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Questions to ask a project management mentor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Whether you’re excited to meet them for the first time, or have had a few calls/sessions already, you are probably wondering if you are using their time effectively and asking the right questions. Use these as a starting point in your meetings with your mentor and see where the conversation takes you. Still looking for a mentor?

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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. Making and meeting commitments. Delivering on a regular, predictable cadence. Adjusting scope to meet a delivery deadline the Business had already set.

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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. And will make the decision to close the project down early if it can no longer meet its objectives. Call your meetings anything you like. What is a project board?

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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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Project Decision-Making

Velociteach

Organizations have a culture that influences the project team’s sub-culture. Strategic initiatives have higher visibility and require greater leadership engagement than a small maintenance project. This includes understanding their concerns, power, interest, influence and desired engagement levels. There are many options.

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7 tips for setting more effective goals

Scrum.org

For example, you could meet that goal by funneling people into a free trial only to see most of them cancel at the end because they were not a good fit for our product. Will this meet the needs of the customers you are targeting? 6: Establish a cadence to inspect and adapt different goals . . #6: Goal setting is a tool.