ProjectManager.com
JUNE 27, 2017
Collaborative planning with your team has many benefits. First of all, it engages your team. You depend on your team members to get the tasks done that lead to a successful project. Getting buy-in from them should be proof enough of the importance of planning with teams. But there’s more. Your plan will be better. When you get the whole team thinking together it provides ideas you might miss and a perspective you don’t have.
Growing Agile
JUNE 27, 2017
A week ago we held a 1 day event – The Idea Hackathon. It all started at Agile Testing Days in Germany in December. Matt Heusser chatted to us (Karen and Sam) and we roped in Carin Eaten (a South African tester). The idea was born and we set up an experiment to see what would happen. We wanted people from different communities and areas to mingle and muddle their ideas and come up with new amazing ones.
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LiquidPlanner
JUNE 27, 2017
“Dear Elizabeth: I am a new project manager in my first internship. I’m out of my depth and overwhelmed with the new jargon. In particular, what I’m finding is that my work environment isn’t exactly like the theory I learned on my project management degree course. What tips do you have for me?”. Ah, are you finding out that real life isn’t like the textbooks?
Stepping Into Project Management
JUNE 27, 2017
If you belong to a certain domain or hold a fancy job title- does it mean that’s the only thing you are good at? Or that's your life calling for the next thirty years? Did you know that more than 70 % of the workforce is disengaged from the job they hold- this cannot be true if you are truly inspired by your profession. So, may be the job you have isn’t what you are interested in anymore because you figured they are other things you are better at.
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Brightwork
JUNE 27, 2017
To build on my post from last week Seven Communication Secrets of Great Leaders – we know communication is the language of leadership! With that, some key objectives of a leader who aspires to be a great communicator is to; successfully convey the goals and desired results, gain support for the goals and build rapport with the stakeholders and those whom they are responsible for leading in the process.
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Herding Cats
JUNE 27, 2017
“If you’ve been in the acquisition business at all over the last 20 years, you realize we already have a broken program. We just don’t know where. Because nothing in the acquisition business ever delivers exactly on time [and] exactly on budget anymore.” — Air Force Gen. John Hyten, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, during an Air Force Association event in Washington, D.C.
ActiveCollab
JUNE 27, 2017
Critical Chain Project Management is a schedule network analysis technique that takes into account task dependencies, limited resources availability (people, equipment, physical space), and buffers necessary to successfully complete the project. CCPM allows a project manager to plan and manage project’s schedule by concentrating on resources used in Critical Path (also known as the Critical Chain).
ActiveCollab
JUNE 27, 2017
Why is your team successful? Why is your team failing? Dr. Belbin has an answer. Dr. Raymond Meredith Belbin is the leading authority on team roles. His research, that spanned more than 40 years, showed that it is more important how members fit together than how smart they individually are. Successful teams were comprised of members with different and compatible roles, while unsuccessful ones were characterized by constant conflicts between members with similar tendencies and personalities.
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