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Seven Stupid Mistakes Managers Make (and What to Do Instead)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Darryl Rosen. This is a guest post on stupid management mistakes by Darryl Rosen, author of Table for Three? Bringing Your Smart Phone to Lunch and 50 Dumb Mistakes Smart Managers Don’t Make! You’re a manager and you glance down at an incoming text while an employee is talking to you. DUMB! Or you bark “Just get it done!” to your team and then walk away.

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Planning for those project disasters that no one wants to think about

Kiron Bondale

Harvard Business Review published an article this week about how boards can prepare for unexpected calamities such as pandemics, natural disasters or cyber-attacks. The authors provided a three-pronged approach for dealing with both true black swan events as well as the more common black elephants (a low probability significant threat which leaders are aware of but don’t wish to address proactively).

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Plan v Objective

Musings on Project Management

"In war [projects] nothing goes according to plan, but always remember your objective" Israeli generalGood advice. And, of course, your objective always is -- or always should be: Apply your resources to maximize their value added while taking the least risk to do so.But our general's admonition begs the question: Is "nothing goes according to plan" the same as there's "no value in planning"?

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Experiment: Map Dependencies to Find Bottlenecks

Scrum.org

In our book?—? the Zombie Scrum Survival Guide ?—?we dive deep into what causes Zombie Scrum; something that looks like Scrum from a distance, but lacks a beating heart. We also offer 40+ experiments to recover from Zombie Scrum. In this series, we share experiments that didn’t make it to the book but are still very helpful. This post was written collaborative by Christiaan Verwijs, Barry Overeem and Johannes Schartau.

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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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What Really is the Waterfall Method?

Online PM Courses

Waterfall is a term we hear a lot in Project Management. But there are still too many project managers who don't know what it really means. The post What Really is the Waterfall Method? appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Using Custom Fields and Graphical Indicators to Analyze the Quality of Your Schedule

MPUG

Project managers are responsible for building and updating quality project schedules. When building these schedules, it’s important to ensure they are free of potential scheduling issues. Issues can be such as the following: Tasks that have not been baselined. Summary tasks with dependencies. Summary tasks with resource assignments. Tasks which need to be updated.

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¿Sabes cuáles son las diferencias entre outcome y output?

Scrum.org

En este post vamos a aclarar y enfatizar la diferencias entre input, activity, output, outcome y impact. Esta diferencia es fundamental en la gestión de los proyectos ágiles. Vamos a facilitar un aprendizaje para que quede claro como ver la diferencia de outcomes over outputs. .

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