Kiron Bondale

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

After observing the frenzied shoppers competing with one another at Black Friday sales this week, one might be forgiven for forgetting that Thanksgiving was originally about expressing gratitude. The Scrum Guide doesn’t specifically identify expressions of appreciation as a key ingredient of sprint retrospectives, but it does list activities which can incorporate appreciation such as the inspection of team member interactions and the role of the Scrum Master in encouraging the team to not

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Green Project Management

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

This is a follow on post to “Keep on scammin’ on: The evil brilliance, success and recurrence of The Playbook.” The strategies from The Playbook have been employed by industries that are under threat of losing profits when scientific evidence proves that their product causes significant harm to the public, society or planet in some […].

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

When you’re the youngest person in the room, or in the minority in some way, or just new to your role and trying to make the best impression possible, sometimes it feels like you aren’t being taken seriously at work. I often hear from people who worry about not being considered a serious player in the office. Young women seem to suffer the most – at least, I’m most aware of it affecting that group – but it seems to hit everyone at some point.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Has your team missed yet another deadline? Blame technology. No, I’m not trying to grab your attention by making a dramatic yet groundless statement. Technology has allowed businesses and organizations of all sizes to produce goods and services that would have been impossible 10 years ago. The problem is that not enough companies are advancing their project management strategy at the same time as they advance their other tech.

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Online PM Courses

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

I've been involved in training Project Managers for over 20 years. And there are some project management questions I get asked time and time again. Most often, it's by students in a live training session. But, more recently, I've been seeing the same sorts of question crop up online. Not surprisingly, these questions have informed many of the choices I have made about the articles I write for this Online PM Courses site.

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