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How To Manage Your First Meeting With A Project Sponsor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I asked five project managers to share what they do in that first conversation with their project sponsor. One of the best training courses I attended for Project Management was on influencing strategies with Learning Tree. The course model stated that without trust, influence is almost impossible. Learn about them.

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Are You A Workplace Bully?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project managers establish and foster workplace behavior expectations through their own leadership values and actions. Command and control project managers were often revered and feared. Project managers who choose a bullying leadership style get results predominantly through dominance, fear and negative reinforcement.

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How to Deal with Challenging Situations Involving Stakeholders

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Most project managers will have experienced a situation where they have found a stakeholder to be really difficult. This often causes stress and it’s challenging for project managers to find ways to deal with it. What happens instead is that they create situations which are challenging for the project manager.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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

Scrum.org

This effect has been observed with flight crews (Orasuna, 1990), nuclear plant control crews (Waller, Gupta & Giambatista, 2004), and work teams (Urban et. Butchibabu and her colleagues (2016) performed an experiment with 13 teams. Academy of Management journal , 52 (3), 581–598. How to coordinate the flow of work. References.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ?

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

If we look at the discipline of software engineering, we see that the microeconomics branch of economics deals more with the types of decisions we need to make as software engineers or managers. Now To Risk Management. Risk is the effect of uncertainty of objectives.