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Psychological safety breeds team resilience

Kiron Bondale

HBR published an article this week on how leaders can help their teams to recover quicker from disruptions. Given the events of the past year, this topic is apropos and is likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. In the article, the author introduces the concept of collective self-healing at the team level drawing upon observations of how ant and other social insect colonies respond to major upheavals.

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AGILE: mixing methods

Musings on Project Management

There comes a point where more planning can not remove the remaining uncertainty, instead execution must be used to provide data and remove uncertainty. This quote comes from a nicely argued case -- from the agile blog 'leading answers' -- for mixing agile methods in rather traditional businesses, like the oil and gas exploration/production business If ever there was a business that.

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Lessons from Harvard 4: How Adaptive Project Teams can work with Command & Control

Green Project Management

This is the final of four posts based on my experience at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership program that I took in November 2017, led by Dr. Leith Sharp, integrated with some of our GPM Global content where appropriate. The intent of these posts is to show […]. The post Lessons from Harvard 4: How Adaptive Project Teams can work with Command & Control appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project at a tim

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Does Microsoft Project Still have a Future? The World’s Favorite PM Software

Online PM Courses

Microsoft introduced its Project Management software over 30 years ago. Yet Microsoft Project is still the world’s most popular PM software. Does it still have a future? The post Does Microsoft Project Still have a Future? The World’s Favorite PM Software appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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 Should a Project Manager Organize Their Workday and Where Does MS Project Fit?

MPUG

As a Project Manager, I typically have a long list of tasks, and usually many more than I have time to finish. I have found that the most important thing for me to do is to organize my time. Of course, this would be impossible without using the proper tools, but ultimately, the tools are here just to help—the decision of how I manage my time is up to me.