Leading Agile

MAY 11, 2021

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. Trust and influence are critical components in an enterprise transformation strategy.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 16, 2024

It allows for broader organisational influence, fostering agile principles across different organisational layers and business units. Consultation and Advisory: Their deep understanding of agile principles can be used in a consultative capacity.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 15, 2024

A gradual decline in their effectiveness can be a subtle, insidious process heavily influenced by the size and culture of an organization. In our complex environments, the roles of Scrum Master and agile coach are pivotal yet often precarious.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

These 18 project management professionals, in particular, have established themselves as thought leaders and influencers. Mr. Tirado is the founder of New York City-based The Project Box , which provides performance consulting to businesses across the project management, sales and social media industries. Bernardo Tirado.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 3, 2021

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. This group has high power and also high legitimacy to influence the project. Your choice, though.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

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. Soma Bhattacharya is the blogger behind Stepping into PM , and an Agile consultant.

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The IIL Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Project managers can mitigate these pitfalls by adopting a proactive and adaptive approach to risk management, fostering open communication, involving key stakeholders, and continuously monitoring and adjusting risk management strategies throughout the project lifecycle. So why not ask AI to give us a hand?

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

JUNE 27, 2022

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. The following are five tips on influence based on lessons I’ve learned throughout the years.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 22, 2024

A clear, actionable framework that simplifies stakeholder prioritization and analysis and enhances your ability to engage effectively with each stakeholder according to their influence and interest would help address this dilemma. This format of stakeholder analysis matrix helps optimize resources and efforts to enhance the project's success.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 23, 2022

Coping strategies for dealing with workplace bullying. The best short answer is to appreciate what is within your realm of control and influence in order to create an action plan. That may give you an opportunity of influence outside the unit. Always have a strategy to protect yourself, and your health. Is it fair, safe?

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Align Agile project management with your organization’s strategy. 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. It’s not good for business.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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. The Influencer is also referred to as the Politician.

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Proofhub

APRIL 30, 2019

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? Plan your marketing strategy with ProofHub. This is where LinkedIn influencers come to your aid.

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The IIL Blog

APRIL 24, 2024

Conducted with attention to detail and employing qualitative research methods, this study provides preliminary insights into how leaders influence organizational success through the adoption of grateful leadership practices.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

Vicki James, co-author of Strategies for Project Sponsorship. Peter Taylor, Ron Rosenhead and Vicki James have just written a book called Strategies for Project Sponsorship , about (surprise, surprise) project sponsors. Remove personality from the conversation to have a greater influence on your project sponsors and their support.

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Planio

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Get buy-in by consulting early and often. They direct the company’s strategy and also have a large interest in its outcome. Consultants and subcontractors: Teams and individuals outside the organization who are working on the project. Stakeholder Buy-In and Strategy. Whenever possible, put a name on your stakeholders.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We can consult with Developers on the Scrum Team for ideas. They can also be customers, influencers, users, buyers, business partners or suppliers. The benefit of stakeholder engagement Stakeholders can provide early input and insights that can go a long way to help us, as the Product Owner, improve the product's value. (See

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 5, 2019

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?

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 8, 2022

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. Can I meet the deadline given my other priorities?

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Velociteach

MARCH 6, 2024

Organizations have a culture that influences the project team’s sub-culture. This includes understanding their concerns, power, interest, influence and desired engagement levels. The tyranny of the majority/minority, lowest common denominator solutions, ramrodding, or blocking strategies may prevail.

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Teamweek

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

67% of new and upcoming grads say that the uncertain macroeconomic environment has influenced or will influence their choice of industries or companies to pursue in their job search. There are naturally the tried and tested traditional recruitment strategies. This explains perfectly why good employees can be so hard to find.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The PO needs to build the right leadership style that positively influences the stakeholders and engages (not manages) with them respectfully to optimize the chances of influencing their choices. . Building consensus by doing regular consultation is essential to ensure that the agreed delivery solution. .

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Culture eats strategy for breakfast was a quote from the legendary management consultant and author Peter Drucker. What type of culture gets to eat strategy for breakfast? If that’s true, then what does it mean when there are competing views on culture? Who gets to decide and why do we have to choose? Want to Listen Instead?

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Online PM Courses

JANUARY 15, 2018

The standard ‘four-box’ approach to deriving stakeholder engagement strategies can easily leave newer project managers believing there are just four basic strategies they can use. In fact, there are many stakeholder engagement strategies you can choose from. The amount of power they have to influence things.

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 31, 2024

A helpful strategy you can implement today is to spend 10 to 20 hours experimenting with different AI tools with your team. Consult with your organization’s legal, IT, and HR teams before taking any major steps with AI technologies. A recurring theme among thought leaders in the AI space is experimentation.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 26, 2023

Here are two strategies that will promote authenticity – double down on generating ‘earned media’ and start measuring ‘earned growth’ as a separate marketing channel. This first strategy is sometimes undervalued by marketers, who tend to control 3 main channels: The ‘Paid’ media channel – which is any form of advertising.

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

DECEMBER 10, 2023

AI will impact every industry and influence jobs for years to come. Leadership is your ability to influence and guide people and teams to accomplish a common goal. The key word there is influence, because you probably don’t have authority. Here is where AI can have an influence, but not authority. Taking notes?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 2, 2023

I do think that having a degree (of any kind, in any subject) is beneficial for securing a job, especially as project managers are expected to influence and lead, and many employers want to see evidence of the ability to operate at that level and use a degree as a benchmark for it. What kind of industries can you work in?

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The IIL Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

Lacking essential power skills such as emotional intelligence, empathy, communication, influence and directiveness can harm both reputation of the IT leadership team and the stability of IT departments. Here are some strategies for IT Leaders to develop or enhance their Power Skills: Ask for feedback.

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

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. They understand the operational environment, technical boundaries, and stakeholders.

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MPUG

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In my book, The Influence Agenda: A Systematic Approach to Aligning Stakeholders in Times of Change , I describe over 20 techniques. All the illustrations are taken from my book about stakeholder engagement, The Influence Agenda: A Systematic Approach to Aligning Stakeholders in Times of Change. That’s too much for a short article.

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Kiron Bondale

JUNE 21, 2020

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 have a good grasp on the company’s strategic objectives which makes them able to “send messages that reinforce the strategy — and minimize other messaging.”

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 5, 2023

This article explains influence, power and how project managers can create empowered teams that tap into the Drive motivators of autonomy, mastery and purpose. As a project manager, our own influence travels in many directions. Your project sponsor would be an example of someone with Core influence.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 12, 2023

Working together, these components comprise a system for delivering value that is aligned with the organization’s strategy. Artifacts are categorized as Strategy, Logs and Registers, Plans, Hierarchy Charts, Baselines, Visual Data and Information, Reports, Agreements and Contracts, and Other.

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The Strategic Project Manager

JANUARY 9, 2024

This post digs into this ambitious career objective, the required skills and attributes, strategy and project management as steppingstones to the CEO role, and attractive alternative career objectives. Strategy As a Stop on the Path to CEO There are many paths to the CEO role. A career in strategy can certainly be a good one.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The influence of having a digital transformation will define and shape your strategic direction, risk appetite and budget, technology enablement, pace of change and business agility. Should I Consult a Digital Transformation Agency? But if you want to take the driver’s seat, then it’s important to have a strategy.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The analysis then collects the stakeholders by group, which is determined by their level of participation, interest and influence in the project. You need our stakeholder analysis template to understand and map your strategy for dealing with project stakeholders. You can add one per row, with their title, email and influence.

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