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Overseeing 135 book reviews, what stands out?

Henny Portman

I provided book reviews for all eight issues of a Dutch Project Management Magazine (Vakblad Projectmanagement). On request of this Dutch PM magazine, I was asked whether one or more common threads could be discovered in all these underlying books. Various books on the project manager, the sponsor and leadership were reviewed too.

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Becoming Agile: Evidence Based Management

Scrum.org

In fact, if you were to read some of the interviews with managers in business magazines, or the guest articles and puff-pieces on agility in their companies, you'd think that their hearts and minds had been won decades ago. Agile transformation, you would surmise, is a done deal with the higher-ups. They get close to the outcomes instead.

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The Best Project Management Blogs for 2019

Online PM Courses

It’s apparently targeted at IT PM, but the sections on Managing Projects, Applied Leadership, and Business Acumen speak clearly to PMI’s Talent Triangle. This is a magazine site that seems to make its money through site adverts and affiliate links. Stefan Wolpers gets deep into Agile, and Scrum in particular. So, thank you Dave.

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Why do most projects fail?

Binfire

Forbes magazine also opined about the high rate of project failures recently. . In the Agile method, the project manager is replaced by an experienced Scrum master is needed. The scope is not properly and completely defined. 4-Lack of leadership. Most endeavors in life need effective leadership to succeed.

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Why Soul is the Key to Success for Any Leader

International Institute for Learning

By Larry Robertson In Rebel Leadership: How to Thrive in Uncertain Times, author Larry Robertson writes about a new kind of leadership, one that matches these uncertain times and enables organizations to thrive: Rebel leadership. Rebel leadership isn’t what you might assume. Five key insights define it.

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The Relationship Between Culture and Performance

Leading Agile

When I first started thinking through this idea, I was actually really thinking about the idea of practices because back in 2010, a little bit earlier than that, Jim Kundiff, the Scrum Alliance, and those guys were really popularizing the CSM certification, PMI was doing the PMI ACP or a lot of us were part of that. So think about scrum.

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Virtual Team Building for Project Success

The IIL Blog

Long ago, Bruce Tuckman defined the stages of teams as “storming, forming and norming” (and now “mourning” as well as project teams disband quickly and move on to other projects and other teams). Resources are identified and roles defined. By Peter Taylor What’s different about running project teams remotely?