Project management is a professional field involving managing the scope, changes, schedule, and completion of a temporary endeavor that has a clear end. This is a professional field with it's own certifications and professional educational programs. If your question relates to the workplace, ask it ...
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Participation in Product line testing
Once a week we perform a test where we encourage everyone who works on the product line (~100 people) to follow a script and test several different clients from the product line. At first we started ...
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How should I measure time spent on work assignments? [closed]
Background: I'm a vocational student and have recently received my Bachelor-Thesis project. Quite a cool thing imo - I get to completely build the customer reporting system for my IT department within ...
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Where do I search for resources to gain a basic understanding of writing software programs [closed]
I am a young entrepreneur with a partner who is very experienced in building software and coding. He, however, has never had much to do with the planning and creating requirements side of the ...
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Should I know what work/tasks/projects are next?
I've recently started working at a software development company where the style seems quite different to my previous experiences. Mainly, the work comes infrequently and after I finish it, I don't ...
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How can I break a verbal commitment without burning bridges with my current employer?
I have verbally agreed to a 6-month project through an outsourcing agency because I could not find any other work. Now that I have agreed, I suddenly have numerous opportunities from outside the ...
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Should I have input to an appraisal for an employee who no longer works for me?
For about four months I managed a small technical project, although my job title remained that of a person in a technical role. This was the first time I managed a project with this employer, and I ...
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How to ask software team for basic yet important tasks without lowering morale?
So here's the deal - I have a software engineering team I'm the lead of that is remote (different country and timezone - take strong note of this. Too many responses I think are from people ...
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Is it ok to ask for proof of actions taken to my project manager?
Here's the situation:
I work in a team of 12 people, responsible for two applications. Our project manager has been working on one of the applications for over 5 years (project A), while the other ...
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Assigning ownership while denying need for knowledge transfer [closed]
I am currently working as a consultant in a team that manages an externally built application (A) as well as a series of peripheral, internally developed applications (B) that mostly serve as data ...
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Is documenting communication with my boss on expectations, targets, and promises wrong?
When I was working on my earlier project, the project management diplomatically played with the communication. There was big mess related to expectations, commitments and promises. At one point, I ...
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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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Too aggresive project estimation, what are my alternatives? [closed]
Our IT Managers give me a project and says estimate it, how long will it take to get it done. I say well 2 days or more. He think it can be done in 2 hours. Now the project is basically about adding ...
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How can I manage a project without authority to manage some of the people involved in the project?
I am currently in charge of the development and maintenance of all current and new web applications for the company I work for. I report directly to the president and VP of the company because ...
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Introducing daily standup meeting to workplace without standup meeting tradition
To have a better understanding of the project status and a better relationship with the developers who report to me, I want to introduce daily standup meeting ( as per suggested) to the developers in ...
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Does a company need a meeting code of conduct?
A couple of months ago a teamwork consultant came in and assigned a few of us to write a meeting code of conduct. The sample he gave us to work on was several pages long. At this point, I looked up ...
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Diplomatically suggest involving another person in project
A product that I work on as a developer recently received a complaint from an irate customer because of data lost due to a usability issue.
I want to suggest to the team that a friend of mine in the ...
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Most effective way to do daily standup meeting when a few people are remote
I am a software developer in a small team of seven. We are not an Agile (with a big 'A') team but are experimenting with some aspects of agile. One of these is the daily "standup" meeting. The ...
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How can I professionally and politely disagree with Management about my performance review?
It is my performance evaluation. In the evaluation the management is trying to put my rating and rate low by making me solely responsible for some of the the results which don't meet management ...
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How to be in safe and profitable situation while project management applying tactics on me? [closed]
I am working for an outsourcing company. I was working on a new project as my first onsite assignment in USA. The situation was tough over there. I was searching better opportunities in USA.
At that ...
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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 can I constructively request well scoped project requirements?
Are there good ways to ask the management to improve the clarity and detail level of work requests and be more specific rather than just throwing you into a war zone and expecting you to figure out on ...
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What can I do when the answer to every question is “call a meeting”?
Background - I'm the technical lead on a software project. I came up from software engineering and I am responsible for technical interaction with the customer, other vendors, the software product ...
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Saying no to project managers?
There are 5 project managers who keep coming to me and insisting that their requests are urgent and I find myself switching between 4 different projects, while I am supposed to work on only 1 project ...
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How can I manage technical workers when I have no experience in their position?
I've been asked to manage a team working on a project with which I am only marginally familiar. Getting more familiar with the project (desired outcome, expected timeline, etc) won't be a problem, but ...
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How can I deal with a difficult developer that is holding back the project?
Our entire project is being held up because of one piece which is being handled by a single developer. When we did finally got the latest version of his code and started reviewing it, we found the ...
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What are some good seminar topics that can be used to improve designer&developer communication?
I'm development team leader in a internet service company that provides service that's very similar to dropbox. In our company we have mainly two divisions: the tech division and the designers ...
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My manager always seems too busy to meet with me. How can I improve that?
He's a great guy, but it feels like he's always in meetings or going to conferences or on the phone on long calls. He has told me that he really enjoys those interactions. He and I work somewhat ...
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Is the “open doors” policy for a project manager always beneficial? [closed]
I've heard that the "open doors" policy is beneficial, as it lets anyone come to the project manager with any problem that might arise. At the same time being interrupted at irregular times can be ...
