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Strategic Project Portfolio Management [Book Review]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Practical advice I’ll refer to again The only point I disagreed with was that late on in the book, when Moore is discussing adaptive project management, he describes Wikipedia as a project. Reading this was a pleasure; I’m sure I’ll refer to it again in the future – and if you work in a PMO, you should too.

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What I’m Reading [March 2016]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

My editor and I have been exchanging emails about typos, choosing icons for the cover, references and sources, layout and all the finer details. You'll also like: What I’m Reading: February 2016 My round up of project management reading, novels and a few children's recommendations for the month.

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5 Tips To Re-Energize Your Daily Standup Meetings

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The purpose of a daily standup meeting, which you will sometimes hear referred to as the daily scrum, is to get together and go over important tasks that are just finishing, or about to start. Other teams hold their meetings around the Kanban board or whiteboard so everyone can refer to that if they need to.

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7 Factors of Good Governance

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Set up a Terms of Reference for the project or include a section on roles and responsibilities for the team members in the Project Charter or Initiation Document. An older version of this article first appeared on the 2080 blog in 2016. This is very easy to fix and to put in place if you don’t have it set up already. Further reading.

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5 Project Management Predictions for 2016

Wrike

2016 could be the year your team centralizes management of the processes, methods, and techniques your team uses to analyze and manage projects in your company. In 2016, we predict you’ll be more challenged by employee development than employee retention. What do you predict for project management in 2016?

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Moving from Values to Virtues

Scrum.org

Scrum Values were added to Scrum Guide in 2016. Key difference between value and virtue is that value refers to an entity when virtue refers to behavior. Values are what makes Scrum fully uncover it's potential. These values include Courage, Focus, Commitment, Respect, and Openness.

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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. A poster with wonderful work agreements has no value when members weren’t involved, when they didn’t discuss them and when they don’t refer to it. References. In fact, a lot of implicit coordination happens without any overt communication at all.

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