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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

These are all functions of a project board (or steering group). Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. In other words, this is the group that takes the tough decisions. What is a project steering group?

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Top PM 10 Articles of All Time

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I thought it was time to look back and see what the stand-out articles were over the years. Here are the top 15 articles year by year. Gipsy Moth IV did make her planned round-the-world journey and continues to operate today , taking groups on breath-taking sea journeys. At the time, the project was desperately short of cash.

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Decision Making Tools for Group Decisions

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest article by author Edoardo Binda Zane. In this article I will give you a few tools to help you facilitate the process and direct your team’s efforts and energy in the right direction. The Group Decision Process. Making a decision as a group is a 3-step process: Deciding whether you need your team.

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6 Easy Ways to Manage Group Think and Risk at Work

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest article by Dr Mike Clayton , the brains behind Online PM Courses.com. In the 1970s, the social psychologist Irving Janis examined how groups make decisions. He found that a group’s dynamic often inhibits exploration of alternatives. Group Think Introduces Risk. How To Do Away with Group Think at Work.

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Back to Basics: What is the Difference between Process Groups and Phases?

MPUG

After that experience, I no longer had a difficulty in understanding the difference between project management process groups and project phases. In my two decades of experience, I have noticed that many PMs find it difficult to understand the concept of process groups. Five Process Groups of Project Management. In figure 1.5

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How To Help Teams Make Group Decisions

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest article by author Edoardo Binda Zane. In this article I will give you a few tools to help you facilitate the process and direct your team’s efforts and energy in the right direction. The Group Decision Process. Making a decision as a group is a 3-step process: Deciding whether you need your team.

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Using Mad Tea to Engage the Neural Network of Groups

Scrum.org

If you are an experienced Scrum practitioner, chances are that you’ve worked with groups of sixteen or more. This group was about to experience… Mad Tea !” In this article, we’ll explain what Mad Tea is about. With larger groups, having the group form two concentric circles can be challenging. Our Findings.

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