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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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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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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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The Power of Sleeping on It: Why Taking Time Leads to Better Decision-Making

The IIL Blog

A study published in Nature Neuroscience found that sleep enhances cognitive performance and helps individuals extract general rules from complex information, making it easier to solve problems effectively (Walker & Stickgold, 2010). I often mentored my team members to do the same.

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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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Project Management Tools (AI and otherwise) to Transition from Project Management to Project Leadership!

The IIL Blog

The bad news is that this complicates the decision on which to choose. Clear Deadlines and Roles Each team member’s deadlines are listed clearly next to their tasks and they can see how those deadlines impact others’ deadlines [3]. It also makes it easier for the team to understand their tasks [4].

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The Must-Read Reading List for Project Communication and Collaboration

Rebel’s Guide to PM

. Project teams communicate and collaborate by default, don’t they? That certainly hasn’t been the case for all the teams I have worked on. Don’t assume your project team will know how (or even want to) communicate well and collaborate with each other. This book reminds us that conflict on teams is inevitable.

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