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Which estimation methods are favored for adaptive delivery?

Kiron Bondale

For every person who adamantly insists that estimates are needed to support proper governance, someone else will argue that the inherent wrongness of an estimate and how estimates are abused will wipe out any benefits of defining them. Throughput and Monte Carlo received 11% of the votes and #NoEstimates only received 5%.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. Here’s an introduction to these important groups as part of the governance framework so you can get yours set up and working on your project. What is a project board?

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How to get the best from your sponsor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project managers must take an active role in influencing and educating project sponsors in these best practices to get the leadership support the project requires. Certified in both project management and business analysis, she provides a broad view to support project governance and processes.

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Book review: Turn The Ship Around

Rebel’s Guide to PM

How to Create Leadership at Every Level is a leadership book by David Marquet. Each chapter includes a story from below deck and also the leadership lesson that non-naval managers can take from this. ” In the naval academy, Marquet learned that leadership is about controlling people. Turn the Ship Around!:

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Implications of Artificial Intelligence on Project Management

The IIL Blog

The future of AI in project management will depend on how we implement, use, and govern it! He served on the Global Board of Directors Project Management Institute Global Board of Directors from 2007-2012 and was elected Board Chair in 2010. He received the PMI Fellow award in 2017.

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Is Kniberg’s Aligned Autonomy matrix still relevant?

Scrum.org

He worked at Spotify around 2012 when they were pushing the boundaries of scaling agile and experimenting with new organizational designs. The management discussion on team mandate has shifted toward determining the degree to which teams are self-organizing, self-directing, or self-governing. You've probably heard of Henrik Kniberg.

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Project Management Worker Engagement

The IIL Blog

If a worker was unhappy with an assignment or the leadership provided by the project manager, they knew that all projects eventually must come to an end, and they would move on to another assignment that could be more challenging and interesting. Engagement activities do not end at the completion of the staffing process or shortly thereafter.

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