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Are there advantages to joining PMI before paying for/taking PMP exam?

I had read somewhere that you can receive a discount on the PMP exam fee if you are a PMI member, but this seems debatable when you consider that you need to pay for the membership. Other than a digital copy of the PMPBOK, have any of you found…
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Habits of an exceptional Team Lead: Practical examples

As one of the senior guys in our development team, I would like to start moving into a lead position. The team leads I have worked with in an Agile development environment have been pretty good, but few of them have been exceptional. I have worked…
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How to anticipate delays in the project schedule?

I once managed a very intensive, very complex project that with every tool, illustrated an on-time schedule. But in the end, the project was severely delayed. I understand the concept of "known unknowns", "unknown unknowns" and scope creep; but what…
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Denying payments as a project deadline penalty

I've just had a bad project experience. I was a subcontract programmer of a subcontract software house. I've been assigned as a single developer to build an application. During the development process, I suffered a rather severe illness which…
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How can I manage a Scrum project and meet the requests of the PMO while using Microsoft Project?

I searched other questions and still can't figure out how we can manage a project that uses the Scrum methodology with tools like Microsoft Project. We are a big software company using Microsoft Project Enterprise, and we control our project with…
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How to approach a project given to new PM during execution with vague requirements?

One of our PMs just got a new project that was on the execution phase with vague requirements. Because of these vague requirements, the Client have requested many changes, and the product development team have miss-interpret some of them as well.…
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Should a Scrum Team be comprised of Engineers from different code bases? Or is that irrelevant?

We have a "product suite" that is comprised of 3 main products with separate code bases, 2 C projects, 1 Java. The engineers have been placed on the same scrum team in the name of having a cross-functional team, since the three products make a…
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Database build up estimation for time

I was asked to estimate my time for building a database engine, which would be a session-aware engine, in order to persist in memory the objects of the db. The thing is that I had a code, an engine depended on Spring & Hibernate which didn't do…
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What does a quality management plan look like?

I'm developing a quality management plan as part of a study assignment. I guess I'm a bit lost on where to begin. What general structure should a quality management document have? Or will it look different for each project? Should this document list…
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Is it possible to reduce costs by crashing a project?

I'm working on a study assignment, which involves creating a WBS and GANTT chart for a 6-month project. Then I'm supposed expedite one of the tasks by increasing resources to it, thus decreasing the amount of time required to perform it. So I add…
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Structuring a WBS

Should the structuring of tasks in a WBS be according to vertical "features" of a product or horizontal "aspects" of a product? For example, say I'm developing warehouse software with 3 modules: Orders Inventory Shipping And suppose there are two…
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Is it normal to occasionally have two milestones with the same completion date?

I'm developing a list of milestones for a hypothetical software development project. Two of the milestones I've come up with are: MILESTONE DUE DATE STAKEHOLDER ACCEPTANCE…
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Is it important to have a clearly defined methodology from the outset of a project?

I'm a final year undergraduate student studying software engineering. 1 module for my final year consists of a development project of approximately 6 months. I'm completely new to this level of project management or even duration. Last year on…
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How do you estimate for a 're-build' where you are rebuilding an existing piece of software, and can agile be used?

Having experienced multiple 're-build' projects in my career, I know that it is hard to capture all of the requirements from the working software. Often because of the size of the code base and lack of documentation. To the client, it seems clear…
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What is a Scrum master to do when management do not support Agile and Scrum?

Scrum has come out of R&D. The organisation has scaled significantly. The organisation recruited more developers, Scrum masters and product owners (POs) and more managers. All of the managers talk like they understand and back Agile and Scrum,…
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