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Seven Priorities for Project Managers in 2019

ProjectManager.com

Anyone who tells you, with 100% certainty, what 2019 will look like at the start of the year is bonkers. If you want to know what your priorities should be for 2019, look at the way your world was at the end of 2018 and at the start of this year. The one trend that seems to be 100 percent reliable coming into 2019 is disruption.

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Scrum Mastery Requires Humility: My New Year's Resolution

Scrum.org

I was reminded by Ken Schwaber’s statement when he told me the reason why he chose the term Scrum Master rather than Scrum Coach because mastery is about the “being” and not the “doing”. As a master, the being is more important because if the Scrum Master gets the being right, the doing will be manifested right by itself.

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Big Rocks moved in 2020

Gunther Verheyen

I call myself an independent Scrum Caretaker. It reflects who I am, how I feel, what I do: caring for Scrum AND caring for people. I call myself an independent Scrum Caretaker on a journey of humanizing the workplace with Scrum. The book “ 97 Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know ” became my next Big Rock.

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De 2e druk van mijn boek “Scrum Wegwijzer” is beschikbaar

Gunther Verheyen

Mijn boek Scrum Wegwijzer ( Een kompas voor de bewuste reiziger ) is de Nederlandse vertaling van mijn Engelstalige “smart travel companion” getiteld Scrum – A Pocket Guide. Scrum Wegwijzer 2e druk nu beschikbaar! Dat werd het Engelstalige Scrum – A Pocket Guide (A Smart Travel Companion). Gelukkig maar.

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Striving for inclusivity – Agile can help

International Institute for Learning

According to a Harvard Business Review report (Titus, March 2019), teams with inclusive leaders are: 17% more likely to report that they are high performing, 20% more likely to say they make high-quality decisions, and 29% more likely to report behaving collaboratively. 2019, [link]. According to research (Adler.,

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21st Century Leadership - Prologue

Scrum.org

A number of people inside and outside Scrum.org collaborated with me in 2018 and early 2019, to talk about 21st-century executive leadership. When executive leaders within the sphere of influence are in Step 1, it is almost impossible to have Professional Scrum, LeSS-Friendly Scrum, or Kanban with limited WIP in the long run.

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A Look Back on 2018 and Thank You!

Scrum.org

My energy and stamina are not what it once was. They are the spark, energy, healthy scepticism, creative, forward-thinking drivers of these organizations. This year Scotiabank and Scrum.org have given me a platform for teaching over 500+ people in Product Ownership, Leadership, and Scrum (a catalyst for change). employees?—?customers?—?people.

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