article thumbnail

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

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Maja Mrsic Here are 3 examples of projects that didn’t go to plan. 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”.

Planning 407
article thumbnail

4 Awesome Teamwork Examples for Agile Teams

nTask

Professionals do not come with a manual so how should Agile teams work in collaboration? In this blog, we try to shed light on sportsmanship and teamwork examples right off the sports ground. What may seem like a completely different ballgame, if studied closely, just may be able to teach Agile teams a thing or two.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How We Made Our Customer The Product Owner

Scrum.org

From 2010–2015 I worked as a Scrum Master for a web agency. We developed software solutions for external clients. When I started with Scrum, I changed my role from Project Manager to Scrum Master, the developers slowly moved from ‘programmers to product developers’, yet the Product Owner role remained challenging to fulfill.

article thumbnail

How Wrike’s Engineers Developed a Unique Quality Control System

Wrike

I joined the team as a QAA engineer in 2010, the first employee in this role. Over the past 12 or so years, we have built a super team of brilliant QAA engineers. The team made a complete audit of everything that could be checked and improved by at least 1%. But he was wrong — Team Sky won in just three.

article thumbnail

The Must-Read Reading List for Project Communication and Collaboration

Rebel’s Guide to PM

. Project teams communicate and collaborate by default, don’t they? That certainly hasn’t been the case for all the teams I have worked on. Don’t assume your project team will know how (or even want to) communicate well and collaborate with each other. This book reminds us that conflict on teams is inevitable.

2013 289
article thumbnail

Why Over-communication Matters for Project Management And 5 Tips For Doing It Right

Proofhub

On the other hand, over-communicative bosses are usually the “bad cops” of the entire team. As team leaders, we want to be heard. This write-up is a reflection of our team’s journey towards overcommunication without being overbearing. or “Why does this guy never shut up?”. However, we hate to be annoying.

article thumbnail

Are You A Workplace Bully?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest article from Paul Pelletier, PMP and author of Workplace Bullying – It’s Just Bad for Business. Simply put – I believe that we learn from the examples set by those above. You don’t have to look far to find examples that support my perspective. Paul Pelletier. Click To Tweet. The Cost Of Your Results.