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Develop Better High Performing Teams

ProjectManager.com

As we ease into the new year, many organizations’ executive teams are ramping up hiring for new talent. All these efforts require precise judgment to hire just-in-time talent, using data to make strategic project decisions at a portfolio, program and project level and launching new high performing teams.

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5 Strategies to Improve Team Productivity on Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Wouldn’t life be better if your team were, well, just a little bit more productive? It is possible to create an environment where project team members can be more productive, by creating good habits. You’ve read all the articles, you’ve got ideas about how things could be better. What is team productivity?

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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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How to manage team conflict (& 5 strategies for conflict resolution)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We challenge leaders, we talk about risk and what might go wrong and we call people out on poor performance through project monitoring and control. Conflict should be a healthy part of any team’s development, and it’ a good way to challenge requirements and ensure that your business case and plans stand up to scrutiny.

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What happens if a Scrum team becomes too large?

Scrum.org

According to the Scrum guide, Scrum teams typically have 10 or fewer people, including Developers, Scrum Master and Product Owner. But what happens with a Scrum team that includes more than 10 people? What if the Scrum team has 10, 15 even more people? However, the larger the team, the longer all of the events take. .

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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. Regardless of how much project management experience you have, at a certain point you will still want or need to make a decision as a team. Anytime you involve your team in project decisions, the complexity you have to deal with increases exponentially. Bad Practices.

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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.