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Organizational Competencies: What They Are and How to Develop Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I worked in the IT team at my old job. We did a fair amount of off-the-shelf software deployments, and we frequently made the point that we were a healthcare company, not a software development firm. I would not have said we had software development as one of our core organizational competencies. We didn’t need it.

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Best Teamwork Quotes: 35 Motivational Quotes for Teams

ProjectManager.com

And since every team can use a little extra motivation once in a while, we set out to find the best teamwork quotes for you to share with your employees to get your team working at their best. Don’t forget that, while employee motivation is key to success in the workplace, it’s not all you and your team need to succeed.

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The unbreakable bond: How outstanding service = brand loyalty

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In addition, 89% of consumers moved to rivals after having a bad customer experience [ii]. Deskpro COO, Paul Davies, emphasizes the significance of prioritizing customer experience as a central growth strategy. User stories can help project teams put customer needs at the heart of what they build. year on year [iii].

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On Technical Debt And Code Smells: Surprising insights from scientific studies

Scrum.org

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. Why do software teams?—?despite So I was pleasantly surprised when Carsten Grønbejrg Lützen pointed at a peer-reviewed academic paper by Michele Tufano and his colleagues (2015), called “When and Why Your Code Starts To Smell Bad”.

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What is servant leadership? How to empower your Agile team

Planio

People don’t leave bad jobs - they leave bad managers. So, it only makes sense that to keep your team together and happy (and avoid project failure ), you need to level up your leadership game. Servant leadership is a leadership philosophy that focuses on empowering and supporting team members. Be a team protector.

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Managing Multiple Projects: The Research

Rebel’s Guide to PM

“New work is being assigned without being reviewed for priority or as part of the long term strategy/plan,” wrote one project manager, and many others added similar comments about the lack of organizational portfolio management, like these: Poor strategy planning hence poor implementation in order to realize benefits sought.

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How to Build Trust in Virtual Teams [Book Review & Tips]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Trust matters because it helps build a resilient project team. Trusted team members not only do only what is asked, but what the project needs them to do, because they know that the project manager will trust their decisions and actions. . Wise’s book, Trust in Virtual Teams. Trust helps get things done. Building trust.