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4 Key Drivers For Team Engagement

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I’m still constantly surprised when I hear that people work in a command and control style management hierarchy. It’s not something I’ve been part of for years and I don’t believe it works – at least not in a project management, office-based environment. If I was a frontline soldier I would probably think differently. I talk to a lot of project managers though, and it still seems that some of them are stuck in environments where being told what to do is the norm.

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Symptoms versus Root Causes

Herding Cats

There is a popular graph showing project performance versus the estimated project performance in " Schedule Estimation and Uncertainty Surrounding the Cone of Uncertainty ," Todd Little, IEEE Software , May/June 2006. . This chart (above) shows data from samples of software development projects and is used by many in the agile community and by #NoEstimates advocates to conjecture that estimates are usually wrong.

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4 Simple Hacks to Try Right Now for a More Productive Team

TeamGantt

Being productive in the face of distraction can be tough. Reduce task switching and dramatically improve your team's productivity with these 4 hacks.

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Self-organization is a progression not a transaction

Kiron Bondale

A highly touted good practice for project teams is that they should be self-organized. Rather than rigidly following direction, team members possess the necessary enterprise savvy coupled with the awareness of what they do and don’t know about the project so that they can come up with the best way for them to plan and deliver the project’s scope.

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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.