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Project Risk Audits: What you need to know

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Audits are part of internal controls on a project and fall under the governance arena, so if you have specific PMO team members who look at governance, they are the ones to ask. It’s just another retrospective box-ticking exercise, right? Benefits of a risk audit: Is it worth scheduling one? Who has time for that?

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Deciphering the Sprint Backlog Conundrum

Scrum.org

But, as I delve deeper into the subject, it becomes apparent that the process is far from a mere checklist exercise. It informs but does not govern the Sprint's content. It's a task that initially appears straightforward—simply follow the guide, right? Often, what tops the backlog list may not be what the team embarks upon first.

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Stakeholder Analysis and Mapping: Part 2 of 4 Steps of Stakeholder Engagement

Scrum.org

The Empathy Mapping exercise helps developers to put themselves in the stakeholders’ shoes in order to see and understand their needs, motivations, and actions better. Internal or External governance such as Finance, Legal, PMO, Risk, and Audit may fall into the category. However, the reality is different.

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How to facilitate a project meeting

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If it’s a regular meeting, there might be a terms of reference for it, so that will outline the core purpose of the discussion and tell you what the governance needs to be (number of people available to be quorate and so on). A strategy planning meeting is going to look quite different to a project requirements workshop or a kick off meeting.

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Five factors required for teams to self-organize

Kiron Bondale

Ensuring that team members and managers are on the same page about decision making authority is critical and exercises such as delegation poker can be used to safely explore jurisdictional limits. Checks and balances are required but these should be done in the spirit of lean governance rather than of micromanagement.

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How to Sabotage A Product Owner — 53 Anti-Patterns from the Trenches

Scrum.org

One of my favorite exercises from my Professional Scrum Product Owner classes is how to best sabotage a Product Owner as a member of the middle management. The exercise rules are simple: You’re not allowed to use any form of illegal activity. The Exercise: Consider How to Best Sabotage A Product Owner.

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10 Strategies for Successful Project Execution

ProjectManager.com

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. Ineffective corporate governance. Manage those communications by finding how often they want to be updated and how they prefer to get those updates. Poor change management.

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