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Lack of Education is a Root Cause of Poor Agile Performance

Scrum.org

The first paper was a 2012 study on the tensions with remote (off-shoring) teams (Ramesh et al Ambidexterity in Agile Development ISR2012). It confirmed my preconception that regular education struggles to keep up with developments in our field. Even in institutions where they teach (software) development.

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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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100+ Project Management Terms: PM Terminology Explained

ProjectManager.com

Plus we’ve added handy links to help you dive deeper into different topics with videos, articles and even our round-up of all resources so you can put these important terms into practice with your projects. Devin Deen explains how to use Activity on the Arrow diagramming to chart the critical path in this video.

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7 Hidden dangers of project management (Or why even well-planned projects sometimes fail)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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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Is your team “quiet quitting?” How to handle employee overload

Planio

Rather than try to fix the problem, organizations squeeze their teams to the limit, which isn’t good for long-term business growth. Why is it so bad for teams and companies? Why is your team so overloaded? Revisit each team member’s core job tasks. Make sure your team has the right resources 5.

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Wicked Problem Solving Course Review (PMI)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The WPS course is a self-paced video training class is a partnership between PMI and Tom Wujeck. It’s a set of tools to help you develop the knowledge and skills to solve the tricky issues (and probably even the easy ones). There are downloadable PDF resources and a workbook that goes alongside the video.

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How to Create a Project Team Culture with Colin Ellis

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We discussed creating a project team culture. You can watch the video or read the transcript below. How did you get into the whole area of working with teams on culture? Colin: It’s one of those things, when I first started out as a project manager I was hired because I was good with people and I could create good teams.