Kiron Bondale

MARCH 31, 2019

While teaching a class earlier this week, a learner asked how will team members start to feel psychologically safe, especially if they are working in a company whose culture isn’t fully supportive of this critical ingredient to a high performing team. Updating existing corporate values, and senior and middle management leaders holding themselves and each other accountable to modeling behaviors consistent with these refreshed values helps as does coaching at all levels of the organization.

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SCRUM Agile 149

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 1, 2019

Planning is the backbone that holds up any project. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you how to take that plan and execute it right. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference. In Review – How to Successfully Execute a Plan. Execute is a verb. Jennifer noted that when you execute something, it means to carry it out, such as a plan or product, as in a work product.

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TimeCamp

APRIL 4, 2019

Internal meetings account for more than 60% of all the meetings held by the.

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Project Risk Coach

APRIL 1, 2019

This is a guest article by Elizabeth Harrin from GirlsGuideToPM.com. Much of the time, risk management at the beginning of a project looks like getting the team in a room to review the whole project and work out what might be coming that could affect how the project proceeds. The project manager writes up the discussion in the risk register along with what the team is going to do to avoid or amplify (in the case of positive risk) the risks.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 4, 2019

Recently I reviewed Andrew Zeitoun’s training course, From Technical to Exceptional. It is about transitioning from a technical expert to a team leader or project manager. I found his course very grounded in reality and I recommend you check out my review. Andrew Zeitoun. Andrew was nice enough to provide two copies of his book of the same name to giveaway.

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Technical Review 249

The Digital Project Manager

APRIL 4, 2019

Do you remember being a kid and playing Super Mario Brothers? You know, you’d get. The post Tool Review: Leantime – Project Management System appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Agile 186

Scrum.org

APRIL 2, 2019

Through my professional experience, while serving my customers, working with Scrum Teams and training people in Professional Scrum, I have observed that some Scrum Masters only work to serve the Development Team and the Product Owner. According to the Scrum Guide, Scrum Master serves on three levels: 1. Product Owner. 2. Development Team. 3.

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Musings on Project Management

MARCH 30, 2019

It seems that there is always confusion the first time someone rolls up on an agile methods burn down chart: What are we burning? How much is there to burn? How long does it take? What is the starting point? When does it end?

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Agile 186

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 2, 2019

Are you the type to dwell on the bad stuff and not acknowledge what’s going well? You might have negativity bias and Jennifer Bridges, PMP, says it can be poison to your project. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference. In Review – How Negativity Bias Is Affecting Your Project Management. If you’ve not heard of negativity bias, Jennifer defined it as a psychology term meaning the phenomena by which humans give more psychological weight to bad experiences than good ones.

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

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LiquidPlanner

APRIL 4, 2019

Has this ever happened to you? You’re having a perfectly good morning. A warm cup of coffee is in your hand, and you think you’ve got your workload under control when suddenly it hits you—. You actually have a small avalanche of prioritized work to get through within the next two weeks, and it doesn’t help that your to-do list is lengthening by the minute.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 31, 2019

One of the most important things we can do to help individuals and teams improve is coach them to embrace the agile mindset. The Manifesto for Agile Software Development provides values and principles to help guide teams in navigating the complexities of product delivery. It includes this statement: “While there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.”.

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Planview

APRIL 4, 2019

Welcome to the finale of our four-part series that reviews the types of planning organizations have at their fingertips to convert strategy into results. At the beginning of this series, we discussed the importance of developing plans that are dynamic and continuous in order to adapt to change. Now, we will summarize the different types of continuous planning we covered that can enable you and your team to adjust and react to new information and take advantage of emerging opportunities.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 2, 2019

Anyone who tells you, with 100% certainty, what 2019 will look like at the start of the year is bonkers. The best we can do is to recognize that the seed of each new year was planted in the previous year. If you want to know what your priorities should be for 2019, look at the way your world was at the end of 2018 and at the start of this year. The one trend that seems to be 100 percent reliable coming into 2019 is disruption.

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LiquidPlanner

APRIL 2, 2019

Dear Elizabeth: My project team and the exec leadership team are not on the same page. How do you motivate the team when it thinks it should stop but the senior stakeholders direct us to keep going? This situation has a major disconnect in it. Your team thinks the project should be stopped, but the people in power, the decisionmakers, are instructing you to keep going on the project.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Closing Executing 121

Scrum.org

APRIL 2, 2019

Production View (Build Fast). Many large legacy organizations are moving toward agile delivery methods in hopes of releasing faster to market. Based on my experiences, they look at it solely from a production view of getting software released faster and more often. This view has them believing this will result in getting more features released. These organizations are still spending a lot of time doing upfront planning to define the business case, then lock down scope and budget before building

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Agile Lean Budget Certification 147

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

APRIL 4, 2019

A few months ago, I was having a coffee with a fellow Agile Coach talking about DevOps when he suddenly says “what is DevOps anyway?”. To which I replied, “You’re right!”. Sounds like a joke? It’s not! In IT projects DevOps is nothing more than pure Agile implemented properly. While Agile popularity is at its height, DevOps is still very fresh for many.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 2, 2019

Leaders need emotional intelligence to succeed. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, explains why and shows you how to improve your emotional intelligence. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference. In Review – How to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence. There are many intelligences, or to put it another way, intelligence isn’t measured solely by one metric.

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Influencer Controlling Leadership Software Review 288

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Teamweek

MARCH 31, 2019

Work with freelancers, they said. It will be fun, they said. Until recently, my idea of fun would have been far different. It would have involved most of the freelancers I’d worked with getting acquainted with my stranger-hating Rottweiler- when she was in a really bad mood. When I started my legal communications business two years ago, I managed to keep clients happy as a solopreneur.

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 2016 81

Scrum.org

APRIL 3, 2019

A college roommate of mine retired this week, after a long and successful career. While he's figuring out the next chapter of his life, it caused me to think about whether the notion of a "career" is even relevant in today's world. I believe that we live in a post-career world; nothing that any of us are doing today will exist in its current form in ten years, perhaps not even five.

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Underperforming Technical Team Change Management Software Planning 113

Proofhub

APRIL 2, 2019

7 Effective Tools For Managing A Virtual Team The era of digital entrepreneurs is on the rise and with that comes the need of having virtual teams. Now, finding remote employees and getting them on board with a project is easy. But when it comes to managing a workforce spread across different countries and time zones?—?the equation gets a little more complicated.

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Software Review Technical Review Sustainability Software 60

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 1, 2019

How can you stay focused on your goals when there are always dozens of distractions pulling you in myriad directions? Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you how! Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference. In Review – 7 Easy Ways to Stay Focused on Your Goals. Whatever your goal, whether it’s a project , career, personal life, health or finances, Jennifer said, it’s easy to get distracted.

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Technical Review Finance Software Review Software 285

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Leading Agile

APRIL 2, 2019

Whitepaper Lead a Structured and Disciplined Agile Transformation Download Now. In order to achieve business Agility, Agile has to be applied in a certain context. You have to be able to form the right kinds of teams, build the right kinds of backlogs, and produce working, tested increments of product. The problem is that this context doesn’t exist in larger, more complex enterprises.

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2019 Sustainability Agile SCRUM 69

Scrum.org

MARCH 31, 2019

Can we do the Scrum assessments in our mother tongue German, French, Polish or Portuguese? This is a question our students ask often. Our trainings around Scrum aim at gaining knowledge in applying Scrum to improve on product development. To achieve this in an ideal way, we deliver our training in the language spoken locally. This might be German, Polish, French or other.

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SCRUM 107

Proofhub

APRIL 1, 2019

It’s safe to say that preparing your team diligently for a new project is an essential component of a job well done. While new projects can excite and challenge us, they also insufflate a sense of fear. This is the main reason why preparation is imperative. Starting the project on the right foot will also eliminate a considerable amount of issues that may haunt us in later on in the project.

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Technical Review Risk Management Defining Risk 60

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 3, 2019

The scrum master is a key member of the scrum team, but also a somewhat misunderstood one, which can make the hiring process problematic. Put simply, the scrum master is the person responsible for promoting and supporting scrum. But what does that mean? It means that the scrum master is the one who helps everyone else understand scrum theory, practices, rules and values.

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

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