Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Here’s my Must-Read Reading List for some great pointers on the skills, process and experience of engaging people and working together, whether your job is to lead or to follow. Communicating Projects is a process driven book that fully explains the processes of communicating formally on projects. Anthony Mersino: Amacom, 2013.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 26, 2020

Small changes can produce big results—but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious (Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline, 2006). Over time, the capabilities for the fundamental solution may atrophy or become disabled, leading to an even greater reliance on the symptomatic solution (Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline, 2006).

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 19, 2021

2006, Jørgensen and Grimstad). Trust the Team and the Process. When more is unknown than known, use relative sizing. . Unfortunately, humans are phenomenally bad at estimating and even worse when working in a complex domain like software development. Luckily, people are good at comparing things. Agile Planning.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 1, 2022

Wang et al (2006) studied software teams tasked with ERP implementations and found that cohesive teams performed significantly better than less-cohesive teams. This recognition of the socio-dynamic processes in groups of people is also what attracts me to Scrum. Group processes: Dynamics within and between groups. R., & Dion, K.

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Online PM Courses

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

‘Agile’ means a lot of different things to different people: To some people, it means just developing software faster To some people, it means creating a more people-oriented project environment And to others, it means making the project management process a lot more efficient. Imagine trying to create the iPhone 14 back in 2006.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 24, 2022

We are still so embedded in the leftovers of the mechanical perspective that originated during the Industrial Revolution, that it takes time to adjust our eyes and see beyond structure (Morgan, 2006). Its earliest members, like Herzberg, started to investigate how the psychological processes of workers influenced their motivation.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 28, 2020

The mechanical perspective draws attention to the structure and processes of organizations. Morgan (2006) explores the roots of this mechanical perspective?—?or Morgan (2006) draws attention to its deeply reductionist nature. There is much to say about the differences between these perspectives (see also Morgan, 2006).

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

More recent analyses have shown that this bias isn’t as fundamental as previously thought (Malle, 2006). Survival bias happens when failures are ignored when you are evaluating if a process or decision is the right one (Schermer, 2014). But the fact that some candidates “survived” the process isn’t enough to conclude that it works.

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Leading Answers

JANUARY 16, 2021

I wrote about these ideas when I started blogging in 2006 as  Risk Profile Graphs. Later in 2006, I wrote about  risk adjusted backlogs  and  Agile Risk Management , explaining how to insert threat avoidance and threat reduction activities in the backlog. When threats occur, they create negative value impacts.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

A growth mindset is a term coined by Carol Dweck in 2006 in her book mindset Mindset: The new Psychology of success to describe the underlying beliefs people have about learning and intelligence. I won't describe the backs and forths about the visa process, but this delayed my PST process. . The peer review. .

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

While I started working with Scrum and XP back in 2006, I considered a Scrum certification for the first time only in 2015. I researched the Byzantine process that the Scrum Alliance trainer community designed to identify trainers candidates and decided it was time to move on and join Scrum.org instead.

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Inloox

AUGUST 26, 2020

The Project Management Institute (PMI) has been conducting surveys, questioning international organizations and project managers on a regular basis since 2006. Organizations therefore rely on projects during the change process. Companies that cling to the status quo run the risk of being left behind.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Meanwhile, some ideas have gained buzzword status in the process, causing the occasional collateral damage along the way. This core agile product creation process is agnostic to the product delivery framework, be it Scrum, XP, or any other framework. Think of “MVP.”). Download for free : The Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide.).

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The IIL Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

How this impacts your team and you: Intense burnout reduces cognitive load, affecting how many things a person can process, think about, and remember. This recent data shows a 7.7% increase in Level 5 cases and a notable 5% rise in individuals previously unaffected by burnout, now experiencing Level 1 burnout.

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Leading Answers

AUGUST 25, 2020

"The Same Poor Results, But with Much Less Effort" Around 2006 at the agile conferences, I recall a presentation by Motorola on the effectiveness of using planning poker estimation compared to its previous, high-rigor approach. As an experiment, three teams substituted planning poker for their in-house estimation process.

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nTask

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Introduced in 2006, with a major redesign in 2010, the platform serves as a single systematic and flexible solution for all the task management needs of a team. With a simple user interface and smartly developed features, nTask facilitates seamless storing, processing, and monitoring of project performance – all under one roof.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 14, 2023

Either way, it is questionable that an agile process without underlying agile practices applied can be agile at all. Young (2006) Agility literature review: Classifications, training and testing, Journal of Sports Sciences, 24:9, 919-932, DOI: 10.1080/02640410500457109 Feature Image by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash Sheppard & W.

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Planio

JULY 22, 2020

Project management is as much about people as it is about processes. To make a complex practice like project management simpler, the most recent version of the PMBOK breaks the core project management processes down into five sections: Initiating : Defining a new project or a new phase of an existing project. Author: Brett Harned.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

It has been and is being used for manufacturing, engineering, construction, testing, and many other project processes that require iterations or iterative working sessions leading to a final result. As we know, Agile, like any methodology, helps to create processes, procedures, and ultimately results.

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LiquidPlanner

JUNE 1, 2016

In 2006 I left a great gig at Expedia to start LiquidPlanner with a fellow Expedia colleague, Charles Seybold. Sure, we did our best muddling through the process with complex spreadsheets that were out-of-date as soon as they were built. Humble Beginnings.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2024

2006, 17 juillet). Prédictif Adaptatif Cascade Hybride Dans l’exemple de question, le terme le plus important pour la compréhension est “approche de développement” Selon le PMI, “c. Waterfall” serait la bonne réponse car “waterfall” n’est pas une approche de développement. 2021, janvier).

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The IIL Blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

Articles are now appearing addressing burnout specifically in a project management environment [Verma (1996), Haynes and Love (2004), Richmond and Skitmore (2006), Pinto et al., 2014), and Jugdev et al., PMs must recognize the signs of stress and burnout as early as possible in the project’s life cycle. Dawood, Shariffah; Pinto , Mary Beth.,

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management: When Performance is Measured Performance Improves , Daniel Galaorath and Michael Evans , Auerbach, 2006. Agile Estimating and Planning , Mike Cohn, Prentice Hall, 2006. Estimating Software-Intensive Systems: Projects, Products, and Processes , Richard Stutzke, Addison-Wesley, 2005.

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International Institute for Learning

MAY 15, 2020

Use “verbal anchors” to ensure clarity and understanding – comparisons, analyses, processes and steps, examples, repeating information for emphasis. . In 2006 he received the prestigious Person of the Year Award from PMI for his contributions to the practice of project management. Use color to enhance the visual effect. .

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The IIL Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

ChatGPT “As an AI, I don’t have the ability to receive or process personal messages or communications outside of our current conversation. Teaching AI how to accept acknowledgment would indeed be an interesting challenge, especially considering the nuances involved in understanding and processing human emotions and interactions.

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Inloox

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Research and development, innovation management and new product introduction On the way to becoming an innovative company and what role project management can play in this process What is remarkable about innovations is their multiple ambivalence. But only six percent of CEOs are satisfied with their innovation process. [[2]]

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Tony Adams

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Organisational change is not a linear process or one-off event; it is continuous, open ended, messy, unpredictable and cumulative. Emergent change processes are a useful way to think about project delivery in a fluid change environment, particularly where we cannot anticipate and assess all change variables in advance.

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Planio

JULY 9, 2020

Since Jean-Philippe Lang released the first version of Redmine in 2006, an active community has sprung up to optimize and expand the original code. Redmine was launched in 2006 and is still being regularly updated. For some people, the process we just outlined for setting up Redmine might sound like a walk in the park.

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The IIL Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

How this impacts your team and you: Intense burnout reduces cognitive load, affecting how many things a person can process, think about, and remember. Umlas, International Institute for Learning, copyright 2006. This recent data shows a 7.7% Part 7 In burnout, communication is disrupted and not always at its best.

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Online PM Courses

DECEMBER 11, 2017

There is so much I’ve highlighted in my 2006 hardback edition, that I don’t know where to start. Both Sarah and Calvin, in different ways, highlight the importance of following a process. Calvin, the second oldest, says: My whole life changed when I finally understood there was a process for doing this job.’

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Resource Guru

JANUARY 27, 2023

This can also result in new and improved products or processes. Now, collaboration in itself is a process, but collaborating with people and doing it well is something that requires skills shaped by experience. The launch of Google Docs back in 2006 sure brought collaboration to a new (much-needed) level.

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Knowledgeline

APRIL 19, 2006

Knowledgeline Wednesday, April 19, 2006 Getting lawyers hooked on EDD processing, the paper v. Knowledgeline Wednesday, April 19, 2006 Getting lawyers hooked on EDD processing, the paper v. This is especially true when you talk about the cost to processing e-discovery, with prices as high as $2,000 per GB.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The program management processes should seek to reduce uncertainty in the variable of the project. If there is no process in place to reduce these variables, the probability of project success is reduced. Schedule Estimation and Uncertainty Surrounding the Cone of Uncertainty," Todd Little, IEEE Software , May/June 2006.

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Meisterplan

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

When people hear the term project portfolio management (PPM), many think that it is a process to manage IT projects and investments. Reducing the number of “bad” projects that are approved, and knowing when to cancel “bad” projects that are already in process. PPM processes can be very complicated, but they don’t have to be.

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Herding Cats

MAY 27, 2018

Project Risk Management Processes: Improving Coordination using a Clustering Approach,” Research in Engineering Design, Springer, 2011, pp. 212279, February 2006. This is an immutable principle of probabilistic decision making, microeconomics, and managerial finance. and Vidal, L-A., McManus, H. and Hastings, D., McManus, H.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. episteme), meaning knowledge of uncertainty due to a lack of knowledge of quantities or processes of the system or the environment.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Managment Processes. Making the Impossible Possible: Applying Heliotropic Abundance for creating Program and Project Management Processes. Event-Based Scheduling , 10 November 2006. Product & Process Development Kaizen , LPPDE, Denver, Colorado, April 21-23, 2008. Basis of Estimate Process. Flawless Execution.

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