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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. Office politics plays a big part in being an effective manager, and luckily for your, your experienced mentor has been there, done that and knows how to get things done. Who are the key influencers for Y?

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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. We have found that becoming trustworthy causes another thing to occur – influence. Making and meeting commitments.

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Project Communication Management: What is it all about?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

However, having a plan for how to share information throughout a project’s lifecycle is critical to project success. How much communication should you do? Understanding stakeholders is critical because how to communicate, what they expect, and how to manage them varies according to these factors.

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Stakeholder Communication Strategy: Part 3 of 4 Steps of Stakeholder Engagement

Scrum.org

This time we will discuss how to build an effective stakeholder communication strategy. What stakeholders’ influence is’ can be really important in what channels you want to use. For example, James Bond, Head of IT security will have a High Influence. For example, James Bond, Head of IT security will have a High Influence.

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Scaling Agile Practices – Improve Business Outcomes

Agilemania

Develop on Cadence; Release on Demand. In SAFe®, this is known as Develop on Cadence, a coordinated set of practices that support Agile Teams by providing a reliable series of events and activities that occur on a regular, predictable schedule. Agile Team and Agile Release Train Cadences. Release on Demand. Intermediate.

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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. We can be proactive in our approach, reducing the time between seeing issues and influencing others so we can avoid them or minimize their impact. How to show up for your team. Conclusion.

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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? This includes understanding their concerns, power, interest, influence and desired engagement levels. If a new precedent is being established, how is that communicated?

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