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9 Project Communications You Should Send This Year

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The current status is Use regular project status reports to create a cadence, manage expectations and standardize how information is communicated. (OK, not that many.) You can cut through a lot of conflict and office politics with a well-placed, sincere apology.

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What you need to know about project communication management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here are the top communication skills for project managers: Active listening: really hearing what people are saying in the room Consistency: follow through when you say you will and create a cadence for the team Clarity: use short sentences and jargon -free language in your communications Accessibility: make sure comms are delivered in a format that (..)

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Everything You Need to Know About Release Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We had a fortnightly release (and therefore a giant scrabble to try to get your changes in before the cut-off and presented to the CAB in time), but your company might have monthly releases or use a different cadence. Key roles and responsibilities of the job. The role involves planning the release scope (the contents of what’s going in).

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How to Become a Better Project Communicator

Project Risk Coach

Notice the cadence, pauses, and the repetitions in the speech. Take note of his quotes such as, “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” And who hasn’t heard Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech? Lastly, YouTube provides a library of great speakers and speeches.

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Don't Overload the Sprint

Scrum.org

Whether the team estimates work using story points or simply tracks the number of Product Backlog items delivered per Sprint, they establish a natural cadence for what they can reliably complete. It may be tempting to push the team to deliver more by overloading the Sprint with extra work. But dont do it!

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The Importance of Connecting Agile to Business Value

Leading Agile

Transformation is an investment, and the results of that investment need to be communicated on a regular cadence. Demonstrating success quickly builds trust with executives who will become more willing to continue to invest gradually expanding the scope of the transformation.

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The Kanban Practice That Equips Teams For Self-Management

Scrum.org

This could include the provision of meetings with the right attendees at a regular cadence such as team retrospectives, service delivery reviews and operations reviews. As such, an important policy is for a team and the wider organisation to have policies for reviewing their policies at all levels of the organisation.