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Poisoning the well: Why micromanagement is bad for business

Runrun.it

One might even hazard to say that tolerating micromanagement can run the risk of the company eventually failing due to high staff turnovers, lack of talent retention, poor productivity, poor creativity, and the like. Causes innovation to be delayed. Causes poor communication all throughout the organization.

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The Art of Mastering Project Surprises: Easy Strategies for Managing Unplanned Work

Traxidy

Sometimes you need to be listening very carefully to the words being used when asking your team members for an update on their work; “sort-of”, “almost”, “close enough”, “I didn’t realize”, “it’s going to take a little more time” are all hints that the work that’s underway, potentially has an issue. Read More. … Read More.

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Episode 170 – Integrating Creative Problem Solving and Project Management

Velociteach

Dr. Amy Climer shares how to increase creativity to maximize innovation. Hear how to facilitate the clarify/ideate/develop stages of the creative problem-solving process to a successful implementation. We know you’re also looking for opportunities to acquire PDUs, your Professional Development Units, towards recertifications.

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When is growth not the best choice? Why we chose to build Planio as a sustainable business instead of drowning in VC dollars

Planio

Despite what every hustle hard, weekends-are-for-the-weak entrepreneur tells you, the only thing in this world that grows constantly is a cancer cell (and we all know what happens to those). Or do you want to build a sustainable company that supports you and your team for the long-term? Hire a larger support team.

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#PMOT – Who are the Project Managers on Twitter to Follow?

Online PM Courses

Donnie’s Article at Online PM Courses: A Simple Way to Develop Interpersonal Skills for Project Managers. We make Agile teams become amazing, check out our free online masterclass: agilesumo.com. Developing Leaders. Exploring trends and developments in project management today. PMI’s blog team: @ PMvoices.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Performance Evaluation of non?

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The Urge to Strangle(The Strangler Pattern)

Leading Agile

Business agility means having the capability to “turn on a dime” at low cost and with low risk, to drive innovation, respond to market changes, and overcome the competition. Most systems implemented in large IT organizations are point solutions implemented to solve local (departmental, business unit, or team) problems.