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Your Strategy Planning Meeting Agenda (with Template)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There’s no fixed cadence for strategy conversations. For that reason, it’s often better to do them in-person instead of remote, but these days do what works best for you and the team. Do an ice breaker exercise if your attendees won’t think it is cheesy (mine would). When do strategic meetings happen? 9.30am: Welcome.

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Harnessing the Power of the Muses: How Ancient Inspiration Fuels Modern Project Management

MPUG

Introduction: First, I am not writing this to be highbrow; besides technical and project management topics, I have enjoyed history and mythology for years. I recently watched an old Greek mythology movie from the early 80’s, and I had a revelation: the muses and project management.

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Review People Over Process

Henny Portman

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. The classic formulation of agile in the Agile Manifesto has no role for leadership. The book is divided into four sections. Project Planning meeting.

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A Guide to Mastering One-On-One Meetings

Planio

One-on-one meetings are consistently rated as the most impactful way to learn about your team, exchange feedback, and keep projects on track. Unfortunately, many managers get their one-on-ones wrong, with sessions feeling rushed, unorganized, and at times, combative. Helps you to develop coaching and leadership skills.

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Episode 189 – Harmonizing Potential – The Jazz of High-Performing Project Teams

Velociteach

The podcast by project managers for project managers. Learn from the intriguing parallels between a jazz ensemble and an effective project team. WENDY GROUNDS: Welcome, fellow project champions, to Manage This ! Welcome to Manage This. So, buckle up, hit play, and let the show begin!

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The Relationship Between Culture and Performance

Leading Agile

Is it the leadership’s responsibility for being agile, right? I came out of project management, like I said, PMI ACP, all that kind of stuff. There’s managers and there’s hierarchy in that regard. You’re just giving them a tool to manage dependencies. Is it the teams?

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Why Agile Transformation Fails | AgileIndy 2021

Leading Agile

And this was like way before the days Dean Leffingwell hadn’t even written his first book on scaling. Different people talk about product driven organizations or one thing that I think is fascinating is this idea of projects to products. So it’s a little bit where the projects, the product story kind of comes in.

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