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The Leadership Attitude

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There has been a notable shift in recent years to talking about project leadership, as distinct from project management. Management, as the saying goes, is about doing things right, and leadership is about doing the right things. In reality, both leadership and management are often done by the same person – the project manager.

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How to Build a Risk Culture in Your Team

ProjectManager.com

What Is Risk Culture? Risk culture is simply an organization’s employee’s awareness, attitudes and behaviors towards risk and how they’ll manage it. An organization that has a risk culture simply means they’re prepared for identifying, managing and mitigating risks as issues arise in their work.

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Unlocking ITIL4: Defining Value and Navigating Career Growth

The IIL Blog

The ITIL certification scheme provides a defined learning path benefiting the individual at each designation. This approach benefits organisations, promoting operational excellence and bringing about improved proactive risk management and service resilience. Can it support career progression? In short, no.

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Project Management and Leadership – can you have one without the other?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Beyond training in how to define and execute a project and how to form a team, there are a number of other skills that contribute to success as a project manager. Leadership skills are also crucial for project management – but so often overlooked or taken for granted. Leadership without Project Management.

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Business Leadership for IT Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Before I’d got far reading Gary Lloyd’s Business Leadership for IT Projects I realized he was offering a critical assessment on the Standish report on project failure – thankfully. M]inimize the degree of IT change, and hence the risk, if you ask the team to generate zero or low-cost options, focusing on project redesign,” he writes.

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Balancing Self-Management and Guidance: The Art of Agile Leadership

Scrum.org

This article explores the art of Agile leadership, delving into the challenges of finding the right equilibrium between allowing teams to self-organize and providing enough guidance and structure for seamless Agile execution. An Agile leader's first responsibility is to establish a well-defined vision and set of priorities.

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Risks in the project: an overview

Inloox

Know the risks in your project! Risk management plays an enormously important role in project management. The task here is to identify, analyze, control and ultimately minimize risks. Although some risks can be eliminated with a suitable solution strategy, certain risks can never be completely avoided in the project context.

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