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Business Resilience: An Overview

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Business Resilience: A practical guide to sustained progress delivered at pace is a book by an impressive authoring team. The tone is set immediately with the powerful introduction: this is not a book for the faint-hearted! There are 5 domains in the business resilience framework laid out in the book. Who is this book for?

PMO 418
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PM Illustrated – The Fun Site to Support Your PMP® Exam Studies

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Images that are surprising for the context, such as using animals to show project management topics, are “stickier” in our brains. In the book “Made to Stick“, authors Chip and Dan Heath explain we remember things that are simple, unexpected, and emotional.

Process 448
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Workload woes in project management: A story by Elizabeth Harrin

Resource Guru

Every project manager has a story about a time things didn’t quite go according to plan, an “aha moment,” or an experience that shaped them professionally. We’ve collected these stories from some of the best PMs around to share their knowledge and lessons learned. We were all senior managers.

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Episode 172 – Inheriting a Problem Project – Lessons from the Zoo 

Velociteach

The podcast by Project Managers for Project Managers. What do you do when you inherit a problem project? Hear about a stalled project that was threatening the accreditation of a popular city zoo. WENDY GROUNDS: Welcome to Manage This , the podcast by project managers for project managers.

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7 Ways to Improve Resource Management for Complex Portfolios

LiquidPlanner

Recently, it’s felt like my work as a project manager has been all about making sure the right people are lined up to do their tasks at the right time. Your project doesn’t have to cause either of these situations because project resource planning is not that hard, even in a complex portfolio. They also quit.

Estimate 157
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5 Easy Steps to Keep Your Engineers Engaged

Wrike

along with everyone else have short- and long-term goals that sustain their level of interest in their current project. As an engineer, you’d be lucky to have everything go perfectly: the project’s cool, the stack is relevant, and the tasks are at a sweet spot of competence/difficulty/interesting ratio at the same time. Two months?