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. Technical failure: this creates a program integration risk as what you are building might not sit in the organization’s architecture any longer. Using an outside assessment team creates objectivity.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 1, 2022

Long has spoonfeeding solutions and off-the-shelf feature descriptions prevailed in many development teams. Although some issues might have been fixed, I rarely see the full potential of a Scrum Team being achieved. Going all-in on predefined features fails to capitalize on hidden ideas in the brains of team members.

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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 : Crisp DNA: Happiness Index.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 9, 2018

It’s an edited extract from his book Risk Happens ! Group Think Introduces Risk. Therefore, with dissent discouraged, groups tend to endorse higher risk decisions than individuals would. People with more extreme positions are more likely than others to develop clear arguments and are also most likely to voice them.

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Project Risk Coach

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

Bad project managers create project cultures filled with stress, confusion, and little progress. Let’s run through a list of eight things that all bad project managers have in common. Some project managers keep their team members in meeting prison, and often, the meetings are things that could have been handled in other ways.

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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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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Long has spoon-feeding solutions and off-the-shelf feature descriptions prevailed in many development teams. Although some issues might have been fixed, I rarely see the full potential of a Scrum Team being achieved. Going all-in on predefined features fails to capitalize on hidden ideas in the brains of team members.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

I have been a bit lax with project management reading recently but one book that I have made time for is The Conscious Project Leader: How to Create a Culture of Success for Your Projects, Your Team and Yourself. It didn’t take much browsing on his website to realise that it was going to be my kind of book. Colin Ellis.

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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 16, 2018

I’m midway through Nassim Taleb ‘s latest book, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life. The premise of this book is that without skin in the game, asymmetries emerge which encourage unfairness, poor decision making and can contribute to a lack of understanding of realities.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

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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Leading Answers

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Telephone Game and Tree Swing cartoon are classic examples of how even well-meaning interpretations can be distorted, leading to bad outcomes. Team members move their own tasks, select new items to work on, and we can see the impacts on queue length, WIP and maybe cycle time or throughput.

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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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Kiron Bondale

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

It is also applicable to most types of projects, not just software development ones. Procuring and onboarding new team members will distract existing ones who should be focused on completing critical activities. as well as a number of other online book stores). When Fred Brooks Jr. It’s available on Amazon.com and on Amazon.ca

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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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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2023

Why do we deliver poor quality? From a bigger perspective these are all different risks. Technical risks or business risks or risks in general. What I’ve found interesting is how we deal with risks. More things to think about come from Marty Cagan's “Inspired” book. Why are we most often too late?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This is all done in an environment of seven themes: business case, organization, quality, plans, risk, change and progress. You won’t find anything in PRINCE2 about people management or the soft skills of project management, although these are covered in other related books. And what are the weak points?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

The PMI website says: Ethical choices diminish risk, advance positive results, increase trust, determine long term success and build reputations. Being able to act as a credible, trusted leader is dependent on you and your team making ethical choices about how you manage and lead the work.

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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. But what is visual project management?

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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

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. Realistically assess the risks and challenges you would face if you raised the flag.

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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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LiquidPlanner

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Now there were certainly many risks, and it could have all gone wrong. It is where the project manager, and team, do not have a full picture of the project, and thus fail to recognize important checkpoints along the way. In the absence of such ‘data,’ only bad decisions can be made. Managing Miss ing Deadlines.

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The IIL Blog

APRIL 24, 2024

It developed the just-in-time delivery model, which freed up working capital. Companies innovate and develop new products. They quickly abandon “bad” ideas and pursue valuable ones. Their teams are more productive, creative, and innovative. It is easier to prove one page than a chapter, let alone an entire book.

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Kiron Bondale

MARCH 14, 2021

If you do a better job than the assigned project manager, you might just make them look bad or they might just get the credit for your hard work. So what are some ways to respond to these risks? Take the time to understand the working agreements which the assigned project manager had established with the team and with key stakeholders.

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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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Inloox

MAY 27, 2021

A good project manager knows that some developments are out of their control. Entire books have been devoted to explaining this law. As a result, everyone develops an individual level of risk tolerance, which a good project manager must also consider within their team. " Norman R.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 21, 2019

Sub-title #2: Jeff Sutherland’s book could have been called: “Scrum: Twice the decision-making in half the time leading to half the work and twice the output.”. In Product Development, the end state cannot be known in advance of starting. Therefore, the Iron Triangle is a weak model to apply in Product Development.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2019

Part 1 intends to focus on the Scrum Team, Part 2 will be released shortly after our Webinar on April 29th and will focus on the “Epic” challenges agile leaders are facing. For example, it is recommended that members of the development teams do not spend more than 10% of their capacity on Product Backlog refinement.

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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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PM Basics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

It is hard to imagine what you can do with a project risk. What can you, as a project manager, do to mitigate a risk? Adding some risk reserves and removing requirements from the scope are not the only options. I want to share some stories of risk management with you. List of Risk Management Examples in This Article.

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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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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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Project Risk Coach

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

As you struggle with project estimates, budgets, and risks, you engage with team members that bring their personal and professional issues into your world. Each project has its own unique culture, a world composed of team members’ beliefs, attitudes, values, behavior, and actions. Think of the project manager as a shepherd.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 29, 2019

Stevens is a podcaster, author, speaker and works with women in project management to reinforce within themselves their true value to their team, company and industry. This year, I’m going to spotlight an initiative called #CelebratingWomeninProjectManagement launched by Elise Stevens , CEO of FixMyProjectChaos. Invest in your network.

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Project Risk Coach

APRIL 30, 2016

Have you ever had problem team members? These individuals hide missed deadlines, possess bad attitudes, and criticize other team members. They seldom volunteer to help other team members or jump in to pick up the slack. Team members watch project managers to see how they respond to problems. Babe Ruth.

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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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