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Why Projects Succeed or Fail

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Get access to over 20 project management templates, ebooks, checklists and more. For example, knowing that poor strategic alignment is a major reason for project failure is not the same as redesigning the project kick off process to ensure a good strategic fit from before the business case is even approved. Poor strategic alignment.

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Unlock the Power of ChatGPT for your Scrum Team

Scrum.org

The sales team sells unauthorized features to meet its quota. I will describe a conflict situation in a Scrum team. Your suggestions include surveys, talks, interviews, team meetings, games, exercises, or including other parties like stakeholders or line managers, and other useful practices. ChatGPT Prompt for Scrum Masters.

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The Mad Hatter: How Many Hats Do Project Managers Have to Wear?

LiquidPlanner

If you’re a project manager – and if you are reading this you probably are… or deal with them often on a team – then you know that you often need to be a jack of all trades in order to get things done for your projects. Manage the budget closely. A 10% budget overrun can be corrected fairly easily. The financial guru hat. .

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Project collaboration: the key to successful project management (and happy teams)

Resource Guru

If you’ve ever tried to complete a project without the right tools, the right team, or the right resources, you know it can feel like an impossible task. Project collaboration is when a team of people work on the same project to achieve a common goal. ” Not bad! Not bad at all. But you don’t have to go it alone.

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Zombie Projects and How to Kill Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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. Read next: How to Save a Failing Project (ebook).

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How to be a Superhero Project Manager

LiquidPlanner

Protect all assets (Stay on budget). In most cases, project managers aren’t the functional manager of project team members, and it isn’t always clear what priorities have been set. A great way to swoop in as the hero is to ensure the project team is working on the right priorities for the company. Protect all assets.

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Six Characteristics of a Great Project Leader

LiquidPlanner

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.