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Questions to ask a project management mentor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

At regular meetings You’ll find a regular cadence and probably settle into a regular agenda or routine with the check in sessions. Who are the key influencers for Y? The first meeting is likely to be all about getting to know each other, creating rapport and setting the intention going forward.

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The Virtuous Cycle of Trust and Influence

Leading Agile

In today’s blog, a continuation of the first in this two-part series, we’ll talk about building trust and influence, and initiating the trust-influence loop. Delivering on a regular, predictable cadence. On one level, you really don’t have any control as to whether or not someone trusts you. They want to delegate.

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Opportunity to Influence Product Development at Scrum.org - Come Experiment With Us!

Scrum.org

As applied to the Professional Scrum Master™ course, you can expect to experience the course over four half-day classroom sessions on a weekly cadence, for example. Learners who register for a Flipped Learning experience: Are committed to take control of their learning and are willing to put in the effort for self-study.

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Project Decision-Making

Velociteach

Organizations have a culture that influences the project team’s sub-culture. How do they feel about risk, empowerment, accountability, hierarchy, and control? Hierarchy and control can be formally documented through the organization’s policies, or unstated rules and practices. Understand the Culture Culture drives behavior.

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Showing up: Why your Scrum Master mindset is everything

Scrum.org

Ultimately, as Scrum Masters, we have the best shot at influencing others and achieving our goals when we show up: Connected to our purpose. Showing up with intention and our purpose in mind allows us to realize a greater impact by avoiding common roadblocks such as: Getting stuck in knowing-and-controlling behavior. Open and curious.

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Minimal measures for minimal stability in a complex environment

Scrum.org

One aspect of ‘complexity’ are the parameters, variables and events that influence an activity and its course. Consider how predictable the listed variables are, how much control you actually have over them and how sure you are that you listed all of them. Think of your work, make a list. How stable is that information, once collected?

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5 Tips to Build a Harmonious Project Team in 2023

LiquidPlanner

Harmonious Focus 2: Set ground rules and act as a harmonizing influence Set a cadence for how your team should behave and work from project initiation to completion. Control project risk, build a flourishing team, and always deliver on time with LiquidPlanner. Most importantly, practice what you preach. Lead by example.

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