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How to Replan When Project Goals Are Unrealistic

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Step 1: Review your current process. Take a look at your current process. Buckle down, read some project management software reviews, and choose a solution that makes the process smoother. Can your teams be split into smaller groups? This article first appeared in 2014. Do you know where each project is?

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Project Decision-Making

Velociteach

The challenge is to create a fair, efficient, effective, and transparent process for our teams and stakeholders. Making better decisions requires understanding the organization and establishing context-sensitive processes. Move fast and break things” was Facebook’s motto until 2014. What are they interested in knowing?

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Tips & Tricks to facilitate Sprint Planning

Scrum.org

The Groan Zone is a term coined by Sam Kaner[2] to describe a crucial phase within group decision-making that a group might either leave with strong outcomes or weak outcomes, depending on their decision-making process. Good facilitation creates a participatory, purposeful, transparent and healthy decision-making process.

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In-Depth: How To Create Better Work Agreements For Your Team

Scrum.org

Some find the process of creating them “childish” or “a waste of time”. Illustration by Thea Schukken The process of creating a skill matrix and having an open and honest conversation about the skills and what each of the member's needs from others are probably more important than the work agreements that come out of it. C., & Lei, Z.

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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”). Group & Organization Management , 40 (2), 131–159. Chronic stress , 1 , 2470547017692328. Manganelli, L.,

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How to avoid a Project

The Lazy Project Manager

Argue – When called out on this behaviour start arguing that you really aren’t the best team/department/group to be active at this point in time – if you can get away with pointing the finger at an alternative (and clearly in your opinion, better placed team/department/group to go before you) definitely do that – it may buy you more time.

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In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change

Scrum.org

they effectively introduce new norms and behaviors into their group and the people they work with. The mechanical perspective draws attention to the structure and processes of organizations. In the end, the internal logic of the mechanical perspective rests on checklists, managerial plans, rules, processes, and numbers.

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