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Closing Matters: Overcoming Common Challenges in Project Closeout

Wrike

It involves completing the remaining work, conducting a thorough review of project performance, and formally closing the project by satisfying all contractual obligations. These unresolved issues can impact the project’s success and need to be addressed before the project is closed.

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The Science Behind Great Teams: How Neurotransmitters Shape Success

The IIL Blog

They do this by promoting essential qualities like motivation, social bonding, trust, empathy, collaboration, positive energy, and focus. The Importance of Serotonin: Building Trust and Connection Serotonin, often associated with feelings of well-being and happiness, is closely tied to trust and social bonding. Register here.

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How to handle Bikeshedding: Parkinson’s Law of Triviality

Project Bliss

Have you ever found yourself in a meeting discussing something relatively unimportant, yet the time and energy everyone poured into the topic seemed to go on and on? In Parkinson’s Law of Triviality, he explains that people will give more energy and focus to trivial or unimportant items than to more important and complex ones.

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What does it take to launch agile software? Q&A with Jordan Husney, CEO and Founder of Parabol

Rebel’s Guide to PM

And still , agile transformation consultancies spend a significant portion of their energy convincing senior executives it’s safe and good for the business to orient agile teams to build the right product vs. focusing on building the product right. This growth has seen a huge rise in agile tools.

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In-Depth: The Science On Sustainable Pace, Stress, And Motivation

Scrum.org

The notion of “sustainable pace” is closely tied to Extreme Programming practices. The initial practice was for developers to work no more than 40 hours a week. This is the pace that can be sustained over a long period of time without burning developers out. Closing Words. In Achieving Quality in Software (pp.

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Time to Check-in on Your Mid-Year Goals

LiquidPlanner

Perhaps the plans need adjusting, but be sure to keep the initial intent and desired outcome close. Not all project management software can automate projected timelines like this, so it’s essential to do your research to invest in one that can help make your job easier. A small investment in PM software can go a long way.

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A 4-Step Guide to Creating Powerful Team Rituals

Planio

Crucially, what separates the three is the energy and consciousness associated with each one. Team rituals take energy to complete, but come with a high level of consciousness that is underpinned by a meaningful sense of purpose. What it looks like in action: Jenny has just started working for a new software development team.