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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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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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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? Strategic initiatives have higher visibility and require greater leadership engagement than a small maintenance project. Understand the Culture Culture drives behavior.

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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?

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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. Culture is what we do + how we do it + why we do what we do.”. You could say that culture is the company’s subconscious.

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How to make a project schedule you’ll stick to in 9 steps (with free template)

Planio

How to write a project schedule in 9 steps. In this guide, we’ll teach you how to write a project schedule, keep it updated throughout the project lifecycle , and use it to get buy-in on scope and resources. Leadership. How to write a project schedule in 9 steps. An SOW (Scope of Work) details the ‘what’. Decision-making.