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How To Motivate Your Project Team

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Modelling is the reason we don’t want our children to hang out with “the wrong sort of influence” and it is the reason we want them to hang out with “the right sort of people”. Engagement is closely related to motivation. In 2020 I also plan to offer a workshop in mindfulness-based strengths practice (MBSP) for project managers.

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What does it take to launch agile software? Q&A with Jordan Husney, CEO and Founder of Parabol

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The 2020 health crisis forced most knowledge workers to experience remote work directly. This allows Parabol to be open to the world to influence and reshape, and we’ve welcomed numerous contributions from our user base as a result. He was also a featured speaker for the Nobel Academy in 2020. Pin for later reading:

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Meeting Management Techniques for Project Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The easiest way to do this is to close any other apps Turn off pop ups. Tip: Just because we’ve spent a lot of time since 2020 working in virtual teams doesn’t mean everyone is confident (still with tech). I don’t mean influence about which way the decision goes, but being able to influence that your decision gets made.

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Top 11 Cities for Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Shanghai has some huge projects underway including: The Shanghai Urban Rail Transit Expansion: piling work on the new high-speed line began in November 2020. The 2020 Tokyo Olympics ( budget : US$5.9bn) were postponed as a result of the global pandemic, but investment in infrastructure and megaprojects continues.

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Prisoners of Retrospectives — Making Your Scrum Work #24

Scrum.org

According to the Scrum Guide 2020, Retrospectives allow a Scrum team to inspect itself and adapt its practices: Page 10: The purpose of the Sprint Retrospective is to plan ways to increase quality and effectiveness. Source : Scrum Guide 2020. The aggregation is taken from the Scrum Guide 2020 Reordered.).

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The 23 Best Project Management Books For Upgrading Your Career in 2020

Planio

We combed through best-seller lists, spoke with veteran PMs, and read a ton to put together this list of the best project management books for upgrading your career in 2020. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. Closing: Formally closing the project and documenting lessons learned. Monitoring key tasks and benchmarks.

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What is Large Scale Scrum (LeSS)?

Scrum.org

It’s a barely sufficient framework and it has officially parted ways with the 2020 Scrum guide. My thoughts : I personally like the 2020 Scrum guide. I isolated the differences between the 2017 guide and the 2020 guide. If you look more closely at LeSS, it really feels like a more old-fashioned Scrum. . .

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