Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 4, 2021

PRINCE2 is process based, with processes covering starting a project, directing a project, initiating a project, managing stage boundaries (sign off and moving between stages), controlling a stage, managing product delivery (there is an emphasis on product based planning) and closing a project. And what are the weak points?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 12, 2022

“New work is being assigned without being reviewed for priority or as part of the long term strategy/plan,” wrote one project manager, and many others added similar comments about the lack of organizational portfolio management, like these: Poor strategy planning hence poor implementation in order to realize benefits sought.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 23, 2022

Projects are subsets of workplaces and since project management is, for the most part, an activity that involves working very closely with others, the impact of a bully in a project is potentially lethal to project success. The most obvious are impacts on project success, team performance, budgets and timelines.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 30, 2020

I could write my book without his case study. Career-limiting because: No one wants to work with the project manager who emails the operational team a closure document and is never seen again. As I talk about in my course on how to write awesome project status reports , surprises are bad. And I told him so.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 5, 2020

Management expert Henry Mintzberg, in his book, ‘Managing‘ suggests that the open-ended nature of the job is one of the most significant adjustments for new managers. According to the HRPA (Human Resources Professionals Association), 63% of millennials believe that their organisations are not developing their leadership skills.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 22, 2019

For years, I’ve fulfilled the role of Scrum Master for many different organizations and Scrum Teams. These teams were mostly focused on software development. These organizations were able to attract the smartest developers and create products customers loved. Examples of a Developer Culture.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 4, 2020

When I saw the book “Art of doing twice the work in the half time,” Dr. Jeff Sutherland wrote, my reaction was like how someone can claim that? I went through the book and loved it. It is not only because the book is good, but I felt connected with one of the case studies. You can read the original post here.

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Velociteach

MARCH 18, 2024

Have you ever wondered why project team members decide to quit? Join us as we unravel the mysteries behind team turnover with HR expert Cindi Filer. Discover the pitfalls project managers should avoid to retain their team members, foster a thriving workplace environment, and optimize your most valuable resource: your people.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

“New work is being assigned without being reviewed for priority or as part of the long term strategy/plan,” wrote one project manager, and many others added similar comments about the lack of organizational portfolio management, like these: Poor strategy planning hence poor implementation in order to realize benefits sought.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Risk Management Engineering 347

Scrum.org

APRIL 5, 2022

As a community, we excel at putting our fingers on the sore spots of what teams and organizations do wrong. Some examples of good Scrum versus bad Scrum we all seem to agree on…. But how useful is it for members of a Scrum team or an organization that actually wants to succeed with Scrum? Why does it matter?

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 15, 2017

cited that $122 million was wasted for every $1 billion invested due to poor project performance. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, however, if it isn’t bolstered with legitimate study of project management fundamentals, then it can become a bad thing in the right situation. Benefits of Developing Project Management Skills.

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Engineering Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Leadership 150

Scrum.org

MARCH 27, 2023

Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! You have worked with many Scrum teams in the past. You always provide team members and stakeholders of new teams with a document on how you work: your strengths, weaknesses, and how to best communicate with you. proactive, hands-on, etc.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Its purpose was to use all our personal experiences and creativity, to identify quick tips around team autonomy, and its components self-management, and cross-functionality. This article is focused on quick tips to make your Scrum team more self-managing. Within the Scrum Team Survey, we call these 15% Solutions “Quick Tips”.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 7, 2023

For example, the sales department closes sales contracts to meet its targets. In doing so it closes more sales contracts than the development unit can deliver. This in turn makes the development unit deliver late, and customer confidence drops which in turn makes it harder for the sales to close new contracts.

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Velociteach

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Foundational power skills encompass soft skills, behavioral competencies, and personality traits essential for leaders, aspiring leaders, and team members alike. We’re talking with someone who is well known and loved by all the Velociteach team. He has developed 20 online products through Velociteach. This is Neal Whitten.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 21, 2019

Within agile frameworks, the team retrospective is the primary workshop for planning and evaluating experiments. Yet most team retrospectives I see are broken. Teams spend too much time recording viewpoints and information—but not enough time reviewing or planning experiments. This is a more useful format.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 28, 2019

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. However, zombie projects are not operational, day-to-day work.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

It’s of paramount importance to everyone involved, from stakeholders to team members. The best a project manager can do is develop an accurate time estimate for how long it will take to satisfactorily complete the project. The main lesson to learn from all this psychological profiling is that our gut is a poor estimator of time.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

That applies to processes, organizations, individual team members, whatever or whoever is a risk to the successful completion of the project. He focused his theory on project management with another book, Critical Chain , which came out in 1997. A similar concept was developed in Germany in the early 1960s by Wolfgang Mewes.

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Susanne Madsen

JANUARY 5, 2020

What better time to consider how you can continue to develop as a project leader and sharpen your saw. The feedback you received shouldn't be seen as negative but as an opportunity to grow and continue to develop. To continue to develop your project leadership skills, have a look through the eight topics below.

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Leading Answers

AUGUST 25, 2020

It has spawned the #NoEstimates hashtag, a website, a book and countless blog posts and conference presentations. Then I discovered this is closely aligned with what the more reasonable NoEstimates advocates suggest doing anyway. The answer is the team will not get through 20 of them, and the forecast will be wrong.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2017

I was responsible for setting up a new global Telesales team in the UK which made appointments for Sales Managers across the Europe. After several months, whilst the performance of the team was good and they were meeting or exceeding targets, it didn’t ultimately turn into revenue for the company. Be inspired! Thanks, Pam!

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Therefore, you need to systematically track and evaluate the performance of the actions you take to mitigate risk against established metrics throughout the acquisition process while developing other options. You also have a way to say when the risk is no longer a risk; that is you can close it. When to Use a Risk Register Template.

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Epicflow Blog

JULY 2, 2021

This issue can be managed by means of virtual team building. Virtual Team Building for Increasing Remote Teams’ Productivity . “Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.” Let’s take a look at the benefits of virtual team building. .

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LiquidPlanner

JULY 27, 2022

To effectively lead a project to completion, I think we agree that many soft skills are needed to manage a project team and timelines successfully. Really it’s critical for everyone on the project team, but it is an essential skill for the project leader. Let’s explore a few of them…. Excellent communicator . Emotionally intelligent.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 19, 2023

It is as close to perfection as a communication tool can get. The vast majority of personal organization books advocate for keeping things very simple. Use Self-Explanatory Titles Poor email titles are just as bad as the emails with titles from another thread of emails. billion email users worldwide.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

A product manager, who works for a large aircraft manufacturing organization in the United States, follows a hybrid model of development and, with his team, releases a new version of aircraft handling software every couple of weeks. We will look at the usage of these foundational metrics for Agile development shortly.

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Velociteach

JULY 3, 2023

Accurate documentation makes teams more efficient and effective. Adrienne developed a documentation approach called “dynamic documentation,” and she’s a published author of the book “The 24 Hour Rule,” and she’s going to tell us more about that book, as well. So it actually has a wide range.

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The IIL Blog

MAY 17, 2023

We have read books and journal articles on various project management topics. When the Department of Defense (DoD) decided to expand the need for more technical projects following World War II, pressure was placed upon the aerospace and defense community to develop expertise in project management. By Harold Kerzner, Ph.D.,

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Scrum.org

JULY 11, 2021

Jimmy is the author of the book “96 Visualization Examples — a toolkit for the Agile coach”. In short: it’s very difficult to measure because even if a team or organization is successful, are they successful because of your contribution, or despite it? They do not manage or lead the team by telling them what to do or how to do it.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 8, 2019

If a technical team estimates each piece of work before doing it, and gives it a notional size in points, then team members will roughly know how much they're taking on when planning to meet a goal. They fiddle the books with wooden dollars instead, and declare that the balance of story points being "delivered" perhaps ought to rise.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 3, 2023

Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! First, however, you shall design an exercise for a Scrum team. This is how Sprint Planning works for a Scrum team: (1) First, the Product Owner points to the team’s Product Goal and introduces the business objective of the upcoming Sprint. (2)

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ChatGPT Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Artificial Inteligence 144

Scrum.org

APRIL 14, 2020

TL; DR: A Remote Retrospective with a Distributed Team. This fifth article now dives into organizing a remote Retrospective with a distributed team: practices, tools, and lessons learned. By the end of the Sprint Retrospective, the Scrum Team should have identified improvements that it will implement in the next Sprint.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Moreover, I point to the advantages gained from leadership engaging directly with teams. Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! The core of “Agile” is that the best products and solutions to customer problems emerge from self-organizing, cross-functional teams. Collins, T., Snowden, D.

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Gunther Verheyen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Besides having engaged with many teams and organizations I have also created and facilitated many Scrum workshops and classes about various topics for various audiences since then. I embarked on my Agile journey in 2003 when we wrapped eXtreme Programming in Scrum.

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Scrum.org

MAY 5, 2022

Factors that helped our community to use Scrum more effectively within their team and organization. It’s tempting and easy to point at other colleagues, teams, and departments. If you a really honest, are you making things worse or better for your team? Not only for your team but also for yourself, individually.

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The Strategic Project Manager

APRIL 26, 2022

John Kotter , a change management expert and Harvard Business School professor, developed a now well-known 8-step change management model, published in his 1996 book “Leading Change.” Empower others – Hire, borrow, recruit, remove barriers, and overcome obstacles to enable the team. Create Urgency.

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