Questions tagged [project-team]
Questions related to project team and/or a member(s) of the team involved in the project.
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What techniques can PMs use to remain calm and effective when project problems occur?
How important is emotional resilience and calmness for project managers when dealing with project setbacks, and what strategies can they use to maintain composure under stress?
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Best Practices for Managing Projects with Multiple Phases in Jira?
In our organization, we use Jira for project management. Our issue hierarchy in Jira starts with "Request," followed by "Epic," "Story," and "Subtasks." We ...
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Kanban flow of front-end / back-end user story
My team is currently splitting up our work in front-end and back-end related tickets, which I found out to be against agile. So, I am currently thinking about the flow of our Kanban board when working ...
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How to handle Pull Requests in a team of 10?
My team consists of 10 devs. We develop some services that are closely connected to each other. We have our codebase on github.com. Of course every change to our codebase must be reviewed before ...
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How do you get multiple separate software development teams to unify their best practices? [closed]
We have several reasonably well functioning small software development teams working on different areas of the business. Each team has its own lead and roughly 8 other developers on it. The teams have ...
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Is there any place where one could observe real project ceremonies such as stand ups, retros, planning?
My mentee asked if there’s a website, where you can see real project events, like daily’s , retro, planning, etc. so that juniors could seen how exactly it works. I assume no, because of NDA. But ...
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4 people, 4 unrelated Tasks. Each person gets one task, based on preferences
Looking for the fairest way to distribute tasks based on preferences. Was thinking of preferential voting, but not sure how to generalize that for multiple people. Here is an example of how a person ...
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Cross-functionality is not scalable. Is there evidence that it is optimal for scrum teams, or did CF just become popular due to low "management cost"?
Is cross-functionality a concept that bleeds in any sufficiently big software-architecture? Due to an organizational restructuring, we have been working in a cross-functional software-development ...
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What are alternatives to having graphic designers work in advance of developers?
The product we work on (a mobile game) depends on graphic designers to design and create artwork that goes into the user interface. We are working incrementally on new features for the game, and each ...
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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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Unfilled project team roles for grant proposal
I'm finalizing a proposal for a 2-year U.S. SBIR federal grant. The RFP asks that we provide names and resumes for the entire project team. I have 4 of 5 roles filled, with one TBD. Admittedly, it's ...
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Estimation and days
How practical is using days estimations for stories in a sprint instead of another approach (e.g. story points)? It seems to me that using days, links stories to specific developers only while ideally ...
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What is a good free or cheap Team Project Management, Team Communication & Team Collaboration Script? [closed]
I have been looking for a very good Team Project Management Script that includes Team Communication, Team Collaboration, Projects & Tasks, Ability for Team Members to Assign Themselves to Projects ...
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What is the essence of project management? [closed]
I'm about to enter a role as project manager. I have attended a lot of projects with quite a span of aspects, constraints, contents, parties and whatever and also had some technical leadership tasks ...
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Questions about building a solution matrix
I had a chance to be selected as the team lead of a small project in my company. The goal is to made a choice on the new SAP the company will use. We are a team of 6 persons with cross skills. Our ...
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