ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 15, 2023

That’s why you assemble a team, each expert in their own field. Delegating work gives everyone the work they were trained to do and frees the leader for greater responsibility, such as strategic thinking, coaching teams and more. Here are a few tips anyone can apply to managing a team and delegating work among them. Learn more.

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Kiron Bondale

MARCH 20, 2022

One of the clichés about Scrum is that it is “easy to understand but difficult to master” The first part of that is obvious with the Scrum Guide is only eleven pages (if you don’t count the title page, purpose and table of contents). The second part becomes apparent once you try to implement Scrum within an existing system.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 6, 2024

For example, you won’t be able to assign tasks to your team members, link task dependencies, track costs, allocate resources or monitor project progress. For example, if someone besides the project manager prefers to look at the data from a different view, it will be difficult to do so. Try it free for 30 days.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 11, 2024

It can involve anything from hiring more team members to changing the scope of the project in order to stay on schedule. This allows for a balance between the demand and the availability of resources, which avoids team burnout. This means that all the tasks you have scheduled will need to be assigned to a team member.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

At the core of all manufacturing innovations are research and development (R&D) teams. These teams drive economic growth by producing strategies, designs, process improvements and products that bring value to both consumers and companies—as well as create competitive advantages for manufacturers. Hybrid teams are here to stay.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 17, 2020

Most project managers will have experienced a situation where they have found a stakeholder to be really difficult. There is no such thing as a ‘difficult stakeholder’. Interestingly, we found that there is no such thing as a ‘difficult stakeholder’. How to deal with the impact of difficult situations on projects.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 2, 2023

Being an effective Scrum Master or team member inevitably involves difficult conversations. Let’s look at some strategies for facilitating difficult Scrum Team conversations. . Let’s look at some strategies for facilitating difficult Scrum Team conversations. . Sensitive topics and high emotions.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

From the difficult stakeholder who wants to undermine the project’s success to a disagreement about a feature of a deliverable, project work lends itself to workplace conflict situations. What is team conflict? Team conflict is where there are differences of opinion within the team.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 15, 2023

Assembling the Right Team The project team is responsible for executing the project. You need to assemble a team that has the skills and experience to do the job at hand. Each member is important as is figuring out the organizational structure of the team. Project management is nothing if not great leadership.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 20, 2023

Leadership qualities can be difficult to label because leadership itself is so present in our lives that traits can be hard to identify and define. They all lead their teams to successful ends by providing them with the direction, confidence, tools and resources that they need. With that said, leaders shouldn’t always avoid risk.

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Kiron Bondale

APRIL 10, 2022

Teams might do a reasonable job at identifying risks, assessing them and coming up with risk response recommendations for the higher priority ones. Of the 42 members who answered my poll, just under two thirds of them indicated that fewer than 25% of the improvement ideas were implemented.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 17, 2022

And how can you head off problems by building a culturally-aware team? For example, if you’re working with an international project team, it’s likely you’ll have team members from a variety of cultures. The more nationalities on your project team, the greater the risk of challenges. Start with awareness.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 31, 2022

According to the Scrum guide, Scrum teams typically have 10 or fewer people, including Developers, Scrum Master and Product Owner. But what happens with a Scrum team that includes more than 10 people? What if the Scrum team has 10, 15 even more people? However, the larger the team, the longer all of the events take. .

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 28, 2018

Since then I’ve come across too many project professionals, teams and organizations who stretch Microsoft Excel into a project management tool, and unsuccessfully so. When teams use legacy tools for something like project management, they invite in even more legacy problems. He was a wise man.

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The Lazy Project Manager

DECEMBER 9, 2020

We have all experienced an amazing transformation in the last year, one which has, in many ways, accelerated changes that we already beginning to happen, in the way we work, where we work and how we work as part of a team. Creating a Common Collective for Distributed Teams. The following is a guest article from my friends at CROOW.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 13, 2022

I want to do my projects to the best of my ability, but there’s so much to do and so little time to do it that it can be difficult to stay on top of everything, let alone have a chance to think about the bigger picture. How do you like to work with team members and clients? I know I do. Agile projects? Communication.

Leadership 366

Leadership PMO Defining Agile 366

ProjectManager.com

JUNE 10, 2020

Whether they are used to connect teams from different countries, or to bring employees who work from home together for a conference call, virtual meetings can be crucial to a company’s success. But before we get into the tips, let’s quickly look at what a virtual meeting is, and why you may choose to meet virtually with your team.

Technical Review 362

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 30, 2021

In a recent HBR article , the authors wrote about research they had conducted over a year on the relationships between how dispersed teams were and the speed at which their projects either succeeded or failed. Team members at one location might feel that their work is proceeding well but be unaware of major concerns from other sites.

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Scrum.org

MAY 25, 2023

Teams are more effective when they learn how to effectively combine their skills to complete a shared task. Cross-functional teams are defined as consisting of members with different functional backgrounds ( Keller, 2001 ). The presence of different skills in teams creates opportunities for organizational ambidexterity.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 13, 2020

Trust matters because it helps build a resilient project team. Trusted team members not only do only what is asked, but what the project needs them to do, because they know that the project manager will trust their decisions and actions. . Wise’s book, Trust in Virtual Teams. Trust helps get things done.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 30, 2023

Paraverbal community is a powerful tool to help you land your messages more effectively and be more influential – crucial when your team doesn’t work for you. However, it’s worth knowing about especially if you have a big presentation coming up or a difficult meeting to navigate, so you can think through how you want to say your piece.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 6, 2020

More organizations have taken to virtual teams. It certainly seems like virtual teams are here to stay, but are they right for your company? Are virtual teams the magic bullet to end all ills for your company? Let’s look at the different advantages and disadvantages of virtual teams to help you decide.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 19, 2023

Agile methods need Agile teams — teams that think differently and work in ways that support responsive delivery. An agile mindset, and a set of shared values, principles, and often Agile tools, help Agile teams succeed. So why are agile teams different to other types of ‘classic’ project team?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 12, 2023

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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 20, 2022

Managing international project teams requires cultural sensitivity and an awareness of what makes us different — and the same. In this article you’ll learn 7 helpful tips for working with international teams on global projects. Working with global teams is normal. Many of us do manage international teams now.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 30, 2020

These tools, once the domain of project managers, have been a life-saver, connecting workers of all stripes and keeping many industries afloat during a difficult period. ProjectManager.com is an award-winning software that organizes teams and projects from initiation to closure. Multiple project views solve that problem.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 23, 2021

These tools, once the domain of project managers, have been a life-saver, connecting workers of all stripes and keeping many industries afloat during a difficult period. ProjectManager is an award-winning project management software that organizes teams and projects from initiation to closure. Team plan: $11.50 user/month.

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 8, 2022

In a project-oriented structure where the project manager has people management responsibilities for their team members, it is expected that an individual’s performance on project work is the primary basis for their formal (HR) evaluation. But this is not something I’ve run across frequently.

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 21, 2022

But when we are faced with more challenging situations, we need to also include elements of Safety-II thinking by empowering our teams to think and act on the fly. If you liked this article, why not pick up my book Easy in Theory, Difficult in Practice which contains 100 other lessons on project leadership?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 2, 2023

Being an effective Scrum Master or team member inevitably involves difficult conversations. Let’s look at some strategies for facilitating difficult Scrum Team conversations. . Let’s look at some strategies for facilitating difficult Scrum Team conversations. . Sensitive topics and high emotions.

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SCRUM Process Planning 148

Kiron Bondale

APRIL 24, 2022

Whether you call them work boards, Scrum boards or Kanban boards, visualizing work using physical boards or online tools is a common practice for both operational and project teams. But there are as many different ways for boards to be set up as there are ways in which teams do their work.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A couple of times people have said to me that sharing the project budget with their team members is Not A Good Idea. I think it is essential to be transparent about the budget, how it was created and how you, as a team, are doing with spending it. Share your budget figures with people outside the immediate project team.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 10, 2022

It’s recommended to have a matrix organizational structure in place to define how your project team will function. It will also determine what your team members do, and what project management tools are best for the job at hand. Using matrix organizations requires careful planning and team collaboration tools.

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Kiron Bondale

JUNE 9, 2023

During a presentation I delivered today to members of the PMI Nova Scotia chapter on cultivating psychological safety, one of the attendees asked how would she be able to assess whether the team she was going to join was safe prior to joining. ” “Could I see a copy of the team’s working agreements?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 6, 2022

Hybrid work is here to stay, and ProjectManager is here to help your teams deliver timely projects, better manage resources and derive essential data insights needed to be successful. When you log into your ProjectManager account, you’ll see a role-based Home page that gives each team member access to unique data and insights.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The success of an adaptive organization hinges significantly on the capabilities of its people, which often raises the question of how to select people for agile teams. Thirdly, they prioritise the health of the team. Team Collaboration : They actively contribute as team members, fostering cooperation and cohesion within the team.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 20, 2024

According to the 2020 Scrum Guide , Scrum team members should be “self-managing, meaning they internally decide who does what, when, and how.” On the one hand, some Scrum team members think that self-managing means doing whatever they want. There is a lot of confusion about what exactly this means.

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