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How to Increase Accountability in the Workplace

Teamweek

Illustration: Rose Wong. Imagine that your team has been hard at work on a major project for the past several months. But, despite your best efforts, you came up short—that project failed to meet the original goals that you set. In fact, the harsh truth is that you weren’t even close to hitting those objectives. You gather your team members together for a retrospective to discuss where things ran off the rails.

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Stakeholder Analysis 101: Identification, Mapping & More

ProjectManager.com

A stakeholder is anyone that has a vested interest in a project. By that definition, there are many types of stakeholders. There are external stakeholders, such customers and users, and internal stakeholders, such as executives and team members. A stakeholder always wants the project to succeed and has unique expectations as to what defines that success.

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5 Things In The Office Blocking Your Productivity

Project Bliss

This is a guest article written by Ashley Wilson. Productivity is a big issue. When a workplace is inefficient, it leads to missed deadlines, eats time, and affects employee morale. In extreme cases, it can even make your company a less safe place to work. But productivity isn’t a standalone issue. It has various causes, including noise and lack of organization.

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Five Ways You're Doing Scrum Wrong

Scrum.org

Scrum is a simple framework that can quickly come apart if even one part of the framework is not being properly implemented. As a Professional Scrum Trainer for almost ten years and founder of Responsive Advisors , I have seen many agile teams and companies struggle to maximize the benefit from Scrum for many reasons. In this short video blog, I have identified five of them and offer some quick solutions to get the most out of Scrum.

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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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How to Develop a Quality Management Plan

The Digital Project Manager

The post How to Develop a Quality Management Plan appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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About character and power

Musings on Project Management

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. — Abraham Lincoln And, thanks to Herdingcats for showing me this quote. So, tough guys (gender neutral here) don't always have vision. everything tactical. but we know that from too many PMOs that seem shortsighted; And and tough guys don't always use power effectively. we see PMOs.

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In the search for "The Art of the Possible"

Scrum.org

A Day in a Life of a Scrum Master. It's 9:30 am. The Scrum Team gather around their team desk to hold the Daily Scrum. Jamie, one of the team members, highlights a problem that he faced yesterday: "I cannot deploy the code into the staging environment due to pipeline issues. I need help from the infrastructure team. I raised a ticket, but since they had so many things in the queue, it's not been prioritised yet. .

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?????[PJPM] – 3 Case Studies of Micro Projects that Built My Project Management Career

PM Basics

Micro Projects are the best way to gain initial experience of a project manager. By doing a Micro Project you: Improve something in the organization. Gain leadership experience. Work with stakeholders. Bring additional value to the organization. Creat achievements that can go into your CV. However, the main challenge is to find a Micro Project to implement.