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Are you really managing information overload?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Graham Allcott talks about this in his book, How To Be A Productivity Ninja. It’s a time-management-y book but it’s really about how to get organized and stay organized. Things happen quickly on many projects, and there are often change requests that get processed at short notice. Use a good project management change process.

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Top 10 Lean/ Kanban Books for IT, Software and Knowledge Work!

Digite

Irrespective of where you are in your Kanban journey, here is a comprehensive list of the top Kanban books that will help you with knowledge, insights and experience related to Kanban and ensures an empowered journey towards achieving your business goals. We highly recommend the following 10 books to all Kanban practitioners and students.

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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. Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers is the book I wish I had written. Will Kintish: Pearson, 2014. Anthony Mersino: Amacom, 2013. Conflict 101.

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Catsuits and Parachutes

The Lazy Project Manager

This book is not the book to advise you on what portfolio reporting or dashboard solution to choose and it is not about how you should go about implementing such a solution (I did suggest one specific dashboard view you might ask for from any supplier and/or solution though so make sure you lock that one down).

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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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Product Discovery for Scrum Teams

Scrum.org

That would be the job of the process that feeds into the Product Backlog: product discovery. Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! In this process, cross-functional teams move from problem identification to prototyping and testing solutions with real users.

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Challenging Change

The Lazy Project Manager

But Peter, ever the pragmatist, offers some practical advice through his 5-5-5-5 model for assessing change foundations and making improvements to such foundations in his book. Tailwind Project Solutions was formed in 2014 to provide a bespoke approach to project leadership development.

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