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3 Ways to Practice Your Leadership Skills

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Mike Clayton True leadership is not something you do when it suits you. In fact, true leadership emerges when it is least convenient, in tough times, under extremes of pressure. These are the situations that separate out the good project managers from the poor, and the true project leaders from the ‘merely competent’ project managers.

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Dependency Management – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Scrum.org

Does your team struggle to get items to Done? Do they experience a high amount of spill-over into the next cycle because they are waiting on another team or another person? Do items sit in a blocked state and age out while waiting on other teams or people to complete work? Dependencies are an epidemic in software development.

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The unbreakable bond: How outstanding service = brand loyalty

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In addition, 89% of consumers moved to rivals after having a bad customer experience [ii]. User stories can help project teams put customer needs at the heart of what they build. Check out more project management trends shaping how we deliver projects successfully this year for other ideas of how to empower teams.

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9 Essential Project Management Competencies

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Your thoughts turn to what you should be doing for your professional development in the months ahead… and there’s a lot of choice. I don’t have the time (or the requirement) to take a certification course, but I’m always prepared to develop the project management competencies I need to succeed. Leadership.

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9 HR Challenges That Will Be Prevalent In The Digital Age

Proofhub

Having the information as to why people tend to leave, HR can develop plans to address employee turnover. HR needs to develop long-term plans that account for change and agility. Developing Leadership The role of leadership is crucial to ensure teams perform their best.

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6 Barriers to customer centricity

Rebel’s Guide to PM

They are: Time Transparency Team Title Type of organization Technique. The process of gathering customer satisfaction scores that relate to how well the project manager and team are delivering comments on the level of project management maturity in the organization. Let’s look at each of those in turn. Transparency.

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The Best Self-Help Books to Make 2020 Your Best Year Yet

ProjectManager.com

But we do know that when it comes to business, leadership, personal productivity and work-life balance, a slew of seriously helpful self-help books has recently been published that can help you make 2020 your best year yet. She knows a thing or two about how women are considered weak if they’re nice and nasty if they’re not.

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