Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 12, 2020

If you are wondering how to start a standup meeting, try this exercise. This is a good exercise to kick start the week, so opt to do this one on a Monday, or when you are back at work after a long weekend or other break. If you do this exercise I recommend having a different team member to read the postcard.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Then you can do the same exercise with the others. Once you have done this exercise for all the strategic themes, you’ll potentially have a lot of possible projects. An older version of this article first appeared on the 2080 blog in 2017. You’ll have a number of strategic themes from your own corporate strategy.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 16, 2021

This exercise a deeper dive into the problem and its causes, rather than accepting the first answer, and brings you closer to what is actually causing the problem. ” A: The hybrid methodology has gaps… This question and answer exercise leads to the root cause of the missed deadlines problem. ” over and over again.

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Monitoring Sustainability Defining Process 545

Planio

MAY 2, 2018

Goal-setting exercise 1: Effective goal-setting starts at the top and cascades down. Goal-setting exercise 2: Get clear about your culture of goal-setting. Goal setting exercise 3: Use OKRs to choose the right goals for your engineering team. Goal setting exercise 4: Use MMOM metrics to measure your goal progress.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 24, 2019

Try using creativity exercises to get into the mood. There are exercises you can do to gain problem-solving skills and help with your ability to better respond to problems and solve them quickly. Brainstorming is a type of collaboration, which is a great way to think creatively because it adds more voices to the mix.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The Road Warrior blog credits Cal Newport with the idea with his article back in 2013, but of course, this productivity method has surely been used before then. Showering, blow drying hair, exercising, and other daily activities can all be scheduled before the work day begins. Calendar Featuring “Personal Time.”

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

Conduct Team-Building Exercises. Team-building exercises is a way to upstart trust, especially for new teams that don’t have a lot of shared experience. Manage those communications by finding how often they want to be updated and how they prefer to get those updates. Proper execution only occurs when teams work together.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 18, 2020

Instead, start with some team exercises to warm up people’s brains and help them realize that they are in a safe space where it’s OK to make suggestions. A different version of this article first appeared on this blog in 2014. Don’t simply launch into handing out the sticky notes.

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2014 Energy Innovation Risk Management 408

ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

By all means, read about what makes a great leader, but temper that cerebral exercise with something you can really sink your teeth into. It’s a great exercise to learn how to work with limitations, and it involves planning , risk-taking and communications, all the basic skills of leading a project. We’re talking leadership games.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 10, 2019

Whichever project you pursue, this exercise will give you marketing gold dust. Be sure to get plenty of sleep, to eat well, to maintain sensible exercise regime, and to stay plugged in to the emotional support of your network of friends and family. Know Who You Are Building It For. In Closing. Starting business is a brave step.

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Risk Management Controlling Agile Risk 383

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Icebreaker activities are also a great team building exercise for traditional and remote teams. You’ll find at the end of the team-building exercise that everyone is laughing and happily working together. Instead of dismissing meetings whole cloth, you could try some icebreaker games to make them more fun and productive.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 2, 2024

Instead, start with some team exercises to warm up people's brains and help them realize that they are in a safe space where it's OK to make suggestions. To hack your brainstorming sessions: Use warm-up exercises: Start with a quick game like word association to get everyone's brains in gear and create a judgment-free zone.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Make Time for Exercise. Sure, the idea of exercising first thing may bore you to death! Try to make time for 15-20 minutes of exercise each morning. For additional business, project management, and project management software resources and tips, check out the Project Manager blog.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 6, 2019

In addition, if you’re also creating content in different formats, like a podcast or a live streaming video series, you could take these recordings and have them transcribed by a service like Rev.com to turn them into written text for a blog post. Instead of doing these activities, try completing some of your writing exercises instead.

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Software Planning 273

Scrum.org

APRIL 12, 2020

Based on the lessons learned from attending and leading virtual sessions, I am very humbled to create a two-part blog series as an experience report to help my fellow colleagues from the Agile and Scrum community to lead live virtual classes like a professional. Are you looking for some tips/tactics to lead virtual training for your teams? .

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Monitoring SCRUM Agile Software 214

Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2020

This is another blog post in its own right). Increase the level of my exercising - more than two session a week for more than 30 minutes each session. . I can exercise more, potentially burning more calories than I'm taking in. I could do a crash diet & exercise every day. Possible Goals . I can stop drinking beer.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 6, 2020

Team-building exercises help, but even under the best circumstances, there will be challenges. This is especially the case when it comes to virtual project management. Overcoming the Challenges of Virtual Teams. Teamwork is the key to successful teams, virtual or not. The most common is poor communication.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

You can get fit by exercising and eating right, but maintaining that fitness requires ongoing effort and conscious decision-making. Read more blogs from Jeff Bubolz and Chad Beier at: [link] Staying agile requires continuous effort. In an ever-changing world, maintaining agility means continuously adapting and improving.

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Agile Initiating Process 202

Scrum.org

AUGUST 25, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll offer our thoughts and ideas on the question: “What if my (Agile/Scrum) team continuously overrates its skills, capabilities, and performances?” You can create your own Agile or Scrum exercise, or draw inspiration from an exercise like Scrum Mythbusters. So what can you do when this happens?

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Scrum.org

JULY 1, 2020

This means that every exercise is something you can do as a Scrum Master yourself. Even within the smaller workspaces, we only showed one topic at a time, uncovering the exercises and illustrations one-by-one. Do they ‘get’ the exercise? Doing “Card exercises” online, offer new possibilities. Break down interactions.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2018

The great thing about using SMART as a method to define your project goals is that it’s not a tedious exercise. Think big; you can always pull back if necessary. On the contrary, it’s difficult to expand on a conservative idea. It can be fun, and it is always going to leave you with greater insights into your goals.

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Defining Monitoring Software Review Initiating 414

Scrum.org

MARCH 8, 2021

Also, you will normalize information on a candidate’s public profile, e.g. blog or Twitter or other accounts. The trial day is an expensive exercise and should not be wasted. Good exercises for hands-on learnings are: A. Thirty minutes to prepare for the exercise should be sufficient. This is the simple part.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 13, 2023

This was until Christiaan Verwijs and I designed the “ Definition of Done ” exercise as part of the Scrum.org PSM II class. From that moment on, running the exercise showed team members, managers, and stakeholders why they should spend less time thinking and focus more on doing. Step 1 — Clarify the purpose of a Scrum team.

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review SCRUM 172

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In an earlier blog post we described how you can use Shift & Share for…. This blog post will describe how we’ve experimented with a twist in this exercise during a recent Scrum.org PSM II class. In the first part of the exercise the participants generate a list of all must-do and must-not-do activities.

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SCRUM Closing Innovation Construction 158

ProjectManager.com

JULY 7, 2021

This can be a challenging exercise, but it improves the salience of the message. Determine the exact purpose of the message to be sure it’s clear and includes all the necessary information. Try describing the purpose of the message in as few words as possible. Communication Method.

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Planning Energy Executing Leadership 459

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This blog post describes a detailed do-it-yourself workshop built on the factors from the survey. The product kit contains the following materials: The exercise “Panarchy” to diagnose Scrum in your organization. The exercise “What I Need From You”. The exercise includes a 50-sheet block of tearable ‘help request cards’.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 24, 2022

In this blog post you will find some tips and tricks that will boost facilitation of your Daily Scrum. Having a visual version of your Sprint Backlog could help a lot in this exercise. Sprint health check exercise. I hear you! Perhaps some of the tools and techniques will help you when facilitating other events too. askonka. .

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Scrum.org

MARCH 7, 2022

In this blog, I’d like to share my perspective on how a Scrum Master fulfils the stance as a teacher, but more specifically, the differences between teaching and Professional Teaching. . Evaluation – The Professional Teacher exercises a learning feedback loop. Performing action research that is reviewed by community peers.

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Five exercises to get you started with mentalization. There are many tools and exercises that enable the development of mentalization. Below, I will walk you through five exercises you can use in your own workplace. Exercise 1: Coaching or supervision. Exercise 2: Collegial sparring. Exercise 3: Check-ins.

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Scrum.org

MAY 4, 2023

The Scrum.org PSM II class contains multiple exercises that make visible where improvement is needed in order to use Scrum more effectively. In particular the exercise “Management in Scrum”. Step 4 — Introduce the concept of “impediments” In a sense, the picture emerging from the exercise becomes your roadmap or transition plan.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Begin by looking at it as you would a team-building exercise. But don’t use this exercise as a forum to vent or settle scores. Everyone can learn from one another and are sensitive to capturing issues before they turn into problems. How to Do a Premortem on a Project. For one, don’t generalize.

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Software Review Risk Management Risk Monitoring 280

Scrum.org

MAY 30, 2022

All of the workshops we’ve included in this blog post include a step-by-step approach to use them and help you move in the right direction. In this blog post, we offer you a short description of these workshops. Design The Box’ is a fun, creative exercise to help Scrum teams step into the shoes of their users.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 29, 2019

This beneficial exercise reveals that the brain often overthinks without any reason other than that it was designed to run through these mental hoops. This new information will provide your overthinking brain with a salient message, and you’ll find yourself open to reevaluating the problem in realistic terms.

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Controlling Governance Government Engineering 409

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Icebreaker activities are also a great team building exercise for traditional and remote teams. You’ll find at the end of the team-building exercise that everyone is laughing and happily working together. Instead of dismissing meetings whole cloth, you could try some icebreaker games to make them more fun and productive.

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Software Process Planning Leadership 349

Scrum.org

JUNE 17, 2020

The purpose of this blog post is to share the outcome of the meetup. For example, with the “ Management in Scrum ” exercise. The transparency this exercise creates around the state of Scrum, automatically shows how much work there’s left to do for a Scrum Master. Make impediments transparent. Closing Words.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 26, 2021

In this blog post, I’ll describe the difference between Scrum teaching & preaching, why it matters, and what you can do to improve the situation. So instead of explaining the Scrum roles, artifacts, and events, use an exercise that helps the team figure this out themselves. Our webshop is packed with exercises that help you do so.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 8, 2022

Eventhough I really love the concept of servant leadership as I have shared on my blog post that I wrote five years ago but I personally think that leadership is leadership. Other misinterpretation is turning the Scrum Master as a junior Agile Coach who have a narrow knowledge about agile.

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