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PMOs Shifting from Watchdogs to Strategic Enablers

Project Risk Coach

Third, some PMO managers lack authority and relational influence in the organization. PMOs are shifting from being project watchdogs to orchestrating conversations between senior leaders, business unit heads, product owners, and project teams. How will the PMO engage with the senior leaders? PMBOKĀ® Guide, Seventh Edition, p.214.

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Is your team ā€œquiet quitting?ā€ How to handle employee overload

Planio

But itā€™s unfair to put all of the blame on outside influence. Rather than try to fix the problem, organizations squeeze their teams to the limit, which isnā€™t good for long-term business growth. Why is it so bad for teams and companies? Why is your team so overloaded? Revisit each team memberā€™s core job tasks.

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What does it take to launch agile software? Q&A with Jordan Husney, CEO and Founder of Parabol

Rebelā€™s Guide to PM

For much of the early 2000ā€™s, large companies would shudder at the thought of operating a team in an agile way. The value derived from holding a retrospective is proportional to the talent of the facilitator, and the intimacy of the team. If the facilitation is poor: it’s going to be a bad meeting.

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How to Identify Different Work Styles for Better Productivity

ProjectManager.com

As work evolves to include hybrid teams that are located in different places with a wide range of skill sets, successful businesses need to connect everyone to keep them productive. Perhaps the best solution would be to develop hybrid work processes that allow for a variety of work styles. Every team needs a leader. No problem.

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Agile Principles - Become More Effective

Scrum.org

This time we are focussing on the following Agile principle ā€“ ā€œAt regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjust its behavior accordingly.ā€ As a developer, if you wanted to do it you had to work covertly and build time into your estimates to improve things. Motivation levels increase.

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Building an Effective Agile Transformation Consultant Team

Leading Agile

Rather, it takes a team of consultants performing their duties at multiple levels of the organization. In this post, weā€™ll look at the attributes this team of people should possess and how these attributes tend to manifest for Agile Transformation Consultants based on their level of professional maturity. Doing this builds trust.

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The Influencer (A Preferred Product OwnerĀ Stance)

Scrum.org

What is an Influencer? These gentlemen are in all the top-10 lists of being the ā€˜the bestā€™ Politician, Influencer, world changer, etc. So before diving into the Product Owner taking an Influencer stance, letā€™s first inspect what an Influencer is. The Influencer is also referred to as the Politician.