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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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On Technical Debt And Code Smells: Surprising insights from scientific studies

Scrum.org

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. Why do software teams?—?despite So I was pleasantly surprised when Carsten Grønbejrg Lützen pointed at a peer-reviewed academic paper by Michele Tufano and his colleagues (2015), called “When and Why Your Code Starts To Smell Bad”.

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Focusing on What Matters #IPMDay19

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Leading the team? They avoided the excessive hours and ‘hero’ culture we so often see in project teams. There was a focus on wellbeing and mental health for the team. The study concluded that it’s the nature of the work, not the individual, that makes the work a risk to our wellbeing. What the Study Said.

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What makes a great project manager? The 10 most crucial project management skills for 2019 (and how to develop them)

Planio

So what project management skills does it take to become a truly great project manager in 2019 (and beyond)? The 10 most crucial project management skills for 2019 (and how to build them). to keep their teams organized, document lessons learned, and manage tasks from start to finish. Let’s find out. What do project managers do?

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The Best Self-Help Books to Make 2019 Your Best Year Yet

ProjectManager.com

But we do know that when it comes to business, leadership, personal productivity and work-life balance, a slew of seriously helpful self-help books has recently been published that can help you make 2019 your best year yet. She knows a thing or two about how women are considered weak if they’re nice and nasty if they’re not.

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How to Steer Your Team Away From the 2021 Burnout Epidemic

Proofhub

How To Steer Your Team Away From The 2021 Burnout Epidemic Source: [link] In May 2019, The World Health Organization (WHO) characterized “burnout” as “chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed,” and emphasized that the term “burnout” shouldn’t be used to describe experiences in areas of life outside of the workplace.

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In-Depth: Stable Or Fluid Teams? What Does The Science Say?

Scrum.org

Recently, the concept of “fluid teams”, “dynamic reteaming” or “ad-hoc teaming” has gained traction in the Agile community. Although the concept has many different definitions, a characteristic they share is that members move in and out of a team during its lifetime. The need for fluid teams.