Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

In every case, you should have people on the group who understand the project (or who can be brought up to speed) and who have influence and interest in the outcomes. It’s fine to have a different cadence at different points in the project lifecycle. Of course, the project manager should attend too. They can meet as often as you like.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

What do you do with planning cadences? And so, I built a relationship with this dev director that I was working with and he and I would collaborate and I was reading books and you know, reading all the Kent Beck stuff, [unsure 03:48]. How do you go up into Portfolio Management? What do you do with audit and compliance?

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

It sets the tone for the interactions that take place between team members and it heavily influences the values of the workplace. In turn, it heavily influences how employees feel about the company. It’s the first impression that’s derived from the practices and “rituals” of the work community.

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Resource Guru

OCTOBER 18, 2023

If your utilization rate shows that project owners responsible for the account are consistently overbooked, it might be why projects are lagging, missing deadlines, or double booking appointments. For example, if you predict a surge in client work in Q4, pre-booking team members ensure you meet demand without overstretching.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review Monitoring 52

Teamweek

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In the first, you focus only on the statistics, so you write in your project report: We’ve only booked 60% of the influencers. We have booked 60% of the influencers because we decided to switch tactics and focus on creating content ourselves. Which may influence what you report on. It depends. ?‍♀️.

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Estimate Budget Risk Management Influencer 52

Planio

MARCH 20, 2020

What’s the number one factor that influences whether your project is a success or a dud? Not only that but finding the right cadence of communication can feel like a Goldilocks situation. Your designer mixed up the brand books and you ended up using their old company logo! Too much and you’re suddenly the King of micromanaging.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2023

Here are some books you need to read, try this article, attend this conference, or go to this two-day course. Let me ask, are you all familiar with the ladder of influence? Creating Safety & Coming Up with a Credible Plan Create safety for your executives or your vice presidents or the directors that you can influence.

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Agile Technical Review Executing Influencer 77

MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

But do they hold the power and influence? The number, the turnover, the influence, the power and interest. And so the turnover, the influence of power and the interest is definitely something to be considered. Especially also with stakeholders who have a strong influence but are prone to change their mind.

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PMI Software Review Estimate Risk Management 59

PM That Works

MAY 9, 2020

And so it's just a great community of people that are really driven to watch you grow in and master your influence to be able to really do the job that we were intended to do. Morris 10:04 Now Dean leffingwell is is a friend of the show and he's endorsed books that we've done. So that's at the pm tribe calm come join us over there.

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MPUG

JANUARY 30, 2020

Carl is the author of seven project management books and co-produced The Audio PMP Prep: Conversations on Passing the PMP Exam. Okay, there is our winner today, and I brought you a book just because I want to know you were that smart, and you got a bonus point for showing up early. How close were you? You were 300. Where were you?

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PMI Software Review Cadence Risk Management 52

Leading Agile

JANUARY 21, 2021

And so what we find is that when you’re talking to executives and you’re trying to influence leaders if you can align with their strategic value you can give them a way of measuring progress along the way. And I guess, Dean Leffingwell came out with the first book on scaled agile. And so where it kinda went, right?

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Sustainability Agile SCRUM Technical Review 84

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Agile and Earned Value Management Bibliography of papers, books, and thesis (#Biblio).

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

You get super clear backlogs, you find out what the real cadences you’ve finished work that you start. And so like in some of the early I think it was maybe it was Merrifield book rework or maybe it came from your HBR article I can’t remember. How do you like fix it? – Yeah. – It’s not a capability.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

And this was like way before the days Dean Leffingwell hadn’t even written his first book on scaling. And the reality was, when we got on the ground, we didn’t have the influence to be able to do all the things that we were supposed to do. None of the stuff on scaling was out there. What changed?

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