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7 Hidden dangers of project management (Or why even well-planned projects sometimes fail)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Maja Mrsic Here are 3 examples of projects that didn’t go to plan. During a company integration program, customer service levels dropped by 25-50% because the team management focused their efforts on reorganizing and changing employees’ roles and responsibilities, all with “the best of intentions”.

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Trello vs. Asana: Side-by-Side Comparison

ProjectManager.com

Yes, Trello has project management features and Asana has a timeline and other tools to help manage tasks and teams. Neither Trello nor Asana can do that, which helps you deliver projects on time and within budget. It allows teams to manage different types of projects, workflows and task tracking. What Is Trello?

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7 Awesome Meeting Habits That Will Make You Money

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Too much bad meeting behavior affects your ability to serve you customers at a high level, and ultimately will cost you a lot of money. For example, take a look at this Key Strategic Objective for Apple: To ask less of the planet, we ask more of ourselves. Now, let’s imagine the beginning of a new product development meeting at Apple.

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21 Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

The Scrum Master encourages the Scrum Team to improve, within the Scrum process framework, its development process and practices to make it more effective and enjoyable for the next Sprint. By the end of the Sprint Retrospective, the Scrum Team should have identified improvements that it will implement in the next Sprint.

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What is project scope? (Plus 7 steps to help you define project scope)

Resource Guru

The importance of project scope The dangers of not following project scope best practices How to write a project scope: a checklist of what to include How to define project scope 7 project scope steps to get started Project scope example: Website redesign Your project scope will change (and that’s fine). Every project has a budget.

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How to Develop the Essential Skills to Be a Project Manager

Wrike

One important note: In addition to the technical competencies we’re dishing out, project managers will also need to develop at least some basic subject matter expertise in whatever industry they’re managing projects. Develop this skill. Project budgeting. Develop this skill. As the old saying goes, practice makes perfect.

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How to Make Collaboration in Remote Teams Easier

Binfire

Remote teams were seen as a fad some time ago but it’s quickly becoming popular in businesses today. Earlier this year, Amazon announced plans to hire 3,000 remote workers for its customer service department (it had just hired 5,000 back in 2017). The Challenge of Collaboration in Remote Teams.