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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

ProjectManager.com

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. The bad news, it’s hard to master. Scrum is part of agile software development and teams practicing agile.

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Team Management: The Key of to Success

International Institute for Learning

According to a common and general definition, Team Management can be seen as the ability of an individual (manager) or of an organization to lead a group of people to accomplishing a task or common goal. Good management of a team means to do the best by and for the employees. By Luigi Morsa.

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Why Your Teamwork Sucks… and How To Improve It

Wrike

Anyone who’s ever watched children playing team-based games will understand. They are too distracted about their status as leaders to work harder as team players! Research consistently shows that teams underperform, despite all the extra resources they have. Teamwork is just that — it’s WORK.

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Project Management Worker Engagement

The IIL Blog

In the past, engaging team members effectively in project assignments was not given the attention it is receiving today. Projects were often short term and team members were seen as a project expense and to be removed as quickly as possible after the work was completed. How much authority will the worker have?

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Top Solutions to Project Failure – Epicflow Research Part 2

Epicflow Blog

We all dream of reaching maximum success with our teams and projects, even though project failure is common. Business drivers have to be translated into project drivers by a strong technical team, not management. Looking ahead while planning the project can help you develop a viable risk management strategy and eliminate constraints.

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System Vs. Psyche with Dennis Stevens and Alistair Cockburn Part 2

Leading Agile

– Like the manifesto, the best software architectures come from a self-organizing teams. ‘Cause I was, in 2002 and three, I was giving lectures on how to be a project manager, an effective project manager in a rabidly Agile context, right? – Right. I don’t believe that for a heartbeat, right? As you know.

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Changing Hierarchy into Network?

Wrike

Experts believe, it prevents companies from fast development and rapid response to market changes due to bureaucracy. Another reason – horizontal communication can be poor, which leads to misunderstanding between different departments within a company and causes deterioration of the common work results. What happens next?