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How Leadership Affects Projects (And How You Can Lead Yours)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Sarah Coleman is co-author of Project Leadership, a book in its third edition exploring how leadership and project management intertwine. The last edition came out 16 years ago – yes, people were talking about project leadership even then! How is that reflected in your book? Great list!

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Book review: Turn The Ship Around

Rebel’s Guide to PM

How to Create Leadership at Every Level is a leadership book by David Marquet. Each chapter includes a story from below deck and also the leadership lesson that non-naval managers can take from this. ” In the naval academy, Marquet learned that leadership is about controlling people. Turn the Ship Around!:

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Project Management Job Titles: Understanding the Types of Roles in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article, we’ll go through what they mean and what you can expect to do in one of those roles. However, in this article, we’re focusing on people who predominately manage projects. What ‘project manager’ means to one business will be slightly different to how another company uses the term.

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Do you have a Safety-I or a Safety-II project mindset?

Kiron Bondale

It supports practices such as increased governance oversight and reduced autonomy and flexibility for staff. If we consider how project risk management is covered in many books and courses, it clearly aligns more with the Safety-I mindset than its progressive counterpart. On the other hand, a Safety-II perspective is optimistic.

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Which estimation methods are favored for adaptive delivery?

Kiron Bondale

For every person who adamantly insists that estimates are needed to support proper governance, someone else will argue that the inherent wrongness of an estimate and how estimates are abused will wipe out any benefits of defining them. It’s available on Amazon.com and on Amazon.ca as well as a number of other online book stores).

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Project Leadership In Uncertain Environments with Carole Osterweil

Rebel’s Guide to PM

And Carole Osterweil has written a book about it. Amongst her other consulting commitments, she is one of a handful of Project Academy coaches working with Cranfield University and PA Consulting to support the UK Government’s drive to increase senior project and programme management capability across government.

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Psychological safety might help to reduce “zombie” projects

Kiron Bondale

In a recent HBR article , the authors wrote about research they had conducted over a year on the relationships between how dispersed teams were and the speed at which their projects either succeeded or failed. They might place greater faith in senior leadership’s ability to overcome significant issues with the project.