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The Maturing Project Sponsorship

The IIL Blog

While many companies have achieved and maintained high levels of project management success, other companies have limited the continuous investment needed in project management practices to make the success sustainable (Chandler & Thomas, 2015; Thomas & Mullaly, 2008). The customer could be internal or external to the organization.

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Product-centric teams have skin in the game!

Kiron Bondale

The premise of this book is that without skin in the game, asymmetries emerge which encourage unfairness, poor decision making and can contribute to a lack of understanding of realities. This principle can also be applied to some project teams. This can encourage salespeople to over-promise with inevitable expectation shortfalls.

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Trello vs. Asana: Side-by-Side Comparison

ProjectManager.com

Yes, Trello has project management features and Asana has a timeline and other tools to help manage tasks and teams. ProjectManager is award-winning software that’s the winner in a contest between Trello vs. It allows teams to manage different types of projects, workflows and task tracking. Here are some use cases.

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Beware of the Unintended Consequences of Incentive Plans.

Scrum.org

More examples of poorly aligned incentives that contributed to the boom then bust financial crisis of 2008-2009: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac using their implicit government backing to take on significant mortgage risk with little capital backing. Suppose our teams don't have autonomy and are not aligned with our vision or strategic goal.

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In-Depth: Stable Or Fluid Teams? What Does The Science Say?

Scrum.org

Recently, the concept of “fluid teams”, “dynamic reteaming” or “ad-hoc teaming” has gained traction in the Agile community. Although the concept has many different definitions, a characteristic they share is that members move in and out of a team during its lifetime. The need for fluid teams.

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4 Awesome Teamwork Examples for Agile Teams

nTask

Professionals do not come with a manual so how should Agile teams work in collaboration? What may seem like a completely different ballgame, if studied closely, just may be able to teach Agile teams a thing or two. Example #1: Dee Dee Trotter – 2008 Summer Olympics. This works wonders for the overall team achievement.

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6 Barriers to customer centricity

Rebel’s Guide to PM

They are: Time Transparency Team Title Type of organization Technique. The process of gathering customer satisfaction scores that relate to how well the project manager and team are delivering comments on the level of project management maturity in the organization. Let’s look at each of those in turn. Transparency. and Mullaly, M.