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Trello vs. Asana: Side-by-Side Comparison

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They’re both well-known and popular project management tools. Asana, on the other hand, is a simple-to-use work management tool. Yes, Trello has project management features and Asana has a timeline and other tools to help manage tasks and teams. You can allocate tasks to more than one team member and add deadlines.

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Henry Gantt’s Biography & Role in Gantt Chart History

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Have you ever wondered why Gantt charts are capitalized or where the tool originated? He’s best remembered for the tool that bears his name and his works in the development of what’s called scientific management. His Gantt charts are fundamental tools when managing projects, especially in the waterfall methodology.

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30 Team Building Activities

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Teams don’t just come together and click into well-oiled productivity machines, at least not always. There’s often a period of time when the team members have to get to know one another and develop a rapport. In other words, every team can find value in team-building exercise. Objective: Develop listening skills.

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PRINCE2 and PMBOK: How They Compare

Rebel’s Guide to PM

And what are the weak points? As I said, PRINCE2 doesn’t cover working with people and as team management and getting the best out of the people is what we all do every day, this seems like a big oversight on the part of PRINCE2, especially as project boards form such a critical part of the standard. No, not that I’m aware of.

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Seven Priorities for Project Managers in 2023

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We can do nothing else if we want our teams to behave well and deliver for us. You cannot look after your team and your stakeholders unless you are in robust physical, mental and emotional health. A couple of poor nights’ sleep in a row can damage your judgment and emotional stability just as much as an excess of alcohol.

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Innovation: Running Experiments and Learning

Leading Answers

This article focuses on actionable tools and approaches. Within agile frameworks, the team retrospective is the primary workshop for planning and evaluating experiments. Yet most team retrospectives I see are broken. To make things worse, some teams do not take the retrospective seriously. This is a more useful format.

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Poisoning the well: Why micromanagement is bad for business

Runrun.it

One might even hazard to say that tolerating micromanagement can run the risk of the company eventually failing due to high staff turnovers, lack of talent retention, poor productivity, poor creativity, and the like. Causes poor communication all throughout the organization.