ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Either way, project managers have to prepare for risk, either good or bad—it can interfere with project objectives. More often, you’ll address it during the planning phase when you assign roles and responsibilities to your team members. Risk is usually thought of as a negative impact on the project’s budget, timeline or quality.

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Inloox

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Thus, concept development is an important key skill for project managers and all those who want to become one. Definition of a concept What exactly is a concept? Competencies for concept development In project management, we generally use a very structured approach to work through a plan according to clear specifications.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 24, 2020

Suitable agile metrics reflect either a team’s progress in becoming agile or your organization’s progress in becoming a learning organization. At the team level, qualitative agile metrics often work better than quantitative metrics. A team may have deliberately built some temporary solutions to speed up experimentation.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 13, 2020

Trust matters because it helps build a resilient project team. Trusted team members not only do only what is asked, but what the project needs them to do, because they know that the project manager will trust their decisions and actions. . Wise’s book, Trust in Virtual Teams. A new definition of virtuality.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The Scrum Team delivers a valuable, useful, and usable Increment(s) every Sprint. In my view: It could be a "layer of cake team", in that it cannot in and of itself delivery value without dependencies on other "layers" of the cake. Scrum Team members strive for net improvements. Self-managing.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 9, 2024

I've seen Scrum Teams that don't have DODs and Scrum Teams that have such poor DODs that they are not actionable. During this article, we’ll look at some basics about the DOD. If the DOD for an increment is part of the standards of the organization, all Scrum Teams must follow it as a minimum.

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Scrum.org

MAY 29, 2023

I definitely see many good things happening within our community, and the teams and organizations we work with. In short, I’ll describe how poor facilitation of the Scrum events can cause Zombie Scrum. It might seem that a team has all the important elements of Scrum in place. What’s the dynamic within the team?

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2024

How do you lead a post-mortem on your project to learn how to repeat the good stuff and lose the bad stuff? Each project team can develop its post-implementation review process to make it as detailed as needed, but here are some general post-implementation review steps that can be applied to any project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Ruth Pearce knows everything there is to know about motivating your project team. I caught up with Ruth to find out more about how to motivate teams and why it’s something you should be actively doing. Why do you think motivation on project teams is so important? She’s even written the book on it. So how do we do it?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2024

Your thoughts turn to what you should be doing for your professional development in the months ahead… and there’s a lot of choice. I don’t have the time (or the requirement) to take a certification course, but I’m always prepared to develop the project management competencies I need to succeed. Self-awareness We all have limits.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 29, 2021

Your thoughts turn to what you should be doing for your professional development… and there’s a lot of choice. I don’t have the time (or the requirement) to take a certification course, but I’m always prepared to develop the competencies I need to succeed. How To Develop Your Skills (and those of your team).

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

It’s really important to have a definition of what Red means, that everyone understands, before you have to use it. Maybe your estimates were poor or you forgot to add something into scope that you really should have worked out in advance. For example, bring in a contractor to speed up developing an IT system. It happens.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2023

There’s only one thing worse than being told bad news, and that is being told about bad news late. Problems facing failing programs Ward identified several problems faced by failing programs: Completing an accurate assessment of program problems is difficult for the program management team because they lack objectivity.

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Project Risk Coach

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

PMOs are shifting from being project watchdogs to orchestrating conversations between senior leaders, business unit heads, product owners, and project teams. And it starts with a clear definition of the PMO goals and roles. Consequently, there is a disconnect between what the leaders want and what the PMO delivers. Ask for Feedback!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 11, 2021

AI has turned up in the project management trends articles over the past few years and it’s now most definitely here to stay. You’re already seeing the development of some of their tools including AI within the planning function or bringing in chat bots too. It will expose where an organization’s data is weak or strong,” Lloyd says.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 17, 2024

This then acts as a central repository for stakeholder information, which the project manager and project team use to understand the project stakeholders and their needs, expectations and any risks or opportunities associated with their involvement in the project. Then, they can share the plan with the project team and stakeholders.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

We challenge leaders, we talk about risk and what might go wrong and we call people out on poor performance through project monitoring and control. Conflict should be a healthy part of any team’s development, and it’ a good way to challenge requirements and ensure that your business case and plans stand up to scrutiny.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The Complex Project Toolkit is really a book about paradigms in project management and how to encourage teams (and project managers) to stay curious and to embrace uncertainty. When you take a look at the Agile Manifesto’s core principles you will find there is definite overlap. Maybe an idea for a follow-up book? Conclusion.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Then, we will explore how to develop a practical quality management plan. The Cost of Poor Quality First, we may not meet customer's needs and expectations. Fifth, your team's morale may suffer. This is often a result of poor quality requirements. Project managers and teams focus on meeting the customer's needs.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 13, 2024

People may not see the point when they hear about the Definition of Done in Scrum. They may say, "We are so sick of talking about the Definition of Done," or “Why does this matter?” First and foremost, what is a Definition of Done? The Definition of Done is a document that clarifies these questions.

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Scrum.org

MAY 4, 2020

In the first part of this blog series , I explained how to identify the organizational elements to include in your product definition. In this blog, I explain how you can refine your product definition to organize into effective cross-functional teams. That would mean that each team had the skills to cover the whole heat map.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 16, 2022

We discussed creating a project team culture. Elizabeth: This week in the Project Management Cafe Facebook group we’ve been talking about team culture and various different bits and pieces, and I know this is something that you’re kind of an expert in, because you’ve been chipping in and answering the questions.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

In my last post about Professional software teams creating working software David Corbin made a good point. Since that is different for each Product and may change over time you need to focus on Quality and reflecting that quality in a Definition of Done (DoD). What is a Definition of Done (DoD). Done Increments.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 25, 2019

We challenge leaders, we talk about risk and what might go wrong and we call people out on poor performance through project monitoring and control. Conflict should be a healthy part of any team’s development, and it’s a good way to challenge requirements and ensure that your business case and plans stand up to scrutiny.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

But she was worried that other people were interpreting the estimate as definite fact. Being able to act as a credible, trusted leader is dependent on you and your team making ethical choices about how you manage and lead the work. It’s giving your clients a poor service and doing a disservice to your team as well.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The values put collaboration and business value at the heart of delivery, and you definitely need the people skills to do that, even though there’s less specific reference to them. And what are the weak points? There is a Continuous Professional Development scheme like PDUs, but you don’t have to go for it.

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Scrum.org

JULY 5, 2022

During the first year of the pandemic, Scrum adoption more than doubled for software development teams. According to the 15th Annual State of Agile Report, the use of agile approaches for software development grew from 37% in 2020 to 86% in 2021. It is, in essence, the plan for what the Scrum Team will do next.

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Inloox

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In the last parts of our blog series on innovation management with the Stage-Gate® process, we looked at the basics such as the definition, strengths and weaknesses, and the basic principles. At the end of each stage, all work results are compiled by the project team, jointly analyzed, and prepared for the subsequent review.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 1, 2022

Long has spoonfeeding solutions and off-the-shelf feature descriptions prevailed in many development teams. Although some issues might have been fixed, I rarely see the full potential of a Scrum Team being achieved. Going all-in on predefined features fails to capitalize on hidden ideas in the brains of team members.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 31, 2020

Start learning how your new Scrum Team is currently delivering the product and get up to speed: from Product Backlog forensics to metrics to team challenges and technical debt. Join us for a free live-virtual meetup on Thursday, September 10, 2020: Hands-on Agile #26: Liberating Structures in Microsoft Teams?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 13, 2022

TL; DR: Scrum Developer Anti-Patterns. After covering the anti-patterns of the Scrum Master, the Product Owner, and the stakeholders, this article addresses Scrum Developer anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events and the Product Backlog artifact. The Role of the Developers in Scrum. Developer Anti-Patterns by Scrum Events.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Consequently, these project managers and team members fail to take advantage of these upside risks. The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines risk as "the possibility that something bad or unpleasant (such as injury or a loss) will happen." More modern definitions of risk include the possibilities of upside risks.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 30, 2020

Career-limiting because: No one wants to work with the project manager who emails the operational team a closure document and is never seen again. As I talk about in my course on how to write awesome project status reports , surprises are bad. If you don’t talk about problems then you risk hitting your manager with bad news.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

It’s a set of tools to help you develop the knowledge and skills to solve the tricky issues (and probably even the easy ones). How can you turn the problem into a visualization like a diagram so the team has a shared understanding of the challenge? It’s attractive, and the team has definitely made the course a great user experience.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

This is a similar definition to that of project risk , which I define as uncertainty that can affect outcomes. Re-frame Bad Luck. If all you notice is bad luck, then you will feel unlucky. We do learn quickly how to move from poor to good, by fixing mistakes. It’s easy to dwell on bad luck—even to brood on it.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

In this blog post, I share some tips and tricks that may help you facilitate strong Sprint Planning outcomes, so that your Scrum Team will have a great start into their Sprint. Your team needs to overcome the Groan Zone to avoid weak outcomes that lead to a poor Sprint! What is facilitation? What is Sprint Planning?

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

That applies to processes, organizations, individual team members, whatever or whoever is a risk to the successful completion of the project. A similar concept was developed in Germany in the early 1960s by Wolfgang Mewes. Identify the Constraint: Before you can strengthen the weak link in the chain, you must find it.

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