Sun.Aug 16, 2020

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Vigilance is vital to avoid velocity vices!

Kiron Bondale

After daily coordination events (a.k.a. Scrums, standups or huddles), velocity might be the most misused tool by teams new to agile and the stakeholders supporting them. Used appropriately, it can help a team to understand how much work they can complete in a fixed amount of time and thus could be used to forecast when they might be done with a release.

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A discovery mindset : do you have it

Lynne Cazaly

One of the best meetings and workshops to design and lead is a discovery workshop. To simply and profoundly ‘find out’ Get people together - online is fine - and find out what they: think know believe hope envisage are prepared to do. There is much to discover and relearn about people, situations, problems and challenges. Things are changing.

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Trust: The Foundation of a Successful Team

MPUG

For most project managers, daily work includes interactions with other individuals. Your ability to manage these interactions plays an important role in defining your team’s efficiency and effectiveness. When people work well together, they bring cohesion to a project. Human connections built on trust become a foundational element for increasing the success of your organization. . .

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DIY learning

Lynne Cazaly

While a global pandemic may have put a stop to many things, our need for learning hasn’t stopped. It’s increased! Even though company budgets have been paused or slashed, we still have a need to learn so we can ?? cope with new situations, ?? take on different responsibilities and ?? adapt to new environments. If your client or employer has put a pause on learning, what could you do for yourself to keep your development active?

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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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Trust: The Foundation of a Successful Team

MPUG

For most project managers, daily work includes interactions with other individuals. Your ability to manage these interactions plays an important role in defining your team’s efficiency and effectiveness. When people work well together, they bring cohesion to a project. Human connections built on trust become a foundational element for increasing the success of your organization. . .

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The load we create and allow

Lynne Cazaly

If you or your team are still having back-to-back meetings throughout the day, stop! Please? The blend of one meeting into the next does nothing for cognitive load coping. Our overload stays in overload because there’s no chance to. unload. That means when you want to get great ideas and contributions from the team, they won’t have them.

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Why does it resonate

Lynne Cazaly

When something resonates, it reverberates. The sound is prolonged and full. When something resonates for someone, it’s having that full reverberation with them, echoing, resounding, filling space. It’s like the sound in an opera house, specifically designed for reverberation. Or the drawn out ‘donnnnnnnggg’ of a bell. Resonance in humans is a pretty big deal!

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The great reminder

Lynne Cazaly

‘This book is a great reminder’ ‘This story is a great reminder’ ‘Thank you : what a great reminder.’ So what do we mean? ??We knew it already. Tick. ??We knew it but didn’t do anything with it last time. No problem. ??We forgot it, have now been reminded of it and still won’t do anything with it. Also no problem. ??

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Squeezing the most from learning

Lynne Cazaly

When we embark on a course or learning program, we can want to ‘soak it all up’ and learn ‘as much as we can’ We want to squeeze all we can from it. But learning ‘as much as we can’ puts pressure and expectations on the act of learning. and on ourselves. If we’re trying to learn as much as we can, the problem is, there is no end to that.

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Strategic Project Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Metrics

Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management

Empower yourself as a project manager with insights that directly influence the financial landscape and strategic direction of your organization! Join us for a deep dive into the world of financial strategy, as we dissect key metrics that drive CFOs and business leaders’ investment decisions. This session will equip you with the necessary tools to craft compelling business cases as well as a comprehensive understanding of the crucial distinction between capital expenditure and operational expend

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On expectations and standards

Lynne Cazaly

Expecting something to be different than it is? Wanting someone to reach higher standards? Expecting more of yourself? Expectations and standards are often invisible and internalized. We notice when standards we have aren’t reached and people we work (and live) with may have little clue what our expectations and standards are. until they’ve not reached them.

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You can facilitate yourself

Lynne Cazaly

A facilitator doesn’t just have to work with a group or team. They can work with themselves. We can all adopt some facilitation skills to facilitate ourselves. That is, to make things easier for ourselves. Facilitation means ‘ease’ The ‘get out of your own way’ concept is often about how we make things harder for ourselves.

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