Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Is it time to hold Moderator elections and share the Moderator burden at SE?
After the [rollback war] is it now time to hold another round of moderator elections to ensure we have consistent coverage across the PM SE?1
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HoHoHo! Winter Bash 2016 is here!
The end of the year is upon us, and here in Stack Land, that can only mean one thing: it's time for Winter Bash 2016!
Event Overview
Winter Bash is a fun, lighthearted event we run every year as a ...
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Should we promote upvotes on questions?
The question What is the best way to deal with a client that is always complaining? for instance has been asked yesterday, already have 5 answers and no upvote.
IMHO, we should see a reverse ...
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How (and should I) proactively create synonyms that are more intuitive than the canonical tags?
Background
We currently have 17 questions tagged daily-scrum, which is the formally correct name for the Scrum ceremony. However, colloquially many people call this meeting the daily-standup, so I ...
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Where are the project managers?
Doesn't seem like any project managers are on this site anymore. Heavy IT presence and clearly not managers or leaders. Is this site evolving to IT-centric concepts?
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Should this be an Agile/Scrum Questions stack exchange?
Wouldn't it make more sense to have a distinct Agile group?
What do you think are the benefits of having questions and answers from this two different worlds in this one group?
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Moderator Elections?
Does anyone know how often moderator elections are held on this site? Or more importantly, when the next one would be?
I would like to throw my hat into the ring for election as moderator so that ...
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How to protect questions?
I have recently earned the "Protect Questions" privilege. Go me!
However I cannot find out how to actually protect a question! Not that I want to at the moment, but I might do in the future! I see ...
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Once again, obsolete comments not deleted- why this time?
In this question I once more assisted with clarification with the OP and in this case I asked questions in the comments, the OP answered and I asked them to edit their answers into the question. They ...
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Possible reasons for a bigger view count
Can someone with access to relevant analytics, please shed some light on how the following question got bigger traffic as compared to other posts. 2000+ views in less than 24 hours. We would like the ...
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Why were my "obsolete comment" flags declined?
In this question there was a lot of commentary in relation to the original form of the question.
The question was heavily edited and morphed into a completely different question, rendering all the ...
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Meeting up at Scrum Gathering
I hope it's ok to post this here - I'll happily remove it if not. It's great being part of this StackExchange community with you all. I was wondering if anyone else was going to Scrum Gathering April ...
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Lots of edits recently
I've noticed a lot of edits coming through recently and while I want to applaud the improvements to the questions, I'm a bit concerned that so many are being edited that new open questions are being ...
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HoHoHo! Winter Bash 2015 is here!
The end of the year is upon us, and here in Stack Land, that can only mean one thing: it's time for Winter Bash 2015!
Event Overview
Winter Bash is a fun, lighthearted event we run every year as a ...
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Why has PM:SE Usage dropped off so much?
Earning Rep on PM:SE is a slow and tedious affair, mainly because of the slow rate of on-topic questions and apparent lack of users who read, upvote and accept answers. I once waited 2-3 days on Meta ...
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What should I do with tag, which is used for different types of questions?
Some tags have different meanings and are used for different types of questions.
I found that, when I wanted to write a description for an education tag.
As I saw, it's used for:
Marking questions ...
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Should questions about financial projections be off-topic?
Financial projections can be considered part of PM discussion in PM SE? I´m not sure if it is directly related to project or financial issues (there is another site that handles financial Q&A?).
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Is this Sharepoint/Project Server question off topic?
I was just taking a look at this question in the close review queue: https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/15848/. I can't decide if it should be closed or not (though the OP seems kind of grumpy ...
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Can I ask for a critique of an aspect of our development process?
For example, would it be considered off-topic if:
I posted some project requirements along with corresponding User Stories I created and asked for a critique of my stories?
I'm pretty sure I already ...
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Should [estimating] and [estimation] be synonyms?
Should estimating (161 questions) and estimation (6 questions) tags be merged / made synonyms? I believe they share the same meaning and only one of them should be used. Even though estimation has ...
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Is there a lack of consensus amongst moderators about Product Management questions?
Today I posted my first PM.SE question, which was clearly tagged as 'Product-Management' (existing tag), and asked a question about licensing, which IMV is absolutely in the thick of Product-...
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Migrating to Software Recs
Now that the Software Recommendations SE is up and running, would it be better to instantly migrate Software Recs off-topic questions, rather than comment and closevote?
We continue to get quite a ...
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What to do with excessively chatty but very useful "case study" question
Re this question
This question has descended into a chat, and I know I have contributed to that, but I sensed some desperation in the OP and felt they needed some help and advice, and that wasn't the ...
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How to improve the rate of questions which are marked as solved
Almost all questions (>95%) have one or more answers. Nevertheless, I assume far less than 50% are marked as solved.
How could this rate be improved?
It would be nice to see what was the best answer ...
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Need new tag for MS-Project 2013
I don't think I can create tags, but we do need one for MS-Project 2013...
Posted on the "Discussion" tag rather than "Feature Request" as my rather simple statement above got rejected under Feature ...
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Why aren't spam questions and answers being deleted?
This question and this question are clearly spam and have been voted for Closure and answers tagged as spam.
Why are these questions not being deleted from the site? Do we need additional moderators? ...
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Let's get critical: Mar 2015 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love Project Management Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from ...
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How can we improve our close reason for software recommendations?
I'd like to see us change this off-topic reason:
Questions seeking software recommendations are off-topic because they tend to become obsolete quickly. Instead, describe your situation and the ...
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Too much focus on Agile?
Having been an active member of this site for some time now I have a growing feeling (though have not counted) that the majority of questions we "allow" are now to do with some facet of Agile and this ...
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HoHoHo! Hat Dash 2014 is here! Are we in?
Since 2012, as a promotional effort, Stack Exchange runs an event called "Hat Dash", which almost every site in the Stack Exchange network participated in, where users earned hats for their avatars ...
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Closing answers without feedback to the user
I would like to understand why the Community/Moderators close answers without any sort of feedback to the user.
I appreciate that not all answers are great or elaborated enough but sometimes these ...
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Is my question suitable on project management or some other forum?
It's been asked before about the importance of knowing mathematics for programmers and I wonder if you think that mathematics will be more or less important for software development in the future. ...
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Let's get critical: Sep 2014 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love Project Management Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from ...
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Teaching more users how our site works
On another Stack Exchange site I contribute to, I was surprised to learn how many high reputation contributors don't know about some of the key features of Stack Exchange, and many of the tools at ...
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Does PM.SE have a recommended reading list of PM texts?
Does an SE thread exist (community wiki) to collate best practice books, white papers or case studies; possibly with reviews?
If not - I would be interested in contributing to a PM.SE/BoK if it is ...
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Understanding the Low Quality Posts Review queue
How did this answer end up in the Low Quality Posts Review queue? It looks good as far as content and length is concerned.
I even clicked on the Edit link to see if there are any hidden/spam content ...
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I have voted to reopen a question - here's why
I have voted to re-open this question:
How to save Gantt and PERT as a GIF image?
This is a question about how to use a very popular Project Management tool to undertake a very common Project ...
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Is "How technical should a Project Manager be?" a polling question?
The Problem
I stumbled across the question today when in the review queue, and had some ambivalence about its current suitability. While the question as a whole seems site-relevant, it has the ...
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How to deal with OT questions that you want to help with?
I occasionally come across questions that are clearly OT for PMSE, such as this one: https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/11361/first-web-development-private-contract, where the OP has asked a ...
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Should we move this to Software Rec site, close it or leave it as is?
This is a very popular question on the site (approx 1,600 views) but is clearly asking for a software recommendation:
https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/5600/project-management-software-for-a-...
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Review Queues and the PMSE Notice Board
I went through the close vote review queue and cleaned up some stuff that had been lingering around for awhile that should have probably been put on hold a little sooner.
Most of the posts had 3 or 4 ...
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Let's get critical: Mar 2014 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love Project Management Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from ...
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Software usage questions
I see quite a lot of questions about using project management software. For example:
https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/11087/can-jira-automatically-create-a-subtask-based-on-component
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What is the correct etiquette on discovering a "dodgy" question?
As a normal non-moderator, low rep user, what is my correct course of action on reading a new question that has issues, for example it is likely off-topic?
I have several choices:
I can downvote
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Is it off-topic to ask for ISO Structure/Documentation
I just added the question ISO structure/documentation? and one person commented it as off topic and voted down the question.
The question is about the ISO Structure, that I want it in some form to be ...
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Does PMSE have a process for adding community moderators?
Currently, PMSE has some great community moderators, many of whom are regular visitors and contributors. Unlike some other sites on the network, I think our moderators have the full support of the ...
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Does our site need active editors?
Part of what will make our site grow is having good, clean, professional looking content, the kind of content that a project management professional expects to see in his or her daily work. Our site's ...
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"How to mitigate the risk of team members leaving" looks valid now; can it be reopened?
The OP has edited this question. It seems properly phrased as a PM question now; in fact, I'd like to give an answer to it. Can it be taken off-hold now?
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Let's get critical: Dec 2013 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love Project Management Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from ...
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Project Management chat room renamed to "The Scrum Room"
I renamed our site's chat room to The Scrum Room, which seems more appropriate, not only for our site's topic, but also because of the way we've been using the room.
Our community doesn't consist of ...
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