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15 Non-Academic Project Management Books to Earn PDUs

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One hour of reading equals one PDU , so it’s a great way of keeping up your informal learning. It will teach you how to influence others, even when you are not directly managing them. It’s about influence and negotiation and how to get things done. For example, read on your commute or listen to an audiobook at the gym.

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How to Engage Project Stakeholders With Good Communication

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Your message has a greater impact if they hear those good things from other people as well, so ask your team to talk about the project informally, especially when you have hit key milestones or delivered something. Identify who are the key influencers on your project so you can include them in your team of supporters and champions.

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Are You Ready For The Social Tech Revolution?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In a parallel universe, some of the key drivers of project management are to communicate, to inform and to develop high performing teams. Some key traits that have been proven to influence enterprise social media tools are: Ease of adoption Performance expectancy Social influence Team trust.

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2019 Project Management Conferences You Won’t Want to Miss

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I will update as more information becomes available. APM is always an exceptional event and I’ve spoken at it in the past (You can read my write up of the 2016 conference here ). There is no information for the 2019 conference, but I will update as information is available. April to June 2019. October to December 2019.

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Project Management and Artificial Intelligence: Bring It On!

The IIL Blog

AI tools hallucinate and produce inaccurate or unverifiable information one-third of the time. Project team members must actively participate in the process and provide information, which they often do not. It would be amazing if AI tools could parse and synthesize this information in the project’s unique context.

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Working Remotely? This Will Hit You Next!

Scrum.org

During the Ebola outbreak 2013-2016, people exhibited anxiety-invoked behavior to a large extent. Personal assessment of risk is hampered by lack of information. Individuals’ risk assessments are poor even with good information. Individual actions are influenced by the actions of other individuals. Work intensification.

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

Scrum.org

Butchibabu and her colleagues (2016) performed an experiment with 13 teams. Many studies have found that psychological safety has a positive influence on team effectiveness (Edmondson, 2014). That allows members to anticipate and prepare the right information ahead of time, rather than having to explicitly coordinate it.

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