ProjectManager.com

MAY 20, 2020

Are employees more productive when they’re working in the office or when they’re allowed to work from home? Well, it depends on who you ask. Company leaders can’t seem to agree whether working from home is good or bad for business. However, one thing is certain: the numbers show that remote work is on the rise. A recent study by Global Workplace Analytics shows that 40% more U.S. employers offered flexible workplace options than they did five years ago.

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Scrum.org

MAY 20, 2020

How much you scored this year? My parents asked this question twice a year throughout my schooling. When I scored 80%, they reminded my previous scores were better, and when I said 90%, they checked how much Sharma’s son scored. They also reassured themselves with follow up questions — are you in top 5, top 10, or topper this year? I was well prepared to ask the same questions to my son, but school cheated me.

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Gunther Verheyen

MAY 20, 2020

I don’t create them for that reason, but I am humbled when people say my works (books, articles, papers) were useful in passing certification assessments or in becoming a trainer. I am truly humbled because I know that those individuals did the actual work. They might have gotten some insights and language from my works, but that’s about it. It is more likely that they struggled, fell, got back up, failed, tried again.

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Scrum.org

MAY 20, 2020

. As a Scrum practitioner you may have read the famous paper The New New Product Development Game published by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka in Jan’ 1986 issue of HBR. The paper was inspired by the game of Rugby, the way ball passed within the team as it moves as a unit up the field. The interesting part is that the word Scrum was mentioned just once in the paper and now there are so many books, articles, blogs, trainings, events, meetups developed for that one word.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 20, 2020

While I was researching my book, Customer-Centric Project Management , I came across a piece of research in the Project Management Journal about women’s leadership skills. ‘Project Management Leadership Behaviors and Frequency of Use by Female Project Managers’ by Charlotte Neuhauser, PMP, looks at what women think are the most important leadership characteristics and then whether or not they use them.

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EasyProjects

MAY 20, 2020

If the last few months have taught businesses anything it’s the importance of being agile and prepared for the unpredictable. Fast forward to today, business owners are now wondering “what will the new normal workday look like?” The answer may be 25-30% of the workforce working from home multiple times a week. By now, your team has settled into their new remote work schedules.

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Project Management Resource Network

MAY 20, 2020

Deliverables are the output of the project. Projects could have many deliverables or it might produce one. A deliverable is a product, service, or a result and is what the project produces. . Deliverables get established when the project requirements get defined. If someone starts a business, then a deliverable could be a business plan. For someone leading an initiative, a deliverable could be a written policy.

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EasyProjects

MAY 20, 2020

If the last few months have taught businesses anything it’s the importance of being agile and prepared for the unpredictable. Fast forward to today, business owners are now wondering “what will the new normal workday look like?” The answer may be 25-30% of the workforce working from home multiple times a week. By now, your team has settled into their new remote work schedules.

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Lynne Cazaly

MAY 20, 2020

Adaptability isn’t just a switch we flick. It’s an integrated set of thinking, learning and practical behaviors that help us change. It’s a skill and capability. We can break it down and learn it. To support leaders and their teams, we need to provide them with this capability of adaptability. 12 capabilities of adaptability are: Sensemaking.

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Scrum.org

MAY 20, 2020

My fellow PST, Glaudia Califano, and I were sitting in a café (at a time prior to the current lockdown due to Covid-19), having agreed to meet up with a Business Analyst who had reached out to us to have a chat about Scrum and Agile. We are never too busy to pass on having coffee, so we agreed to meet and have a chat. . Once we’d settled down with our lattes and macchiato (I’m usually a flat white person, but it is always a small caramel macchiato with skinny milk for Glaudia, just in case you e

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Lynne Cazaly

MAY 20, 2020

As we adapt to new ways of thinking, working and living, the word ‘pivot’ has gained ’traction’ ?? cliché alert - urgh! Is it really a pivot or are we just catching up on what needed to be done some time ago? Did we see the need, test the tech and talk about it, only to have initial hopes swamped by "too hard, too complicated, too busy - don’t have time”?

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Lynne Cazaly

MAY 20, 2020

When we’re doing something in one way, do we wonder is there a better way? Rather than finding just any old way to do a task or activity, what would make it better. better for you and your situation? And what is ‘better’ anyway? Better happens when something is more acceptable … to us or perhaps to our customers, clients, family, colleagues or community.

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Lynne Cazaly

MAY 20, 2020

If something is tricky, sticky or difficult to decide or work on, leave it for now and try again tomorrow. We do wonderful sorting, synthesising, problem solving and integrating when we are asleep. So we can let go of it today and tackle it again tomorrow knowing our abilities can be even better. For the procrastinators among us, who often leave the sprint to the finish line until the last moment because ‘pressure works for us’ well, we’re missing out on the overnight gold mini

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Lynne Cazaly

MAY 20, 2020

In a day full of meetings, calls, work and learning. information overload can really come for us. That overload feeling doesn’t always hit with the same speed or intensity though. There are different types: - Lookout for the slow creeper. The cumulative effect of overload builds up during the day. With no break between meetings, we keep loading up!

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Lynne Cazaly

MAY 20, 2020

Lockdowns, isolation and restrictions: they’ve been challenging and frustrating. But they’ve also been constraints. And we can make constraints work in our favour. Many people have shown creativity and ingenuity as they ‘work around’ a constraint looking for a solution. These could be solutions for a problem or solutions for entertainment, distraction and release of emotion.

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Lynne Cazaly

MAY 20, 2020

Working long and hard and burning out is too common a situation. In our quest to achieve we try to over achieve. (I wrote about this in ‘ ish : The problem with our pursuit for perfection and the life changing practice of good enough’ ). If we are driven to work and achieve, how do we stop? Unfortunately we can tend to adopt a type of relentless persistence where we just don’t give up!

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Lynne Cazaly

MAY 20, 2020

If these are “uncertain times” for us, think about what kind of uncertainty is it for you. Uncertainty couldn’t be a blanket cover, one type or one size fits all. could it? It’s worth exploring uncertainty further so we aren’t just generalizing about it. There is: Uncertainty that is confusion. Uncertainty that is lack of knowledge.

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