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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

Then, in 2012 I presented a collection of Collaborative Games for Risk Management  at the Agile 2012 Conference in Dallas and PMI Global Congress in Vancouver. After  After these conferences, people started experimenting with these techniques and sharing their experiences.   Team Activities and Tools.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In every case, you should have people on the group who understand the project (or who can be brought up to speed) and who have influence and interest in the outcomes. It’s fine to have a different cadence at different points in the project lifecycle. Of course, the project manager should attend too. They can meet as often as you like.

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Building Trust via Trustworthiness

Leading Agile

I walked into the conference room to meet with the VP of enterprise Agile Transformation. Instead of firing us, six months after I walked into that conference room, the VP hired 5 additional coaches to stand up more Agile portfolios! . Teams don’t keep a regular cadence of collaboration and review.

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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

What do you do with planning cadences? You either change the tool to accommodate the organization or you change the organization and unfortunately, most of the companies that we were dealing with, didn’t have agency or influence to change the organization. How do you go up into Portfolio Management? Speaker: Miljan Bajic 32:59.

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Cultivating the Kind of Culture Employees Crave

Leading Agile

It sets the tone for the interactions that take place between team members and it heavily influences the values of the workplace. In turn, it heavily influences how employees feel about the company. It’s the first impression that’s derived from the practices and “rituals” of the work community.

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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. Instead, we need to consider how our actions, conferences, and the literature we read can either bring them closer or push them further away. Let me ask, are you all familiar with the ladder of influence?

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Overview of the PMBOK® Guide Seventh Edition – Lesson 3 Transcription

MPUG

But do they hold the power and influence? The number, the turnover, the influence, the power and interest. And so the turnover, the influence of power and the interest is definitely something to be considered. Especially also with stakeholders who have a strong influence but are prone to change their mind.

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