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How to manage team conflict (& 5 strategies for conflict resolution)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We challenge leaders, we talk about risk and what might go wrong and we call people out on poor performance through project monitoring and control. Conflict should be a healthy part of any team’s development, and it’ a good way to challenge requirements and ensure that your business case and plans stand up to scrutiny.

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All technical debt is a risk to the product and to your business

Scrum.org

But, not all debt is bad!” I hear the phrase “but not all debt is bad” a lot, usually coupled with “some level of debt is manageable” and, as a software developer, it makes me cringe. From 2005 (first beta) until 2012 they worked, successfully delivering a new version every 2 years. TFS was delivered on a 2-year cycle.

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Agile Project Management: The new go-to for marketing teams in 2020

Rebel’s Guide to PM

However, beyond the bad news we’ve had to deal with since the beginning of this year, these changing circumstances have ushered in a different kind of enthusiasm for making process improvements in how we work together as well. Agility in marketing has been a growing trend since the publication of the Agile Marketing Manifesto in 2012.

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Agile Project Management for Marketing

Rebel’s Guide to PM

However, beyond the bad news we’ve had to deal with since the beginning of this year, these changing circumstances have ushered in a different kind of enthusiasm for making process improvements in how we work together as well. Does Agile project management for marketing really work? It’s certainly not a new idea.

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Project Management Statistics: 45 Stats You Can't Ignore

Workamajig

49% of project managers report to the PMO (up from 42% in 2012). Businesses say that the biggest impact of project management was on team communication (52%). Poor communication (29%). Poor stakeholder-project manager alignment is a big cause of project failure. PMSolutions ). Capterra ). Inadequate vision (29%).

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Managing Team Conflict and Strategies for Conflict Resolution

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We challenge leaders, we talk about risk and what might go wrong and we call people out on poor performance through project monitoring and control. Conflict should be a healthy part of any team’s development, and it’s a good way to challenge requirements and ensure that your business case and plans stand up to scrutiny.

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6 Barriers to customer centricity

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is an edited extract from Customer-Centric Project Management by Elizabeth Harrin and Phil Peplow (Gower/Routledge, 2012). They are: Time Transparency Team Title Type of organization Technique. We have identified 6 barriers to fully adopting a customer centric approach. Let’s look at each of those in turn. Transparency.