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Good Scrum Master; Bad Scrum Master

Scrum.org

They use their influence to help individuals and their development teams to take greater responsibility for how they develop the product and the quality they produce. Good scrum masters promote a community where information is freely shared and the team is comfortable with constructive conflict. Good scrum masters don’t have excuses.

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The PM Skills You Can Forget About (And the Ones You Really Need to Know)

LiquidPlanner

But I think it’s more likely to be that business systems today are far more integrated, lean and systemized than ever before. We’ve moved on from the idea that a few impact and influence grids can actively manage other people’s behavior. Perhaps it is because we have a better understanding of who is affected by a project.

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Lean Change Management – 4 Years Later

Agile Coach

A friend of mine asked me on twitter what my 3 main things I’ve learned teaching my Lean Change Agent workshops and what the main takeaways from attendees were. How this Post is Constructed. It’s also important to understand what influenced thinking about org change differently. Next, Some Stats. on Amazon.ca

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The 5 Axioms by Watzlawick: How to Communicate in a Project Team

Inloox

The sender of a message should always be aware that the interpretation of the message also depends on nonverbal influences. Paul Watzlawick, an Austrian communication scientist, summarizes these influences under his 5 axioms of communication. The goal here must be to shape this new constellation constructively.

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Shift-Left, Shift-Right, Keep Middle

Velociteach

Critical assumptions and decisions set the project context during these formative stages, influencing planning and execution. Had I been engaged sooner, I could have influenced the decisions or been aware of the pending pitfalls. Construction projects have well-defined regulations and standards.

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Exploring the controversy around SAFe's approach to Product Ownership

Scrum.org

SAFe takes the perspective of learning from experience in the trenches and what patterns organizations are using and applying lean/agile principles as needed to help organizations evolve. It’s hard to get SAFe Product Managers to be the “visionary,” “experimenter”, and “influencer”. Why did SAFe make this choice?

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6 Top Project Management Books for Engineers and Manufacturers

LiquidPlanner

Epiphanized: A Novel on Unifying Theory of Constraints, Lean, and Six Sigma by Bob Sproull and Bruce Nelson. Management consultants Bob Sproull and Bruce Nelson borrow from Goldratt’s storytelling concept to explore the advantages of using Theory of Constraints, Lean, and Six Sigma together. Industrial Megaprojects by Edward W.