International Institute for Learning

APRIL 5, 2023

By Mike Griffiths Welcome to part four, the last installment of this series introducing basic leadership ideas that any project manager or Scrum master can employ. Be sure to see articles one , two , and three , which cover topics including how leadership differs from management, servant leadership, and team motivation.

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Leadership PMI Influencer SCRUM 59

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 2, 2023

There are strategies you can use to help you streamline your projects and combine work across stakeholders and teams. Let’s talk about strategies for how to tell your boss that you’ve maxed out your workload. I’ve done this exercise with many people and it’s always eye-opening. You’ve got so many balls in the air.

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Monitoring Strategy Leadership Closing 361

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 20, 2023

For CAPM certification renewal, you need: a minimum of 9 Education PDUs including two in each Talent Triangle area: Leadership, Technical and Strategic and Business Management a maximum of 6 Giving Back PDUs with a maximum of 2 for working as a professional and 4 for volunteering and creating knowledge. What type of PDUs do you need?

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Scrum.org

MAY 5, 2020

Everything, with servant-leadership as the foundational mindset and attitude. How to show servant-leadership and ‘read the room’ when you’re not physically present with the team? So we offer experiments, practices, and strategies that we used in different contexts and think are worth trying as a Scrum Master, working remotely.

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SCRUM Strategy Leadership Consulting 174

Planio

MAY 2, 2018

As the authors of The Strategy-Focused Organization found , a mere 7% of employees today fully understand their company’s business strategies and what’s expected of them in order to help achieve company goals. Goal-setting exercise 1: Effective goal-setting starts at the top and cascades down. Goal setting is a serious problem.

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Engineering Agile SCRUM Strategy 137

Teamweek

JANUARY 26, 2023

Sifting through bad-fit applications is a tiring process – but it doesn’t need to be with the right talent assessment strategy and a few skills tests. So, how do you create a bulletproof talent assessment strategy from scratch? 10 Benefits of creating an effective talent assessment strategy And that’s not all.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 5, 2023

Suitable answers: Candidates should share specific examples of strategies they’ve used and challenges they’ve overcome. I worked closely with leadership to help them understand and support the benefits of an Agile transformation.” What did you do to “work closely with leadership?”

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SCRUM Agile 2023 Process 91

Project Risk Coach

JULY 27, 2016

After a simple analysis exercise (considering relationship and agreement) it then comes down to developing an influencing strategy. If people are against you, make sure you’ve got something in your strategy to at least remove the risk they pose to your influencing goal. Maybe stating the obvious. Accelerate Progress.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The need for a business case is that it collects the proposal, outline, strategy and marketing plan in one document and offers a full look at how the project will benefit the organization. Compile the data and present your strategies, goals and options. Marketing strategy. Compare and finalize your approaches. Financial plan.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2022

The need for a business case is that it collects the financial appraisal, proposal, strategy and marketing plan in one document and offers a full look at how the project will benefit the organization. Now, it’s not just an exercise to appease senior leadership. Marketing Strategy. Business Case Template.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The mission statement should be easy to understand and should be aligned with the organization’s strategy. Support faculty, staff, students and the UMW community as a source for project management leadership and expertise. In one company, a team of leaders self-nominated themselves to take part in the exercise.

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PMO Risk Management Defining Information Technology 299

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 6, 2020

Team-building exercises help, but even under the best circumstances, there will be challenges. The first thing to do is make sure that everyone is on board with the decision to go remote—most importantly, the leadership team. To do so, you have to see virtual teams as part of a strategy that provides a competitive advantage.

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Software Infrastructure Monitoring Leadership 429

Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2021

For this email, it is assumed that the organization’s technical strategy has been defined and a governance model has been implemented. If neither is true, this email will still be valuable, it will just illustrate that strategy and governance are missing. Solve those problems with your leadership, let me know if I can help.

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Cadence Leadership Change Management Governance 117

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. Rather, they simply were unaware of new strategies, processes, and projects. What must we do? Lead by example. These people have no evil intent.

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Risk Management Risk PMI PMO 459

Project Bliss

AUGUST 17, 2020

Team building exercises are a fantastic way to build that essential esprit de corps , even when you’re not sharing the same physical space. Telecommuters can easily begin to feel isolated from their colleagues and their leadership. Team Building. Best of all, these meetings don’t just have to be about providing status updates only.

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Agile Estimate Leadership Initiating 296

Scrum.org

JUNE 26, 2021

One of the best ways to acclimate Leaders to a new Agile product development environment is through participation in the Professional Agile Leadership - Essentials (PAL-E) class. I love the Professional Agile Leadership - Essentials (PAL-E) class because this course is all about helping leadership understand how best to support Agile teams.

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SCRUM Agile Leadership Influencer 162

Inloox

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Although some risks can be eliminated with a suitable solution strategy, certain risks can never be completely avoided in the project context. Often the root of the problem lies in insufficient leadership or in the unavailability or poor quality of resources provided. Consequently, these must be kept as low as possible.

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Risk Risk Management Budget Defining 165

nTask

JUNE 25, 2019

Eventually, it comes down to the following approach: Strategic Leadership. Although leadership and management are arguably switchable roles, the usual chain of command goes from top to bottom. Leadership and Project Management Is a Two Faced Coin: When I say it is a two-faced coin, the emphasis is on the correlation factor.

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Leadership Risk Management Controlling Planning 97

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2020

For CAPM certification renewal, you need: a minimum of 9 Education PDUs including two in each Talent Triangle area: Leadership, Technical and Strategic and Business Management a maximum of 6 Giving Back PDUs with a maximum of 2 for working as a professional and 4 for volunteering and creating knowledge. It’s going to be easy, trust me.

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2020 PMI Certification Leadership 301

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The book provides strategies for reclaiming your collaboration time and making it more relevant and productive by Building a network and real connections and energizing others. The collaboration effort itself is unproductive because often the individuals involved haven’t had any training on how to facilitate well.

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Leadership Strategy 276

LiquidPlanner

MARCH 18, 2020

Basic project management skills that could significantly help founders and owners of startups and small businesses include defining goals, setting strategy, devising a plan and outlining actions, and then weekly prioritizing and tracking actions through to completion. But you can’t be a great leader unless you can communicate with people.

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Prince2 Leadership Defining Process 183

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Scrum defines some boundaries for the exercise of figuring out Scrum Teams. While the Scrum Guide does not explicitly talk about anyone outside of the Scrum Team, Scrum assumes organizational leadership and support. . That success relies on the right culture/environment which requires partnership with Leadership. . Stakeholders.

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MPUG

JANUARY 27, 2020

Here are some tips and strategies for preparing for and managing conflict as a project manager. Though this may make introverts cringe, team-building events/exercises are a good way to establish a friendly rapport between the whole team. He was what you might call “conflict-averse.” Define Expected Behavior.

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Strategy Risk Management Defining Process 122

Leading Answers

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

This is the first in a multi-post series about emotional intelligence (EI) as the foundation for team leadership. Leadership and EI work together to create cohesive, cooperative teams. For this reason, we will start with EI (which starts with ourselves) and then work up to powering the leadership engine.

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SCRUM Leadership Agile Influencer 78

International Institute for Learning

JANUARY 25, 2023

For example, the marketer has to create the marketing strategy, and the development teams have to design and build the product. For instance, the marketing strategy, the user experience (UX) design and technology choices have to align to successfully acquire new users, increase conversion, or meet another product goal.

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SCRUM Leadership Agile Influencer 52

Scrum.org

JANUARY 18, 2022

Product Ownership is a leadership position in the first place. Consequently, support your Scrum team on its path to fully embrace Scrum, namely self-management, as the entrepreneur level is focused on product leadership. Invite users to collaborative exercises, for example, user story mapping, etc.

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SCRUM Agile Influencer Governance 204

LiquidPlanner

MAY 9, 2022

For much of the last century, business plans, strategies, and economic theories were predicated upon the behavior of rational actors. He would review his observations with his colleagues, and they were all very confident that they understood each candidate’s character and leadership skills.

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Risk Management 2011 2009 Planning 147

Project Bliss

AUGUST 8, 2021

These strategies and tools will help you manage multiple projects with confidence and poise. 9 Strategies to Successfully Manage Multiple Projects. The following 9 strategies will help you manage multiple projects, stay sane, satisfy stakeholders, and deliver solutions to happy customers. Individual projects have challenges.

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Strategy Risk Management Planning Energy 59

Planio

JANUARY 31, 2022

However, you can use the same process for a leadership roadmap, sales roadmap, IT roadmap , or even an external customer-facing one with some minor adjustments. It’s the next logical step in turning your product vision and strategy into actionable projects and tasks your team can work on each day. What is a product roadmap?

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Agile 2022 Planning Strategy 148

Project Risk Coach

AUGUST 22, 2016

Here are the things I’ve found to be most helpful: Exercise daily. When I’m dragging or feeling down, one thing that can get me going again is exercise. Sometimes I don’t feel like walking, going for a run, or doing upper body exercises. But I know the consequence of not exercising. I just do it!

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Energy Leadership Sustainability Strategy 150

International Institute for Learning

MARCH 8, 2023

By Larry Robertson In Rebel Leadership: How to Thrive in Uncertain Times, author Larry Robertson writes about a new kind of leadership, one that matches these uncertain times and enables organizations to thrive: Rebel leadership. Rebel leadership isn’t what you might assume. Copyright 2020 by Larry Robertson.

Leadership 52

Leadership Planning Innovation Lean 52

Leading Agile

MARCH 5, 2021

Effective strategy execution isn’t (just) about alignment, however, cascading goals through common frameworks like OKRs to create alignment to the strategic priorities is the first step towards effective strategy execution. A smaller percentage believed it was the wrong strategy. Clearly, something was missing.

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Executing Strategy Closing Leadership 133

Scrum.org

MAY 8, 2023

The team and stakeholders will need to negotiate strategies for mitigating these risks and balancing them against other priorities. Risk management : The Product Owner and stakeholders may need to collaborate in identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks that might impact the project, negotiating risk prioritization and response strategies.

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SCRUM Agile Risk Management Risk 169

Scrum.org

JANUARY 23, 2023

The author has a holistic view of agile practices: agile equals product discovery (what to build) plus product delivery (how to build it) as a collaborative exercise of the whole Scrum team. Such guidance should not, however, become an exercise in protective parenting — a team must be allowed to learn from their failures.

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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. And since each strategy gives birth to one or more projects this adds to the portfolio constantly.

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PMO Risk Management Leadership Finance 130

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. Best Self-Help Books About Leadership. Everyone can benefit from the development of leadership skills.

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Stepping Into Project Management

AUGUST 25, 2020

To keep your agile teams moving forward, implement these six strategies: 1. This exercise (release planning, grooming or sprint planning) allows team members to understand the upcoming work and ask the right questions on time. Encourage leadership. Leadership shouldn’t be limited to just a coach or the leadership team.

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