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15 Non-Academic Project Management Books to Earn PDUs

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It will teach you how to influence others, even when you are not directly managing them. Any books about achieving business goals, portfolio management, strategy execution or case-study driven books will count here. It’s about influence and negotiation and how to get things done. PDU claim: 2 hours. PDU claim: 9 hours.

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What Makes Agile Transformations Successful? Results From A Scientific Study

Scrum.org

Kim Dikert and his colleagues reviewed 52 prior scientific studies in 2016 to identify common challenges and success factors for Agile transformations. Although they presented a comprehensive list, they also recognized that existing research is mostly based on individual cases and what practitioners report in interviews.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

Van Waardenburg & Van Vliet (2013) offer a case study in a large organization and conclude that “The Project Manager focuses on the ’how’ of a project, the Product Owner focuses on the ’what’”. Judy & Krumin-Beens (2008) offer an interesting perspective on this in a case study. How to use these insights in practice.

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

Scrum.org

Another approach is to track many organizations over time as they adopt Agile methodologies, while also measuring anything else that could influence their results other than agility itself. Interpretative case studies on agile team productivity and management. But how can one feasibly do that? Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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How Stakeholder Interaction and Engagement Impacts Project Complexity

International Institute for Learning

complexity dimensions) that impact projects, included literature review, survey, case studies analysis, and detailed interviews. Not all stakeholders have the same level of power and their influence on a project varies. The process of researching the complexity factors (a.k.a. Let’s start by the definition of stakeholder.

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Multinational Leadership: How to Successfully Lead Offshore Projects

PM Basics

Deloitte’s 2016 Global Outsourcing Survey). Case Study #1: Leadership Style in India. Case Study #2: Leadership Style in China. With a sphere of influence under their authority, they will do anything to keep the importance and the influence. Challenge your Multinational Leadership Style.

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5 Career Resolutions I Completed In 2016

Project Management Hacks

This article will serve as a case study in how you can take recommendations and apply them to grow your career. On this front, I learned more about the cultural influence of William Shakespeare. The post 5 Career Resolutions I Completed In 2016 appeared first on Project Management Hacks.

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