Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 23, 2022
This is an edited extract from my book Customer-Centric Project Management , co-authored with Phil Peplow (Routledge, 2012). Close working relationships with the project customer and the end users they represent are important. They are ultimately the person who gets to use the final deliverable, so they have major influence.
Scrum.org
AUGUST 28, 2020
Recognize how much of your thinking is still subtly influenced by a mechanical perspective in organizations . like network patterning, mood, safety, social contact and social influence?—?than social influence is that much stronger. than on individual traits. Groupthink and what we’ve seen at UBER ), others will soon follow.
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Scrum.org
APRIL 7, 2022
Edmondson (2012) argues that dynamic teaming is important to share and encourage learning. This is also what inspired Edmondson (2012) in her academic work on “teaming”. They also tend to perform better (Evans & Dion, 2012), are better able to deal with stress and pressure (Salas, Driskell & Hughes, 1996). Closing Words.
ProjectManager.com
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
What’s amazing about people is, despite the external forces at play on our constitution, we can always be influenced by attitude. He opens young minds in this speech to the fact that as educated as they might be, they can still hold a closed mind. Sheryl Sandberg, Harvard Business School Class Day, 2012. Empathy is a choice.
Scrum.org
JUNE 24, 2022
Its earliest members, like Herzberg, started to investigate how the psychological processes of workers influenced their motivation. Hackman and Oldman also recognized that personal differences influence this effect; particularly the “need for growth”. This is nicely captured in Self-Determination Theory (Deci & Ryan, 2012).
Rebel’s Guide to PM
AUGUST 6, 2022
And will make the decision to close the project down early if it can no longer meet its objectives. In every case, you should have people on the group who understand the project (or who can be brought up to speed) and who have influence and interest in the outcomes. In other words, this is the group that takes the tough decisions.
Scrum.org
AUGUST 17, 2020
Initially coined by cognitive psychologist Lee Ross (1977), it happens when people underestimate the influence of the situation on the behavior of others while overestimating the influence of their personal traits and beliefs (Berry, 2015). Closing words. This bias is also known as the ‘correspondence bias’. Anchoring bias.
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