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How to Engage Project Stakeholders With Good Communication

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There’s no denying that stakeholder management processes, documents and analysis are a great tool for project communication. Identify who are the key influencers on your project so you can include them in your team of supporters and champions. But you don’t create engagement or change behaviour by filling in a power and impact grid.

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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”. 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). You can fast-track this process with good work agreements.

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

Scrum.org

Recognize how much of your thinking is still subtly influenced by a mechanical perspective in organizations . like network patterning, mood, safety, social contact and social influence?—?than The mechanical perspective draws attention to the structure and processes of organizations. than on individual traits.

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Project Management and Artificial Intelligence: Bring It On!

The IIL Blog

Collaboration tools with self-reporting capabilities could free the project manager from the process. Project team members must actively participate in the process and provide information, which they often do not. It could generate insights into the stakeholders’ interests, power, influence, and engagement.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

Traveler: The process of building an understanding of stakeholders by visiting them and spending time with them. Intermediary : Acting as an interface between management and the team and the process of disseminating domain knowledge. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process , 33 (1), e2311. Some original Pdfs can be Googled.

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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. Research concluded, this happened for at least six reasons [2]: Fear and stress interfere with cognitive processing. Individual actions are influenced by the actions of other individuals. Curr Psychiatry Rep 18, 104 (2016).

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Does your organization truly support project management?

Kiron Bondale

The April 2016 issue of PM Network provided updated project management capability findings from PMI’s 2016 Pulse of the Profession ® report. Establishing a PMO within a low maturity organization but not vesting it with the authority or sponsorship to influence behaviors and culture can be the kiss of death.

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