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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”. For example, in June 2010 Chrysler merged with Fiat. So why do some projects crash to their doom?

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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.

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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.

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Mastering the (new) Agile Coaching Mindset for the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR)

International Institute for Learning

Many of the 4IR disruptions may still be in the “Early Market” phase – per Geoffrey Moore’s “Crossing the Chasm ” MarTech philosophy – but the success of these initiatives will eventually cross over the chasm for adoption by “the Mainstream Market.”

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Effective Project Communications Management to Avoid Misunderstandings and Delays

Project Pulse Journal

Everyone dreams of working on a project where every team member is in harmony, there are fewer misunderstandings, and progress is communicated clearly and consistently through well-established communication channels. Are you tired of project delays and misunderstandings caused by poor communication?

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PMI Are some more equal than others?

The Lazy Project Manager

The ones I attend are the ones with good speakers… IPMA in particular has a very poor choice of speaker. Based on my ideas and this feedback I checked out the PMI congresses in EMEA and NA and APAC since 2010 and guess what? So what is my concern and why am I mentioning PMI? There is no escape from reality now.

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What is Agile Project Management? (and how to implement it)

EasyProjects

Agile is flexible and adaptive, relying on constant feedback from stakeholders and teams in order to steer a project towards a desired goal. Agile is most popular in the software industry, but it has found homes in the information technology, engineering, product development, and marketing industries to name a few. Focuses on Users.

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