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Making Things Happen [Book Review]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Normally I take lots of notes when I’m reading books for review. I’m seeing this more and more in project management books (I like to think I started a trend !) There is a logical flow to the book. Virtual teams are very much the norm now. It’s all brilliant. and it works very well. Section Two looks at skills.

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Software Developers Don’t Need Permission or Forgiveness

Leading Agile

This one is for software developers. Ron Jeffries has an article describing how fundamental refactoring is in the basic professional practice of a software developer. Software development techniques are not the responsibility of the project manager, customer, Product Owner, or any other non-technical stakeholder.

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What makes a good manager? 9 essential qualities and skills

Planio

Despite a busy workload and multiple responsibilities, the best managers find a way to blend their hard and soft skills to deliver on their goals while providing support, direction, and guidance to their team. Get to know your team's strengths and weaknesses 2. Make time to support team members and give feedback 5.

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Product-centric teams have skin in the game!

Kiron Bondale

I’m midway through Nassim Taleb ‘s latest book, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life. The premise of this book is that without skin in the game, asymmetries emerge which encourage unfairness, poor decision making and can contribute to a lack of understanding of realities.

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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

ProjectManager.com

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. The bad news, it’s hard to master. Scrum is part of agile software development and teams practicing agile.

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The 23 Best Project Management Books For Upgrading Your Career in 2020

Planio

A good project management book. the truth is that project management books are a more in-depth way to get inside the minds of the best managers out there. We combed through best-seller lists, spoke with veteran PMs, and read a ton to put together this list of the best project management books for upgrading your career in 2020.

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What is Visual Project Management?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I caught up with Mark so that he could explain that interesting title and talk more about the book. Visual Project Management is a process that uses the visualization of the project delivery process to drive team behaviors: to collaborate and effectively manage projects to deliver on time. But what is visual project management?