Questions tagged [conflicts]
Questions relating to the avoidance, management and mitigation of conflict within or between project teams or stakeholders.
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What should my Product Owner do with Poor IT Management?
I am a data engineer, but my question pertains to my curiosity as to what my product owner should do in this case. I'm working on a team which I have recently found out has a high turnover rate and ...
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What role the scrum master should have when it's time to organise team buildings (team lunch for example)
One of the tasks of the Scrum Master is to be aware of the mood of his team, it's a part of his empathic behaviour, but is the Scrum master in charge of organizing team lunch, finding restaurant etc? ...
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As a Scrum Master, how to speak to a developer about his delays?
What would be the right approach to have as a Scrum Master to speak to a developer about him being late in the office everyday (we show up between 9:30 and 10 in the morning, it is not a clear rule ...
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What is bad to have sprint review before finishing sprint?
I just joined a new team, their habit is : sprints of 2 weeks, but, reviews and retrospetives are not in the last day sprint, when they do this ceremonies, they still have half a day of developing and ...
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How to make my team follow the Scrum methodology?
I recently joined a new company as a scrum master. I have six years of experience as a web developer and the last two years as a lead developer. I did have some experience and I am quite good as a ...
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Is it appropriate to say that a technical task is easy to do given that it is?
I'm currently a junior PM with a small team of software engineers. Some of the engineers are junior, thus I assign relatively easy tasks for them to discover different parts of the codebase. The issue ...
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Effect of front-loading tasks on project schedule
Customer wanted to re-prioritize activities and move them up the schedule. This will result in some tasks being carried out in parallel. To avoid over-allocating my resources, we have recommended to ...
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dispute resolution approaches/techniques between two members
There is two tech. leaders in a team (for example Solution Architect and Team Leader or two Senior Devs.) They have a dispute about a technical approach to use for an issue resolution. They can’t ...
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Help - Technical team does not want to work in agile way
I am a Product Owner on a Scrum Team whose developers do not want to embrace work in an agile, incremental fashion. Simple example: the customer currently has to contact us to create users each time ...
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Problem dealing with a resistant resource
Scenario: I am coordinating a Project and it's been 6 months since I am working with a team of 9 resources. I've build trust and coordination with all but facing below problems with one of the member:...
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How can I resolve conflict with a seasoned developer?
I am quite new to project management, with less than two years of experience. I am assigned to the a project. A seasoned developer is challenging my authority and expertise this way: I've been ...
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Conflict between senior and junior members
I need to coach a new team. Team consists of very senior and junior members. Senior says juniors have attitude problem and Junior says the senior doesn’t share functional knowledge. My observation ...
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Requirement conflict b/w Product and Engineering team?
Product team is the team which owns the requirement. They write the Functional requirements. Based on which, the engineering team makes the low level design. But down the line during development, ...
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Is it a good idea to talk about consequences in a meeting about dev processes?
Not sure if this is the right forum for this question. Let me know if there is any other better place and I will post it there. Here is what happened at work. Dev architect came up with new ...
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How to deal with bad attitude in a scrum team?
I'm the Scrum Master of a 7-person team. I've proposed and leaded Scrum implementation with open management support. One of the reasons for proposing Scrum, was also to address the attitude of the &...
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