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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). Standish Group, 2015). This bias is also known as the ‘correspondence bias’.

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2019 Project Management Conferences You Won’t Want to Miss

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Elizabeth Harrin speaking at EVA 2015. ” The conference will look at how the profession is delivering value in a transforming world and transitioning from a position of facilitation to influence. It always has a unique feel to it and the team make it very entertaining. There is even a candlelit dinner.

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How good is project sponsorship in your company?

Ron Rosenhead

Read the PMI Pulse of the Profession Report 2015. If its zero (as suggested to me recently by a senior manager) then do read PMI’s 2015 Pulse of the Profession – Capturing the Value of Project Management. I have given a series of presentations in 2015 and some of the suggestions are include below. Who should do what and when?

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From Laying the Foundation to Completion: The Basics and Challenges of Project Management in Construction

Inloox

The success of a construction project is sometimes recognizable even to amateurs and influences the lives of everybody. A study from Oxford in 2015 fundamentally addressed the question of why major projects fail. Yet these are not isolated cases.

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

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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. Change, resistance, and social influence. than on individual traits.

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On Technical Debt And Code Smells: Surprising insights from scientific studies

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So I was pleasantly surprised when Carsten Grønbejrg Lützen pointed at a peer-reviewed academic paper by Michele Tufano and his colleagues (2015), called “When and Why Your Code Starts To Smell Bad”. 2015) studied over 10.000 refactor-focused commits on three open-source systems and found that they rarely removed code smells.

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Susanne Madsen on Project Leadership [Interview]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Unfortunately it is still the case that many project managers lack basic people-skills and aren’t able to easily build trust and influence people. This interview first appeared on this site in 2015. So I would say that project leadership isn’t the de facto position yet, but that I hope it soon will be.