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7 Hidden dangers of project management (Or why even well-planned projects sometimes fail)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

During a company integration program, customer service levels dropped by 25-50% because the team management focused their efforts on reorganizing and changing employees’ roles and responsibilities, all with “the best of intentions”. Consequently, the difference in corporate culture led to numerous issues causing anxiety among team members.

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The Essential Project Management Competencies: A 2017 Perspective

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Your thoughts turn to what you should be doing for your professional development… and there’s a lot of choice. I don’t have the time (or the requirement) to take a certification course, but I’m always prepared to develop the competencies I need to succeed. How To Develop Your Skills (and those of your team). Leadership.

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The unbreakable bond: How outstanding service = brand loyalty

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In addition, 89% of consumers moved to rivals after having a bad customer experience [ii]. User stories can help project teams put customer needs at the heart of what they build. Check out more project management trends shaping how we deliver projects successfully this year for other ideas of how to empower teams.

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7 Awesome Meeting Habits That Will Make You Money

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Too much bad meeting behavior affects your ability to serve you customers at a high level, and ultimately will cost you a lot of money. Now, let’s imagine the beginning of a new product development meeting at Apple. Then create a bonus program that encourages teams to continue to have more profitable meetings. But don’t despair!

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Project Management Statistics: 45 Stats You Can't Ignore

Workamajig

How do companies use formal training programs? Between 2017 and 2018, the percentage of organizations using spreadsheets to manage their agile projects dropped from 74% to 67%. In PMI's 2017 survey, 62% of successfully completed projects had sponsors who were actively supportive. Poor communication (29%). Wellingtone ).

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Agile Product Development: Agile Methodology Explained

Epicflow Blog

There is no doubt now that Agile is not just a buzzword, but a really working methodology that takes software development to the next level. . How does it differ from the traditional approach to product development? SDLC (software development life cycle) is a sequential approach to software development.

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ChatGPT 4: A Bargain for Scrum Practitioners?

Scrum.org

The Initial ChatGPT Prompt to Explore the New Mode GPT-4 I used the following initial prompt to prime ChatGPT: “ Are you using the same training data as GPT-3.0 there are differences in the training data used for each model. were trained on data available up until around 2020 and 2021, respectively. GPT-3 and GPT-3.5

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