Fri.Jul 29, 2016

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Empathy Mapping

Zen Project Management

I ran an exercise at the beginning of a new project last week; Empathy Mapping. This is part of an overall approach of using Design Thinking along with agile development. The idea to empathy mapping is to get to understand your users. Per the diagram below, you want to get an understanding of what your user thinks, says, feels, and does (though I have seen other examples that are slightly different than this).

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Soft Skills

The Tao of Project Management

There are lots of courses available about how to be a project manager, but they tend to concentrate on the hard skills of project management. The Way is all about the soft skills, but what are the soft skills a project manager needs to get things done? Influencing The wise project manager knows he doesn’t have direct authority over the team, so he needs to build trust and respect to get things done.

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12 Project Managers To Follow on Pinterest

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There are a lot of people sharing project management articles, images and advice on Pinterest. Yes, really. It’s not just recipes and crafts, although I do use it for that too. I’ve curated this list of 12 project management pinners and boards so that you can check them out. I’ve tried to make sure that all these users and boards have over 100 pins (often a lot more) and a good number of followers.