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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. Anthony Mersino: Amacom, 2013. Ann Pilkington: Gower, 2013. Will Kintish: Pearson, 2014. ISBN: 9780814432785. Communicating Projects.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

Sverrisdottir, Ingason & Jonasson (2014) interviewed Product Owners from different organizations that there are often multiple Product Owners for the same product, even though the Scrum Guide prescribes against this. . Sverrisdottir, Ingason & Jonasson (2014) also found no standard for how much time Product Owners spend with teams.

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In-Depth: The Science On Sustainable Pace, Stress, And Motivation

Scrum.org

The neurological processes for this are also well-understood. It is very similar to work engagement (Schaufeli & Salanova, 2014), which we also measure in both the Scrum Team Survey and TeamMetrics (as “team morale”). al, 2013), healthcare professionals (Papathanasiou et. Source: Wikipedia. . Springer, Boston, MA.

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Should I take CAPM or PRINCE2?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Equally you could do PRINCE2 Foundation and then go on to apply for PMP but again the terminology and processes are different enough for that to be a confusing route. When this article was first written the number of CAPM credential holders was 20,933, a figure which was sent to me in an email from PMI Customer Care on 31 May 2013.

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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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Money is important, but it is not what drives me

Gunther Verheyen

We have three kids (2001, 2003, 2013) of which the two oldest (sons) have a disability ( Duchenne and Down Syndrome ). It wasn’t when I abandoned a position of Principal Consultant and a future higher-up the ladder function at a large international consulting company (2013). Let there be no misunderstanding: money is important.

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

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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. How many candidates did the process miss that would’ve been more suitable?

2015 218