Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

“Who is free to work on this task?”. That’s something all project managers will hear at some time or another. And it isn’t the best way to allocate work to your project team members. After all, would you have brain surgery done by a surgeon who specialises in feet just because he or she happened to be free that day? Of course not. Would you ask a colleague to give a presentation to the board, just because they happened to have some spare time?

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Project Risk Coach

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Colin Gautrey This is a guest post by Colin Gautrey from Learn to Influence. Colin is an author, trainer and executive coach who has specialized in the field of power and influence for over ten years. He combines solid research with deep personal experience in corporate life to offer his audiences critical yet simple insights into how to achieve results with greater influence.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Scores of people talk about leadership and its benefits, but few mention the obstacles that leaders face. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, discusses common leadership challenges, what the role looks like to the team and the larger organization, and how one must constantly adjust in order to succeed. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference! In Review – Leadership Challenges.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Warning: Snark alert. I read something recently – might have been on social media somewhere, but I don’t recall exactly – a story about how test-driven development (TDD) had caused a software development team to allow a defect into their product. The feature in question was a funds transfer operation. A customer could use the application to move funds from one account to another.

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Admation

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Software solutions are becoming a critical part of streamlining operations in ad agencies. Still, technology can pose its own challenges. For example, the disconnect between specialised tools is placing more pressure on teams who spend precious creative time moving data across platforms. In today’s technology-driven world, it shouldn’t be this difficult.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope wth them, than you do for things to go right - Alan B. Shepard.

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Trello

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Have you ever sat down at your desk, determined to crank out some serious work—only to find yourself two hours later, feverishly scrolling through social media, no closer to finishing your project than when you started?

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

"The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.". - Mendelssohn. My gears aflame. I remember being told, many years ago when I started university, that Information Technology is a numerate discipline. I had been admitted onto the IT course on the strength of a high-school biology certification. That was my “technical competency”. The professors assured me, however, that I did not need to be an expert mathematician.

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Pawel Brodzinski

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Radical Self-Organization is a way I tend to label organizational design that we adopted at Lunar Logic. It’s been dubbed The Lunar Way too on occasions. Anyway, it draws from different approaches to design organizational structure in a very flat, non-hierarchical way. Describing what we do is probably worth a separate post on its own, yet this time I want to focus on one underlying principle: autonomy.

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

By Analuz Montejano | IIL Instructor and Sr. Consultant. Project Managers and their teams carry out planned projects on a daily basis, such as the development of new applications. To be successful, they must be able to evaluate and allocate resources necessary to complete deliverables on time, with quality, and without exceeding the budget. However, there are a lot of challenges, many of which arise because of limitations in current processes and tools, which impede success.

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TimeCamp

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Let’s Talk About Online Timesheet Software Managing attendance in today’s busy and fast world is.

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Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

While being a project manager isn’t less significant or prestigious than being a program manager, you will find those who manage projects are often working toward a goal of reaching the latter option as they progress in their career. In many industries, these professions are frequently overlapping due to common misunderstandings of the differences between the two.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In my previous blog I presented the result of an interesting research study from Sam Walker. Walker discovered that the most successful sports teams that ever existed all shared one single element: they all had a team captain that was the main driver behind this success. In this blog we will explore the character traits that separates great team captains (the 16 team 'Tier 1' captains from Walker's study) from the good team captains (106 captains that finished second place).

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