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Burnout in Project Management

The IIL Blog

Stress and burnout have been recognized as serious project management problems for years, but until recently companies have been reluctant to face the problems head on. Techniques have been developed describing ways to recover all or part of the expected business value from a distressed project [Morais-Storz et al.,

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How can Agile Leaders create the right context for Ownership?

Scrum.org

The core responsibilitie of the agile leader is creating the right context for the agile teams so they can thrive and self-manage. When I use the term ownership, I mean that teams pick up ownership voluntarily and take responsibility for the results of a product or service. They also help other teams to grow.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Risk Management is Project Management for Adults - Tim Lister.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. reducible and irreducible ? De Meyer, C.

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Daily Habits of Successful Leaders: Examples and Lessons

ActiveCollab

The most successful people in the business have 5 things in common: They have laser focus; They are excellent short and long term organizers; They learn from their mistakes; They adapt easily; They take calculated risks. Steve Jobs](([link] used to spend his mornings in meetings with his product and management teams. Steve Jobs.

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What is Taylorism, and why Waterfall is just the tip of the iceberg!

Scrum.org

For many people, the traditional project management methodologies (see PMI / PRINCE2) are the root of the problems that birthed Waterfall. Frederick Winslow Taylor is a controversial figure in management history. Traditional management practices were born out of the disengagement of the workforce. Vincenzo Sandrone.

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Agile Unplugged: EP01 | Mike Cottmeyer and Brian Sondergaard

Leading Agile

What was that, probably 2004, or ’05 or something in that kind of range, I think? – [Mike] You were Director of Development. – I was the Director of Development. I was running a team in the e-bill space. – And I was a project manager. I was running a team in the e-bill space.

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