Questions tagged [project-management]
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 here; otherwise, if the question is solely about project management, consider asking it on our sister site Project Management Stack Exchange instead.
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How do you deal with a boss with no skills? [closed]
The situation stands as follow: I am the only developer in this company and the degree of my boss has nothing to do with software development, consequently he has high/unrealistic expectations. He ...
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How to get/make a project manager answer a question?
I often work with the same PM on large application tasks. I am the main point of contact for all things technical. The PM is a bit of a disaster in that this person cannot keep anything straight, we ...
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Restricting outside activities of 'key' people in a project in order to reduce risk
Is it reasonable to restrict the activities of key people in a project outside of work (e.g. non-essential personal travel) as we head towards crunch time. The intent behind this being the minimizing ...
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How to manage other people who want to jump on board of your successful project?
I am currently working on a few high profile projects which are highly interesting for the company. I am observing lots of interest from my colleagues, and as projects start getting steam and first ...
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My colleague always ask for help. Should I help him always?
So my colleague always or at least most of the times ask for my help like he expects me to explain everything from scratch for every project. He wants to learn but doesn't quite catch up everything ...
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Best way to ask for a raise in my situation? Any advice aside from that also welcome [duplicate]
The company I work for supports large corporate clients, and a constant influx of new work is always expected. They are not a startup and have been in business for 15 years. We have six employees ...
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Should teams asked before business decisions affecting them? [closed]
With a coworker we have an ongoing debate about the said thing in the title.
Should team-members or individual developers be asked about business and technical decisions affecting them or not?
Is ...
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How to convince superior/boss to use software tool, so we can avoid constant status updates?
I have a boss in charge of Product and Marketing who seems reluctant to learn about a product management tool we use, called Pivotal Tracker. My boss started working with us long after we began using ...
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Which are the main limit(s) for tolerance? [closed]
As a manager we have enough situations which we do not like. However our 'gut feeling', a book, lessons learned etc. tells us to be tolerant.
However I don't found a clear bullet list on which are ...
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Changes and Information coming in from all direction using
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This is a small company where i work in roughly 50 ~ 100 employee. I have several departments in my company for example Marketing Department , Financial Department, HR Department and IT ...
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How to effectively manage team members when they are your friends?
Recently I've been promoted to Project Manager at my company and am responsible for managing team members to work on different projects.
The problem I'm facing is that most of the team members are my ...
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What is my job role title? [closed]
Long story short, I am an IT professional that comes from a web development background.
I have recently undertaken a new position as a front end web developer (contract) with a small start up. Upon ...
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Getting blamed for "not communicating" by manager to cover his lack of coordination/follow-thru [closed]
So I work for a small software company, where there are about 8-10 "programmers" ...as they call us.
This company started in the 80s, thus a rift has developed and there is this "Old Guard" and "New ...
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Project Shutdown due to Legal issues: How to represent on resume?
This is a continuation of a question I asked last week found here:
Bankrolled my way to lead developer, does this count as experience?
Two years ago, me and a couple online friends decided to write ...
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Bankrolled my way to lead developer, does this count as experience?
About 2 years ago, me and a couple of online friends decided to write our own flavor of Linux, based off of Debian. Up to that point, I had been a regular user of Debian, but had no "accredited" ...
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Dealing with unrealistic deadlines [duplicate]
I'm seeking advice on how to deal with unrealistic deadlines at work. The issue is that the company I'm working for is making a huge pivot, however there is an expectation that the pivot will occur ...
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Making code changes; doing things quickly vs doing them well? [closed]
I'm a software developer fresh out of grad school, been working in industry for 5 months now and I am very much still adjusting to the business world. Over the past 5 months I have learned a ...
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Who should I report to? Conflicting requests from different people
So right now I'm an intern, I believe I have a supervisor who is also supposed to be a mentor that can help me. I tend to send him the demos of my work and to report on progress. Hes also super busy, ...
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How to exempt oneself from giving project completion time estimates? [duplicate]
After all my subtle attempts to evade project completion time estimate requests ("when will this be done?"), I would like to directly communicate to my boss that I cannot and do not want to be ...
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Product Owner demanding overtime for writing Unit Tests. How can I address this?
Recently I started a new project at work (it was nice to shake off the cruft of an old project and pick up a new one) and my team and I are pushing harder for more professional development practices, ...
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How to make young software engineers improve the quality of their output?
During our last project, our team composed of young software engineers made a product which contains much more bugs than other teams. We have a senior engineer who was part of the team, but isn't much ...
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How to keep track of what projects direct reports are working on? [closed]
Part of my job as a manager is to manage workloads. I have 6 direct reports, and I'd like to keep track of roughly what is on everyone's plates. What methods do people use for this? Pen and paper? ...
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How to do effective daily reporting to Manager
I am a software engineer of 7+ years of experience and working in a application in which I am the only resource. My reporting manager is busy with other work and on daily basis we have very little ...
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Setting flexible project expectations [closed]
I work as a sole developer on a continuous stream of web projects. The issue I seem to have run into is that, though similar in style, each project requires a different amount of time to complete. ...
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Manager over interacting with developers
I'm working on a project where:
Managers should have complete info on what work is going on and how the work in going on in the project and their interaction with developers is mandatory, but in my ...
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My boss is assigning my work credit to others. What should I do?
When I first joined my current company, there was a colleague(developer) on the same level as I was, who has got reputation of not producing any results, got involved in my first project during my 3 ...
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Worried about the language of an email from one of the managers indicating a negative impression about me [closed]
Disclaimer: All names used here are fictional, including mine.
Yesterday, my manager told me and another employee to work together in solving several bugs of a project named "B" on an ...
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Resource allocation: Allocating a resource of one project to another during a high-priority project [closed]
Is it possible for a manager to allocate a resource to another project while he/she has plenty of dependency in the current project, the other project being a maintenance project where some issues ...
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What to do when remote project manager isn't managing but still assuring his boss everything is ok?
here is the situation I'm in :
I've been tasked by upper manager "B" to work on a specific project. To help me and manage me more directly I'm supposed to work under manager "A" (B being the manager ...
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How to communicate with checkbox-tickers about CMS choices [closed]
A web department develops a lot of CMSes using developer-friendly tools and frameworks, mostly using open-source technologies.
They are being asked to develop and support a website using Sharepoint ...
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Am I taking a risk or responsibility? [closed]
I am an associate developer in a team of 2 developers. We have been working on a very important government project lately.
My only co-worker (very experienced and much my senior) has informed me he ...
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How to handle an incapable manager (bad project management and poor programming skills)
Alright, so I'm in a team of web developers (RoR devs), consisting of 4 other people. My manager's programming abilities are ridiculously low comparing to the other team members. So that's causing a ...
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Long meetings (6-7 hours a day): Being "babysat" by supervisor
I hold a PhD in mechanical engineering with a 7 year background in self-guided, self-paced research including 2 years as a graduate level course instructor and a subject matter expert for various ...
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How to handle the situation where the scrum master is not supportive [closed]
Recently I joined a software company, working in an Agile team of 6 people.
The Scrum Master in my team has less software experience than me, but based on his project management and client management ...
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What is an appropriate way to tell a project manager their timeline is unrealistic? [duplicate]
I have a few project managers that I answer to, and therefore, every now and then I'll have to work out prioritizing my work, thus, delaying the work handed to me by other project managers. The ...
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How the questions are identified and prepared for different types of meetings
In workplace or any other place there can be lot of different types of meetings we need to attend. For ex. Meeting related to project performance, appraisal related meetings, trainings for trainers, ...
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Are these expectations of our offshore team unreasonable?
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I'm an intern in the IT department of an engineering company working on a specific project. My boss is the lead on this project. The project involves taking requirements and ideas from the ...
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How do I request for additional softwares for development? [duplicate]
I'm working as Senior Software Developer and my company mainly deals in financial services sector. That's why high level security is implemented in our system and we cannot install any software (...
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Should I obey the direct manager's decision? [closed]
I have years of engineering experience and now I am taking the position of a jr. manager. I seek the opinion of the other managers about the case at my current project.
I had a positive experience ...
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How could I have better handled this problem project?
I was working on a project with two other people, one of whom wasn't putting in any effort at all. Since our modules were different, I didn't care about his work at first. After finishing my modules I ...
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What should i put on my resume as i have left the business to my other partners?
I had started a business in partnership and after 7 months left it and it is still running. How can I fill up this gap on my resume?
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What can a developer do to instill a practical team Agile mentality? [duplicate]
I have been at my new job as a contractor for about four months. Since I am very sensitive about workflow protocols and procedures, I made it a priority during the interviewing process to ask things ...
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How to deal with an bad project manager? [closed]
I am in charge of producing web applications, internal software, and other apps at MEGACOMPANY. I have pretty good say on these projects and can work on what I want within reason but at the same time ...
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My manager doesnt want anyone internal or external cc'd into email to him? [closed]
I'm working on a major project with my manager. I've got the impression for a while he is 'keeping me out the loop' - I'm not being told of developments in the project.
I have become concerned as the ...
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Project Manager Has Difficulty Managing Me Remotely [closed]
I work as a software developer and I have a flexible schedule where I work a few days in the office and a few at home remotely.
My project manager is relatively new as a project manager (he was an IT ...
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How do I navigate after an uncomfortable hiccup at work?
I came back after maternity leave and requested a flexible working arrangement: work 2-3 days in the office and a few at home. As a software developer this is a very reasonable schedule. The only ...
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How to work with a "fanboy"?
As an IT Professional, part of what I do when assigned larger projects from management is to meet either formally or informally with the stakeholders, work to establish a scope and a set of ...
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What to do when tasks I am to work on are all to be at "top priority at the same time"
You may skip to the last paragraph for condensed question, but read back for details.
I have a somewhat of a consistent issue I deal with at the workplace. The issue is lack of clearly defined ...
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How to estimate tasks scope of which keeps sliding as I keep working on them?
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I am working on a legacy code base. It is huge. I did not write it. I have done a lot of work on it, but more work remains. There are still unknown parts in there for me.
Scenario ...
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Should one lower standards of 'alienated' employees for projects? [closed]
I am a lead programmer on a small development team. Normally, I give my other subordinates less critical things to program and my 'second in command' has brought it to my attention that they feel ...
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