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How can we protest a deadline that is too short?
Our Project manager made a project's presentation and assigned it to our team. The amount of work was estimated at 3 weeks.
Our team members discussed the project and we calculated that the amount ...
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How can I get my workers more committed to their tasks? [closed]
I feel that not all workers are fully committed to their tasks.
I would like to see them ask more questions, make sure their work is done on the best side, make sure deadlines are met, and generally ...
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Juggling Projects in a Matrix Management Organization [closed]
I keep running into this problem over and over when I work in relatively large companies with a matrix management organization.
Basically, I deal with multiple concurrent projects. My "deliverables" ...
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How do I politely ask about the “urgency” of a work request - i.e. what date should it be completed by?
I work in an IT Help Desk role, and I often get requests that have vague "due-dates". So maybe a Project Manager wants a large database pull, which will take at least a week of my time.
But they ...
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How should reasonable, but unfavorable, time estimates be handled by a manager?
Presenting time estimates is a negotiation process: worker gives a high estimate, manager pushes to get the work done in a shorter period of time. However, besides this old-fashioned downward ...
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How soon after should I follow up on a missed deadline?
If someone working on a document tells me he will email it to me tomorrow, and that I will have it by 10:00, how long after the deadline should I wait to follow up?
I feel that emailing (or worse, ...
