ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

If you think this way about meetings, chances are others do, such as the team members you’ve called together to discuss a vital aspect of the project you’re all working on. Icebreaker activities are also a great team building exercise for traditional and remote teams. 25 Best Icebreaker Games to Make your Meetings Fun.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 28, 2022

Normally I take lots of notes when I’m reading books for review. I took loads when I was reading Scott Berkun’s Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management. Making Things Happen is the revised edition of The Art of Project Management. There is a logical flow to the book. It’s all brilliant.

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The IIL Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

ChatGPT “As an AI, I don’t have the ability to receive or process personal messages or communications outside of our current conversation. Did I talk to one of my students in a Grateful Leadership course? Check out the exciting buzz about IIL’s Generative AI for Project Management Course!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 30, 2020

I’ve seen project managers and other colleagues crash and burn. Lots of senior managers. There is a reason that project management has a code of ethics. I could write my book without his case study. As I talk about in my course on how to write awesome project status reports , surprises are bad.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review Leadership 341

Scrum.org

APRIL 17, 2023

So in March 2023, I embarked on a non-representative research exercise to learn how organizations misuse Jira from a team perspective as I wanted to understand Jira anti-patterns. Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! Guaranteed on May 16 : Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills Class — May 16, 2023. ?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 3, 2020

But we do know that when it comes to business, leadership, personal productivity and work-life balance, a slew of seriously helpful self-help books has recently been published that can help you make 2020 your best year yet. If you start your new year by reading just one of these books, you’ll be starting out on the right foot.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

If you think this way about meetings, chances are others do, such as the team members you’ve called together to discuss a vital aspect of the project you’re all working on. Icebreaker activities are also a great team building exercise for traditional and remote teams. 25 Best Icebreaker Games to Make your Meetings Fun.

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Software Process Planning Leadership 290

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 2, 2019

The best we can do is to recognize that the seed of each new year was planted in the previous year. So, we must be aware of them, as we establish our seven priorities for project managers in 2019. Courageous Leadership. Given the prevalence of disruption, my first priority has to be exemplary leadership.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 2, 2019

But we do know that when it comes to business, leadership, personal productivity and work-life balance, a slew of seriously helpful self-help books has recently been published that can help you make 2019 your best year yet. If you start your new year by reading just one of these books, you’ll be starting out on the right foot.

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2019 Underperforming Technical Team 2013 Leadership 245

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 11, 2022

In other words, what do you want to get out of your strategic planning process? If you are putting together your first strategy or doing a complete overhaul, you’ll need to spend a lot more time on it to get the strategic process set up and the relevant data collected. Is it a new strategic plan? 9.30am: Welcome.

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Scrum.org

MAY 8, 2023

Rant: Scrum Masters are no Project Managers ! ? ? ?? Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! Technical decisions : Developers negotiate architectural choices, design patterns, and code practices to implement the best technical solutions. Last week’s most popular discussion on LinkedIn : ?

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The Lazy Project Manager

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

On that basis now is the time for you to ‘do the math’ and work your change portfolio investment out, an example was covered in ‘Challenge 1 – Invest in the right portfolio management’ – so you can reference that if you wish. But again, it is a rough estimate that is needed for this exercise.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 27, 2021

As a program or project manager, do you need to be able to run really effective meetings and workshops as part of your role? Most program and project managers have no training in facilitation skills and yet they need these skills more than ever in these days of virtual and hybrid working. About our presenter. Transcript.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Introduction: First, I am not writing this to be highbrow; besides technical and project management topics, I have enjoyed history and mythology for years. I recently watched an old Greek mythology movie from the early 80’s, and I had a revelation: the muses and project management.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 22, 2019

Leadership, if anything, is a creative way to think and engage with people and situations, while guiding and setting an example for others. It’s another arrow in your quiver on the way to becoming the best leader possible, as there are great benefits to leaders who adopt a divergent way of thinking. A Definition of Divergent Thinking.

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Innovation Leadership Risk Management Executing 208

LiquidPlanner

MAY 24, 2022

If project management were an off-road 4×4 expedition, where teams had to plot a course through the unknown, cost and schedule contingency would be akin to the number of spare fuel cans you can carry successfully to complete the trip. Project leaders need to ask: are some foreseen risks not occurring?

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The Lazy Project Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

The allocate option works to some degree if there is some maturity of project delivery inside the organisation, it works if there are people who care, and it doesn’t work if these are not in place. Now we come to the ‘so what’ part. Now we come to the ‘so what’ part. ‘So So what do we do with this change investment?’. is the ‘B’ for burn.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 13, 2023

So, I embarked on a fun exercise of asking our beloved LLM to create an essay that applies Stoicism to Scrum, notably the Stoic Scrum Master. ?? Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! In Scrum, this means accepting the current state of the project and working with the team to find ways to improve it.

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ChatGPT SCRUM Artificial Inteligence Controlling 185

The IIL Blog

APRIL 27, 2018

Virtual teams are becoming more of the norm for organizations as they strive to acquire the best talent from anywhere in the world, minimize overhead everywhere on the earth and stretch their global presence on a worldwide basis. So COMMON SENSE should be at the forefront to manage the perception of how these activities are facilitated.

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Software Review 2004 2012 PMI 122

Velociteach

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The podcast by project managers for project managers. Balancing project success with avoiding burnout is a real challenge in high-stress environments Dr. Marie-Helene (MH) Pelletier discusses the necessity of adopting a strategic approach to resilience by integrating psychology and strategy. I’m Wendy Grounds.

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Influencer 2025 Planning Leadership 80

The Lazy Project Manager

JULY 3, 2017

A great place for your new CPO, newly appointed after completing Challenge 3, to start perhaps is in ‘Project intelligence’. Challenge 4 is all about correctly understanding the status and the health of that portfolio, and all the projects and programs that make up that portfolio. This is ‘Project Intelligence’.

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Technical Review 2014 Executing Leadership 186

LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Leadership is essential to any successful work environment. Managers are in charge of not only running a productive team, but ensuring that there is a positive environment in which their team can work. If happy employees are more productive , then it is in a manager’s best interest to focus on creating a workplace the employees enjoy.

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Leadership Influencer Engineering Innovation 117

The Lazy Project Manager

JUNE 7, 2017

The following is an extract from my new book ‘How to get Fired at the C-Level: Why mismanaging change is the biggest risk of all’ in association with my friends at Tailwind Project Solutions – the extracts follow a series of 5 Challenges that I think every organisation should consider, and consider very carefully: ‘Change is the law of life.

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Finance 2014 Leadership Executing 186

Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

And that demand causes the market-entry of new professionals from other project management branches, probably believing that reading one or two Scrum books will be sufficient. As somebody hiring for a Scrum Team, you need to determine for yourself what works for your organization — which is a process, not a destination.

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SCRUM Technical Review Software Review Agile 232

Scrum.org

MAY 12, 2019

Ahmed: Did you get an invite for a meeting with the Senior Management to discuss scaling agility throughout the company? But it seems the management wants everything to happen fast. Some people in Senior Management are still getting used to agile leadership. Me: Yeah go read the guide and there is even a book for it too.

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The Lazy Project Manager

JUNE 22, 2017

Well it starts with strategy formulation which is no longer the annual exercise it used to be – nowadays it is an ongoing iterative activity. Well it starts with strategy formulation which is no longer the annual exercise it used to be – nowadays it is an ongoing iterative activity.

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PMO 2014 Finance Leadership 130

Planio

JULY 22, 2020

The number one thing every project manager needs to level up their skills is experience. A good project management book. There’s nothing “new” about running a project. But you can bet that every single type of project has already been run by someone else. 20 Minute Manager: Managing Projects.

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2020 Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 148

Online PM Courses

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Are you a Project Manager or a Project Leader? One way I like to think of the difference between Project Management and Project Leadership is that: Project Management gets things done. Project Leadership makes changes happen. People and Project Leadership.

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PMI Leadership Governance Government 68

Leading Answers

JUNE 9, 2017

Despite being involved in the creation of DSDM in 1994, the more I read and practised, the more I discovered every organization and every project is very different. That’s where the bigger set of skills around change management and emotional intelligence that take a lifetime to learn come into play.

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Consulting Agile Lean Innovation 90

Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 2, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Project managers, have you ever felt overwhelmed by the unpredictable waves of the project environment? The terrain of project management is fraught with hidden challenges and opportunities lying in wait for the unwary. What is a Project Environment? The result?

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Influencer Governance Government Technical Review 40

The Lazy Project Manager

JUNE 10, 2016

During my time leading a number of PMOs across different organisations one thing was common across all of the project managers that worked under the PMO, and that was they generally could be placed in to two groups. But so too were the second group, they also led reasonably successful projects. They average many more hours.

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PMO Leadership Executing Controlling 150

Planview

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Planview recently held a webinar with Michael Havison, Portfolio Director at Parkview Health where the focus was on project prioritization with strategic work intake. The On-Demand webinar is called, “ Parkview Health: Prioritizing Project Investments with Strategic Work Intake.”.

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Risk Management Risk Healthcare Initiating 97

Function Point

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The formal definition of a project manager is usually something like, ‘an individual responsible for planning, organizing, managing and executing agency projects from beginning to end. They manage deadlines, client objectives, resource management and budgets. ’. Don’t Be That Project Manager.

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Logistics Software Review Budget Leadership 52

International Institute for Learning

MAY 10, 2019

As opening keynote speaker at IIL’s Leadership & Innovation 2019 Online Conference , he inspired us all with his uncommon approach to leadership and productivity in the modern workplace. What’s the best way to convince my boss to try experiments on projects? and Chief Joy Officer. Log in or register here.

Technical Review 69

Technical Review Software Review Leadership 2019 69

Planio

JANUARY 30, 2023

Getting the best team performance from a group of technical or creative professionals is a lot like commanding a Viking longship - you need strength, skill, experience, motivation, and above all else, to be in sync. That doesn’t leave much time for real, productive work that gets projects over the finish line. The good news?

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Technical Review Consulting Agile Lean 78

nTask

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Being an Agile team is all about adopting the Agile frameworks to the core – both in project management and team collaboration. But whether you adopt Scrum, Kanban, XP or any Agile framework, in the end, it all depends on the teams involved, the leaders managing the project and the customers at the receiving end.

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Agile Technical Review Sustainability SCRUM 89

Planio

AUGUST 28, 2023

One-on-one meetings are consistently rated as the most impactful way to learn about your team, exchange feedback, and keep projects on track. Unfortunately, many managers get their one-on-ones wrong, with sessions feeling rushed, unorganized, and at times, combative. Helps you to develop coaching and leadership skills.

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