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Why are people leaving project management?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There are peaks and troughs — Peter Taylor, AKA The Lazy Project Manager , talks about this in his book of the same name. However much you tailor and go light on governance, there is still some prioritizing, organizing and compromise with which projects are done and how they get done. Let’s look at those. See the trend?

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10 Strategies for Successful Project Execution

ProjectManager.com

Successful CEOs Ram Charan and Larry Bossidy define execution in their book Executive: The Discipline of Getting Things Done : “Execution is a specific set of behaviors and techniques that companies need to master in order to have a competitive advantage. Communicating information to all key stakeholders, sponsors and team members.

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Zombie Projects and How to Kill Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

That doesn’t make you a project manager, it makes you an operational team leader – although you could find that there is a useful long-term product management role for you if you prefer this way of working. have poor management. have poor oversight; and. lack of governance. They are projects that: lack structure.

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Project Health Checks

The IIL Blog

During a team meeting, the project manager asked the team, “How’s the work progressing?” We’re just a little bit over budget and a little behind schedule, but we think we’ve solved both issues by using lower salaried resources for the next month and having them work overtime. The response was: “We’re doing reasonably well.

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Review: How to survive the organizational revolution

Henny Portman

Ard-Pieter de Man, Pieter Koene and Martijn Ars wrote the book How to survive the organizational revolution – A guide to agile contemporary operating models, platforms and ecosystems. In this book you get an overview of the new organizational design landscape. The book is divided in three parts. The Spotify model.

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Dealing with Murphy’s Law in Project Management: How to Protect Your Projects from Failure

Epicflow Blog

Delivery delay, Bad weather conditions due to which the accomplishment of a task is hindered or becomes impossible, Etc. You can’t predict all bad things that can happen, because reality isn’t flawless. These factors can result in project delays or falling beyond budget frames. This list is just endless. Let’s figure out how.

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Episode 180 –  Fuel Your Project with the Power of Dynamic Documentation

Velociteach

Accurate documentation makes teams more efficient and effective. She’s also an expert on productivity, documentation, governance, risk, and compliance; and has delivered 15 years’ experience as an auditor, accountant, analyst, problem solver, and independent consultant. This interest actually spanned throughout my career.