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5 Tips To Re-Energize Your Daily Standup Meetings

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Elisa Cepale I facilitate daily standup meetings for our support team. In this article, I’ll look at 5 activities you can try in your daily team standup meeting. In this article, I’ll look at 5 activities you can try in your daily team standup meeting. What’s the point of a daily standup meeting?

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How To Manage Your First Meeting With A Project Sponsor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Meeting a project sponsor for the first time is an opportunity to impress. But what do you actually talk about when you meet a project sponsor for the first time? Meetings focus on people-related issues and she wants the project manager to filter out the issues that need to be discussed. I follow up with a 1-to-1 if I can.

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5 Tips To Re-Energize Your Daily Standup Meetings

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I facilitate daily standup meetings for our support team. Int his article, I’ll look at 5 activities you can try in your daily team standup meeting. What’s the point of a daily standup meeting? If you work with Agile methods , you will likely be attending standup meetings every day. Elisa, over to you….

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Software Review: ProjectManager.com [2016]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

That’s not the case now, so you can also record admin time like holidays, team meetings and the handy bucket task ‘Misc’ There is the functionality to add budget information and project expenses. Previously I noted that team members could only complete them for tasks that are on the project plan.

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Software Review: BusiBI Project Manager 2016 v5.7

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Name: BusiBI Project Manager 2016. I have apps that I don’t like using because I have to be connected to the internet to get them to do anything and most of the time I use my iPad on the train, or in meetings at someone else’s offices. General Information. Vendor: BusiBI. Hosting options: iPad. Cost and plans: £3.99 It’s £7.99

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7 Factors of Good Governance

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If your company doesn’t do lessons learned in a structured, corporate way, look at what you can do to build it into your project team meetings so that at least within your team you are sharing your successes and ‘could do betters’. We recommend: Lessons Learned Meeting Minutes Template. You have clear roles and responsibilities.

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5 Habits to ditch this year

Rebel’s Guide to PM

But it’s easy to either overlook them totally and not set success criteria at all, or to set them and then fail to go back and check that you are actually meeting them. Sloppy Meetings. I don’t always use agendas either, especially on the more informal meetings. A version of this article first appeared in 2016.