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Dependency Management – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly

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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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3 Ways to Practice Your Leadership Skills

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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. Or will you involve team members and, if so, to what extent? My book, Brilliant Project Leader , identifies the four essentials of team leadership.

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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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How to provide constructive criticism

Rebel’s Guide to PM

As a manager, there is sure to come a time when you have to address poor performance or substandard work. When you are a project manager, it is your responsibility to make sure that you help your team to learn from those mistakes and to find ways to improve the quality of their work. A version of this article first appeared in 2013.

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In-Depth: Stable Or Fluid Teams? What Does The Science Say?

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Recently, the concept of “fluid teams”, “dynamic reteaming” or “ad-hoc teaming” has gained traction in the Agile community. Although the concept has many different definitions, a characteristic they share is that members move in and out of a team during its lifetime. The need for fluid teams.

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Risk-aware Product Development (a.k.a. Scrum)

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Over the years I've heard my share of these kinds of statements from various levels of executives: "When my guys run a product development release I really want to know what I will get at the end so I can make business plans accordingly". "In Types of Uncertainty in Product Development. Let's make it clear up front.

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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

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The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. The bad news, it’s hard to master. Scrum is part of agile software development and teams practicing agile.

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