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How can I save a dating relationship when I am promoted and she will be in my vertical reporting chain?
I had been promoted to recently and my division at the company where I work is being reorganized.
I had been dating my colleague for slightly less than 1 year in which she was a previously a project ...
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Need feedback on my internship experience
I am an intern as data consultant, I am experimenting a visualization software for the company i'm working for during 6 months.
I started off with another subject and on my very first day, the manager ...
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How do I manage this difficult stakeholder?
I need to send an update every week on a turn-around initiative to senior management and the working group.
There's a bully in the working group who waits for me to send an update highlighting that ...
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Manager implied that I should be pushing a colleague to get work done faster. Do I tell the colleague?
Same manager as my previous post. My colleague and I are working on the same project, and we are at the same level in the org chart (in fact, we are in the same role), but he is newer to the ...
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Popularize high priority initiative with senior folks from other departments
If I wish to popularize a high priority initiative of my department with senior folks from other departments, then what should I do? My manager is not keen on me reaching out and holding meetings with ...
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Discover all possible stakeholders in a pile of (legacy) systems
I have been assigned a team that seems to have been "abandoned" in the following sense: Hadn't had a direct manager for a long time and has been getting more and more responsibilities of ...
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As the Big Boss does not trust the PM or myself and the project may be in jeopardy, how can we improve the situation?
TL;DR: The Department Director doesn't trust/believe myself or the Program Manager and is actively demeaning (though possibly out of ignorance rather than true malice), and this is putting the project ...
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Duplicate project activities in corporate R&D
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work for a large corporate providing HW/SW that often lacks alignment between sites across the world.
In the past three years I was fortunate enough to be allocated to a corporate project where we ...
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Handling Protective Overworked Employee
I am a middle manager at a company and we have a developer who works on our site. He does not report to me. He is overworked and upper management doesn't want to hire someone to help him, but at the ...
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Group of friends project % split problem
Recently me with a group of friends (group of 3) have started a web page, we have decided that the % (future benefits and expenses) of the project will be 42.5%/42.5%/15%, despite the fact that the ...
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Is stakeholder management listed or inferred?
I have worked multiple times in technical projects that I was responsible for the successful synchronisation of all parties and update on progress. Basically I managed all the stakeholders.
My ...
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How do you handle colleagues who constantly give you resistance?
I work as a full stack developer in a team of 7 developers. I like to receive the constructive criticism as well as give it when needed.
I love to review PRs and strive to maintain high coding ...
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Transitioning from a semi-autonomous role to a heavily managed role
I've been working as a data scientist/analyst at my current company for close to four years now. My former manager (call him Dinesh) left at the end of last year and since then, his manager (call him ...
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How can I ask my boss to stop overcomplicating everything?
I enjoy my job, but my boss makes everything more complicated than it needs to be. Whether it's policy, planning, implementation or improvements, he tries to "outsmart" simple things and ...
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How can I ask for a quote breakdown - when agency refuses?
I work for a company that outsource some of our work to an agency. This agency specialize in branding & design, but also sub-contract other work out to designers, developers, etc.
I am new in my ...
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