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Understanding the Work of an Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

But a shift in mindset isn’t going to address the real organizational issues, business architecture issues, technology architecture issues, HR issues, and technical debt that reside within your organization. Not only that, but they’re not even able to influence the executive to go and fix it.

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The Ten Principles of Evidence-Based Leadership

Scrum.org

Navigating leadership in complex work environments demands a nuanced approach, blending various tactics, practices, frameworks, and strategies. These principles, presented in no particular order, acknowledge the dynamic nature of leadership. To be reviewed and updated and beyond. We cultivate a culture of continuous learning.

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Overcoming bias in project management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Her leadership and guidance is of paramount importance during planning and execution. Since good decision-making is critical for good leadership and guidance, project managers need to know how heuristics (mental disposition) and biases (personal inclinations) influence a project manager’s decisions.

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PMBOK® Seventh Edition Principles and Risk Management

Project Risk Coach

Be a Diligent, Respectful, and Caring Steward 2. Demonstrate Leadership Behaviors 7. Be a Diligent, Respectful, and Caring Steward Project managers are encouraged to be good project stewards. First, we must be diligent, that is to say hard-working, never giving up. Table Of Contents. What are Principles? Focus on Value 5.

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3 Exam Content Outline Domains for the PMP exam

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s all the stuff you know to do anyway, because it’s part of what it means to operate in a leadership role in a modern organization, whether you are working on iterative, predictive or hybrid projects. Let’s look at each of those domains next. When you look at the list, it looks like a lot, but this domain shouldn’t worry you.

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What are the differences between management and leadership - and how does it relate to PMs?

Susanne Madsen

In recent years there has been much debate on how to characterize management versus leadership. Management vs. leadership Leadership on the other hand is concerned with setting goals, making improvements to existing ways of working and motivating and leading the team to reaching this new direction.

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Escaping the Feature Factory

Scrum.org

Overemphasis on Utilization : Prioritizing keeping teams busy with feature work over allowing time for creativity, exploration, and addressing technical debt also contributes to a feature factory environment. All of these reasons are reflective of systemic issues within large organizations.