Conflict is Necessary. Make it Productive.
Scrum.org
JUNE 14, 2023
In this episode we share ideas for working through conflict. Having a few tools available will make you much more successful in turning conflict into a positive outcome.
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How to Control Schedule Conflict in Project Management
ProjectManager.com
MAY 24, 2023
The last thing a project manager wants is a schedule conflict. But a scheduling conflict is an eventuality in project management. While it’s the project manager’s job to ensure that the workflow is unobstructed, it’s also their responsibility to resolve scheduling conflicts when they arise—a problem that’s unavoidable.
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Can a Project Manager be a Scrum Master?
Scrum.org
MAY 14, 2024
They understand team dynamics, resolve conflicts, and foster collaboration. This can translate well to Scrum, but only if the Project Manager also promotes the team's ability to self-organize around how to deliver against the Product goal. Team Building: Project Managers often excel in building high-performing teams.
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Embracing Stakeholder Performance in Your Transition to a Scrum Master (From PM to PSM 15)
Scrum.org
APRIL 15, 2024
In Scrum, the focus shifts from managing stakeholders in a project to fostering collaboration and alignment in a product or initiative environment. However, in a Scrum context, this can conflict with the empirical pillars of transparency, inspection, and adaptation, where objectives evolve based on continuous learning.
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Dealing with Difficult Stakeholders: Tips for Product People
Speaker: Roman Pichler, Product Management Expert and Acclaimed Author
Leading stakeholders and development teams is notoriously challenging for product managers: They lack the power to tell the individuals what to do, but they need their support to progress the product. In this talk, Roman will explain: Why product managers often experience conflict and why conflict resolution skills are important.
Top 10 Reasons for Project Failure
ProjectManager.com
AUGUST 22, 2023
Fostering collaboration through project management tools , team-building exercises and other tools and techniques will drive productivity. What happens is unconsciously people still start doing what they really want to do and that comes into conflict. But it’s common for teams to begin getting in conflict.
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Scrum Team Failure — Scrum Anti-Patterns Taxonomy (3)
Scrum.org
OCTOBER 29, 2023
TL; DR: Scrum Team Failure This post on Scrum team failure addresses three categories from the Scrum anti-patterns taxonomy that are closely aligned: Planning and process breakdown, conflict avoidance and miscommunication, and inattention to quality and commitment, often resulting in a Scrum team performing significantly below its potential.
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The Pros and Cons of Teamwork
Rebel’s Guide to PM
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Disadvantages of teamwork can include conflict between team members, difficulty in making decisions, and feelings of isolation from the rest of the company if you’re not working closely with others on a daily basis. This can lead to tension or conflict if people don’t feel like they’re on the same level.
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10 Reasons Why Teamwork Matters in Project Management
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 31, 2023
Project managers know that cooperation boosts productivity on projects and is beneficial in a team environment. Teamwork helps improve conflict management A team is made up of unique individuals. In some research that Elizabeth Harrin carried out, 28% of project managers said that the team itself was a cause of conflict.
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What makes a good manager? 9 essential qualities and skills
Planio
MAY 6, 2024
Managers who build trust, provide mentorship, and inspire those around them drive a 70% increase in their team’s productivity and engagement. Don’t shy away from conflict, instead manage it effectively 7. Negotiating stress and conflict to create a nice environment. But unfortunately, it’s an upside many managers miss out on.
How To Spot Successful Scrum Masters
Scrum.org
DECEMBER 10, 2023
The Successful Scrum Masters Evaluating a Scrum Master’s effectiveness involves several major indicators: Sprint Goal Achievement Consistency : Assessing the Scrum Master’s impact can be done by observing how consistently the team accomplishes the Sprint Goals, contributing to the overarching Product Goal.
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Top 10 Project Management Qualifications
ProjectManager.com
AUGUST 22, 2023
Project Planning Project planning is organizing tasks, the resources needed to complete them, costs and schedules to deliver a product or service by the deadline. The project should be driven by business analysis that directs the benefits of delivering its product or service. It’s a discipline that wears many hats, as the saying goes.
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Unlock the Power of ChatGPT for your Scrum Team
Scrum.org
JANUARY 17, 2023
Zur deutschsprachigen Version des Artikels: ChatGPT-Prompts für Scrum Master, Product Owner und Entwickler. ? I picked three scenarios for the ChatGPT prompts: A conflict is brewing at a Retrospective. I will describe a conflict situation in a Scrum team. Think twice if you still believe this technology is a fad or a toy.
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How Project ERP Can Benefit Your Project-Based Organization
ProjectManager.com
MARCH 13, 2024
Manufacturers with simple operations use a traditional ERP for straightforward production and overall finances. A project ERP provides a centralized hub for all these project-based tasks, which increases productivity. The following features for your project ERP will help you increase productivity and profitability.
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Lost in Communication and Collaboration — Scrum Anti-Patterns Taxonomy (2)
Scrum.org
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
The category also exposes deep-rooted organizational issues such as avoidance of conflict, mistrust, and hidden agendas, emphasizing the importance of candid communication and open dialogue for alignment and success. Manifestations : Exclusionary reliance on certain team members during Product Backlog refinement.
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Improve How your Team Navigates (Relational) Team Conflict!
Scrum.org
APRIL 3, 2023
Although conflict is a natural part of working with others even moderate conflict in teams decreases their productivity. This means that teams have to learn how to navigate conflict effectively and prevent upward escalation. Pruitt & Rubin (1986) developed the Dual Concern model for conflict.
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60 ChatGPT Prompts for Scrum Masters and Product Owners
Scrum.org
MAY 15, 2023
List strategies for resolving team conflicts and promoting a healthy work environment. Recommend activities to make Sprint Retrospectives engaging and productive. Create tips for coaching and supporting the Product Owner in Product Backlog refinement. Examples of tasks : List best practices for Product Backlog refinement.
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Are you really managing information overload?
Rebel’s Guide to PM
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
Graham Allcott talks about this in his book, How To Be A Productivity Ninja. Social media-style and collaboration tools are new for many people, and there is a learning curve to picking up using any new software product. Information overload vs. conflict. However, that isn’t information overload, it’s dealing with conflict.
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RFI in Construction: A Quick Guide for Contractors
ProjectManager.com
MARCH 8, 2024
Notification of errors, conflicts or omissions discovered on the job site on the construction documentation must be made. Design clarifications: Clarifies conflicts, incomplete plans and specifications Design change: Notes changes that come about due to construction errors, sequencing problems, etc. Our dashboard is ready when you are.
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Can Anyone Be a Scrum Master?
Scrum.org
MARCH 12, 2024
This team leadership role is necessary to enable and guide the team towards achieving goals and business objectives, ensuring everyone is aligned with the product vision and goal and working cohesively to deliver the customer’s desired value. Conflict Resolution Skills: Inevitably, conflicts arise in any team.
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Tuckman Model of Team Development: Forming Storming Norming Performing
Project Bliss
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
Develop strategies to help teams become more productive and successful. Learn how to identify and manage conflict. Conflict can be productive and helpful, so don’t jump in to stop discussion every time team members disagree. Read this: Productive Conflict at Work: Simple Guidelines to Keep it Positive.
Uncovering the Role of Risk Owners in Agile Projects
Project Risk Coach
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
In agile projects, risk owners may be: Product Owner Scrum Master Assigned Scrum Team Members Other Stakeholders Whoever is assigned a risk should have the knowledge, experience, and expertise to analyze and respond to the risk, irrespective of the project lifecycle (predictive, hybrid, agile).
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The Power of the Sprint Retrospective
Scrum.org
MAY 19, 2022
The entire team participates in the Sprint Retrospective, including the Product Owner, Scrum Master and all Developers. The Retrospective can help de-escalate (or prevent) conflict. Conflict decreases the effectiveness of the team and lowers morale. Professional Scrum Product Owner. For Product Owners .
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Product Manager vs Project Manager – What’s the Difference?
ProjectManager.com
DECEMBER 13, 2021
Product Manager vs Project Manager. While both are leadership roles and the titles are similar, there’s a difference between a product manager and a project manager as Jennifer Bridges, PMP, explains. Of course, these roles can also vary greatly depending on the types of products or projects being executed in the organization.
The Scrum Master and Product Owner: A Partnership for Success-Part 1
Scrum.org
MAY 21, 2024
In Scrum, the accountabilities of the Scrum Master and Product Owner are often seen as distinct and separate. The Product Owner: This is all about vision and value. The Product Owner defines the product vision, manages the product backlog, and ensures value is delivered to stakeholders.
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“The Sprint Review is Just a Demo” and other Scrum myths
Scrum.org
DECEMBER 4, 2023
The Scrum framework guides the way individuals interact and work together to deliver complex products. For the Product Owner, it is a crucial moment to gather feedback that can potentially shape the content and ordering of the Product Backlog. Scrum is a framework, not a set of work instructions.
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How Cross-Functionality makes for a more effective Sprint Retrospective (59)
Scrum.org
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Delivered a Done Increment - i.e. a product that has the expected quality level? Creativity: uncovering better ways to do things, to build the product requires some level of creativity. Conflict Handling: there will be moments where team members are strongly disagreeing. How did the last Sprint went? Reached the Sprint Goal?
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How to Thrive in the Multi-Project Workplace
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 9, 2023
Around a third of the gross domestic product (GDP) in the average Western economy is a result of project activity so it is unsurprising that organizations do so many projects. It’s not a totally new skillset, but it’s a smarter, more complex way of addressing the work and the complexities of balancing many people, processes and products.
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The Magic Power of Enabling Constraints
Scrum.org
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
With complex problems, which product development is, we work with the unknown unknowns. This allows the product to remain extendable and maintainable while also being releasable. Cross-functional Team - different backgrounds and past experiences preload conflict into the discovery and development phase.
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How to Earn Power Skills PDUs for PMP Renewal in 2022
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JULY 10, 2022
For example: Any kind of formal or informal training, webinar or podcast on the topics of: Conflict management Negotiation skills Influencing Empathy Engagement Collaboration techniques (reading my book on collaboration tools would also count) Knowledge transfer tools and techniques. What project management tasks count as power skills.
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Great Developers go beyond coding
Scrum.org
MAY 21, 2024
They are reliable, productive, and usually keep themselves out of the way. Scrum is the most effective way to organize product development when the value of the product and the work needed to create it can at times be unpredictable. We’ll be specifically writing from the point of view of the Developers.
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Agile Contracts
Scrum.org
MAY 9, 2024
Working with external suppliers to develop a product to set expectations is essential. The Agile Manifesto contains a warning about contracts: “Customer collaboration over contract negotiation” - The Agile Manifesto For Agile Software Development When developing products, contracts can limit change in a way that reduces the product’s value.
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Forming, storming, norming and performing for Agile teams
Scrum.org
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
I have not included this stage because Scrum Teams generally support products rather than short-term initiatives. . The Product Backlog. One of the three artifacts the Scrum framework identifies is The Product Backlog, an ordered to-do list of all work to complete on the product. Self-organization. Definition of Done.
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The Impact of Conflict on Team Efficiency and Effectiveness: A Project Manager’s Guide
MPUG
MAY 22, 2024
However, conflicts within the team can pose significant challenges to achieving this goal. In fact, studies have shown that approximately 20% of revenue can be lost due to inefficiencies caused by unresolved conflicts in the workplace. The negative impact of fracturing conflict extends beyond individual projects.
What Is My Scrum Master Doing All Day?
Scrum.org
MARCH 20, 2024
They also teach and mentor the team in Scrum and other agile practices, ensuring everyone understands why agility is needed in product development and effectively adapting agile ways of working to their context. In order to do this, they help the Product Owner understand what the team needs to be effective and focus on what’s most important.
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10 Conflict Resolution Strategies that Actually Work
ProjectManager.com
OCTOBER 16, 2018
Conflict is a part of any work environment. That conflict exists is not the issue, but having an effective conflict resolution strategy to resolve that conflict if it begins to impact the business is crucial for any manager. Here are 10 conflict resolution strategies that can help you manage volatile team members.
Business or Organisational Psychology for Project Managers
The IIL Blog
APRIL 24, 2024
By understanding these nuances, project managers can foster a more productive and engaged team. Conflict Resolution and Team Dynamics In the world of project management, where pressure and expectations meet, conflicts are inevitable. Psychologists delve into conflict resolution techniques and team dynamics.
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How To Measure The Success Of A Scrum Master?
Scrum.org
JULY 11, 2021
Meaning the people that have an actual stake in the product. Scrum Teams work in a Sprint-based rhythm where every iteration results in a new version of the product , that can be potentially released. Whether or not to release is up to the Product Owner. Conflict is a good thing when it is navigated correctly.
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3 Things that stop you making the right decision
Rebel’s Guide to PM
APRIL 9, 2024
There may be weeks of high productions and outputs far surpassing the planned quantities. You have to remember those planned quantities represent average production. New issues and conflicts arise because you are making progress. There is an average, or mean, to a project. The same goes for projects.
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Where does Scrum Master END and Agile Leader BEGIN? Differences/similarities
Scrum.org
DECEMBER 13, 2023
They should be well versed on product management, design, other agile and lean agile approaches. I think the nuance you might see here is the focus on understanding product management and design more. Facilitate conflict Scrum masters should be facilitating conflict. It is not good enough. They’re just excuses.
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What Really Is a Servant Leader?
Scrum.org
JANUARY 11, 2024
At the heart of it is the desire to serve people first, with leadership emerging as a by-product of service. Healing and Support: They recognise and address burnout or conflicts. They promote a work-life balanced and psychologically safe environment, ensuring team resilience and sustained productivity.
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What Does Being a Cross-Functional Team in Scrum Mean?
Scrum.org
MAY 30, 2023
This could include developers, testers, designers, business analysts, and other roles needed to deliver a product increment. Myth 4: Cross-functional teams lead to conflicts and a lack of accountability. Conflicts are addressed constructively by encouraging open communication and fostering a culture of respect and collaboration.
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Turning Communication Barriers into Opportunities by Mastering Conflict Management
Project Pulse Journal
MAY 6, 2024
Malinawan, PMP Are you finding it difficult to maintain peace and productivity in your workplace due to frequent disagreements and unresolved tensions? Imagine if workplace conflicts were resolved and used as stepping stones for innovation and team building. With the right strategies and tools, there is no need to fear conflict.
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Uncovering the Essentials of Skilled Facilitation for Agile Teams
Scrum.org
AUGUST 15, 2023
Agile teams often comprise individuals with diverse skills and perspectives, which, while being a strength, can also lead to conflicts or miscommunication. They can identify potential roadblocks or conflicts within the team and address them proactively, fostering an environment of mutual respect and collaboration. At Agile-ity Inc.,
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