Project Risk Coach

AUGUST 9, 2021

For example, for the team exercise, the project manager may conduct a risk identification exercise or facilitate a work breakdown structure (WBS) exercise. […] The post How to Conduct a Killer Kickoff Meeting appeared first on Project Risk Coach.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 25, 2024

Recording your thoughts can turn the exercise into more of a deliberate reflection instead of something that is hurried, and can be useful as part of your professional development log and continuous learning. Do you use any of these in your professional practice as a project manager?

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

You can get fit by exercising and eating right, but maintaining that fitness requires ongoing effort and conscious decision-making. Staying agile requires continuous effort. In an ever-changing world, maintaining agility means continuously adapting and improving. It's akin to staying physically fit.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 5, 2024

The exercise of completing the register will lead you to have a number of interesting conversations and you might find risks drop out of those. Have you spotted any conflicting requirements or deliverable requests for things you won’t actually be delivering?

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Here is a remote-friendly exercise that has helped dozens of my teams find and implement tangible, actionable ideas to stop starting and start finishing. The exercise is quick, doesn’t need much preparation, and lets participants experience the downsides of multitasking very directly on a physical level. and get their stopwatch ready.

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Project Risk Coach

MAY 24, 2021

When asked about his exercise, Tom says, “I don’t have time.” Busy, productive individuals make time to exercise. Consider some of these exercises and find something you enjoy: walking, swimming, biking, jogging, or doing upper body workouts. I find exercise and sleep save me time by giving me greater energy.

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Project Risk Coach

JUNE 28, 2021

Encourage collaboration early by facilitating team discussions, problem-solving, and brainstorming exercises. Lastly, as you plan your next project meeting, use a facilitation technique such as a problem-solving exercise that will improve your team’s interaction. Be intentional in your communication and collaboration. How About You?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

It’s full of very practical exercises that you can use in any kind of workshop, whether small groups, large groups, or virtual. It comes with a Miro board so you can complete the exercises, plot out your diagrams and get some real experience using the tools. To get the most out of the course, you need to do all the exercises.

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Project Risk Coach

AUGUST 24, 2020

They facilitate risk identification exercises that result in a boatload of risks. Some project managers wait until things are out of control before they exercise risk management. What must we do? Lead by example. Failure to focus on the risks that matter. Some project managers start their programs and projects with gusto.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 16, 2021

This exercise a deeper dive into the problem and its causes, rather than accepting the first answer, and brings you closer to what is actually causing the problem. ” A: The hybrid methodology has gaps… This question and answer exercise leads to the root cause of the missed deadlines problem. ” over and over again.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 10, 2025

These challenges prompted me to consider how AI-generated code would fare in a structured coding exercise, such as a simple Kata. To explore this, I conducted a quick experiment to see how it would perform with a simple exercise. The code was difficult to comprehend. It consisted of a large, monolithic class with bloated methods.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 23, 2023

It’s just another retrospective box-ticking exercise, right? The exercise helps with risk mitigation and identification because you can pick up a lot of what to do from what other projects did (or did badly!). Benefits of a risk audit: Is it worth scheduling one? Who has time for that? The table below summarizes the differences.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 15, 2024

That’s more relevant than finding out if they can map the critical path by hand on graph paper (which was one of the exercises I had to do on a training course). On paper this seems like an easy exercise: what Chief Exec wouldn’t want their people to have the skills and behaviors required to deliver their strategy?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 12, 2020

If you are wondering how to start a standup meeting, try this exercise. This is a good exercise to kick start the week, so opt to do this one on a Monday, or when you are back at work after a long weekend or other break. If you do this exercise I recommend having a different team member to read the postcard.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Get Inspired: 13 Creativity Exercises for Non-Creatives. Even if you think those days are gone like kindergarten, then have we got a baker’s dozen exercises for you to try out. Read about the creativity exercises and get back to us, creatively of course.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 24, 2019

Try using creativity exercises to get into the mood. There are exercises you can do to gain problem-solving skills and help with your ability to better respond to problems and solve them quickly. Brainstorming is a type of collaboration, which is a great way to think creatively because it adds more voices to the mix.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2024

Not doing the exercise to find out what lessons the team learned when a piece of work is done means you are unable to learn from your mistakes. Not doing lessons learned Most post-implementation reviews end up with a list of lessons captured. Lessons captured are not the same as lessons learned. I concede that they are better than nothing.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 26, 2017

In other words, every team can find value in team-building exercise. Now give them 25 more index cards and have them do the exercise again, but without tape. Even teams that have been working together for years might need a bit of team-building to reinforce their strengths and minimize their weaknesses. Machine Made.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

You can use the checklists and exercises to assess yourself and improve your skills. Madsen outlines six steps for you to work through as part of a self-coaching exercise: Create your vision Benchmark current skills Get feedback Create an action plan Review guiding practices Review progress. 6 Steps for self-coaching.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Then you can do the same exercise with the others. Once you have done this exercise for all the strategic themes, you’ll potentially have a lot of possible projects. The strategic theme is operational efficiency (a common strategic pillar that I’ve seen all over the place – who doesn’t want to be efficient in their operations?).

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

You could also use it as an onboarding exercise for new team members who are working on a project team for the first time. There are some elements, like the drag and drop exercises, that might be fiddly on a small screen. Download the free templates and do the exercises. Pros: It’s free! Free course. Kickoff from PMI.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

If you are wondering how to start a standup meeting, try this exercise. This is a good exercise to kick start the week, so opt to do this one on a Monday, or when you are back at work after a long weekend or other break. Activity 1: What made you unhappy yesterday and what will make you happy today? This one made me laugh!

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

By all means, read about what makes a great leader, but temper that cerebral exercise with something you can really sink your teeth into. It’s a great exercise to learn how to work with limitations, and it involves planning , risk-taking and communications, all the basic skills of leading a project. We’re talking leadership games.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Here are a few simple exercises to help your team identify ways to simplify their processes. Stop, Start, Continue - A simple "Stop, Start, Continue" exercise can help. 15% - Start this exercise by acknowledging that there are a lot of improvement areas for your team, and they can't be solved overnight.

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Project Risk Coach

MAY 3, 2021

She facilitated the round robin exercise asking each participant for their top three. She continued the second and subsequent rounds until all of the ideas had been captured. Next, Betty instructed the participants, "Look at all of the expenses and write down the top three expenses." Why do the disagreements exist?"

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 10, 2019

Whichever project you pursue, this exercise will give you marketing gold dust. Be sure to get plenty of sleep, to eat well, to maintain sensible exercise regime, and to stay plugged in to the emotional support of your network of friends and family. Know Who You Are Building It For. In Closing. Starting business is a brave step.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

Conduct Team-Building Exercises. Team-building exercises is a way to upstart trust, especially for new teams that don’t have a lot of shared experience. Manage those communications by finding how often they want to be updated and how they prefer to get those updates. Proper execution only occurs when teams work together.

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Project Risk Coach

APRIL 18, 2021

One of the most powerful tools for this exercise is the work breakdown structure (WBS) which is a hierarchical decomposition of the scope of work. The lowest level is called a work package. The WBS may take different forms: an outline, an organizational chart, or a mindmap.

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In this exercise, we should consider: What deliverables must be created to achieve the project objectives? The project manager and the team must break down the project into pieces. First, decompose the project into deliverables , verifiable work products (e.g., building, software, reports). What will NOT be delivered in the project?

Risk Management 397

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 25, 2020

Afterwards, in a second exercise, students conduct a rigorous stakeholder analysis mitigates and realize that the tension was the result of anchoring heuristics. For example, a trainer could assign stakeholder roles and secret objectives to students on a project management course who then complete a tense price negotiation.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 30, 2024

Get some exercise Fit regular exercise into your remote life. My goals at the moment are drinking water and a couple of minutes of exercise but you could choose other healthy habits you want to incorporate into your day. which starts each day with affirmations and also has reminders for achieving your goals.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 15, 2023

There are a number of ways to do this, including team-building exercises. If you’ve not had time prior to starting the meeting to engage in team-building exercises, meeting icebreakers can help build bonds between team members. Foster Team Collaboration Delegating is important, but a leader must also facilitate team collaboration.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 7, 2023

The course includes instructions of how to access a free Jira Software Cloud site to complete the lab exercises, so you’ll need a computer to do that, you can’t use the Coursera app. Agile with Atlassian Jira has 4 modules that cover agile basics and configuring Jira, as well as hands-on experience with Jira Software Cloud.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 10, 2023

This is very helpful during a retrospective or lessons learned exercise, because it saves time if you hit similar problems again. You can also keep the relevant details for future reference, so you can look back and review what you did to address the problem.

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 22, 2021

Turn Conflict into a Problem-Solving Exercise You can help stakeholders resolve the conflict by reframing the conflict as a problem-solving exercise. Problem-solving often results in a better understanding of everyone's opinions, analysis of the solutions, and long-term buy-in and support.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This exercise included market research and also a job tasks analysis, as well as identifying trends. Given that the exercise for piloting the new exam is well underway, I would assume that the exam will change in early 2023. The current CAPM exam was very much a memorization exercise from what was in the PMBOK® Guide – Sixth edition.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

There are exercises and it’s engaging. Example of interactive exercise in Brain Sensei. The main difference between Brain Sensei and the PM PrepCast is the teaching approach. Brain Sensei videos are animated and interactive. For example, you are invited to click on elements to reveal definitions.

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