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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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intentional off-topic example! – Steven A. Lowe Oct 22 '10 at 18:26

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intentional off-topic example! – Steven A. Lowe Oct 22 '10 at 18:24

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	@Mark Phillips: What is P3O? Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices? (UK) – WikiSpeedia hang-around Oct 21 '10 at 17:18
	@Peter are you asking what P3O is orposting your language as the UK version of the same question? – Mark Phillips Oct 22 '10 at 13:36
	@Mark Phillips. No. Shorter question: what is P3O? – WikiSpeedia hang-around Oct 22 '10 at 15:15

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added by Huperniketes Oct 10 '10 at 11:59

Although I complained in the proposal commentary about the addition of new questions w/o resolving earlier ones, I added this one to resolve a conflict in direction demonstrated in 5 questions: two for on-topic (area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/10947/… and area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/10947/…) and three against (#11399, #12330, #17888). My hope is that by phrasing the question this way, and eliminating the misdirecting details, we can determine what is topical and what isn't. – Huperniketes Oct 10 '10 at 12:21

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added by Jarmo, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Oct 21 '10 at 17:18

Personally considering this to be off-topic for this site as it's about career development and not about projet management. Others agree? – Jarmo Oct 9 '10 at 10:04

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Personally considering this to be off-topic. Others agree? – Jarmo Oct 9 '10 at 9:59

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(PMBOK: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…, "") – WikiSpeedia hang-around Oct 21 '10 at 17:13

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added by Gordon Gustafson, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Oct 4 '10 at 20:11

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added by DaveParillo Sep 30 '10 at 19:55

closed as off topic by user21350, Jader Dias, atoygar, Marina Martin, Mark Phillips Oct 14 '10 at 13:07

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.

	Hopefully this is way off topic. This site should not be about people who contribute to the field of project management. – DaveParillo Sep 30 '10 at 19:56
	I dunno. As long as it doesn't turn into a shrine I wouldn't object to reasonable recognition of an individual's [ongoing] contributions to a field. As long as. – Huperniketes Oct 1 '10 at 21:47
	I disagree. We should try to limit this to project management questions that can stand the test of time. This question is too vague to be helpful. Also, he could retire the day after this question is answered making it obsolete / misleading. – DaveParillo Oct 2 '10 at 0:17
	I doubt 1/3 of the answers that will be posted here will stand the test of time, but as my previous comment indicated I'm not particularly for this type of question. For info on a particular individual's contributions one can at least resort to Wikipedia and find more objective and accurate info there than here. ;) – Huperniketes Oct 2 '10 at 1:18
	Shouldn't this site try to discourage the kind of questions you can google an answer to in 10 seconds? – Anonymous Oct 2 '10 at 3:35

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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 gkrogers, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Oct 4 '10 at 20:11

	Marking it "off-topic", I assume this proposal is for IT project management, unless the description gets clarified. – Andrew Vit Sep 29 '10 at 19:36
	@Andew: yes, that definitely needs clarifying. Until/unless it is, I'm assuming this proposal is for a site about project management in all its forms. – gkrogers Sep 30 '10 at 9:05
	@gkrogers: I agree. It's not clear to me what advantage there is to making a distinction re: industry specific project management. There will always be questions that cater to one group or another, but so much of project management applies to all industries, it seems breaking it into pieces would dilute the community & eventually kill the site. – DaveParillo Sep 30 '10 at 20:49

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added by gkrogers Sep 23 '10 at 14:12

closed as off topic by Andrew Vit, acidzombie24, user21350, WikiSpeedia hang-around, Jarmo Oct 9 '10 at 10:07

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 think this site should try to be a career development site, it should try to provide answers to vexing questions related to project management – DaveParillo Sep 30 '10 at 19:25

Yes, I agree, which is why I proposed it - I think it's a good off-topic question. Bit surprised that 2 people think it's not a good example at all. – gkrogers Oct 1 '10 at 5:48

@GKRogers I was a little frustrated that I got not-a-good-example votes on some of my questions, but I realized that the off-topic questions define what a site is about just as much as the on-topic ones, so this kind of hard-to-place question doesn't help define the boundaries well. – Mark C Oct 22 '10 at 20:51

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added by gkrogers Sep 23 '10 at 14:11

closed as off topic by Ana, Stephan, DaveParillo, user21350, Jarmo Oct 9 '10 at 10:06

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.

	Good off-topic example. The presence of the word 'project' in a question doesn't make it project management. This is the type of question I would expect to see crop up that should be closed. – DaveParillo Sep 30 '10 at 19:31
	arguably this is a methodology question, but it is phrased vaguely. "What are the benefits and drawbacks of incorporating automated unit testing in my project methodology?" might be better... though technically the question is not about project management, it is a topic that would impact the management of a project – Steven A. Lowe Oct 22 '10 at 18:27
	No, it's a software development question, not a PM question. Even if we're talking about software development project management, this isn't a PM issue, it's an engineering issue. – gkrogers Oct 22 '10 at 20:12

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added by gkrogers Sep 23 '10 at 14:07

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 14:03

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	An interesting question indeed, but could belong in any company-management forum, not necessarily project oriented. – Diego Sep 17 '10 at 8:13
	@Diego: But it's still on-topic for this proposal, and this proposal is the only one (that I've come across at least) dealing with this subject. – Huperniketes Oct 1 '10 at 21:59
	I agree it could be any supplier, but the RFP process for signing up software or service suppliers into IT project is now EU/USA standard. The RFP process and the company quality system which predicates suitability of a supplier on a whole range of factors, which is gated by a company process and discussed by PM and sponsors etc, is hugely risky for project. I've seen time and time again when the RFP process hasn't been followed and has had many knock on effects on project, increasing risk, hassle the lot. – scope_creep Oct 20 '10 at 16:00
	Cool that they have more space for comments. – scope_creep Oct 20 '10 at 16:01

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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 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 LibrariNerd Sep 2 '10 at 16:45

This might be community wiki, but why is this off topic? – DaveParillo Oct 2 '10 at 2:51

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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 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 Perry Wilson Aug 24 '10 at 16:11

I suppose that would largely depend on what type of format the KB is in - wiki, Plone, Sharepoint, a collection of txt files, etc – warren Sep 10 '10 at 16:11

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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