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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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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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The 6 Principles of Stakeholder Engagement [Infographic]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Stakeholder participation includes the promise that their contributions will influence decisions… and they are told how. 6 Barriers to customer centricity This is an edited extract from Customer-Centric Project Management by Elizabeth Harrin and Phil Peplow (Gower, 2012). Click To Tweet. It isn’t enough to talk to people.

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In-Depth: How Easily Biases Distort What We Believe (In The Workplace)

Scrum.org

Initially coined by cognitive psychologist Lee Ross (1977), it happens when people underestimate the influence of the situation on the behavior of others while overestimating the influence of their personal traits and beliefs (Berry, 2015). This bias is also known as the ‘correspondence bias’. Examples in the workplace. Anchoring bias.

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7 Secrets for Conveying Confidence as a Project Manager

ProjectManager.com

Influence and persuasion start with confidence. But I do like the reframe that Amy Cuddy offers in her 2012 TED talk , which has garnered of 52 million views, as I write this. If the people around you don’t detect that you are confident in yourself and what you are saying, then neither will they be. I don’t like this.

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