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Don't over complicate it. You can find templates online to help. If you think about it in terms of something you do know, then it's not overwhelming. Don't get lost in the details. It's high level.
Well, a good PM does not necessarily have to have experience to be succesfull. There are some skills that a PM needs to have, or needs to develop, like being an excellent communicator and organizing skills. There are my good websites on the internet that discuss those skills. Here is a website with some recommended books
Posted this last night but didn't get any response- might as well try again today.
So at work I've got to choose an avatar for my Wrike profile per company policy. However we're allowed to choose ones that are not our actual face and encouraged to have a little fun with it.
Any funny Mets shops that you guys have at your finger tips that I can use for my corporate presence?
We have the Business tier with about 40 users. The advantages are huge whereas you have access to many of the useful (and in my opinion necessary) tools within Wrike, like reporting, automation, workflows, request forms, calendars, etc. You probably saw this grid that shows the difference between the plans.
My team receives a lot of requests to update our website from outside (of my department) teams. We have a form that we built with Wrike that they fill out and submit. Based on their selections of what kind of request it is, it is assigned as a task to the specific team member. The management team can look at a dashboard to see the incoming requests and see the progress status of the task. Tasks among individual teams can also be shuffled around by management based on workload. For this, it has saved a huge amount of headaches - as most of this was being done via random email requests in the past.
I also like the reporting features in Wrike. I produce weekly/monthly reports on work in progress or work completed that goes out to management. I also have a report that goes out weekly to management for approving all new work requests that were submitted throughout the week.
For a project manager, it's an amazing product. The trick is getting leadership buy-in so that they can ensure that the rest of the team is using it.
Well, yes and no. While I indeed intended to say “Project Manager” as I was clearly referring to someone leading a single project, Program Managers are very much a thing in the same industry and they are closely related. Think “micro” vs “macro”.
Having said that, every work place is different and uses different styles that may or may not require a Program Manager.
At the agency I used to work in we used Wrike: https://www.wrike.com/
We created client logins, but found that clients would rarely login and would just ask us how things were going. It's good if you change the mindset of your clients. ;)
Scope Creep - The enemy of all useful software
https://www.wrike.com/project-management-guide/faq/what-is-scope-creep-in-project-management/
There are many web-based PM tools you can look at. I like this one because of the easy colab functions and sub-taks, Wrike. https://www.wrike.com/
MS Project is a leading one if you want to stay in the MS world and built for team$.
Well, you could probably create a base template, and then come up with a pretty simplistic script that can carve off new 'project' files as they arise. That would be the simple answer.
But... This is sometimes where a traditional file/folder structure isn't really the best thing for this type of content. Homebuilding comes to mind, where each house is basically a 'project', which its own fileset, but they all follow a similar structure. This is admittedly where I absolutely love something like SharePoint and where it really shines, as you can setup a template, and you can carve off new project sites really easily. Sharepoint has its own baggage though (and a lot of setup time / effort to get going), but there's tons of canned cloud based systems for this sort of thing. This is just the first hit on google, but there's tons of sites like this that offer some really unique functionality that a simply file/folder structure can't.
I do some consulting for a small homebuilding company on the side (friend of a friend), and they do something like this, because a regular file/folder structure simply can't provide the features and functionality they need, no matter how well its setup. They still have a simple file share for 'other' stuff, but for client builds they use a site like the one I linked above.
So at work I've got to choose an avatar for my Wrike profile per company policy. However we're allowed to choose ones that are not our actual face and encouraged to have a little fun with it.
Any funny Mets shops that you guys have at your finger tips that I can use for my corporate presence?
British Aerospace, though I'm only familiar with them as a defense contractor.
But they were the contractor for our baggage system. When I handled baggage at the airport, you could see the old system in the ceiling. Theoretically, it was supposed to automate the transfer of inbound and outbound luggage with a like ceiling train (no idea how else to describe it). It was a cluster.
Points are for estimating the time to complete a task. Project managers use them to help determine when sprints will be finished and when people might be available for new assignments. Different companies use different scales, but the concept is similar everywhere. Here are some examples:
https://www.atlassian.com/agile/project-management/estimation
https://www.wrike.com/agile-guide/story-points-estimation/
Or, if you prefer the 6min video version, enjoy: https://youtu.be/vvr-Fd1xYCI
> Like I can’t just say oh I was reading through the code base or learning more about Java Spring. I’m pretty sure they expect me to make progress on tickets
Do you know this for sure or are you assuming and putting pressure on yourself? Theres even a type of story that is purely research before doing the story, its called a spike story
We haven't integrated additional software into Wrike. I've heard of others doing it and I do know that they offer many options. If you haven't seen this page, it shows which they partner with, but you can also find this within your Wrike - Profile/Apps & Integration. https://www.wrike.com/apps/
The calculation in their errata is wrong.
Color me surprised.
You should submit an erratum on the erratum. You can do so here.
Tu peux soumettre une demande de réparation ici : https://www.wrike.com/frontend/requestforms/index.html?token=eyJhY2NvdW50SWQiOjQyNDA3MTAsInRhc2tGb3JtSWQiOjQ3MDYyNH0JNDc4NDEyNDY0MzgyMQkxN2NhNDFmNDU0Yjc1NjQyZDk0ZWM5MjY2YzA5MGIyODI4MDdhZDg0MTgwZjIwMmI4MzYzZjdlNTM4YzIyZjY0 Un technicien viendra chez toi, par contre, ils ne préviennent pas quand ils passent.
As a developer, this is inaccurate for the majority of tech companies. Most of them use something called Agile (read more here: https://www.atlassian.com/agile), and they use a specific cadence for how they organize their sprints (read more about sprints in Agile here: https://www.wrike.com/project-management-guide/faq/what-is-a-sprint-in-agile/) that are typically 1-4 weeks long. The company I work for uses two weeks cycles, and we usually release more often than that. Even with beta testing and having hardware which both add some complexity, as long as they have competent product managers, a two week release cycle is easily doable.
My guess is this is how they have things set up:
- developers work in two week sprints, then send the work over to quality assurance to test
- beta testers probably get two weeks (or four weeks if it's a big release) to test it out and report any bugs that they find.
Assuming they follow some sort of pattern like this like most tech companies do, this is super sustainable. I bet they are just paying market rate for their developers.
I'm a software developer and founder of a micro-startup, here are my 2 cents.
The way you describe your situation, it sounds like what this start-up needed was a Scrum Master but what they got was a traditional PM (where the Waterfall methodology is generally the norm). These are such vastly different roles that it's a major red flag that management may not be fully committed to the agile work culture.
The good news is that you could develop an extremely valuable and in-demand skill by adopting an Agile approach, the bad news is that you're going to need to do a mental backflip and it's going to feel very uncomfortable compared to what you're used to.
Firstly, it's important to ask yourself why Agile software development practices exist to begin with. It's because software developers build the wrong thing most of the time. Most of the industry learned that users don't know what they want. If Henry Ford had asked what people wanted to improve transportation in 1895 they would have asked him for faster horses instead of the automobile! To minimize the about of time wasted, the agile approach is to set up small usable experiments in a short amount of time in order to collect feedback, rinse and repeat.
I would highly recommend pausing here and doing some required reading so you understand the core concept before reading further on down.
- What is Agile?
>Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
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>Working software over comprehensive documentation
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>Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
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>Responding to change over following a plan
- What is Scrum?
Ill answer to both replies so it's consolidated.
So prior to the last freeze there was a report that came out about the grid. There were corrective actions that was in 2011. In scheme of things yes those things should be corrected the issue is budgets. For my job I do risk analysis I've done it for refinerys and now do it for the DoE. Every place needs things replaced because of something. The solution is to take the risk depending on impact either to surroundings or to capital.
https://www.wrike.com/blog/what-is-risk-matrix/#Risk-matrix-example
It's simply to expensive to replace everything especially. Every entity government or private look for an roi. There is a lot more but to just say well they knew and should have fixed it asap isn't always a solution.
Lol, you are a broken record.
Meanwhile, I don’t know how old you are or what your deal is, but you are living in a bubble. That’s for sure.
Below is a line. It is a glaring example how false your ideology is with a loss 560 million over budget and the end result a small fraction of the goal of capacity. How you can rationalize the above with this and tons of other real life examples with this very popular case study with Denver International Airports Baggage automatic handling system that never was automatic is beyond me. It spells out with the simple data. There are tons of academic literature that does it broken down in specific month to month budgetary numbers and long dissertations too. It is a popular case study for the cost sunk fallacy. Labor doesn’t equal automatic value. it’s an absurd argument.
It’s like people argue on here with mud pies are not valuable. But you do you…
Story points are decided by the development team as a whole, but it still factors in uncertainty - if the team isn't familiar it still changes the sizing. Sorry for my sloppy use of "I"
To add to u/cassiekerr's reply: Wrike would be another one to check into. No direct experience with it, but their APIs are apparently easy to use, so some partners have been evaluating this for integration into their Manage.
Kathy Boulet | Sierra Pacific Group
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Mostly I've seen retrospective become pro forma, and minimized in favor of spending more time on the upcoming work. I'm happy to hear some teams are getting a big benefit from it. I'd like to read more posts or blogs about this kind of experience.
On the other hand, though, we've tended to have good leadership in standups where it's not awkward to ask that a specific topic be taking to the "parking lot" by specific stakeholders. Everyone gets the opportunity to hear what's going on and contribute, but nobody has to stand through a half an hour of something irrelevant to them, when they could be coding instead.
Let CFA Institute know about it so that they can add it to the errata; here's their form.
The longer you have to do assignments the less likely you'll get them done. The brain turns little tasks into monumental tasks the longer it has to do the task. Parkinson's Law.
https://www.wrike.com/blog/how-to-boost-productivity-using-parkinsons-law/#What-is-Parkinson-s-law
Let CFA Institute know here.
It shouldn't come as a surprise to them, alas.
This is a classic misunderstanding of the definition of "danger" when comparing relative danger levels between things.
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For something to be dangerous, it has to have both a severe consequence and a high likelihood of happening. This is called a risk assessment, or danger level assessment (https://www.wrike.com/blog/what-is-risk-matrix).
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I will not disagree that the consequences of a cannon, in some situations, can be greater than that of an AR (as you pointed out with the barrel example). But you completely ignore that the likelihood of a cannon being used is so, so, so, so much lower than that of an AR.
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Cannons are huge. They are loud. They are heavy. They are difficult to transport. They cannot be reloaded quickly. They are uncommon. They are a comparatively larger risk to the cannoneer. They require research and preparation to use.
All of these things make the chances of being shot by a cannon extremely low. Would being shot by one have severe consequences? Yes. Is it going to happen? I'd guess no.
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In contrast, you'd find that a harmful assault rifle event is FAR more likely to happen. It may not have as drastic of consequences (in some situations), but it's going to be way more likely and therefore WAY more dangerous.
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You say that the question is morbid, yet write this line:
>Ever see the old movies where a cannon ball would roll through the ranks of soldiers chopping off limps like grass to a lawn mower?
Is morbidity really the reason you aren't answering his question?
SCRUM meetings are normal, but the size and time of your meetings are not. To be honest SCRUM meetings can vary in how effective they are so don't be surprised if you run into pointless touchpoints like these elsewhere. My last gig did scrum meetings super efficiently and our team of 13 would be done within 15 minutes, but the job I had before that had painful scrums that could take an hour for just 5 people.
If your project team is 3 people, then your daily meeting should only consist of you three. A PM should field any longer meetings to leadership if they want the info on the status of your current team's work. Also, scrum should only be what you worked on yesterday, what you are working on today, any blockers, and for the love of god enforce parking lot for any discussion that requires questions for a specific person/lasts longer than 15 seconds.
If this question is in the CFA Institute materials, let them know of the error here.
It's an error.
Here's the form to let CFA Institute know.
I'm confident that a game of Marshmallow Spaghetti Tower is all that is needed to get both sides back on track for the common cause!
https://www.wrike.com/blog/ultimate-guide-team-building-activities/
If you're the only developer on the team, does that mean you manage your own workload too?
If so, in your position you need to manage expectations right from the start. You've got your work cut out. Although it's a one man team, managing it will still take up a lot of time.
For every large task you are given, break it down into smaller more manageable tasks. If you don't already use git, Use it. Ensure the tasks are input there so that you can track your progress with everything. It'll be useful when you're asked questions about where you are with things.
Add weights to your tasks based on how time heavy you think it will be. I would highly recommend using the Fibonacci scale (https://www.wrike.com/blog/fibonacci-scale-in-agile-estimation/) to do this also. If you find a task is any larger than 10 in weight, it probably means it can be broken down into smaller tasks again. Using Fibonacci should also allow a bit of time for looking into things you aren't sure about.
Test your work before you put it live. Create a test environment, upload your changes to it and test them thoroughly on different devices.
In my honest opinion, as a very very new developer, you will find working alone difficult. That's why there is a hierarchy in companies. Juniors tend to speak to a mid or senior when they're struggling with something. Don't look at it as having skipped the junior stage. A junior is somebody who is starting out and is learning. A mid level is somebody who knows a bit, but is still learning. A senior knows a lot, and even still, there are things they must learn. Realistically, out of the three, would you say you are any higher than a junior?
Apologies it's a long comment, but hopefully this small selection of practices can help you going forward. Please be careful that this company are not trying to rip you off. There can be no value placed on experience, which is why sometimes in life starting at the bottom isn't such a bad thing.
I work with software development teams that are utilizing Scrum, which is a method of delivering work on a software product/project. I set the priorities for what should be worked on to deliver the most value to end users/the business out of the software being developed.
Shops typically claim a year or more for a full rebuild. I’m three years in on doing things myself, but I wanted to enjoy the car during the process. The below guide will help develop a plan. It all comes down to time (typically never enough), the amount you want to spend (what you originally thought it’s going to cost is typically wrong because you will find unknown things), and what you want to do to the car (this can snowball as well)
https://www.wrike.com/project-management-guide/faq/what-are-constraints-in-project-management/
https://www.wrike.com/ru/blog/statisticheskie-dannye-o-motivatsii-sotrudnikov-na-nachalo-2020-goda/
Я так понимаю, что инфа отсюда, мне он ответил очень похожими цифрами, во всяком случае.
Сотрудники крупных компаний (с численностью персонала более 10 тысяч человек) на 37,5% чаще заявляют о низком уровне мотивации.
Руководители крупных компаний на 50% чаще замечают низкий уровень мотивации у своих подчиненных, чем руководители в секторе малого и среднего бизнеса
А между тем, там есть и такие пункты. Чёт как-то невяжется, что дай денег и все будет пучком. Деньги это хорошо и здорово, но факторов, влияющих на продуктивность великое множество и если человек пошел кодить ради денег, то толкового кодера из него не выйдет, грубо говоря
I found this on their website - https://www.wrike.com/blog/wrike-as-a-simple-crm-solution/
Which is 100% how I am running my small org. I am in charge of outside of my day job. And also how one of our departments runs their quarterly activities.
Now for my day job, there is no way this would work, we would use Salesforce. We have tens of thousands of contacts, at minimum. Personally, I would look into CRM integrations.
>can I learn to be a problem-solver?
Absolutely. I wholeheartedly agree with /u/VA_Network_Nerd - get a test machine to play with. A Lenovo Thinkpad T-series is my go-to as well - you can grab one for cheap on eBay or at /r/thinkpadsforsale
Problem-solving is a skill that you need to practice and learn. It would be a good start to study the methodology a bit. There are TONS of different methods and opinions about this:
https://www.bradford.ac.uk/careers/develop-skills/problem-solving/
https://www.wrike.com/blog/problem-solving-techniques/
https://www.wikijob.co.uk/content/interview-advice/competencies/problem-solving
Essentially, you want to step back from the problem and break it into possibilities. Always start with the most obvious thing first, and then narrow down the possibilities.
For example - your laptop can't connect to the network. Break down the possibilities:
Can other machines connect OK? Yes, then the network itself is good.
Is there a network cable plugged in, and are the status lights on? Yes, then the machine is getting a signal.
Can you ping anything at all on the network?
Etc etc. Each time you answer one of those questions, you eliminate a whole bunch of possible issues so you can find the actual issue.
You are set up to fail. constantly switching between projects and tasks has a massive hit on productivity some say it can be as high as 40%.
https://www.wrike.com/blog/high-cost-of-multitasking-for-productivity/
I have been in the same boat and here are a couple of suggestions.
1: Don't attend any meeting unless an agenda has been prepared for the meeting including what the outcome should be. A lot of companies want a receipt for a $5 coffee but don't mind waste 10 high wage earners time on a poorly planned meeting that goes nowhere slowly.
2: Think about all the work you do and what value it adds and deprioritize the low-value stuff.
If I'm being honest about myself, If procrastination was an Olympic sport I would be a gold medal winner, often when I work a 60 to 80 hour week it is because I'm procrastinating. I used productivity challenge timer and brain.fm to bring me down from gold medal to bronze. Maybe more me than you but just wanted to raise it.
We use https://www.wrike.com/ for our project management. You can structure it to your needs.
Customizable workflows and request forms with 4GB file upload sizes.
Often, getting adoption from your client will be the hardest part.
Don't forget to let us know so we can throw it on the official calendar and in weekend roundups. =)
I would recommend you to try Wrike this simple project management tool, allows you to manage resources, set up and automate Agile workflows, and it is truly collaborative - work with this app looks reminds me editing a Google Docs (you see effects in the real-time)
There are many ways to present data, Kanban/Agile/Pipeline and it's customizable, more about this product you can find there. And there is also the possibility to try this tool for free, or use in small teams for free (there is a free version for startups).
Respectfully I think that quote doesn't apply in practice.
The diligent do more work because they do it more frequently and shift between tasks more often. For instance, if we consider the chore of cleaning, they maybe clean 2-3 times a week each lasting approx. 15 minutes.
A lazy person might clean once a week, doing it all in one efficient go lasting 30 minutes total.
Slacking off, and doing the chore at one time point also facilitates greater economies as you are doing the task all in one go. Research suggests "multitasking may seem efficient on the surface but may actually take more time in the end and involve more error. Meyer has said that even brief mental blocks created by shifting between tasks can cost as much as 40 percent of someone’s productive time" https://www.wrike.com/blog/high-cost-of-multitasking-for-productivity/
I would think Trello would work great for this. Maybe Jira (they have many integrations), but it would be $10 a month I think. If looking for Gant charts they have a plugin. Wrike is good also https://www.wrike.com/
We use Wrike internally. It’s not intended for communication although it has comment functionality. However, it’s more a task planned, allowing you to create and delegate tasks to one another, the tasks can have sub tasks and dependency tasks, durations and time slots.
Massive bit of kit that helps everyone on the office.
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Sounds to me like that could be solved with rigorous PM checkpoints and milestones.
If you're following a strict methodology with regular check-ins, then it should be a project meeting where everyone is around the table. Then you pull up the milestones assigned & start checking in with everyone. It would go like,
"OK, we're on week three, and all of the week 2 tasks are marked as complete. Karen, for this week you had a task of researching XYZ thing. How's that coming along?"
At this point, she's on the hook for explaining why she's deviating from the documented process, and you don't have to call her out at all.
Very insightful- my work just spoke with a CMO regarding similar strategies, you can check those out here
Businesses will have initiatives that fall out side of their normal day to day operations. They may be setting up a new IT system for example or they may be doing a business process reorganisation. Businesses tend to leave the planning and execution to a project manager but leave the ownership with key stakeholders in the organisation(usually a senior manager with budget to pay for it).
Project managers work with this owner and other stakeholders to understand what is important and to ultimately ensure the project comes in on time and on budget and that everything is lined up to meet what was agreed with the project stakeholders or owners. They plan out the time line of events of what needs to happen and when for the project to hit the agreed date time.
You can read more about it here: https://www.wrike.com/blog/foolproof-project-plan/
Key to all of it is stakeholder management and communications. You need to be a strong people person because ultimately you don't do any of the doing usually. You make sure others do what they need to do. You can't be afraid of telling people if they're fucking up because your ultimately responsible for the project hitting date and budget.
Have you looked at Space Alert. Players work together as the crew of a small spaceship, trying to protect their ship from a variety of dangers including enemy aliens, asteroids and equipment malfunctions. You have 10 minutes to solve the dilemma before you all die.
I know you are looking at board games, but have you considered some of these here
First step imo (and something I do) is to create a landing page with your pitch and a sign up button to start getting people on a mailing list.
Also - really interrogate why it doesn't already exist - sometimes fragmentation is because that is what the market wants.
In terms of product management - there are a lot of resources out there (but just keep looking till you find something that works for you). Here are some suggestions though:
https://medium.com/@shawnzvinis/product-management-101-532cba0f360c https://www.wrike.com/blog/product-management-101-become-product-manager/
My view is that as a non-technical founder - Product Management (among other things) is one of your key roles.
I use Jira within my business and tools like Trello and Wrike when working on personal projects.
I use the latter two at home primarily because they're free. Terllo is simpler and Wrike is a bit more comprehensive.
Jira is the most comprehensive out of all three and works well for us to allow developers to keep track of their own work, provide time estimates, track time etc.
Here are a few:
PDU-insider.com is maintained by Cornelius Fitchner (of the PM Podcast) & offers a list of on-demand PDUs
PDU of the day (pduotd.com) has lots of free PDU opportunities, mostly live webinars and recorded presentations
PDUs2Go.com has self-paced Category A PDU courses for purchase. You can either have a hard copy shipped to you or download digital course materials.
PDU Insider and PDUs2Go are both PMI REPs.
If you're looking for more education, here's an article that covers 20 different options (full disclosure: I write for this blog): https://www.wrike.com/blog/06/17/2014/20-Online-Training-Resources-Project-Managers