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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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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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One Year on Terra Firma

The Lazy Project Manager

It was (and I still can’t quite believe this) one year ago that I last stepped off a plane after a visit to Geneva and Zurich to deliver a series of presentations and workshops for CERN and PMI Switzerland. It hasn’t all been bad. New keynote topics developed and ready (just call please).

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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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10+ Reasons Why IT Companies Fail In Today’s Industries

nTask

Especially, if you are the team lead on a project with relatively high requirements. This puts a big question mark on the project handling capabilities of the team involved, particularly the leadership. Map out SMART goals and objectives in a way that they can be easily shared with your team too. Poor Leadership Structure.

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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.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.