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Dependency Management – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Scrum.org

Does your team struggle to get items to Done? Do they experience a high amount of spill-over into the next cycle because they are waiting on another team or another person? Do items sit in a blocked state and age out while waiting on other teams or people to complete work? Dependencies are an epidemic in software development.

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11 Project management skills employers expect you to have

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Your thoughts turn to what you should be doing for your professional development in the months ahead… and there’s a lot of choice. I don’t have the time (or the requirement) to take a certification course, but I’m always prepared to develop the project management competencies I need to succeed. Self-awareness We all have limits.

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3 Ways to Practice Your Leadership Skills

Rebel’s Guide to PM

These are the situations that separate out the good project managers from the poor, and the true project leaders from the ‘merely competent’ project managers. Or will you involve team members and, if so, to what extent? My book, Brilliant Project Leader , identifies the four essentials of team leadership.

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How to provide constructive criticism

Rebel’s Guide to PM

As a manager, there is sure to come a time when you have to address poor performance or substandard work. When you are a project manager, it is your responsibility to make sure that you help your team to learn from those mistakes and to find ways to improve the quality of their work. A version of this article first appeared in 2013.

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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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Risk-aware Product Development (a.k.a. Scrum)

Scrum.org

Over the years I've heard my share of these kinds of statements from various levels of executives: "When my guys run a product development release I really want to know what I will get at the end so I can make business plans accordingly". "In Types of Uncertainty in Product Development. Let's make it clear up front.

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

The IIL Blog

By Debra Khan Practitioners of content strategy do not have to go it alone when developing a strategy for a content project. While our tools and techniques might have evolved since 2013, content strategists can find value in looking closely at the basic principles of project management.