Sun.Apr 28, 2019

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There can be only one (and it is not YOUR project)!

Kiron Bondale

Managing a high priority project can be a wonderful experience. You will usually receive ample support from senior leadership in resolving critical issues, getting funding for team celebrations is rarely a challenge, and helping team members and other key stakeholders understand the importance of the project and how its success will benefit them should be simple.

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Contextless Scrum: a principles or rules driven framework?

Scrum.org

. I have been doing Scrum trainings for a long time. During the last years, I have stressed even more the importance of understanding the nature and purpose of the Scrum Framework just at the begginning of the classes. Most of us know that Scrum is oftenly understood in the IT industry as a process-oriented framework and that is one of the original sins that spoils the goal of obtaining what it was designed for, helping people to address complex problems.

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Mentoring Skills: How to Mentor a More Junior Project Manager

Online PM Courses

In last week's article, Elizabeth Harrin looked at mentoring from the point of view of finding yourelf a mentor. This week, we'll see it from another angle. The post Mentoring Skills: How to Mentor a More Junior Project Manager appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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The Flying Scrum doctor

Scrum.org

In your organization, some problems seem to recur, they are difficult to fix using the tools, tricks and practices you developed over the years as a manager. Maybe this problem is different and the perspective of an expert-outsider might help? At Agilix , we regularly get asked by companies “to discuss some challenges with Scrum”. This is a great compliment for us and it is exciting to submerge into these unknown worlds, being totally blank, without prejudice and mandate; simply bringing knowled

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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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Drowning in it

Lynne Cazaly

Drowning in it. Have you felt the ‘drowning in it’ feeling? It happens daily in meetings, or on Day 1 of a new job, drowning in all that information! The Institute for the Future named ‘Cognitive Load Coping' as something we’ll need to be good/better/best at for the 2020s. We can't wait for a magic pill - we need to do better with information, now.

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Don't be bored will you

Lynne Cazaly

Some days are filled with so many activities, commitments and appointments back-to-back there’s no time for anything else. No deliberate anything, not even lunch on some days. (Boo!). As a child, I frequently said to my mum, ‘I’m bored!’ and she’d list off a few things I could do to counter the boredom. I had a creative mind and was always looking for something to work on, play with, experiment or try.

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The Best Project Tracking Software for 2019

Teamweek

Whether you’re a business owner, a manager, a parent, or a war general, leaders around the world always want to ensure that those under their direction have the best tools to succeed. Parents teach their children lessons they can use as tools to better approach scenarios that come up in the future. War generals make sure their soldiers have the tools necessary to properly defend themselves.