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Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals, as defined in the Wikipedia Article on Project Management.

Projects are, in general, temporary. Projects generally have a project owner, project manager, and a team. The project manager of the team is not a functional manager or direct supervisor of the team, but is instead a person responsible for the project schedule and the overall success of the project.

Many times, projects involve members of different functional skills or disciplines who are brought together temporarily to meet a common goal. Once the project is complete, the team may disband.

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Microsoft Project

Is Microsoft Project the best tool for managing software development or IT projects or is there an alternative that is better?
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How to convey bad news to clients?

How to convey a bad news to the client?
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What Project management lessons and best practices can we learn from the engineering and construction industry?

It is a well known fact that IT projects fail with an alarming rate (some surveys suggest that the failure rate is more than 60%). Typically, project managers try to "recover" from these failures either by squeezing their resources to work extra…
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Probability theory and project planning

I'm managing a project that has to be estimated, according to rough requirements and specifications. Because of that, the estimations on the specific features and tasks are set of discrete values, instead of just one discrete value (for example,…
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Agile Project Management

If one does use Scrum for the Software development portion of a project, does one still use PMBOK or some other project management methodology for the "other" tasks on a project e.g. the business, marketing, training tasks. What is the project…
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How much flexibility in business requirements is too much?

I feel like I'm beating my head against a brick wall sometimes. I was just talking to someone in my company about the need to encourage our [company's internal] client to put thought into their requirements up front and make a bigger effort to…
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Organizing Java projects

I'm a junior developer and recently started working for a very small office where they do a lot of in-house development. I have never worked in a project that involved more than one developer or were as big and complex as these ones. The problem is…
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Embedded C file structure suggestions

I cannot find good suggestions about file structures in typical embedded software in C. There are a number of such questions and answers here on SO, but none that covers the concerns I present, or that seems adapted to embedded systems in C. I…
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Scrum in a fixed cost project

I have read the agile manifesto and spend a nice day surfing the web in search for this elusive answer. But sadly I did not get an answer that would cover all the bases. When watching all the blog posts and newscasts of Agile preachers, you just…
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User stories for functional requirements

As we are a small company, I work as both a project manager and developer. The specifications I create for clients contain a number of elements used to describe and define the project, including user stories alongside any other elements I feel need…
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Free dependency mapping tool with automatic layout adjustments?

I'm looking for a tool that will let me draw out a map of dependencies for applications, servers, etc. We have a lot of servers and a lot of databases, and no way of tracking what depends on what. Note that I'm not talking about code or class…
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VIM: is there an easy way to manage Visual Studio solutions / makefile projects from Vim?

I tried using Visual Studio instead of VIM(+plugins), but to be honest - the only advantage of VS over VIM is it's ability to automatically manage my project. I know of existence of ViEmu for VS, but I would like to do the opposite - is there any…
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No schedule, No UML, no etc.., but still a project be successful?

The findings came from NICTA’s study of 400 projects shows Most projects that had no schedule were successful The choice of requirements methodology does not matter; UML was "no help". In the U.S. (but not elsewhere), developers are involved in…
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How do you get through the inevitable motivational "slump" near the end of projects?

When working on a project, after the interesting parts are coded, my motivation is severely diminished. What do you do to get over this problem?
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PHP project organisation

Currently I just have a bunch of php files sitting in folders under source control. Logically I have a collection of related projects and a shared database. Project 1 is a web application interacting with a database. Project 2 is some background…
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