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The Bad Apple Effect: How Negativity Can Sabotage Teams’ Performance

Scrum.org

The Bad Apple Effect can deeply sabotage a teams performance and development. Even with talented, capable players, their respective teams often underperformed and struggled to progress in their development. Still, these negative attitudes were affecting the whole team's morale and teamwork.

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PMOs Shifting from Watchdogs to Strategic Enablers

Project Risk Coach

The CEO may not engage the PMO manager in the strategic planning process. PMOs are shifting from being project watchdogs to orchestrating conversations between senior leaders, business unit heads, product owners, and project teams. Consequently, there is a disconnect between what the leaders want and what the PMO delivers.

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7 Hidden dangers of project management (Or why even well-planned projects sometimes fail)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

During a company integration program, customer service levels dropped by 25-50% because the team management focused their efforts on reorganizing and changing employees’ roles and responsibilities, all with “the best of intentions”. Consequently, the difference in corporate culture led to numerous issues causing anxiety among team members.

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Uncovering the Benefits of Clear Risk Statements

Project Risk Coach

Clarity can help project teams gain better insight into potential threats and opportunities. Greater clarity makes communication easier between stakeholders as everyone better understands the associated risks and potential benefits involved in decision-making processes. Create Better Risk Responses Risk statements drive our responses.

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What does it take to launch agile software? Q&A with Jordan Husney, CEO and Founder of Parabol

Rebel’s Guide to PM

For much of the early 2000’s, large companies would shudder at the thought of operating a team in an agile way. The value derived from holding a retrospective is proportional to the talent of the facilitator, and the intimacy of the team. If the facilitation is poor: it’s going to be a bad meeting.

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How to Identify Different Work Styles for Better Productivity

ProjectManager.com

As work evolves to include hybrid teams that are located in different places with a wide range of skill sets, successful businesses need to connect everyone to keep them productive. Perhaps the best solution would be to develop hybrid work processes that allow for a variety of work styles. Every team needs a leader.

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How Organisations Can Set up New Project Leaders for Success

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The latter requires that leaders be globally fluent and defend against biases, strive to build more cohesive teams, be proactive, scout opportunities for the individuals they lead and help them grow. The evaluation of the new leaders should dictate the subject matter and process of the training.