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What Should You Include in Your Preconstruction Meeting Agenda?

ProjectManager.com

A preconstruction meeting ensures that all those parts are working together on a common goal. Get the most out of a preconstruction meeting by knowing who must attend and the items to cover in your preconstruction agenda. What Is a Preconstruction Meeting? ProjectManager has workload charts to keep teams productive.

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7 Awesome Meeting Habits That Will Make You Money

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Let’s face it, most of us deal with unproductive meetings every day. I could go on, but I can feel your meeting pain shooting through your eyeballs as you read this. I think we can agree that you can’t afford unproductive meetings. Habit #1 – State your strategic objective at the beginning of your meeting. Gord Sheppard.

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Don’t Blame Agile for Bad Agile

Velociteach

We should not blame Agile for bad Agile. This article highlights some common issues I have encountered in my consulting and coaching practice. Agile teams are empowered and collaborative. They provide the structure and practices to guide the teams. Team members are empowered. These teams were magical.

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Development Team Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns. After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Do you want to get this article in your inbox? The Role of the Development Team in Scrum.

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Organizational Competencies: What They Are and How to Develop Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I worked in the IT team at my old job. We did a fair amount of off-the-shelf software deployments, and we frequently made the point that we were a healthcare company, not a software development firm. I would not have said we had software development as one of our core organizational competencies.

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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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Making Things Happen [Book Review]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Normally I take lots of notes when I’m reading books for review. This brainstorming element normally falls outside of the traditional project management role, but is more prevalent in software projects, when engineers have a free reign to come up with new ideas and then have to see them through. It’s all brilliant.