Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

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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Resource Guru

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

But it does mean a balanced strategy that leans on strong retention practices matters. Retainer vs. project-based contracts turnover rates According to Sakas and Company , an agency support and training program, if you’re operating a retainer-oriented agency , a client turnover higher than 20% is a red flag. Let’s look at a few.

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Velociteach

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Or risks were identified, but a response strategy was never created. Creating unique items for each impact ensures we develop suitable response strategies. A response strategy or strategies should be documented for each risk. Criteria for implementing the response strategy. Type : Opportunity vs. Threat Owners.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 28, 2020

This definition of the ‘goal’ can create confusion for many who understand project-program-portfolio management and how goals aligns with the vision, mission, strategy, and objectives of an organization. As the saying goes, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”. Strategy execution is the downstream of culture. Lean Thinking.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

That having weekly planning cadences; daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives would give people a reason to get in the same room and collaborate. There was almost no discussion of the importance of teaming strategies to the methodology. And in large organizations, training teams on how to do Scrum or XP is wholly insufficient.

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Inloox

JULY 1, 2021

Lean Agile Leadership: Managers are the very core of lean agile development and business agility. These capabilities support each other and create opportunities for sustained leadership in the marketplace and services. These fixed, i.e. unalterable, ten principles aim to influence leadership behavior and decision making.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A SAFe Agilist receives an internationally recognized, digitally verifiable badge that reflects the rigorous standards set by SAFe’s role-based training and certification program. They are prepared to align strategy and execution for the entire organization. Develop Lean-Agile Leadership. Resolve Agile adoption hurdles.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2023

Professional Scrum Master Training w/ PSM I Certificate — Live Virtual Class: February 7-10, 2023. What would you suggest to the leadership of that organization to help the change effort? Be prepared to address and resolve any conflicts that may arise during the change process through effective conflict resolution strategies.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 24, 2022

The cadence of development of multiple teams. Start a career in SAFe with the Leading SAFe Training with SAFe Agilist Certification. . In addition, it aligns strategy and execution through Lean Portfolio Management. Lean-Agile Leadership. Facilitate teams of teams planning. Enable enterprise-wide visibility.

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Teamweek

JULY 27, 2023

A professional development plan is a document outlining an employee’s current skill set, goals for the future, and potential strategies to achieve those realistic goals. Short-term goal: Gain expertise in digital marketing strategies and analytics. Gain advanced knowledge in digital marketing strategies.

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

MAY 16, 2023

Fight for training dollars. Meeting Cadence Calendar. I didn’t see the importance of this when I first read about “Cadence Calendars.” The PMO I was working in and eventually lead had a handful of project managers, each with around 5-6 projects under their leadership. Ensure travel is covered.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The project manager and the organization’s leadership must create the environment. Collaboration between project sponsors and stakeholders to develop the scope and best strategy is required for success, including estimations of time and costs. Erato reminds us of the importance of emotional intelligence in leadership.

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Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

If not, then we start measuring things like people trained, teams doing Scrum, or the organization’s sentiment toward Agile to tell us if we’re succeeding. Transformation is about changing the underlying organizational design, governance metrics, strategies, right, that are going to lead to true Business Agility.

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Planio

AUGUST 1, 2022

Build a leadership team that can get your required buy-in. Bring in ongoing training. This means embracing an iterative and customer-centric focus on all levels of the business, from how you build software to how you organize and run your customer support team, performance reviews, and growth strategies.

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Acceptable variances, reporting cadence, and status meetings are addressed in the plan. The plan may include the categories, processes for identifying and assessing risks, and a framework for developing response strategies. The plan should describe the practices for creating and monitoring response strategies.

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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

Agile coaches help train development teams, product owners, executives on the agile methodology and oversee the development of agile teams to ensure effective outcomes for the organization. Provide training to employees on the agile process. Once you learn about SAFe, you could take your second step as a Release Train Engineer.

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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

Agile coaches help train development teams, product owners, executives on the agile methodology and oversee the development of agile teams to ensure effective outcomes for the organization. Provide training to employees on the agile process. Once you learn about SAFe, you could take your second step as a Release Train Engineer.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Other companies believe that they can indoctrinate people into their culture by simply putting them though training, workshops, and onboarding programs. And it’s hard to change the hearts and minds of your employees through training, workshops, and programs if the systems around those things don’t reinforce the messaging.

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

JULY 21, 2021

These workouts include heavy tension and faster cadence at lower resistance. That’s why I change up routines to include long-distance endurance work, speed, hills HIIT (high intensity interval training), and strength training. Those strategies turned into projects. Sweat will be drippin’!!

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

APRIL 11, 2023

Understand how strategy is determined and also how project decisions are made to achieve organizational strategy. Do people feel strategy and supporting governance is effective? Uncover gaps and whether or not training is needed right away. Also, look at communication cadence and means by which to share this information.

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Planio

MAY 9, 2022

And according to studies and psychologists, it’s more important than resources, money, and training. Research shows it’s more important than resources, money, and training. Deciding on a meeting cadence that works for everyone: How many times a week should you meet? Does everyone know your product strategy and business goals?

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

Because if you call us up and you say something like, “Hey, we want some training,” you know, it’s like, “Okay, like what do you want to be trained on? The roles, the ceremonies, the artifacts, the cadences, all those different things that we model as implementation details. What do you believe?

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

What do you do with planning cadences? And then, so I ended up going to work for Version One for a little bit and that was like my first introductory to like a pure play agile organization and I was on the team that went in, trained and consulted. How do you go up into Portfolio Management? What do you do with audit and compliance?

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Wrike

DECEMBER 20, 2021

However, this interaction will require the use of new technology and strategies to manage it properly. Embracing Agile as a means to combine strategy with output. Project management tools help organizations execute their strategy but they can also be used to manage the portfolio and the various tasks related to that strategy.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Some time ago, I was teaching a Professional Agile Leadership class. I have been trained for years to see issues, ongoing or yet to form, and advise on their resolution. It’s helicopter parenting as an organizational strategy. . It is these observations that I shared in my (happy to say well-received) keynote. The Solution.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

And I was working for this VP that was like really super cool, is very into agile and we were coming up with really creative things for like team formation strategies and agile governance, all stuff. We’re trying to connect a strategy. It was always large scale agile stuff. None of the stuff on scaling was out there.

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PM That Works

MAY 9, 2020

But I think my biggest determining factor of whether or not I really believe in what's going on, is whether is the first step that suggested and if the first step is suggested is we got to train everybody in the organization in new in new words and a new lingo. So when is it going to be done? And it'll just it'll change the organization.

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Planview

JULY 19, 2023

Most change in organizations is slow and requires careful guidance and thoughtful, consistent leadership to stick. Challenge: The Need for More Training Another challenge was the lack of understanding of the training. This exercise was not originally planned as a change technique, but it became a real win!

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Strategy (#Strategy). Here's how to connect dots between strategy, mission success, programmatics, and technical performance management in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers. Capabilities Based Planning (V2) - Capability-based planning fits naturally with Strategy Based Planning and Business Process Improvement.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So we start with culture, maybe we go to practices and then all those teaming strategies and dependencies and governance and metrics and all that stuff that we struggle with all the time will just kind of work itself out. Is it the leadership’s responsibility for being agile, right? It’s not good strategy.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

You get super clear backlogs, you find out what the real cadences you’ve finished work that you start. – It was fascinating, because you think about Gosh, 13, 14 years ago, where, like I was going in literally installing version one software and training teams on how to do basic Agile. How do you like fix it? – Yeah.

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