Project Management Questions

I've recently been brought on with a small startup to serve as their technical advisor to a group of developers offshore. The product is an ASP .NET WebForms application. One of my first tasks was...

Management Outsourcing Project Management Team

asked Jun 29 '11 at 01:24

Yuck
257 points

I've had the opportunity to work at quite a few startups. One thing I've to be common in them is adhoc way of doing things and ignorance towards processes, best practices and known project...

Project Management Business Process

asked May 18 '11 at 14:57

Hasan Khan
118 points

I am looking to set up a project management tool to keep track of bugs, and project tasks. Is there any such thing out there which is completely free? Thanks!

Project Management Project Planning

asked May 8 '11 at 10:25

Genadinik
1,821 points

Our team is thinking of doing a "Project In A Week" (bootcamp), and I'm interested to know if anyone else has experience of doing this or has any advice? The idea behind it is to get away from the...

Motivation Project Management Team Project

asked Mar 25 '11 at 02:21

Tim S
111 points

I have recently established a company to sell ecommerce software as SaaS. There are some leads that request proposals from me. I am in a dilemma. There are two risks that I want to avoid: I want...

Software Ecommerce Customer Support Project Management Agreements

asked Jan 28 '11 at 20:00

Mert Nuhoglu
116 points

As a startup we have few clients who are billed on time/hour basis and some on the percentage of project completed basis. Now regarding the reporting to the client as of now we were following the...

Project Management Tools

asked Jan 14 '11 at 07:35

Beginning Steps
50 points

I am the first developer in a large scale web project, in the real estate sector. I am not an expert in any field, I know the basic of all, programming, databases, something about design and a...

Project Management Website Product Launch

asked Nov 10 '10 at 23:12

Alexandru Trandafir Catalin
157 points

My startup has employees who are in different places at different times. What is the best way to manage and to centralise files, emails, communications, ...? Would the web be the best place to start?

Project Management Employees Communication

asked Oct 6 '10 at 11:51

Jfw
150 points

In the beginning there are so many things to do and so many paths that can take you off focus then add in that because you are a bootstrap and not willing to do a leap of faith your having trouble...

Project Management Recommendations

asked Jun 16 '10 at 08:13

John Bogrand
2,210 points

Tell the client openly and decline to take on the job or just accept parts of the job? Or say nothing and quietly outsource to another consultancy?

Marketing Project Management Entrepreneurs Consulting

asked Jul 12 '10 at 19:14

Tatiana Andrushko
16 points

I am working with a startup ad agency that has some very large clients for some large, complex projects. Many of their projects are subcontracted to other vendors and to crowdsourcing platforms,...

Software Project Management Accounting

asked May 21 '10 at 07:16

Jim Shook
417 points

Any recommendations for a simple (web) tool where team members can submit their hours worked? Ideally, we'd like the team member to be able to login, select the project they are working on and...

Project Management Tools

asked Jun 7 '10 at 08:23

Big Tuna
349 points

We're hiring this amazing guy to build our website. I do trust him, sort of. But, is that enough? Is that all I can do? (find someone you trust) We'll be telling him each and every detail here.

Project Management Trust Web Dev

asked Feb 24 '10 at 01:41

Raed
101 points

As an entrepreneur, I'm always looking for ways to use my time more efficiently. Several years ago I took a time management course while working on my dissertation in which the primary message was...

Outsourcing Project Management Project Planning

asked Mar 2 '10 at 03:56

Fractal Guy
254 points

I'm a huge fan of OmniPlan for my development planning. It lets me set up my tasks, gantt chart them, measure resources, get a rough idea of how long things are going to take, and it's very...

Planning Project Management Project Planning

asked Feb 6 '10 at 11:51

Sbwoodside
186 points

Sometimes decisions are hard to make because of a lack of information or a crystal ball. The advice I've heard is that the important thing is to make a decision at all. The worse someone can do is...

Project Management Decision

asked Jan 19 '10 at 10:39

Wilhelm
113 points

I am in between blogging daily and running a new expansion to the blog where we expanded into a new social network, this means managing features, launches, marketing, PR etc. what are the best...

Management Blog Project Management Fulltime

asked Dec 11 '09 at 15:25

User1875
76 points

I recently asked a question of should I start dabbling into programming or should I stick to what I am good at: Sales, Marketing, Planning, Presentations, etc. The feedback was overwhelmingly...

Software Co-Founder Project Management

asked Oct 30 '09 at 22:35

Jaret Manuel
76 points

My, to put it mildly, understaffed and overworked startup is trying hard to not reinvent the wheel and outsource as much tasks as possible. So we are currently on the look out for a great project...

Software Project Management Recommendations

asked Oct 11 '09 at 06:09

Slav Ivanov
1,146 points