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This is also a proposal to bring an existing SE 1.0 site, askaboutprojects.com, into the StackExchange 2.0 network. – tucson Jul 2 '10 at 13:02

@rlb.usa The site proposed here is for all Project Management questions. I see it as more generic compared to the "Systems Engineering & Management" proposal. – tucson Jul 6 '10 at 12:20

It looks like this is only for IT project management. The topic should reflect this. Otherwise in general project management can refer to projects outside IT industry such as a building construction project, govt. policy implementation project etc. – pratikk Sep 25 '10 at 9:54

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added by tucson Jul 2 '10 at 13:14

Note that we need 20 VOTES for questions to be counted both for on and off-topic. PLEASE VOTE ON QUESTIONS THAT HAVE LESS THAN 20 VOTES. Thank you. – tucson Oct 11 '10 at 10:44

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added by Fu86 Jul 5 '10 at 21:46

	Is this different enough from area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/10947/… to warrant taking another topic definition slot? – Huperniketes Oct 10 '10 at 11:37
	Get them onto training, and mentoring. Also worth getting the team lead to whisper to them, "Independent snots, shape up or ship out" when nobody is looking :). – scope_creep Oct 20 '10 at 16:07

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added by tucson Jul 2 '10 at 13:10

Note that we need 20 VOTES for questions to be counted both for on and off-topic. PLEASE VOTE ON QUESTIONS THAT HAVE LESS THAN 20 VOTES. Thank you. – tucson Oct 11 '10 at 10:45

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added by Coder Hawk Jul 3 '10 at 5:34

	I might choose to reword this, but I see where it's going – DaveParillo Sep 30 '10 at 19:37
	Is this different enough from area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/10947/… to warrant taking another topic definition slot? – Huperniketes Oct 10 '10 at 11:35

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added by MiKo Jul 2 '10 at 13:12

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added by Coder Hawk, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Jul 23 '10 at 12:16

By having a phased delivery where change notes with a higher priority and type than x, y go into the next phase, otherwise you could never deliver. – scope_creep Oct 20 '10 at 16:20

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added by tucson Jul 2 '10 at 13:15

very good question. – scope_creep Oct 20 '10 at 16:22

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added by tucson Jul 2 '10 at 13:17

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added by warren Jul 16 '10 at 12:44

This is one of 5 questions I've found with a similar issue (motivating behavior), and which have conflicting votes. I've added a question with a different phrasing in hope of unifying our perspective on this topic. Does your vote on this question agree with your vote on area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/10947/… ? Can this question be consolidated with the others in a way useful for this site's definition? – Huperniketes Oct 10 '10 at 14:01

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added by Stephan Sep 29 '10 at 20:51

I would consider this an off-topic question myself. No discussion of specific software tools. – Stephan Sep 29 '10 at 20:52

Why are tools off-topic? Other than the problem with people pushing product adverts disguised as answers, which tends to be a problem on all the sites, not just this one? – DaveParillo Sep 30 '10 at 19:45

This may be subtle, but I think this question is 'on-topic'. Not great, but on-topic, while area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/10947/… is off-topic. Asking about alternatives to a tool is more of a SU question. – DaveParillo Oct 2 '10 at 0:26

You think sending users to another site to find the answer is the best solution? Are experienced PM software users more likely to be here or there? – Huperniketes Oct 2 '10 at 1:11

Depending on the question, sending people to a different site is the best response. This site should try to limit it's responses to questions that can only answered by a person with some degree of experience in the field of project management. That's why I think this question is 'on-topic'. The other question I referred to can be answered by google. – DaveParillo Oct 2 '10 at 2:42

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added by MarmouCorp, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Jul 23 '10 at 12:19

This duplicates area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/10947/… and should be deleted. – Huperniketes Oct 10 '10 at 11:32

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added by pramodc84, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Aug 7 '10 at 13:51

<rant>why can't we call "resources" "people" - a piece of equipment or software is a "resource", team members are people!</rant> .. got that out of my system: this is an otherwise good question, I'd just like it worded to give the team members involved some human dignity :) – warren Jul 27 '10 at 15:51

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added by Dan Barak Aug 14 '10 at 12:55

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added by Perry Wilson Aug 24 '10 at 16:12

The answer is very related to the processes you used for your project development and team size. - You should have an orientation plan about your project describing your processes, environment, and state of your project. - You can make new member the body/pair of an old member. - You may also prepare social activities for all of your team members. After all learning technical details is up to capability of the new member. – atoygar Oct 13 '10 at 11:01

Really good question. – scope_creep Oct 20 '10 at 16:17

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added by Stephan Sep 2 '10 at 19:53

Why are people flagging this as off-topic? It's a community wiki type, but seems like a valid beginner type question about risk management. – DaveParillo Oct 2 '10 at 2:55

It's better to add such a general risk: Loosing for example 10% of your team members before the 80% of project completeness. Reasons could be many like quiting job, having very bad performance, etc. So after adding this risk you could create some recovery plans about how to get new team members in the middle of the project. – atoygar Oct 13 '10 at 10:49

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added by Coder Hawk, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Jul 23 '10 at 12:35

up vote 3 down vote

added by Fu86, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Jul 23 '10 at 12:28

closed as off topic by Bob Rivers, Coder Hawk, pawelbrodzinski, warren, Dan Barak Aug 14 '10 at 12:56

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

I don't see how this is Off-Topic? If I'm a project manager and I want to look at adding new tools to my toolbox, where should I go to ask opinions? AskAboutProjects is about sharing knowledge of the overall project management experience. Who else should I ask about if Scrum is good for my given situation? If I go to a Scrum forum they'll all say yes, if I go to a classic waterfall driven group, they'll say no. If I ask PMs in general, I have a better chance getting a real world answer. – Joel Bancroft-Connors- PMP Oct 17 '10 at 19:02

Its vaguely subjective. There is many sites which aggregate project sucess statistics, and from this you can surmise if a project method has worked or not, in general. – scope_creep Oct 20 '10 at 16:09

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added by warren Jul 9 '10 at 13:08

	We always hear about Agile Development, but what about Agile Management? Is it about managing an Agile development team? – Philippe Jul 14 '10 at 4:09
	I wish I could vote for this as 'on-topic', but I'm out of votes! – DaveParillo Oct 2 '10 at 0:27
	Me too. There are only five schools of management, and agile ain't one of them. – scope_creep Oct 20 '10 at 16:11
	@scope_creep - askaboutprojects.com/questions/1858/… and askaboutprojects.com/questions/102/… – warren Oct 21 '10 at 13:53

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added by warren Jul 9 '10 at 13:09

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added by peterchen, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Aug 7 '10 at 13:51

	I am as yet not sure we should discuss different PM software tools on AskAboutProjects. I don't want to end up shifting through sales pitches. – Stephan Sep 29 '10 at 20:48
	Agree with Stephan. Mostly. I think it should be OK to ask a valid project management question that has a software component as long as the question is mostly about PM. This question is purely a launchpad for people to wax poetic about their favorite tools - plenty of examples of this already exist on AskAboutProjects. – DaveParillo Oct 2 '10 at 0:30
	With the use of voting and rep points those concerns are usually resolved quickly. – Huperniketes Oct 2 '10 at 1:03

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added by Stephan Sep 2 '10 at 19:41

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added by DaveParillo Sep 30 '10 at 19:18

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added by tucson, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Jul 23 '10 at 12:30

Maybe this should be an actual question... – MiKo Jul 2 '10 at 13:17

actually, it's taken from this one: askaboutprojects.com/questions/2110/… but it's not such a good example... I'll think about it. – tucson Jul 2 '10 at 13:24

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added by Coder Hawk, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Jul 23 '10 at 12:37

Good question.. – scope_creep Oct 20 '10 at 16:18

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added by pawelbrodzinski, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Jul 23 '10 at 12:55

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added by Vanuan Jul 16 '10 at 16:30

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added by Kala Jul 20 '10 at 15:04

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added by pawelbrodzinski Aug 17 '10 at 6:37

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added by pawelbrodzinski Aug 17 '10 at 6:40

Too general? "How to prevent scope creep before development begins" or "How to stop scope creep during development" might be better question IMO. – Gaurav Aug 21 '10 at 18:15

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added by Perry Wilson Aug 24 '10 at 16:13

I'd like to see how effective these methods are by getting this site's community to approve the requisite 10 questions! :) – Huperniketes Oct 10 '10 at 11:41

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added by Stephan Sep 2 '10 at 19:43

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added by Robert Harvey Sep 2 '10 at 22:54

	FOr the same reason we shouldn't give a construction PM advice on what type of cement to use on a bridge construction project, this site shouldn't dispense advice on software lifecycle. – DaveParillo Sep 30 '10 at 19:35
	@DaveParillo, No offense, but I think advice on methodologies doesn't correspond well to advice on construction materials, and I disagree with your conclusion. Methodologies are being reviewed and adopted by several non-software specific projects. I think this question is too subjective, and should instead ask whether project scope and size or other factors are relevant to methodology selection. But we'll get a lot of methodology-related questions (eg, scope, phases, etc.) and should welcome them. – Huperniketes Oct 10 '10 at 14:31
	@Huperniketes: none taken! I think your advice about changing the question is spot on. I'm just concerned about this site giving advice to people who then might think they have all the information they need to proceed. – DaveParillo Oct 20 '10 at 0:30

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added by scope_creep Sep 13 '10 at 16:37

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added by Ari Patrick, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Oct 21 '10 at 17:12

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added by Fu86 Jul 5 '10 at 21:40

closed as off topic by pawelbrodzinski, Philippe, Stephan, Mehper C. Palavuzlar, peterchen Jul 24 '10 at 6:40

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

I think this is a good and relevant question and even have ideas for answers. – Danny Jul 8 '10 at 19:32

I tend to agree with you Danny but for great off-topic question. It's not related to PM but when you do PM for software development , you need to motivate programmers to do these sort of things. It could also be a SO question. – Philippe Jul 14 '10 at 4:07

It's a great question for a Software Dev Management site, and a great off-topic question for this site, because it's not about project management, it's about man management, or software development. – gkrogers Sep 23 '10 at 14:14

This would be a great on-topic question because it deals with motivating team members to value a task they would rather not do. In addition, since this proposal is a reboot of askaboutprojects.com, it includes software development management topics such as this. – Huperniketes Oct 1 '10 at 22:07

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added by miku Jul 8 '10 at 12:55

closed as off topic by pawelbrodzinski, Stephan, Mehper C. Palavuzlar, warren, Dan Barak Aug 14 '10 at 12:56

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

	I'm not sure this is a PM related question. Dealing with technologies is not directly tied to PM. – Philippe Jul 14 '10 at 4:17
	I think it's great off-topic question. It will sooner or later appear, but I do consider it as out of scope for project management site. – pawelbrodzinski Jul 14 '10 at 8:09
	Introducing a team to different technologies or processes, whether they're experimental or just new to the team, can significantly affect their productivity and the completion of the project with respect to the budget and schedule. Wouldn't that be on-topic? – Huperniketes Oct 5 '10 at 21:00
	I do not agree with people calling this question off-topic. Because any technology change in the progress time of a project will absolutely affect project plan as Huperniketes said. This effect could be in a good or bad way. So a PM can want an integration report from the development team leader, according to this report PM will decide. In my point of view if team take good design decisions at the beginning of the project there won't be any need for another technology. Maybe for projects lasting 2 or more years you can make a meeting for recent technologies once a year. – atoygar Oct 13 '10 at 11:12

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added by Philippe, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Jul 23 '10 at 12:26

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added by Mehper C. Palavuzlar Jul 23 '10 at 8:53

	A community wiki example. – Mehper C. Palavuzlar Jul 23 '10 at 8:54
	why would it be different for a "mid-scale company" than anyone else? Wouldn't it actually depend on team size? – warren Jul 27 '10 at 15:52