ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 25, 2023

But we’ll also discuss the cost of good quality vs. the cost of poor quality and show you how to measure COQ. The book Quality Control Handbook, published in 1951 and written by quality expert Joseph Juran, defined cost of quality as having both tangible and intangible costs. What Is Cost of Quality (COQ)?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 24, 2020

Suitable agile metrics reflect either a team’s progress in becoming agile or your organization’s progress in becoming a learning organization. At the team level, qualitative agile metrics often work better than quantitative metrics. A team may have deliberately built some temporary solutions to speed up experimentation.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Wouldn’t life be better if your team were, well, just a little bit more productive? It is possible to create an environment where project team members can be more productive, by creating good habits. But no one is telling you HOW to get your team to adopt new ways of working. What is team productivity?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Ruth Pearce knows everything there is to know about motivating your project team. She’s even written the book on it. I caught up with Ruth to find out more about how to motivate teams and why it’s something you should be actively doing. Why do you think motivation on project teams is so important? I love this question.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2023

There’s only one thing worse than being told bad news, and that is being told about bad news late. This conflicts with the advice Scott Berkun gives in his book, Making Things Happen. Using an outside assessment team creates objectivity. In this step you would also initiate contact with the program and project teams.

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 8, 2022

In a project-oriented structure where the project manager has people management responsibilities for their team members, it is expected that an individual’s performance on project work is the primary basis for their formal (HR) evaluation. But this is not something I’ve run across frequently.

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Scrum.org

JULY 17, 2023

Health Checks for Agile Teams Agile teams thrive on continuous improvement and adaptability. Self-assessment isn’t just a health check measuring tool but a compass guiding teams toward their potential. It’s not an audit; it’s a mirror reflecting a better version of your Agile team. Source : Squad Health Check model.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Estimation is a complementary practice Scrum Teams use in Product D evelopment. Story points are usually assigned by the team members using a scale such as the Fibonacci sequence (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc.) Some other teams may use animal sizes (Rat, Cat, Dog, Horse, Elephant etc.) or T-shirt sizes (XS, S, M, L, XL, etc.).

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 3, 2020

But we do know that when it comes to business, leadership, personal productivity and work-life balance, a slew of seriously helpful self-help books has recently been published that can help you make 2020 your best year yet. If you start your new year by reading just one of these books, you’ll be starting out on the right foot.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 1, 2023

Embracing self-management can be challenging for teams transitioning to Scrum. Taking direction from a manager or team leader is easier in some ways—just do what you’re told to do. Most often, though, teams moving to self-management find it infinitely more satisfying. Developing the team’s sense of purpose is also essential.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 2, 2019

But we do know that when it comes to business, leadership, personal productivity and work-life balance, a slew of seriously helpful self-help books has recently been published that can help you make 2019 your best year yet. If you start your new year by reading just one of these books, you’ll be starting out on the right foot.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 23, 2022

In this article you will learn: Why enabling Scrum Teams with UX Design capabilities is important. Why introducing UX capabilities to Scrum team is frequently hard. What is the job of an UX Leader in a product development organization. How to use a UX Design maturity level to coach teams to deliver better outcomes. . ??

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 8, 2023

In addition, 89% of consumers moved to rivals after having a bad customer experience [ii]. User stories can help project teams put customer needs at the heart of what they build. Check out more project management trends shaping how we deliver projects successfully this year for other ideas of how to empower teams.

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Leading Answers

AUGUST 9, 2023

Suitability filters are models that offer simplified views of a decision-making process. There are few physical or visible increments in the process. The Telephone Game and Tree Swing cartoon are classic examples of how even well-meaning interpretations can be distorted, leading to bad outcomes.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

There are peaks and troughs — Peter Taylor, AKA The Lazy Project Manager , talks about this in his book of the same name. Book a call. There is no career development. Let’s look at those. The work is stressful. Project management is stressful. If you set it up right, the project should pretty much run itself.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

During the five process groups of the project life cycle, there are multiple objectives and outcomes for each phase. After the project initiation and the planning processes, the execution of the project begins. During this phase a project leader will focus on these key processes: Managing people. Following processes.

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Leading Answers

DECEMBER 20, 2019

In his best-selling book  Drive: The Surprising Truth of What Motivates Us , Dan Pink explains three attributes (Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose) that people want to feel satisfied and motivated at work. It is a great book, but we can do more. Outline the problem, let the team tell you how it intends to solve it.

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The IIL Blog

APRIL 24, 2024

It dramatically decreased the cost of rework by building quality into every process step. It developed the just-in-time delivery model, which freed up working capital. The base is Leadership, Systems Thinking, and Process Integrity. Companies innovate and develop new products. These practices are now universal.

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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

I caught up with Mark so that he could explain that interesting title and talk more about the book. Visual Project Management is a process that uses the visualization of the project delivery process to drive team behaviors: to collaborate and effectively manage projects to deliver on time. Let’s talk about the unexpected.

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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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Project Accelerator News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

My PM friend Stu thinks you can – with OPEN-BOOK IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT. Stu had noticed that ‘responsibility for self’ had started to become a self-fulfilling prophecy, team members were responsible, but only for themselves (or at least their team) with little focus or attention on their wider business unit or organisation.

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Leading Agile

MAY 25, 2023

I invited them here to have a conversation with me because I was out with clients doing presale stuff and working with executives on the teams and the conversation around full stack teams, software craftsmanship, clean coding, different strategies for how to get developers engaged and involved was coming up. Thank you very much.

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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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Leading Answers

DECEMBER 21, 2017

My first opportunity to create and run a large agile team did not start well. Having had good successes with small to medium sized agile teams I was keen to unleash the benefits on a bigger scale. A clean-sheet development opportunity with a smart team and engaged business group – what could go wrong?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

And in no particular order we start with: Mark Phillips Mark Phillips High performing teams are motivated by an exceptional vision. The vision becomes a touchstone for difficult discussions with stakeholders, a path to unity for all project participants and a guide post for decision making with your team throughout the project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 23, 2022

The most obvious are impacts on project success, team performance, budgets and timelines. Read Next: Check out the 6 principles of stakeholder engagement for a better way to work with a team than the bullying behaviour described here. What is the complaints process? The impact of bullying on projects. Is it fair, safe?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Stick with me, and we’ll explore what project requirements are, why they’re important, and some tips for developing good ones. First, they provide the project team with a shared understanding of the project’s goals and objectives. Tips for developing good project requirements. Well, this is my life!

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LiquidPlanner

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As it turned out the traffic was in my favour allowing me longer rest periods (never a bad thing on a long journey) and all other people involved in my journey were ready and waiting for me (thank you) – result being arrival at home a little earlier (and without undue stress). In the absence of such ‘data,’ only bad decisions can be made.

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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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Scrum.org

AUGUST 22, 2019

Early September a new book will be added to the Professional Scrum Series : Agile Leadership Toolkit - by Peter Koning. Traditional management and leadership practices were developed to manage work, to build the process, and to provide the intelligence for work to be done. In numerous cases I’ve seen these teams.

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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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Resource Guru

MAY 27, 2022

And just like the far-reaching impact of an earthquake, the shockwaves that result from poor human resource planning are felt throughout the organization—in the form of missed deadlines, stressed employees, and unhappy customers. What is a human resource planning process? What is a human resource planning process? Try It Free.

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Productivity Land

JULY 25, 2023

In today’s competitive professional landscape, the secret sauce to significant achievements lies in both individual skills and efficient teamwork and team collaboration. So, let’s explore the wonders of collaborative work and the strategies to boost team productivity.

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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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Scrum.org

MARCH 14, 2023

This time we are focussing on the following Agile principle – “At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjust its behavior accordingly.” There was rarely time to pause, reflect and plan improvements to processes and ways of working. Pausing regularly to do this seems like common sense.

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Wrike

JUNE 29, 2023

Imagine you’re writing a book and you’ve just finished your first draft. The code review process is like the editing phase in writing a book. The code review process is like the editing phase in writing a book. This process requires careful oversight. This draft represents the code that’s just been written.

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