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Seven Project Management Influencers to Watch

Project Risk Coach

Perhaps these individuals are influencing you through a blog, online videos, online courses, or books. Grab a cup of coffee as I share seven influencers that I follow. From the UK, Susanne Madsen is an internationally recognized project leadership coach, trainer, and consultant. I am grateful for these leaders and their influence in the world of project management. The post Seven Project Management Influencers to Watch appeared first on.

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Having Answers vs. Influence

Leading Agile

The Great Junior Consulting Experiment. A few years ago, LeadingAgile embarked on an experiment to create a junior consulting role for young college graduates. Being that we’re consultants, the responsibility to the client is sacred. Influence Starts With People.

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Agile Consulting

Leading Answers

April’s theme at ProjectManagement.com where I write a monthly column was “Consulting,” and in this article, I examine the world of Agile Consulting and coaching. I distinguish consulting as providing advice, solutions and information; whereas coaching is more asking (hopefully insightful) questions and leading clients to find their own answers and grow in capability. Getting Started Personally, I was hesitant to get into agile consulting and coaching.

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Influence Without Authority

Bridge the Gap Consulting

Influence without authority. Project managers, however, need to be able to influence their project teams without having formal authority. Influence is the ability to have an effect on the behavior of someone or something. Congratulations, you’re a Project Manager!

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How Project Management Software Can Make Consultant’s Life Easier

LiquidPlanner

Project management software has helped me answer these questions and greatly improved my consulting skills. Now that I run my own consulting business, I see the immense value of using project management software for various reasons: Reduces the number of meetings and meeting length.

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Building an Effective Agile Transformation Consultant Team

Leading Agile

An Agile Transformation Consultant who wants to lead a successful Transformation is going to need more than a deep understanding of Agile. Rather, it takes a team of consultants performing their duties at multiple levels of the organization.

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Seven Project Management Influencers to Watch

Project Risk Coach

Perhaps these individuals are influencing you through a blog, online videos, online courses, or books. Grab a cup of coffee as I share seven influencers that I follow. From the UK, Susanne Madsen is an internationally recognized project leadership coach, trainer, and consultant. I am grateful for these leaders and their influence in the world of project management. The post Seven Project Management Influencers to Watch appeared first on.

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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. We have found that becoming trustworthy causes another thing to occur – influence. Influence.

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Experienced Project Manager and Consultant Immediately Available for your Tech Lead Needs

Brad Egeland

I am available for 1 on 1 mentoring, team discussions, analyzing and fixing your PMO, or coming onboard as your newest Project Manager. Contact me or email me and tell me what you need. I can be available immediately if needed.

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20 Marketing Influencers You Should Follow on LinkedIn

Proofhub

20 Marketing LinkedIn Influencers You Should Follow in 2019 Do you know that over 2 million posts, articles, and videos are posted on LinkedIn every day, generating tens of millions of likes, shares, and comments every hour? These are the people who are given the title of “LinkedIn influencer”. Now, you might be wondering: what exactly do LinkedIn influencers do? This is where LinkedIn influencers come to your aid. But how do you know which influencer to follow?

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The Influencer (A Preferred Product Owner Stance)

Scrum.org

What is an Influencer? These gentlemen are in all the top-10 lists of being the ‘the best’ Politician, Influencer, world changer, etc. So before diving into the Product Owner taking an Influencer stance, let’s first inspect what an Influencer is. What great Influencers do.

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The Digital Project Manager's List of top PM Influencers of 2019

Brad Egeland

If you want to stay top of the latest in project management and related topics like change management, business strategy, and leadership, make sure you’re following these movers and shakers: the top project management influencers of 2019. Here’s a list of the brightest minds and influential thinkers who are shaping the project management industry today.

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Why Do PMO’s Fail?

Bridge the Gap Consulting

They also don’t influence other execs to work with the PMO leader on building its capabilities. Even if this is a rockstar PMO getting projects done, if you’re reporting too low in the organization, those with influence won’t see the value you’re creating.

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The Inevitable Collapse of Agile - David Stackleather

PM That Works

And so it's just a great community of people that are really driven to watch you grow in and master your influence to be able to really do the job that we were intended to do. He's an independent management consultant. And so those things I was really passionate about that did a lot of work within the company I worked for with our clients, kind of an internal consulting company learned a lot traveled the world. But again, I was an external consultant was frustrated.

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Project Management Trends in 2022

Bridge the Gap Consulting

They must have the ability, in person and virtually, to influence, negotiate, facilitate, and effectively communicate with an array of stakeholder groups. The project management industry continues to evolve. Traditional responsibilities of a project professional continue to be blurred.

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Traits Shared by Effective Project Professionals

Bridge the Gap Consulting

First, as a project manager, hold yourself accountable to working with (and sometimes protecting from outside influences and noise) your teams, timely communications, stakeholder commitments, and moving the project forward.

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Not Every Story Your PMO Tells Will Have a Happy Ending

Bridge the Gap Consulting

By clicking submit, you agree to share your email address with BTG Consulting and Mailchimp to receive marketing, updates, and other emails from BTG. I’m sure you’ve all seen them. Those Disney movies where life is happy and carefree in the beginning.

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One Year on Terra Firma

The Lazy Project Manager

You don’t do my type of work (project management, PMO leadership at a global level, keynote speaking, consultancy and training) without clocking up some pretty impressive airmiles and flight status. Won the PMO Influencer of the Year award.

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How To Make 2023 A Successful Year for Your Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Mark Phillips runs a consultancy focused on high performing projects. This may be by adopting a new tool or approach, learning some new skills in listening, influence, or negotiation, or maybe simply allocating more time to it.

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The 18 Most Influential People in Project Management

ProjectManager.com

These 18 project management professionals, in particular, have established themselves as thought leaders and influencers. Mr. Cohn is the founder of Layfayette, Colorado-based agile software company Mountain Goat Software that consults with major enterprise clients including Adobe, LinkedIn, Southwest Airlines, Google, Intuit and Oakley on their agile and Scrum practices. Johanna Rothman is the founder of Massachusetts-based Rothman Consulting Group Inc.

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Project Management and Story Telling

Bridge the Gap Consulting

Those can be your team members, stakeholders, or other influencers you interact with. Team members, stakeholders and influencers will come and go, changing the characters in the story. I friend of mine, who is also a project manager, has a knack for taking the most boring topic and turning it into an interesting story. Want to be riveted by the importance of Python programming in the mid-90’s? Get ready for a 20 minute history lesson plus some predictions for the future.

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Project Management Challenges with Artificial Intelligence

International Institute for Learning

External customers may not be supportive of the influence and decisions that AI software might have on their projects. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Influence in Project Management; PM World Journal , Vol. Harold Kerzner. Introduction.

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The Lazy Project Manager introduces…

The Lazy Project Manager

About the Me: Peter Taylor: Speaker, Consultant, Trainer and Coach, Peter is the author of the number 1 bestselling project management book ‘The Lazy Project Manager’. In 2020 he was awarded the PMO Global Alliance ‘PMO Influencer of the Year Award’. Episode 1 – Meet Tim Stumbles of Office Timeline. A free Zoom gathering where Peter Taylor, The Lazy Project Manager, introduces some of his friends from the wide world of project management.

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10 Free Event Planning Templates for Excel and Word

ProjectManager.com

Our free budget template lets you collect costs, such as those associated with labor, any consultant fees you might have, raw materials and more. RACI is an acronym for responsible, accountable, consulted and informed.

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Making the Move from Business Analyst to Product Owner

International Institute for Learning

Business analysts generally rely on their communication skills: negotiation, mediation, influence, and networking to get things done rather than authority. By Steve P. Blais. You get the word: “We are going AGILE!”

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How Product Owners Can Maximize Value with Stakeholder Input

Scrum.org

We can consult with Developers on the Scrum Team for ideas. As Product Owners, we must consider stakeholder input in the context of each stakeholder’s interest level and influence or power over the product's success.

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The Stakeholder Salience Model and How to Use It

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a measure of how much influence they have over actions and outcomes. Together, an assessment of these three elements can tell you how engaged a stakeholder is or will be in the work and how they could influence the project. What is the stakeholder salience model?

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Transform the Way Your PMO Operates

International Institute for Learning

Some PMO Leaders will attempt to make healthy changes by investing in coaches, consulting firms, and mentors as Q1 begins. He is the President and Founder of The PMO Squad a US based premier Project Management Consultancy.

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How Project Management Will Benefit from Using Artificial Intelligence

International Institute for Learning

Existing organizational architectures, changes in the environment, emerging opportunities, and economic conditions will influence where AI applications should begin.

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The Death of Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Leadership is that branch of management concerning the development, nurturing and utilization of influence as way of motivating others to some end or objective. For nearly twenty years he has run his own consultancy company which works with both public and private sector organizations.

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Cultivating Adaptability and Resilience

International Institute for Learning

Your ability to recover from adversity is directly influenced by your attitude. Cynthia (Cyndi) Snyder Dionisio is a professional project management author, consultant, and instructor. By Cyndi Synder Dionisio, Lead for the PMBOK ® Guide & President | Cynergy2.

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How Culture Can Impact Communication in the Workplace

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It can influence how people communicate with each other, what language they use, and the types of communication that are considered appropriate. It can influence the way people communicate by dictating what is considered appropriate behavior and what is not.

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Does your Product Owner have a high OQ?

Kiron Bondale

They are able to see beyond titles or hierarchies to understand which stakeholders possess the real power when it comes to influencing product directions. ” They will be more successful at influencing change vertically because of their understanding of how things get done.

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How to get the best from your sponsor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project managers must take an active role in influencing and educating project sponsors in these best practices to get the leadership support the project requires. Remove personality from the conversation to have a greater influence on your project sponsors and their support.

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What is a Stakeholder in Project Management?

Planio

Get buy-in by consulting early and often. Consultants and subcontractors: Teams and individuals outside the organization who are working on the project. While anyone who is impacted by the project is technically a stakeholder, key stakeholders are those who have influence and authority to dictate whether a project is a success is not. Who wants to influence this project (positively or negatively)? This could be your customers, teammates, or consultants.

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Remote or Onsite Project Manager - 20 years experience - Available Immediately

Brad Egeland

What does your organization look for in a consulting professional? Do you need long term or one-off expert project management help right now? Tech PM or just a very experienced real world go-to Project Manager to come in and help take charge?

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7 Ways to Sell Agile to Project Stakeholders

LiquidPlanner

Here are some tips on proposing new metrics: Look for reporting gaps and problems including: An internal report that’s rarely consulted by project managers or a legacy of a departed executive that needs revision or replacement. Here are some tips to get the word out that the business influencers are going Agile: Send them links to articles and blog posts that mention your competitors’ move to Agile.

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Need an Experienced Project Manager and Leader? Check This

Brad Egeland

What does your organization look for in a consulting professional? Do you need long term or one-off expert project management help right now? Tech PM or just a very experienced real world go-to Project Manager to come in and help take charge?

2022 202
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4 Big Agile Don’ts Learned from TPS

International Institute for Learning

Consultant and Trainer, International Institute for Learning. By Ko Ito. Don’t Be Agile.

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What Is Stakeholder Theory?

ProjectManager.com

They are often active, and they can have a positive or negative influence depending on their actions. Stakeholders can influence everything and everyone in a project or organization, including senior management, project leaders, team members, customers, users and many others. Also, who will wield the most influence? The different power levels and spheres of influence can be a problem. Consult early and often.

2019 391