ProjectManager.com

MAY 7, 2019

This is often due to the various forces at play that impact decision-making, like those related to the project budget, schedule or resources. There’s a term to explain this idea: technical debt. If you’re about to embark on a new project, take a moment to read about what technical debt is and why you’ll want to avoid it at all costs.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 7, 2019

As we ease into the new year, many organizations’ executive teams are ramping up hiring for new talent. All these efforts require precise judgment to hire just-in-time talent, using data to make strategic project decisions at a portfolio, program and project level and launching new high performing teams.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 1, 2020

While the technical theory of product planning may interest some, we’ve found it more helpful to use an action-oriented method, which we will outline below. You have just developed a product that could potentially be monetized and sold to marketing agencies around the world. Then, assign each task out to the team with due dates.

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Underperforming Technical Team Planning Software Review Technical Review 482

Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Welcome to my PMI Wicked Problem Solving review! In this independent review, I’ll share: Whether the course is really worth it (I think so) Why it’s good for experienced project and change management practitioners Who shouldn’t do the course? I had not heard of Tom before, but he is a tech pioneer, facilitator, and TED speaker.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2024

Read next: My review of Who Gets Promoted, Who Doesn't and Why by Donald Asher. Career-limiting because: No one wants to work with the project manager who emails the operational team a closure document and is never seen again. Not talking about problems Surprises are bad. Project sponsors don't like bad news either.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review Leadership 278

ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Teams can execute work on kanban boards or task lists, while clients can stay informed on progress with the calendar view. Common independent professional services include consulting, legal, accounting, engineering, marketing, training and development services. Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Teams get sick. Change is an opportunity for your team to work together to figure out how to respond to the change request. Change control not only reinforces your team’s ability to work better together, but the positive effects bleed into overall efficiency. Weather gets in the way. Supply chains break.

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Controlling Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 498

Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 15, 2022

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. Non-technical competencies.

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Innovation Leadership 379

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Teams are not evolving beyond the laid out frameworks or methods. In my experience, I have seen the frameworks, methods become practices to be followed only to showcase a client that the team is doing agile. I once worked for a customer, who had outsourced their software development to 3 different vendors.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 12, 2024

Talking about risk puts you in a better position to do something about them especially, as Mark pointed out, “most of our executives are too far remote from the rest of the team.” That way you can head the problems off before they become bigger issues for you and your team to deal with. link] Why is risk management important?

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Risk Management Risk Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 340

Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2020

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns. After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. The Role of the Development Team in Scrum. Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review 252

Scrum.org

AUGUST 19, 2024

The push to deliver more features to users often means we take short cuts, take on tech debt and reduce time spent maintaining the system. Some teams even use their BAU workload as a reason that they can’t go agile? They were essentially “Run” teams building and tweaking stuff. Essentially, product development had stalled.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 11, 2021

I’m not convinced that 2030 is a realistic target, though, given the project management maturity levels and willingness to adopt new tech that I see on a daily basis. You’re already seeing the development of some of their tools including AI within the planning function or bringing in chat bots too. Lloyd seems to feel the same.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Either way, project managers have to prepare for risk, either good or bad—it can interfere with project objectives. More often, you’ll address it during the planning phase when you assign roles and responsibilities to your team members. Technical: Scope, requirements and other technical issues call into this category.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 3, 2020

Does your team struggle to get items to Done? Do they experience a high amount of spill-over into the next cycle because they are waiting on another team or another person? Do items sit in a blocked state and age out while waiting on other teams or people to complete work? Dependencies are an epidemic in software development.

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review 253

NimbleWork

OCTOBER 21, 2024

These top 25 influencers for 2025 aren’t just keeping up with the trends—they’re setting them, reshaping how teams collaborate, innovate, and deliver in today’s fast-paced world. She has led projects at some of Canada’s largest technology companies and is the founder of CNS Project Consulting Inc.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The Scrum Team delivers a valuable, useful, and usable Increment(s) every Sprint. In my view: It could be a "layer of cake team", in that it cannot in and of itself delivery value without dependencies on other "layers" of the cake. Scrum Team members strive for net improvements. Self-managing.

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review SCRUM Software Review 195

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2023

There’s only one thing worse than being told bad news, and that is being told about bad news late. Technical failure: this creates a program integration risk as what you are building might not sit in the organization’s architecture any longer. Using an outside assessment team creates objectivity.

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Project Risk Coach

JANUARY 24, 2022

Poor risk management is costly. Let's look at the cost of poor risk management through the example of Tom Whitley. The Risk Management Mistakes of Tom Whitley The Star Mutual Insurance Company (SMIC) hired Tom Whitley as a project manager to manage information technology projects. The imaging team had started building workflows.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 23, 2021

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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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 3, 2023

Ideas are essential to product development, but they’re intangible. These mockups can help further the design, materialize your product vision and get feedback from the engineering team. It’s through these exercises that design and engineering departments communicate and develop the idea into a working product.

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Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Manufacturing 413

Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 11, 2020

You’ll learn: What delivery approach is the most common How many project managers have considered leaving the profession Why the top career goal for project managers is not what experienced professionals want How many projects a project manager runs How many people in an average project team What keeps project managers up at night And lots more.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 1, 2019

Sometimes leading a team, project or organization goes well. In Review – Crisis Management: How to Lead During a Crisis. Jennifer noted that whether you’re leading a team , project or organization, things are either going well or poorly. These crises impact teams. Technology initiated another crisis.

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Scrum.org

MAY 9, 2022

the developers reply concerned. Technical Debt was introduced into the product. Technical Debt was introduced into the product. Technically, this team could go to production. Yet, due to the limited transparency from the outside, they were setting themselves up for a large amount of rework. I don’t think so.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Agile 230

MPUG

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Even if the company had taken time to put a complete definition of those terms, having these locked in an online book does not necessarily mean team members have or will visit. Feynman Communication If you have been alive for any time, you have experienced the downside of poor communication. There were two reasons for this.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Certification Engineering 105

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 12, 2023

During a company integration program, customer service levels dropped by 25-50% because the team management focused their efforts on reorganizing and changing employees’ roles and responsibilities, all with “the best of intentions”. Consequently, the difference in corporate culture led to numerous issues causing anxiety among team members.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

Let’s review strategies and tools you can use, and learn how they can help you close that gap to promote successful project execution. We’ll hear from experts and review key takeaways that project leaders can immediately put into practice in their programs and projects. Manage Team. Conduct Team-Building Exercises.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 4, 2020

I have listed the top 5 reasons that don’t allow the team to gain such productivity but feel free to suggest more. Scrum doesn’t help complete the product faster rather than how quickly a team can release a product. If you are an old establishment, bad news for you, you have to invest a lot to be like a startup.

Software Review 254

Software Review Technical Review SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team 254

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 17, 2021

Project management is affecting how humans perform or adopt technology. One thing you can do is to ask the project sponsor to make an introduction to you to the team. Second, after you are introduced, it’s important to meet with every single person on the team. Typically, the challenge is infrastructure and tech.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Initiating Artificial Inteligence 373

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 2, 2020

If something bad is going to happen on a project, it’s likely related to time, cost or scope. There are project controls professionals who are responsible to the project manager, but they touch the entire project team. Project Development. Cost estimates are developed into budgets and time estimates become project schedules.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 20, 2017

But before you jump into that project plan and begin to tackle the scope of your project, let’s review the basics. This way you begin to define the boundaries of your project and figure out what responsibilities you will task your team with, and the process by which that work will be verified and approved. What Is Project Scope?

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Defining Infrastructure 529

ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

You’ve made the product or developed a great service, now you need to create a marketing plan. Marketing team: You’ll need to assemble a marketing team to achieve your goals. Every task has a due date and is part of a larger schedule. Marketing Budget: There are resources and costs associated with each marketing activity.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

And, unlike in the physical world, where bad neighborhoods are more clearly demarcated, cyber threats can be like a trojan horse. Bottom line: technology is useful, but it’s also vulnerable. Audits sound bad. IT audits have been going on since the mid-1960s and continuously evolving since that point as the technology advances.

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review Information Technology 278

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 16, 2021

Your thoughts turn to what you should be doing for your professional development in the months ahead… and there’s a lot of choice. I don’t have the time (or the requirement) to take a certification course, but I’m always prepared to develop the project management competencies I need to succeed. Self-awareness. We all have limits.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Influencer PMI 362

Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Engineering projects deal with the design, development, and implementation of processes or technologies; they can be executed in civil, mechanical, software, or electric engineering: e.g., designing buildings, creating new devices, implementing manufacturing automation systems, etc. What is Engineering Project Management?

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Identify and Prioritize Resources: Research your company and list its crucial resources, such as teams, tools, facilities, etc., As new employees, technologies and resources enter the picture, the contingency plan must be updated to handle them. Check for any weak links and strengthen them. What Are the Key Risks?

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Having designated risk roles ensures that significant risks receive attention and allows everyone on the team to focus on completing the project successfully. First, sponsors develop and cast the project’s vision, including goals , risk appetite , and risk thresholds. Information Technology) or in a Project Management Office (PMO).

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