The Strategic Project Manager

JANUARY 2, 2024

First it offers a definition of what incentives are. Incentivizing Definition: What Is It, And What Are The Challenges? The term “incentivizing” refers to the action or process of providing incentives or motivations to encourage certain behaviors, actions, or outcomes.

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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.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Our mastery of the decision-making process plays a big part in the outcome of our lives, as life could be easily defined as a series of decisions. You can learn a decision-making process that allows you to quickly assess the best choice and make it based on data that supports the objectives and goals you’ve been tasked to achieve.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 7, 2022

In these projects, stakeholders are identified and communicated with in the ‘normal’ way, but their power and influence is relatively low. The final type of project at the other end of the continuum is where stakeholders have a lot of power and influence over the project. Stakeholder-neutral. IT projects often fall into this category.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a project manager, you are expected to have all-round skills encompassing the technical fields of project management like planning and scheduling, through to the interpersonal skills like communicating up and influencing others. Boost your skills: Make sure everyone on the team knows how to manage risks and what the process is.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

This process is essentially your gateway to agility. Definition of Done. This is the Definition of "Done" (often abbreviated as DoD) for the Scrum Team and is used to assess when work is complete on the product Increment. Don't name the columns yet as this can influence or limit the thinking process of the team. .

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Scrum.org

APRIL 9, 2024

The ongoing process of Product Backlog refinement also plays a critical role, as it allows for the continuous detailing and adjustment of backlog items to reflect new insights or priorities. The clear definition of Scrum accountabilities enhances team focus and sets clear expectations for each member's contribution.

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PM Basics

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Stakeholder management is a set of processes and tools where you identify, understand, and engage with your stakeholders, to manage their expectations, needs and feelings. The goal is to ensure that the stakeholders influence your project positively. They also play a part in influencing the direction and outcome of it in some way.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 22, 2020

In these projects, stakeholders are identified and communicated with in the ‘normal’ way, but their power and influence is relatively low. The final type of project at the other end of the continuum is where stakeholders have a lot of power and influence over the project. Stakeholder-neutral. IT projects often fall into this category.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 10, 2023

Stakeholder Analysis The definition we discussed in the previous article. This definition is quite broad and hence the list of stakeholders could be quite big. Stakeholder Persona Canvas Sometimes, I have found that Empathy Mapping can be a time-consuming and resource-intensive process. Users may fall into this.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Clayton defines it as 3 things: Processes to make the project more predictable Tools to deal with the real world as it happens Behaviors and attitudes that allow us to cope when change does happen. This can lead us to set up risk management activities that are less than effective, or influence our approaches to managing project risk.

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Project Risk Coach

JUNE 14, 2021

This is a guest post from Colin Gautrey , an author, trainer and executive coach who has specialized in the field of power and influence for over ten years. He combines solid research with deep personal experience in corporate life to offer his audiences critical yet simple insights into how to achieve results with greater influence.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Learning new skills and knowledge is a highly complex process that involves a wide range of factors, including individual learning personalities, situational factors, and environmental factors. Image Credit: Unsplash | Jason Goodman. . This post is a collaborative effort between Thomas Schissler and Sabrina Love. .

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Project Risk Coach

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Third, some PMO managers lack authority and relational influence in the organization. The CEO may not engage the PMO manager in the strategic planning process. And it starts with a clear definition of the PMO goals and roles. How will the PMO engage with the senior leaders? PMO success starts at the top!

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 31, 2024

The complexity of this decision-making process is often underestimated, yet it's crucial for the success of any initiative. ? One must avoid the sunk cost fallacy, where previous investments unduly influence continued commitment to a project despite evidence suggesting otherwise. Comment below!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You know the drill – map influence and interest , then work to try to move any negative stakeholders into the quadrant where they should be through interesting communication approaches and stressing the project benefits for them. Read next: The Definitive Guide to Project Success Criteria 4.

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nTask

MARCH 2, 2021

Understanding the fundamentals of the Marketing planning process makes it easier for professionals to come up with a robust marketing plan. The success of marketing depends on the development of an efficient marketing plan, created via a strategic marketing planning process. The Steps Involved In Marketing Planning Process.

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Scrum.org

MAY 4, 2023

The success of building effective stakeholder communication strategy depends upon the outputs of the first two steps of the stakeholder engagement process i.e. Stakeholder Exploration and Stakeholder Analysis & Mapping. Are they part of our Definition of ‘Done’? For example, James Bond, Head of IT security will have a High Influence.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Definition: Understanding transformation as a strategic approach to rethinking and reshaping organizational processes, culture, and goals. This definition underscores its importance as a plan of action and as a complete overhaul of how an organization functions and thinks. Forge iterative processes. Build resilience.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software that helps you create timelines and budgets for your organization’s projects and processes. Business Process Perspective This is where you define how you’re going to achieve your financial and customer goals. The strategy map will help to communicate that.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Definition of engagement. I also thought it would be useful to share my definition of engagement before we dive in so that we’re all on the same page. Understanding plus action plus influence gives you engagement. But who am I to be putting forward my own definition of engagement? I define engagement like this.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 6, 2023

The book definitely aligns with modern project management practice and thinking, but it goes wider than that too. If you are a project practitioner in a delivery role, it is still an interesting and useful read, but it doesn’t necessarily align to the way you do projects now.

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Agilemania

MARCH 3, 2022

It is an empirical process that builds the products in increments. Scrum is based on 3 pillars of empirical process control that are difficult to master for many teams. All aspects of the process affecting the outcome must be visible to those performing the work as well as those receiving the work.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Whether you’re making the move to Agile project management in your development group or creating an Agile process for your in-house project management methodology, chances are you’re going to have to sell this change to executives in your organization. And, they’re going to be business people too. It’s not good for business.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In today's blog, I want to talk about the evolution process of the Scrum team's Definition of Done and explain a simple technique that I found very useful in helping a Scrum team managing their Definition of Done. This process is in essential your gateway to Agility. Definition of Done. Core purpose of Scrum.

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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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Scrum.org

JUNE 4, 2021

The tool is known as the circle of influence, or the circles of control influence and concern. Hopefully, this will start a conversation that reveals the varying degrees of control and influence that the individual team members can leverage for the benefit of the team. This comes from the book by Stephen R.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Even bringing different organizations together can create a culture clash, for example, between informal workplaces and those that have strict project governance and processes. Engaging stakeholders is so important for project success, so anything you can do to overcome challenges is definitely going to be worth it.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Excessive Planning and Control : The illusion of control among managers results in a tendency to over-plan and control every aspect of the development process. Exercise Empirical Process Control : In your Retrospectives, identify instances where the feature factory mindset prevailed.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 23, 2022

Workplace bullying: a definition. 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. What is the complaints process? Paul Pelletier. Do your investigative homework (i.e.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

I’m not saying you should do everything that stakeholders are saying, but it definitely should be either discussed and ordered on the Product Backlog or be rejected and have the stakeholders informed. Discussions held during the Sprint Review can directly influence the next Sprint Planning.

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Inloox

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Definition of a concept What exactly is a concept? Structuring/processing of all findings from previously conducted analyses (project environment analysis, risk analysis, etc.). In addition, possible conflicting goals should be identified as part of the goal-setting process. The word concept comes from Latin and means design.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 9, 2023

Collaboration and a shared understanding of the product, service, or value creation process landscape are crucial. Strong governance streamlines the governance process, assuring adherence to processes, effective risk management, and timely decision-making. You do have an active Product Goal, right?)

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 16, 2021

The competencies you should be looking to develop as a project manager are definitely ‘soft’ or interpersonal skills in their widest form. Soft skills include: Communication Leadership Self-awareness Confidence Resilience Teamwork Business acumen Influencing and negotiating Networking Stakeholder engagement. Networking.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The scrum team discusses what can be done based on the definition of done and crafts the Sprint Goal and forecast their work. The team can avoid by widening the definition of a product or shortening sprint duration. . 3rd – Refer Definition of Done . promote a mini-waterfall kind of process during development.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 10, 2020

By that definition, there are many types of stakeholders. This process is called stakeholder analysis. It organizes stakeholders into groups according to how much they participate in the project, what their interest level is and how much influence they have. A stakeholder is anyone that has a vested interest in a project.

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