Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As project delivery professionals we are always on the lookout for new project management trends and practices, right? It’s good to know what’s coming and how we can best respond to that. Following the latest industry news can help build knowledge, confidence, and find new solutions to existing problems. There are a range of reports and surveys released each year which are useful for shedding light on what has been going on, and looking forward to what is to come.

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Proofhub

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Source: [link] While the pandemic catalyzed a massive economic shift toward remote work, the shift was already in motion even before 2020. This has been proven in the last few months?—?pandemic restrictions have died down, but many companies are still employing workforces who work from home part-time or full-time. It’s no real surprise. Remote workers are skilled and efficient, and this flexibility can contribute to job satisfaction and increased productivity.

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Project Bliss

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Monroe’s Motivated Sequence outlines principles of speech you can use anytime you need to move an audience to act. This powerful communication formula is easy to understand and gives you a template for creating powerful messages. Alan Monroe was a psychology professor at Purdue University. He used the psychology of persuasion to develop an outline for speeches that deliver results.

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PM Times

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The pandemic has taught everyone that anything can happen, and change is always just around the corner. While every industry has been reeling from its impacts, the pandemic has given us the opportunity to make our project management offices more resilient and sustainable. To stay relevant and fulfil its role as a strategic command centre, […].

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The Strategic Project Manager

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The Blue Ocean strategy framework has become popular since around 2005, on the initial publication of “ Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant “, by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne. It was conceived as a way to forward execute on some of the latest thinking on innovation, particular the idea of disruptive innovation.

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Management Yogi

OCTOBER 12, 2021

1999. October 29. A super cyclone measuring 160 mph hit Gopalpur in Odisha, a coastal state of India, with horrifying fury. It resulted over 10,000 people losing their lives and over $US4 billion in damages. The devastation caused was barely reported. In fact, little is known about the event, but it changed the way India braces itself for natural calamities.2013.

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Scoro

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As employees take tentative steps to return to the office, many businesses are wrestling with the kind of work model they should adopt. Full-time in the office? Remote? Or somewhere in between? Research shows that 41% of employers will adopt hybrid working within two years. And only 30% expect to have their workforce fully back in the office before 2023.

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The Digital Project Manager

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The post Can Psychology Make You A Better PM? (with Olivia Montgomery from Capterra) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Lynne Cazaly

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Have you? If that’s a no, put it on your development list, right near the top. And if you have, you know what I’m talking about. In this crazy world of change, no one teaches better, trains better or helps us deal like an improv class. The performers who make stuff up on TV and theatres the world over, moved things online during the pandemic, and they adapted nicely!

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 12, 2021

ProjectManager has long been an industry favorite for connecting hybrid project management teams and letting them manage their work. In addition to that, we also have a deep commitment to building flexible security functionality. Recent updates to the software have built upon that promise, and we’re happy to say that ProjectManager is now packed with robust security features that give you more control and flexibility over your work management software than ever before.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 12, 2021

TL; DR: Scrum Questions: Seven Simple Issues and Complex Answers. How hard can Scrum be; the manual has 13 pages? You may have heard something along this line from skeptics in the past, dismissing the complex nature of an intentionally incomplete framework. The point is that exciting discussions happen when you start digging a bit deeper. Supposedly simple Scrum questions often return a broad spectrum of answers, ideas, and opinions.

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Lynne Cazaly

OCTOBER 12, 2021

“We don’t need a morning tea break, let’s keep working.” “We will have a working lunch.“ “This is really important, so let’s keep going.” There they are. The statements of overload and worry that ‘we won’t get through this’ so ‘we have to push on’ As a participant and team member I’ve experienced leaders who won’t take a break.

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Lynne Cazaly

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Along with everything else they’re juggling, leaders are on notice to up their humanity and reality. With remote work and online meetings creating a wierd kind of ‘digital disconnect’ between many leaders and their teams, it’s a good time for some newer ways of connecting. Some recent data reported 32% of people said communications from their leadership team during these difficult times felt ‘cold and impersonal’ Ooooh the chill!

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