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Meeting Management Techniques for Project Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The chair found it hard to give different people the floor as several people were due to give short presentations but he couldn’t make the laptop show their slides. People join conference calls from cars. 3: Check Your Tech. And nothing annoys me more than joining a virtual meeting and finding that the tech doesn’t work.

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7 Tips for a Smooth Virtual Meeting

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Whether they are used to connect teams from different countries, or to bring employees who work from home together for a conference call, virtual meetings can be crucial to a company’s success. A virtual meeting is a gathering of distributed people, which uses technology to connect participants instead of a physical meeting place.

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A History of PMI & Its Role in Project Management

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Given its vast influence, it’s important to have a basic understanding of PMI and its history. It researches, educates, develops industry standards, publishes a journal, hosts conferences and offers a globally recognized certification. The Project Management Institute also sets the standard for ethics in the field.

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20 Practical tips to get (and stay) organized at work

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Block out half a day a month Book a meeting with yourself for half a day a month and call it ‘process review’. Set up calendar reminders Forward-schedule anything you need to be aware of this year such as project management conferences or team members’ birthdays. Sort out your tech Don’t put up with a phone that doesn’t work.

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How To Make 2019 A Successful Year for Your Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Whatever your level of commitment to this vital task, please review how you can do even better. This may be by adopting a new tool or approach, learning some new skills in listening, influence, or negotiation, or maybe simply allocating more time to it. Next year will be a year of rapid changes: in markets, in tech, and in companies.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

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This includes training, technical support, and preparation for new releases. It is no surprise that the researchers conclude that “Product Owners perform a wide range of challenging activities which require experience and high-status in order to be able to exert influence”. Gatekeeper : Approving completed items for a release.

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Test First approach sounds simply enough, right?

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This can be the first confusion in its understanding and actual meaning today, for either technical or non-technical folk. Then we have all these practices you hear about residing under this Test First banner - TDD, BDD, and ATDD. Test Driven Development (TDD). But let us leave that for another day. Add a test.