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Winter Is Coming: Project Management Lessons from Game of Thrones

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“A bruise is a lesson… and each lesson makes us better” – Arya Stark. Project managers can get pretty bruised by the lessons projects throw at us. And what the author tells us clearly is that prophecy is fickle. The author mostly uses them to delineate some aspect of leading characters within the house. Winter Is Coming”.

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It’s all in the Presentation

The Lazy Project Manager

The waiter was recalled and cajoled and encouraged to resolve this rapidly, at which the staff applied all of their skills and training, by ignoring us and disappearing. Forget about the standard, inflexible timelines. Presentation can win the day.

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Handling Unplanned Work

Leading Agile

Process: Uncertainty about what to do when unexpected work arises. People who have been using lightweight methods for years still talk about improving their estimation skills as a remedy for “failing” to force reality to conform with their predictions. It’s counterintuitive for us to change our plans.

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Creed Over Greed: Motivation and Purpose

Leading Answers

There have been a couple of news stories in the news recently that reveal some important facts about motivation and purpose. Tesla has never been about making fancy electric cars, that’s just a side effect of their real purpose. So, they are not building cars, they are helping save the planet for us and future generations.

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Exploring the Overlap: Cost Optimization and Digital Transformation

Speaker: Alex Jiménez, Managing Principal, Financial Service Consulting for EPAM

From a budget standpoint, US banks are feeling the pinch. Many US banks are bracing for increased defaults and lower demand for mortgages and other loans as interest rates have increased. Global economic conditions are soft at best. The largest banks have increased reserves to protect against deteriorating economic conditions.

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The Value of Project Management Skills… Transferability

Online PM Courses

As you might expect, we have written a lot of articles about risk management. This leads us to another skill that Project Managers get to practice a lot…. Four of my 14 books are explicitly about communication. One of those four books is about Stakeholder Engagement ( The Influence Agenda ). Problem Solving.

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Change Management & Scrum: Gamification Perspective

Stepping Into Project Management

Introduction to Gamification I have been studying about Gamification for a while and after having been part of several change initiatives, I started appreciating how the game design concepts can be used for change initiation and management. Gamification involves using game design elements in non-game design contexts.

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Changing Times, Changing Roadmaps

Speaker: Stephanie Lewandowski, Senior Product Manager, Teachstone

Change is inevitable - however, COVID-19 has affected the best-laid plans and left us wondering where to go next. Join Stephanie Lewandowski as she candidly talks about the realities of roadmaps - how often they change, how to navigate the changes, and how to survive in an uncertain market.

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A CHRO’s Perspective on Substance Use in the Workplace: Supportive Strategies to Help Your Workforce Thrive

Speaker: Smita Das, MD, PhD, MPH, Medical Director, Psychiatry and Naj Wright, MBA, C-Suite HR Executive

How to foster an inclusive and open conversation with your workforce about AUD and SUD, including ways that your organization can help. Join us for this important how-to discussion. Join this important webinar that addresses: How to identify employees at risk for - or experiencing - AUD or SUD in your workforce.

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A New Age of Hybrid Leadership

Speaker: Renee Thomas and Alexis Barone, Wrike Team

Join us for our panel with Renee Thomas and Alexis Barone of the Wrike Team, in this discussion about the future of work--hybrid, remote, and everything in between. We were all baptized by fire this past year, so now it's time to look back, understand the big lessons, and gain the insights needed to pivot forward.