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The Definitive Guide to Project Sponsors

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article, we’ll look at why that is and how you can work with a project sponsor as a project manager. You’ll learn tips and techniques for engaging senior leaders in the role so you can build effective working relationships and act as a team. to support the team at the request of the project manager.

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Authenticity: How Authentic Leadership Reshapes Organizational Culture in Project Management

The IIL Blog

As you reflect, have you experienced a leader who truly knows themselves, stands firm on their morals, and genuinely understands their team? ” It’s about leaders who consistently self-reflect and understand their journeys, whether good or bad. Authenticity goes beyond just being “real.”

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Reduce the Risk – Share the Success

International Institute for Learning

It includes planning for risk, assessing (identifying and analyzing) risk issues, developing risk handling strategies, and monitoring risks to determine how they have changed (Ref. [1]). More in detail, effective risk management strategies allow you to identify the project’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and, above all, threats.

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Do you have a CRACK PO? (and a book review)

Kiron Bondale

(If the title of my article for this week has you confused gentle reader, fret not – I’m just merging two distinct topics into a single post). In 2003, Barry Boehm and Richard Turner coined the acronym C.R.A.C.K. Eric’s company develops and sells a number of add-on products to MS Project.

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How to complain less and do more

Scrum.org

I believe branding this behaviour as a binary concept like “good” or “bad” rather than evaluating it in a spectrum doesn’t help at all. Rather than trying to save the world, we will focus on the art of the possible in this article. We will try to evaluate these sources in a Scrum Team context. It’s a natural occurrence.

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Need up-to-date facts and figures for a project management report, article, or infographic? Keys to Project Success: 48% say the team’s technical skills. 26% say effective team communication. Lean & Test Driven Development (TDD) – 11%. Feature Development Driven – 9%. Dynamic Systems Development Method – 3%.

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Start with Principles, Not Personal Anecdotes

Herding Cats

If, for example, a project manager believes a member of his or her team is a fast and effective worker, each time that team member works fast and effectively or is told by a colleague about the work that has been done fast and effectively, the project manager will consider his or her belief to be well-founded. What To Do Next?