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Harnessing the Power of the Muses: How Ancient Inspiration Fuels Modern Project Management

MPUG

Their influence was believed to be essential for the creation of great works and the advancement of civilization. Similarly, Thalia, the Muse of Comedy, reminds project managers of the importance of fostering a positive team culture and maintaining morale, even in challenging times. This is genuinely what diversity means.

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Agency utilization rate: 9 steps to increasing billable time

Resource Guru

The result tells you the percentage of time that your team spends on projects that actually bring in money. A high utilization rate means your team is focused and efficient. Billable hours: These are the hours your team spends on client projects. Billable hours directly contribute to revenue.

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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

More often than not in kind of either the IT product development space or IT services space. We like to consider ourselves kind of a full stack consultancy in the sense that you know, obviously, you have to deal with the work surface levels and what the teams are doing but you know, how do you orchestrate teams across dependency boundaries?

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The Essential Guide to Writing a Project Communication Plan: What It Is and Why You (Actually) Need One

Planio

What’s the number one factor that influences whether your project is a success or a dud? Maybe you think it’s too much work for the size of your team. Or that your team already knows how to communicate. Not only that but finding the right cadence of communication can feel like a Goldilocks situation. Here’s an example.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

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. Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Strategy (#Strategy).

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The Inevitable Collapse of Agile - David Stackleather

PM That Works

I had a chance to join a mastermind with several of the john Maxwell team members. 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. Everybody wouldn't read that book and try to implement it like Toyota did.

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Selling Agile to the C-Suite to Get Buy-In

Leading Agile

In fact, at conferences, we often talk about how managers are bad and executives are foolish people who want to derail the company. Just trust the teams. How about we let the teams decide how to work? Here are some books you need to read, try this article, attend this conference, or go to this two-day course.

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