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Why is it a project manager’s job to fix companies?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Projects are the future, a good portfolio office can influence and shape strategy and project management is the only way to holistically deliver improvements. At the roundtable discussion about project management in the collaborative age way back in 2012, the talk turned to how project managers could shape strategy. All good stuff.

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Product Development with the Stage-Gate® Process (Part 2): Strengths, Weaknesses, Pitfalls

Inloox

This means that all areas of the company must be represented to be able to make a meaningful decision without the dominant influence of a single area. 2012): Best Practices im Idea-to-Launch-Prozess und dessen Steuerung. Interdisciplinarity: It is important that the team of gatekeepers has an interdisciplinary structure. Edgett, S.

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How to get the best from your sponsor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project managers must take an active role in influencing and educating project sponsors in these best practices to get the leadership support the project requires. Our book is a step in reducing these factors by providing the best practices for sponsors and arming the project manager with strategies to influence.

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The project customer role

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is an edited extract from my book Customer-Centric Project Management , co-authored with Phil Peplow (Routledge, 2012). They are ultimately the person who gets to use the final deliverable, so they have major influence. As any project manager will know, projects do not exist in a vacuum.

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In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change

Scrum.org

Recognize how much of your thinking is still subtly influenced by a mechanical perspective in organizations . like network patterning, mood, safety, social contact and social influence?—?than social influence is that much stronger. than on individual traits. Groupthink and what we’ve seen at UBER ), others will soon follow.

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We are Not Alone: The Intersection of Project Management and Content Strategy

The IIL Blog

Align with the Business Need A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge ( PMBOK ), the bible for project managers, states that “projects are initiated due to internal business needs or external influences”. Determining whether the business needs a fixed-scope project, or a continuous improvement program is an important first step.

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Grateful Leadership™, Increasing Organizational Effectiveness in an Evolving Globally Connected World

The IIL Blog

Conducted with attention to detail and employing qualitative research methods, this study provides preliminary insights into how leaders influence organizational success through the adoption of grateful leadership practices.