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Questions tagged [small-projects]

For questions about management of small projects.

Description

Management of small projects have a number of features related to small scale, such as, respectively, with low cost and short time duration. This tag is used to refer to questions of project management, where the problems are associated with low financial capability in deploing of project management environment, the need of high precision estimation and so on.

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A practical way to estimate a project cost ( I mean time cost)?

What is the practical way to estimate the time required for a project ( I am a web developer working alone most of the time) I find difficulties in estimating tasks and projects,
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When is a piece of work too small to justify a PM?

I used to work in an organisation that set a limit of 20 days effort, below which a task would be allocated to a technical lead who would be told to "just get on with it". Above this size, the work would be allocated to a PM, and would be subject to…
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Minimum PM documents for a small IT company

I work in a small software company (1-50 Employees) as an Assistant Project Manager. I have been studying the PMP study notes for quite a while now and wondering if there are too many documents involved in a project; e.g. Project scope document,…
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How do you allocate people to very small projects?

I've seen many organisations where project managers would reason like this: We specialise in very small projects. Since a very small project needs a very small team, I should allocate one person or two to each project. However, this means…
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Project management methodologies for multiple projects, small teams, diverse skills, partially remote team

I have been reading a lot on Scrum to evaluate its use in our company. I've done a few trials runs with it where the teams were exploring different aspects of it to get some real world feel. I'm not sure though that Scrum is our best option. I…
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How to Introduce A Small Project And Finish It Successfully

I'm trying to find a way to propose a project for our company, and I've never done that before, within a year of work, but have lots of plans/projects in mind to do things automatically. Sometimes, I would go beyond the norms of the company…
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Where can I find a free website for managing closed source project development?

Is there any free webpage/web application for managing project development with these requirements: Writing public posts of news about project (new version, new logic etc) - can be as blog posts. Simple public bug reporter. Private (for developer…
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Managing large lists of acronyms and terms

Our current client sent us several hundred pages of documentation about the context and goals of his company. In these documents (there are multiple files) they use a lot of acronyms and very specific terms (SICA, UNB, ...). The client also works…
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Is signing off projects supposed to be hard?

I generally find signing off projects hard. Every time I think that I am about to sign the project off, something crops up unexpectedly with the client asking for last minute amendments. This can lead to delays, or my budget going out of whack. Is…
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Unable to sign off a project

Technical team and I are having trouble signing off a project. We simply cannot solve the client's problem, and have been stuck for a few months trying too. I am not sure what to do in this situation? To add complications to the matter, we have…
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Any ideas for mixing a kanban with taskboards

I am the PM of a small team of 6 programmers, recently we are trying to go more agile by including in our workflow some principles or techniques of XP, scrum, scrumban and lean. A very important tool is our kanban, currently we are using…
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Projects to teach university students project management

What is a good project to teach university students project management principles? I tried one last semester, producing a video, but found it was too simple and the students did not have to work hard enough (and the network diagrams were too simple…
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Project Management technique for my pet project

I have a little/mid-size software project idea which I am currently planning to do on my own. Or there may be maximum 1-2 other developers joining. Does it worth to apply any of the project management techniques? If yes, which one? So far I have…
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Cheap way to bring in Six Sigma?

I've encountered 6-Sigma before at larger companies I've worked at/with. They always seem to go the route of bringing in an expensive consultant and a fair amount of time spent on establishing a baseline of vocabulary, etc. I'm working with a…
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How to manage many small projects?

Background I have recently been promoted to a new job in hardware development, which has two different aspects: The first one is to lead a small fast prototyping team (3 people including me at the moment, expected to grow to 6-7 in a year or two).…
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