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We are Not Alone: The Intersection of Project Management and Content Strategy

The IIL Blog

Align with the Business Need A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge ( PMBOK ), the bible for project managers, states that “projects are initiated due to internal business needs or external influences”. Based on the needs analysis, project leadership typically develops a business case and charters a project.

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Agile Management Anti-Patterns — An Introduction for Aspiring Servant Leaders

Scrum.org

Using the budgeting process as a Stage-Gate® to exercise control through the back door : The budgeting process is hard to align with agile requirements like the longevity of teams. Instead, the management ought to provide the teams with goals and guidance on how to achieve these, along with funding sufficient to meet the objectives.

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21 Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

No matter the frequency of your retrospectives you should always watch out for the following Sprint Retrospective anti-patterns from the Scrum Team, the Development Team, the Scrum Master, as well as the organization: Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns of the Scrum Team. Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns.

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32 Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

Any of the examples will impede the team’s productivity and might endanger the Sprint goal. The Scrum Master must prevent them from manifesting themselves: The Scrum Master has a laissez-faire policy as far as access to the Development team is concerned. Remember: Product Backlog item creation is a Scrum Team exercise.).

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From Servant Leadership to Shared Leadership

Leading Answers

Yet, in reality, some of the best leaders are quiet, introverted people who care deeply for their teams and stakeholders and quietly grind away toward a common goal. It can be learned and exercised on a small scale before being brought to bear on larger groups. This is another instance where having diversity on the team is helpful.

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Why Great (Scrum) Teams Have A Mind Of Their Own

Scrum.org

At the end of this post you will have learned: How team cognition is essentially the “mind of a team”, with its own memory and perception of the world. What team cognition is and how substantial its influence is on the effectiveness of teams according to large-scale research efforts.

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Scrum Anti-Patterns GPT

Scrum.org

Reassigning Team Members : Frequently moving team members between Scrum Teams disrupts the building of trust and undermines the stability and effectiveness of teams​​. In the absence of this feedback, teams may engage in gold-plating under the assumption that they are adding value.

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