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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.

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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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Unlocking the Power and Mastery of Development Approach and Life Cycle

Project Pulse Journal

This domain facilitates strategic alignment, optimized delivery cadence, methodology customization, increased flexibility, and improved risk management. The desire for a project management framework that sustains deliverability, supports the required cadence, and remains faithful to an adaptable methodology is now within reach.

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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. Leadership often focuses on the wrong measures and isn’t aligned around customer outcome-based goals. That doesn’t sound like the path to influential leadership, does it? Open and curious.

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7 tips for setting more effective goals

Scrum.org

. #4: Let go of the illusion of control. Even though I help agile teams to learn about and embrace uncertainty, I need to remind myself regularly to let go of trying to have control. 6: Establish a cadence to inspect and adapt different goals . Goal setting is a process. The world is not static or predictable. Practice helps!

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. For example, on one project, I had the CFO steering group, and attendees were all SLT (senior leadership team members). Who will get you access to the resources you require?