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Questions to ask a project management mentor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

At regular meetings You’ll find a regular cadence and probably settle into a regular agenda or routine with the check in sessions. Who are the key influencers for Y? The first meeting is likely to be all about getting to know each other, creating rapport and setting the intention going forward.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. For example, on one project, I had the CFO steering group, and attendees were all SLT (senior leadership team members). Who will get you access to the resources you require?

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Showing up: Why your Scrum Master mindset is everything

Scrum.org

Ultimately, as Scrum Masters, we have the best shot at influencing others and achieving our goals when we show up: Connected to our purpose. Leadership often focuses on the wrong measures and isn’t aligned around customer outcome-based goals. That doesn’t sound like the path to influential leadership, does it? Open and curious.

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The Virtuous Cycle of Trust and Influence

Leading Agile

In today’s blog, a continuation of the first in this two-part series, we’ll talk about building trust and influence, and initiating the trust-influence loop. Delivering on a regular, predictable cadence. We have found that becoming trustworthy causes another thing to occur – influence. Making and meeting commitments.

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Improve Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) With Key Result Validation

Scrum.org

When used as designed, OKRs can have a massive positive influence on organizations. Once about four or five key results are determined for each objective, it is the job of an OKR Champion (servant leader) to coach and guide the team in executing on a cadence towards the objectives. Shortcomings of Key Results.

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7 tips for setting more effective goals

Scrum.org

6: Establish a cadence to inspect and adapt different goals . Even if it’s difficult to get the entire organization to change how it uses goals, you can have influence by improving goal-setting conversations. They refuse to send requests through unless the customer knows and itemizes all of their requirements. . #6: Practice helps!

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SAFe Simply Explained (Part 1): Core Competencies and Principles

Inloox

Lean Agile Leadership: Managers are the very core of lean agile development and business agility. It is up to the management to create the right environment to positively influence teams and individuals. These capabilities support each other and create opportunities for sustained leadership in the marketplace and services.