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How To Motivate Your Project Team

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Ruth Pearce knows everything there is to know about motivating your project team. I caught up with Ruth to find out more about how to motivate teams and why it’s something you should be actively doing. Why do you think motivation on project teams is so important? She’s even written the book on it. So how do we do it? Gertman et.

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What makes a great project manager? The 10 most crucial project management skills for 2019 (and how to develop them)

Planio

So what project management skills does it take to become a truly great project manager in 2019 (and beyond)? The 10 most crucial project management skills for 2019 (and how to build them). to keep their teams organized, document lessons learned, and manage tasks from start to finish. Let’s find out. What do project managers do?

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#NoEstimates Outlook in 2019: Is It Still Relevant?

Epicflow Blog

The movement aims at increasing productivity in the domain of software development by promoting management agility. To find out what #NoEstimates is about and whether it’s still relevant in 2019, we conducted extensive research and talked to Woody Zuill , the creator of the idea. Here’s a short overview of this trend and its prospects.

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Scrum Master Interview Questions (4): From Metrics to Kicking off Scrum to Scrum Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

Your Scrum team is consistently failing to meet commitments, and its velocity is volatile. How would you address this issue with the team? If a Scrum Team is exhibiting a volatile velocity, consistently failing to meet their forecasts, it suggests that velocity is being used as the prevalent metric for measuring that team’s progress.

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How to Write a Business Case

ProjectManager.com

SWOT: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats. The following is a basic outline to follow when starting to develop your business case. Budget: This is an estimate of everything in your plan and what it will cost to complete the project over the scheduled time allotted. Business description/mission statement.

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12 Resource Allocation Tips for Managers

ProjectManager.com

Resource allocation is just a fancy term for a plan that you develop for using the available resources at your disposal in a project. Therefore, in the planning process you should take some time to research where and when you might have a blocked team member or task dependencies. Resources are varied. Track Time.

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How to Create a Project Management Schedule (Example Included)

ProjectManager.com

Still, there are concrete steps you can take to develop a solid project schedule and ensure all aspects of your project are properly planned and accounted for. The best way around this is to involve the team in constructing the list of tasks. Then get the team together to add to it. Step 1: Write Down Your Tasks.