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Psychological safety provides the foundation for a team culture of kindness

Kiron Bondale

A recent HBR article showed how kindness could serve as a lever to generate productivity improvements. The authors explain that while receiving kindness can enable us do better work, the act of giving compliments is equally powerful at making us feel better. Some suggestions were provided in the article on how leaders can create a kinder work place but will a few tactics be enough to change culture?

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Why Scrum Requires a Failure Culture — Making Your Scrum Work #10

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Scrum Failure Culture: A Requirement to Be Successful. There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. To make things worse, a crucial success factor of every Scrum team is not even mentioned in the Scrum Guide: Any organization that wants to employ Scrum to learn faster than its competitors needs to have a solid failure culture.

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10 Strategies to Manage Multiple Projects at Once

LiquidPlanner

Part of my job is to juggle. Have you ever felt that way? Because I work at a planning intelligence company, I get to let our software manage a good deal of my workplace chaos. But each workplace has its own special form of randomization, and I find myself split between tasks like every other working person. It’s even more important to learn to juggle projects when you split your time between strategy and tactics.

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Some helpful tips for choosing metrics

Scrum.org

In an agile context, we use metrics to set performance goals, measure current conditions, define small improvement experiments and measure the effectiveness of the experiments in order to inspect and adapt goals and determine the next steps. Metrics need to be chosen with care because when poorly chosen, they create an illusion of control. The metric data might deliver green dashboards while in reality, our organisation is not performing very well.

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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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7 Essential Time Management Skills for Smart Planning

LiquidPlanner

It’s all about getting the right things done in less time. It’s what helps you get ahead in your career, deliver your projects successfully, or even get a promotion with a pay increase—that correct focus is like a workout. It might be tough but it’s necessary to stay on pace with the activities that add the most benefit to your projects and your clients.

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Leadership in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I have had some really interesting and informative conversations on Clubhouse in the Project Management Club recently. I talked with Michael Tanner of Credible Leaders to discuss leadership in project management and here are the highlights from that conversation. Michael defines leadership as influencing others to a shared goal. . How do you avoid overcommitting and doing all the tasks?

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Product Review: Ricotta

Sarah M. Hoban

Eisenhower famously used a 4x4 matrix evaluating urgency and importance to determine which tasks to tackle. The logic makes sense—prioritize the important over the urgent. In practice, product managers may find this prioritization difficult—particularly when it comes to convincing others to make similar choices. Compared with the feeling of satisfaction that comes from dousing the daily fires, diligently making incremental progress on big picture goals often feels less rewarding in the moment.

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Recruiting, Hiring and Managing Talent: Best Practices for Finding Strong Project Team Members

MPUG

The success of any project is indisputably tied to the quality of the team members working on it. As a project manager, you play a key role in the recruitment, hiring, and management of talent. This includes establishing team culture, resolving conflicts, and rejuvenating your team when morale and energy wanes. In order to do all of this successfully, it’s important to ensure you find and hire the right folks for the job.

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Software Suggest awards admation with Best Value & Trending Software

Admation

The pace of the marketing and advertising industry is well documented and felt by most working in different roles across the industry. The market demands that creative teams are quick to respond to the demands of consumers and the businesses that service them. So when it comes to the tools that creative teams rely on to deliver campaigns, it is critical they can be quickly adopted and meet their needs.

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Strategic Project Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Metrics

Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management

Empower yourself as a project manager with insights that directly influence the financial landscape and strategic direction of your organization! Join us for a deep dive into the world of financial strategy, as we dissect key metrics that drive CFOs and business leaders’ investment decisions. This session will equip you with the necessary tools to craft compelling business cases as well as a comprehensive understanding of the crucial distinction between capital expenditure and operational expend

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12 Essential Things a Project Manager Should do: How are you doing?

Online PM Courses

What does it take to be a Project Manager? I've found 12 essential things that a Project Manager should do. That you should be doing. The post 12 Essential Things a Project Manager Should do: How are you doing? appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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