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Product Development with the Stage-Gate® Process (Part 2): Strengths, Weaknesses, Pitfalls

Inloox

The Stage-Gate® process is a process model for the targeted development of innovations - for example, in the form of products and services. In the second part, we now dive deeper into the strengths and weaknesses of the Stage-Gate® process as well as potential pitfalls and responsibilities. Weaknesses of the Stage-Gate® process.

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5 Strategies to Improve Team Productivity on Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Wouldn’t life be better if your team were, well, just a little bit more productive? It is possible to create an environment where project team members can be more productive, by creating good habits. But no one is telling you HOW to get your team to adopt new ways of working. What is team productivity?

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Enterprise Environmental Factors in Project Management

ProjectManager.com

Enterprise environmental factors can be defined as conditions that aren’t under the immediate control of the project team. These can influence the outcome of the project, program or portfolio so they must be managed. First, you need to identify the enterprise environmental factors by listing the internal and external ones.

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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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30 Team Building Activities

ProjectManager.com

Teams don’t just come together and click into well-oiled productivity machines, at least not always. There’s often a period of time when the team members have to get to know one another and develop a rapport. In other words, every team can find value in team-building exercise. Objective: Develop listening skills.

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6 Easy Ways to Manage Group Think and Risk at Work

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In the 1970s, the social psychologist Irving Janis examined how groups make decisions. He found that a group’s dynamic often inhibits exploration of alternatives. People find disagreement uncomfortable, so the group seeks consensus before it has reached a satisfactory conclusion. Group Think Introduces Risk.

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5 Strategies to Improve Team Productivity on Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Wouldn’t life be better if your team were, well, just a little bit more productive? It is possible to create an environment where project team members can be more productive, by creating good habits. But no one is telling you HOW to get your team to adopt new ways of working. What is team productivity?