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How To Motivate Your Project Team

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Ruth Pearce knows everything there is to know about motivating your project team. I caught up with Ruth to find out more about how to motivate teams and why it’s something you should be actively doing. Why do you think motivation on project teams is so important? She’s even written the book on it. So how do we do it? Gertman et.

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How to Create a Project Management Schedule (Example Included)

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Still, there are concrete steps you can take to develop a solid project schedule and ensure all aspects of your project are properly planned and accounted for. The best way around this is to involve the team in constructing the list of tasks. Then get the team together to add to it. Step 1: Write Down Your Tasks.

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What Is a Project Management Communication Plan?

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Managing those tasks is a constant communicative effort with your team. By describing the project landscape, so to speak, you know what your parameters are, and it’ll help you get buy-in from the stakeholders and your team. What are strengths and weaknesses in your plan? These strengths and weaknesses are not etched in stone.

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#NoEstimates Outlook in 2019: Is It Still Relevant?

Epicflow Blog

The movement aims at increasing productivity in the domain of software development by promoting management agility. To find out what #NoEstimates is about and whether it’s still relevant in 2019, we conducted extensive research and talked to Woody Zuill , the creator of the idea. Here’s a short overview of this trend and its prospects.

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10 Essential Project Management Skills for Project Managers of 2019

nTask

If you’re looking for a sure formula to success, acquiring and honing these skills should be one of your top priorities in 2019. A project manager with the right leadership style knows how to lead and motivate a team and make them in line with the strategic goals of a project. Leadership. Subject Matter Expertise. It doesn’t end here.

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Scrum Master Interview Questions (4): From Metrics to Kicking off Scrum to Scrum Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

Your Scrum team is consistently failing to meet commitments, and its velocity is volatile. How would you address this issue with the team? If a Scrum Team is exhibiting a volatile velocity, consistently failing to meet their forecasts, it suggests that velocity is being used as the prevalent metric for measuring that team’s progress.

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7 Gantt Chart Tools to Test in 2019

Epicflow Blog

To prevent this, you should use the proper tools – for example, Gantt chart software – to predict and solve problems your business might confront. The weaknesses of Gantt charts are especially evident in multi-project environments when you’re in charge of several projects at once. . Read more: The Final Word in the Gantt Chart Polemic.

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