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How do you handle unresponsive key project stakeholders?

Kiron Bondale

It is a common challenge for anyone who has managed projects for a meaningful amount of time. One or more of your key stakeholders who are integral to the successful completion of the project appears unwilling to engage as expected. It could be the project sponsor who ignores your pleas for assistance with a project issue, the functional manager who turns a blind eye to your requests for staffing support or the executive who never seems to have the time to review and sign off on a key deliverabl

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Scaling down, down

Musings on Project Management

Most of the posts I read are about scaling up to ever larger projects, but what about scaling down? What if you are doing bug fixes and small scale projects with just one or two people? Is a methodology of any help, And if you're working with software, can Agile be helpful scaled down? Methodology To the first point, my answer is: Sure! A methodology -- which is just a repeated way of.

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How to Feel Progress: A Complete Guide to Documenting and Tracking Progress

Teamweek

In our day-to-day lives, it’s easy to reach a stalemate and feel like we aren’t making any progress. You get bogged down in the minutiae of each project, not realizing how much you have accomplished since you began. Over time, this can be incredibly disheartening and demoralizing for you and others on your team who feel the same way. For most managers, the issue isn’t whether you are making progress or not.

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Don’t Let Fear Take Over at Work

MPUG

There is a survival instinct in each of us. When you sense danger, your body reacts. You either fight to protect yourself, or you take flight to get away from the threat. This behavior is a handy instinct to have if you are facing a life or death situations, but adds a degree of difficulty to circumstances where your body interprets discomfort as a mortal danger.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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How to Feel Progress: A Complete Guide to Documenting and Tracking Progress

Teamweek

In our day-to-day lives, it’s easy to reach a stalemate and feel like we aren’t making any progress. You get bogged down in the minutiae of each project, not realizing how much you have accomplished since you began. Over time, this can be incredibly disheartening and demoralizing for you and others on your team who feel the same way. For most managers, the issue isn’t whether you are making progress or not.

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Why Differentiate Between Project Goals and Objectives?

ProProfs Project Management

Are project goals and project objectives both the same thing? Yes? Then, why so? . If not, then again, why do you think these two terms are different? Taking a broader outlook, most people tend to use the words ‘project goals’ and ‘project objectives’ interchangeably. But, there is a world of difference between the two. Let’s take an example: “Our client needs us to build a new building on their campus for IT teams.” .

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Systems Thinking, Episode #1 What are Wicked Problems and why should I care?

Scrum.org

In a series of blog posts, I want to share how you can use Systems Thinking to resolve complex problems. Systems Thinking aims at understanding and possibly solving complex problems. In this episode, I will focus on complex adaptive problems, also known as “Wicked Problems”. Wicked problems are very difficult problems that don’t seem to have a simple solution.