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How to Deal with Challenging Situations Involving Stakeholders

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We found that the project environment plays a crucial role in creating challenging situations involving stakeholders for project managers and that project managers can often take active measures to influence and improve this. She worked for nearly 10 years in the industry before joining academia in 2016. The structural environment.

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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). References. This is the ability of team members to act in concert without explicit coordination (MacMillan, Entin & Serfaty, 2004).

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

Note that Bass calls this “Groom” in reference to “Product Backlog Grooming”. It is no surprise that the researchers conclude that “Product Owners perform a wide range of challenging activities which require experience and high-status in order to be able to exert influence”. References. How to use these insights in practice.

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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 social influence is that much stronger. than on individual traits. A similar comparison can be made for how we think about countries. “In

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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. Individual actions are influenced by the actions of other individuals. Mass actions are influenced by the actions of the masses. The Role of Fear-Related Behaviors in the 2013–2016 West Africa Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak.

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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. References. But how can one feasibly do that? It would be wonderful to have such data! Fortunately, we don’t need to put the bar that high.

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Part II: A Simplified Approach to Determine IT Project Complexity

PM Times

2016) synthesized views from 42 relevant papers on the subject matter and was able to classify them into 17 categories. 2016)” as explained by Chapman. There are hundreds of papers already written on that subject. & Sense, A. & Sense, A.,2016)” The field of Project Complexity is wide-open and not well defined. Kiridena, S.

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