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7 Hidden dangers of project management (Or why even well-planned projects sometimes fail)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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”. For example, in June 2010 Chrysler merged with Fiat. So why do some projects crash to their doom?

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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. I made sure I gave them my honest truth, and I told them my very best could damage the team today.”.

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Zombie Projects and How to Kill Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

That doesn’t make you a project manager, it makes you an operational team leader – although you could find that there is a useful long-term product management role for you if you prefer this way of working. Zombie PM is a term I came up with in 2010 when I put together a project management alphabet. have poor management.

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How Wrike’s Engineers Developed a Unique Quality Control System

Wrike

I joined the team as a QAA engineer in 2010, the first employee in this role. Over the past 12 or so years, we have built a super team of brilliant QAA engineers. The team made a complete audit of everything that could be checked and improved by at least 1%. But he was wrong — Team Sky won in just three.

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How We Made Our Customer The Product Owner

Scrum.org

From 2010–2015 I worked as a Scrum Master for a web agency. We developed software solutions for external clients. When I started with Scrum, I changed my role from Project Manager to Scrum Master, the developers slowly moved from ‘programmers to product developers’, yet the Product Owner role remained challenging to fulfill.

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A Robust Yet Intuitive Project Management Tool

ActiveCollab

As Project Manager for DO IT TENNIS [[link] new Content Development Team, I needed a streamlined task management solution that would help more than hinder. After reviewing several options and having sat through more than a few failed projects due to a poorly managed PM tool, I knew my team had to have something streamlined.

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Lessons in agility from wine tasting…

Kiron Bondale

After enjoying a glass of their 2010 Reserve Meritage I came to the conclusion that wine tasting and agile have more in common than you might think. Similarly a coach can help steer a team past anti-patterns so that they have a chance to appreciate what agility truly is. It helps to have a guide. Start small and grow from there.

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