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Is the Outcome of Your Meeting to Schedule Another Meeting?

Scrum.org

When I ask this rhetorical question in a training class or a coaching call, I often get knowing smiles and uncomfortable laughs. We’ve likely all been in this situation, and you know how frustrating it can feel. It often leads to lots of meetings filling our calendars and little time to “do real work.” Those meetings aren’t working sessions that are moving us forward and creating new insights as a team; instead they feel like a waste of time.

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Surprise. I am no wizard. Agile nor Scrum.

Gunther Verheyen

I regularly get inquiries from people reaching out for instructions, assistance, or other forms of guidance to learn about Scrum, pass exams, become a trainer, or advance their career towards “Agile coach” Surprise. I am no wizard. I do not have the magical powers that would be required. I really don’t want to go into people’s motivation to approach me with those desires (‘free’ seems to be a recurring theme), but I can share my personal and professional stanc

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What’s the link between emotional intelligence and psychological safety?

Kiron Bondale

Following a presentation I gave this week on how project managers can cultivate psychological safety within their teams, an attendee asked me to what the relationship is between psychological safety and emotional intelligence (EI). After answering her I felt it was worth writing about it. EI is normally considered to be a personal trait although it is possible to claim that one group of people has a higher degree of EI than another.

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Are You Overwhelmed by Your Project? What to Do

Online PM Courses

It can easily happen to a Project Manager. The work builds up. The problems increase. Deadlines loom. Before you know it, you're feeling overwhelmed. The post Are You Overwhelmed by Your Project? What to Do appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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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Drag and Drop Tasks from One Resource to Another

MPUG

Dragging and Dropping Tasks. Many Microsoft Project users probably know that you can move tasks in any task view, such as the Gantt Chart view, by “dragging and dropping” the tasks. To drag and drop a task, click the row header at the far left end of the task row, then release the mouse button. The software highlights the entire task row and changes your mouse pointer to a four-headed arrow.