physical board to visualise work progress in one of our projects. In the first few iteration the team was very excited about it and used the board very often. We saw true commitment and team spirit. Now, however, they just…
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Is keeping two project plans ever appropriate?

I feel that if I publish a project plan that shows completion on date X, I can't very well push for completion at date (X - 3 weeks). But If I publish a plan that shows date (X-3 weeks), how can I track the "most likely" completion date (which is…
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How to I cut down on all of the communications?

I am new to Project Management. I am coming in on a project that was just implemented and is now in Post Implementation. The roles do not seem to be fully understood be everyone. Now, when something goes wrong, the world is emailing the world;…
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How to resolve conflicts in team work?

Say there are two people working together. Person 1 has more knowledge and skills than person 2. Say person 2 suggests a way to do things. However person 1 sees a better way to do it. Person 1 explains to person 2 why his way is superiour. Person 1…
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Technical Specification Tools

I am planning to write a technical specification document / functional specification for my personal project. Can anybody suggest any useful links / tools / templates that can help me? I am mainly looking for tools (preferably freeware).
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Release Notes Best Practices

What are some tips for writing good release notes? Any best practices or examples? My audience is both my QA department and the executive team.
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How to share information found on the internet with the team?

I need a simple way to share texts, links to frameworks, videos and, of course, actual project data with multiple people. Things that come to mind are blog, wiki and public Facebook page. I also presume there is some software that could be used for…
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Does a PhD degree enable one to take PMP exam?

this is my first question on this board as I've stumbled over it on my internet search for my question... I'm pursuing my PhD in Biomedical Engineering, have done a several industrial internships (overseas and in Canada) and I've supervised two…
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Electronic kanban board

In my project we decided to use Kanban. We started with trello, the application is very nice but it has too few features. It doesn't support: WIP limits Class of service Multiple swim lanes Which application can you recommend us to use? Are there…
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Where do I find public JIRA/Greenhopper instance used by Kanban project teams?

I'd love to see Atlassian's JIRA/Greenhopper Rapid Board in action, i.e. actively used in a Kanban project. So far I have not been able to find a public one. Do you know any (e.g. open source) project teams using Greenhopper for Kanban…
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Where can I find a free website for managing closed source project development?

Is there any free webpage/web application for managing project development with these requirements: Writing public posts of news about project (new version, new logic etc) - can be as blog posts. Simple public bug reporter. Private (for developer…
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