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The Science Behind Great Teams: How Neurotransmitters Shape Success

The IIL Blog

They do this by promoting essential qualities like motivation, social bonding, trust, empathy, collaboration, positive energy, and focus. By doing so, we can create an environment where motivation, trust, collaboration, and positive energy thrive. Thomas Friend is a Presenter at this year’s International Project Management Day!

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How to handle Bikeshedding: Parkinson’s Law of Triviality

Project Bliss

Have you ever found yourself in a meeting discussing something relatively unimportant, yet the time and energy everyone poured into the topic seemed to go on and on? In Parkinson’s Law of Triviality, he explains that people will give more energy and focus to trivial or unimportant items than to more important and complex ones.

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A practical approach to improve the performance of your agile teams

Scrum.org

This article describes an A-type ecosystem for (software) product development, the prevalent dynamics in it, and the solutions to improve performance using Org Topologies™ mapping. This is a common situation in software development groups. Managers should not waste energy trying to optimize the existing system.

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10 Project Management Buzzwords and What They Mean

ProjectManager.com

But in terms of business use, it applies to the energy or mental capacity required to deal with a situation or task. With its transition into the vernacular, the word began to be used as a substitute for time, such as “I don’t have the bandwidth to do that now,” rather than indicating energy or mental capacity.

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April Fool’s Ms. Project Manager: 3 Tips for Unexpected Surprises

LiquidPlanner

This principle helps you understand why spending more time on requirements will effectively use your capacity and energy upfront. Brad Egeland is a Business Solution Designer and IT/PM consultant and author with over 25 years of software development, management, and project management experience.

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Improve Your Productivity & Get Rid of Your Project Demons

LiquidPlanner

You will find that getting the most important work done first every day will fill you with positive momentum and energy that will make every day better. Then, assign components of the work that can be delegated and focus your energy on what you can or need to personally deliver. Do the fast things next.

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Time to Check-in on Your Mid-Year Goals

LiquidPlanner

Not all project management software can automate projected timelines like this, so it’s essential to do your research to invest in one that can help make your job easier. LiquidPlanner is one tool that builds automation into the product to save your organization time and energy on manual task updates.