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Business Project Management Basics

ProjectManager.com

They should have experience, leadership skills and certifications that can help differentiate themselves. Strategic Projects A strategic project is new and tends to be innovative, such as a new product or service, though it could also be the opening of a new retail location, factory or branch office for the business.

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Managing Virtual Teams: Strategies for Project Managers

Project Pulse Journal

In this article, we will explore the actions PMs can take to manage virtual project teams effectively, addressing common challenges and providing practical insights to enhance collaboration, governance, and performance. Define Roles and Responsibilities Clarifying roles and responsibilities is essential for governance.

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Navigating External Factors in Small Business Risk Management

Proofhub

Some of the sources of such risks can be: the market, the environment, the economy, or the government policies. Political Factors Changes in politics or government policies that might have an impact on the economy are examples of political risk. Natural Factors Natural risks can also be significant and hard to forecast.

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Connecting Business with IT to Achieve Agility in the Financial Sector

Planview

Santander UK, one of the world’s largest retail and commercial banks, has been on an Agile and digital transformation journey for some time. Joaquim’s response: The starting point was providing a governance framework that aligns the work of different roles to company objectives, KPIs, and cadence, with a good balance of rigor and flexibility.

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Is Kniberg’s Aligned Autonomy matrix still relevant?

Scrum.org

The management discussion on team mandate has shifted toward determining the degree to which teams are self-organizing, self-directing, or self-governing. It has become commonplace and has been integrated into today's servant leadership concepts: Management needs to create an environment for teams to be able to perform at their best.

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The Clerk (A Misunderstood Product Owner Stance)

Scrum.org

A clerk is a white-collar worker who conducts general office tasks, or a worker who performs similar sales-related tasks in a retail environment (a retail clerk). Clerks are also rarely talking (or allowed to talk) to external influencers or governance stakeholders, such as legal authorities and/or regulators.

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Leveraging the Art of Storytelling to Build Your Project Management Resume

International Institute for Learning

However, 10% or less of resumes take it a step further and apply storytelling to the same information, allowing the resume reader to immediately visualize the value that this project manager brings. Here are two examples of task-oriented items I see on many resumes, with out storytelling: “Developed a governance model for this project.”.

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