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The Must-Read Reading List for Project Communication and Collaboration

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here’s my Must-Read Reading List for some great pointers on the skills, process and experience of engaging people and working together, whether your job is to lead or to follow. Communicating Projects is a process driven book that fully explains the processes of communicating formally on projects. Will Kintish: Pearson, 2014.

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In-Depth: How To Create Better Work Agreements For Your Team

Scrum.org

Some find the process of creating them “childish” or “a waste of time”. Illustration by Thea Schukken The process of creating a skill matrix and having an open and honest conversation about the skills and what each of the member's needs from others are probably more important than the work agreements that come out of it. R., & Chu, A.

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Can the Words “Innovation” and “Project Management” Be Used In The Same Sentence?

The IIL Blog

Innovation management , in its purest form, is a combination of the management of innovation processes and change management. It refers to products, services, business processes, and accompanying transformational needs, whereby the organization must change the way they conduct their business. The change can be incremental or radical.

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Process Reduces Agility? Only on De Minimis Projects

Herding Cats

A popular toss off aphrase in some agile circles is process reduces agility. In this domain today, Agile processes are the basis of engineering those systems. IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW ACQUISITION PROCESS FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS. IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW ACQUISITION PROCESS FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS.

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In-Depth: How Easily Biases Distort What We Believe (In The Workplace)

Scrum.org

Ross & Nisbett (2011) offer an extensive overview of research in this area. . Survival bias happens when failures are ignored when you are evaluating if a process or decision is the right one (Schermer, 2014). HR departments can conclude that their recruitment process is working well because it is producing suitable candidates.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Managment Processes. Integrated Master Plan: The Foundation of Program Success , College of Performance Management, May 21, 2014. Making the Impossible Possible: Applying Heliotropic Abundance for creating Program and Project Management Processes. Presentations and Briefings. Flawless Execution. Project Success Assessment.

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

Scrum.org

But adherence to a framework or prescribed process does not guarantee agility. Adherence to a framework or prescribed process does not guarantee agility.”. I prefer a process-based definition of agility. Although we used Scrum teams for our investigation, these processes are generic enough to apply to Agile teams in general.

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