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Top Project Management Conferences of 2020

ProjectManager.com

It’s not a bad practice, but why save it for once a year? A software development conference with workshops on the theme of Our Digital Tomorrow. The conference serves developers, team leads, architects and project managers. For the agile enthusiast, this scrum gathering takes place twice a year since 2013.

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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.

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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. and Mullaly, M.

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Project Management Worker Engagement

The IIL Blog

In the past, engaging team members effectively in project assignments was not given the attention it is receiving today. Projects were often short term and team members were seen as a project expense and to be removed as quickly as possible after the work was completed. How much authority will the worker have?

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43 Learning Resources for New and Experienced Project Managers

LiquidPlanner

Results Without Authority: Controlling a Project When the Team Doesn’t Report to You by Tom Kendrick. Leading a project team that doesn’t report to you is a whole new challenge in itself. Kendrick walks through how to motivate a team to contribute to a project’s success. PMI: Essentials of Project Management. Cost: Free.

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How to Build a Culture of Sharing in Distributed Project Teams, and More Questions from PMI Dallas Chapter Dinner

Wrike

The first event on my 2013 speaking calendar was the dinner meeting at PMI Dallas Chapter. One of the efficiency tips that I talked about during the session was the importance of sharing within a distributed team. Then, when you have some “champions” on the team who follow your example, you can use some peer pressure, too.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.