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Calming Project Management Anxiety

LiquidPlanner

Improving communication will help limit or eliminate your anxiety and the chaos that ensues when priorities are not defined, assignments are unclear, and status is not known or consistently conveyed. Talking about the problems before they happen sets your team up to collaborate on and pursue solutions before things go south.

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How to be a Superhero Project Manager

LiquidPlanner

First, let’s define what project success really means. In most cases, project managers aren’t the functional manager of project team members, and it isn’t always clear what priorities have been set. A great way to swoop in as the hero is to ensure the project team is working on the right priorities for the company.

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March Project Madness

LiquidPlanner

March Madness – that crazy college basketball time of year when 64 teams play for the national championship. The madness emerges as Cinderella teams advance, upsetting highly-ranked and favored teams as they fail to deliver. . This allows project teams to focus for the win! One winner, 63 losers.

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How To Create A Marketing Project Plan: A Step-by-Step Guide

Teamweek

And yes, giving away too much of your value for free is bad. Assemble your team. It’s the document your superiors will use to understand the project, that the marketing team will work from throughout, and that you’ll use to keep the whole thing on track. Now’s the time to define the important elements of your brand’s strategy.

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43 Learning Resources for New and Experienced Project Managers

LiquidPlanner

Results Without Authority: Controlling a Project When the Team Doesn’t Report to You by Tom Kendrick. Leading a project team that doesn’t report to you is a whole new challenge in itself. Kendrick walks through how to motivate a team to contribute to a project’s success. Cost: Coursera: Agile Development Specialization.

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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

More often than not in kind of either the IT product development space or IT services space. We like to consider ourselves kind of a full stack consultancy in the sense that you know, obviously, you have to deal with the work surface levels and what the teams are doing but you know, how do you orchestrate teams across dependency boundaries?

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The Inevitability of change

Scrum.org

During the Industrial Revolution, when traditional management practices were developed, the ebb and flow of niches was a slow and deliberate endeavour, usually driven by a single educated visionary. The change was no longer necessary, and the competition was weak and slow to disrupt markets.