ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

By all means, read about what makes a great leader, but temper that cerebral exercise with something you can really sink your teeth into. It’s a great exercise to learn how to work with limitations, and it involves planning , risk-taking and communications, all the basic skills of leading a project. Yes, games. Shape Shifting.

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Project Risk Coach

JUNE 17, 2016

Mark Langley, President and CEO of the Project Management Institute (PMI), penned a great article entitled Using Project Management to Reduce Risk. Indeed, “high-performing companies manage risk in conjunction with projects and programs far more often than low performers do.” “Leadership is influence.

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 22, 2021

Turn Conflict into a Problem-Solving Exercise You can help stakeholders resolve the conflict by reframing the conflict as a problem-solving exercise. Project managers must use their leadership skills to influence the stakeholders. The post How to Manage Stakeholder Conflict appeared first on Project Risk Coach.

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Project Risk Coach

AUGUST 5, 2019

When sponsors choose to ignore stakeholders or purposely keep them out of the charter process, risk increases. These same stakeholders will discover the project later and may adversely influence the project. This is not a documentation exercise! It's not like they have malicious intent. Download a Project Charter Template.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 19, 2021

Risk and decision making. Risk management is an exercise in decision making. Once you’ve identified a risk, you need to come up with a plan to manage it. There’s normally a bunch of ways you can mitigate against a risk, so you need to apply all your analysis skills to make the right choice. Your next steps.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Prices for things change and there’s an inherent risk in putting together an event that can impact your budget. Corporate events can be used to train staff or educate the public on the brand or a product, celebrate company milestones, usher in changes in the company and provide networking opportunities or team-building exercises.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 17, 2024

Perhaps your work is very linear so it’s so obvious you don’t need to go through the exercise of working it out. Contingency plans form part of your overall project risk management. Be prepared for the sunk costs of doing work that might not be needed because it is part of risk mitigation. For simple schedules, you might not.

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LiquidPlanner

MAY 24, 2022

This notion of contingency analysis shows that when planning or budgeting, we must account for foreseeable risk and factor in the optimal route required with the minimum number of possible detours. Risk is not solved with a calculation. Project leaders need to ask: are some foreseen risks not occurring?

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Project Risk Coach

JULY 27, 2016

This is a guest post from Colin Gautrey, an author, trainer and executive coach who has specialized in the field of power and influence for over ten years. He combines solid research with deep personal experience in corporate life to offer his audiences critical yet simple insights into how to achieve results with greater influence.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 10, 2023

The Empathy Mapping exercise helps developers to put themselves in the stakeholders’ shoes in order to see and understand their needs, motivations, and actions better. Matrix of Influence Source: Book Product Mastery by Geoff Watts Image Created By Lavaneesh Gautam. They don’t have influence in decision-making for the Product.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 4, 2023

There are fields to capture basic stakeholder information, including their title, contact information and influence or power over the project. It’s clearly important to identify and define the roles and responsibilities of your project team, but often project managers will neglect the same exercise when dealing with project stakeholders.

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Planview

AUGUST 22, 2024

Transitioning to traditional project management was a steep learning curve, especially in stakeholder management and resource influencing, prompting me to pursue PMP certification and roles with formal practices. Where do you see risk? When considering risk, data security and validation are key.

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Project Risk Coach

APRIL 10, 2017

Use your interpersonal skills to influence the resource manager and others who select the team members. During the workshop, the exercises could be used to actually develop some of your project requirements. Encourage collaboration early by facilitating team discussions, problem-solving, and brainstorming exercises.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 22, 2023

Risk and decision making Risk management is an exercise in decision-making. Once you’ve identified a risk, you need to come up with a plan to manage it. There’s normally a bunch of ways you can mitigate against a risk, so you need to apply all your analysis skills to make the right choice.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 7, 2023

The tablets will reduce table turn time but other factors might influence how busy the restaurant is. Submit your emails in a Google Doc with the settings set to public so anyone can read it – otherwise you risk your peer reviewer not being able to give your project documents any marks at all. Should we reallocate some of the payroll?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 22, 2023

In this article we’ll look at: 7 reasons why people don’t take responsibility for tasks How to deal with people who are lazy How you can influence the culture of the office so that taking responsibility becomes the norm. 6 Ways to influence your team to take more responsibility Make it easier to work together than work separately.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

In this article we’ll look at why people don’t take responsibility for tasks and also how you can influence the culture of the office so that taking responsibility becomes the norm. 6 Ways to influence your team to take more responsibility. If this sounds like your work environment then there are things you can do to change it.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 16, 2018

She noted that the women who can benefit from her video are those who fit the following description: They’re ready, which means they’ve advanced to the point at which they are prepared to take on the risk inherent in any new venture. Practice Self-Care: It’s a hard road, so take care of yourself: sleep, exercise and eat healthy.

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Kiron Bondale

JUNE 16, 2018

A key enterprise partner is the Finance department and the organization’s model for project funding will have significant influence over successful agile delivery. It can result in higher risk, premature financial commitments. The funding approach for an investment might be one time lump sum, split into two pieces (e.g.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 20, 2023

Individuals have unique learning styles, preferences, and paces that can greatly influence their training outcomes. Groups can utilize resources like case studies, interactive exercises, or software tools. Classroom time is then used to deepen understanding through discussion, practical exercises, and problem-solving activities.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 3, 2023

I want you to create a schedule, name the exercises, and point to sources where I can learn more about the suggested activities. Can you be more specific regarding the exercises for lessons 4 to 7? Please suggest what kind of exercises best advance the respective lesson topic for the students.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Artifacts that have low transparency can lead to decisions that diminish value and increase risk.”. Any approval process delays the inevitable, probably causing additional costs or increasing the risk level. With Scrum, important decisions are based on the perceived state of its three formal artifacts. Transparency enables inspection.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 31, 2024

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”. Scope the Work Scoping is an exercise in “getting real” about goals and objectives.

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Planio

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

While it sounds counterintuitive, regular exercise actually improves our energy levels. While this may have been caused by factors out of their control, high-energy levels and greater productivity reduce the risk of burnout occurring. Here are some actionable steps to help: Prioritize daily exercise. Poor physical health.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 5, 2022

This often happens when teams cannot influence impediments or don't know how to do so, and their well-intentioned improvements remain superficial. Happy-Clappy-Scrum often happens when teams cannot influence impediments or don’t know how to do so, and their well-intentioned improvements remain superficial.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 8, 2022

We can use it as a social exercise to align our assumptions about how the system is working so we can try to find those key variables so that if they change, they will actually change the behavior of the whole system. Do we ever understand everything about the system that we’re operating in?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 17, 2023

Your suggestions include surveys, talks, interviews, team meetings, games, exercises, or including other parties like stakeholders or line managers, and other useful practices. Of course, I like the idea that the Product Owner can create or influence the incentive structure for the sales team. Comment : Thumbs up.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 11, 2022

The Product Owner may influence the Developers by helping them understand and select trade-offs. If the Product Owner is hoarding backlog items, the risk emerges that older items become outdated, thus rendering previously invested work of the Scrum team obsolete.). Remember: Refining Product Backlog items is a team exercise.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Unaccounted variation and lack of task monitoring (rate of accomplishment) will put the project at risk. We can discover this with a mental exercise or perhaps a review of projects in the past. The project manager may need to focus on these areas as these present risks to the project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 26, 2016

You should be careful when asserting such potential consequences, and exercise sensitivity, but it can be interesting how often this approach can result in someone reassessing their position. Whatever approach you opt for, you are always going to be taking a risk.

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The IIL Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Therefore, to be successful, Psychological Safety and psychologically safe spaces must be in place to empower stakeholders to creatively take risks without reprisal; such environments will enable individuals to learn from mistakes made while pursuing project objectives, personal growth and fulfillment. Anyone can become angry—that is easy.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 22, 2022

It can be learned and exercised on a small scale before being brought to bear on larger groups. Willingness to take personal risks. Like successful entrepreneurs, leaders are not risk-averse. Does your team have people that can assist in the roles of Influencer, Relationship Builder,  Implementor, or Strategist?

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Workamajig

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Project risk assessment is an essential part of any project management plan. This guide shares 6 key steps in assessing project risk. So much of project success depends on spotting and eliminating these risks. How exactly do you figure out which risks to look out for and which to ignore? Risk in Project Management.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 28, 2023

By carefully choosing which features to deliver first, the Product Owner can maximize the value that your product delivers while minimizing the risk of investing resources in features that may not resonate with your audience. Your product's stage, market conditions, and user feedback should all influence your prioritization decisions.

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 1, 2016

Basic competency in hard skills such as budgeting, scheduling and risk analysis will be an asset but there is a much greater need of soft skills such as stakeholder management, communication, collaboration and facilitation. Which project management skills should you emphasize within your development plan?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 23, 2019

The Product Owner may influence the Development Team by helping it understand and select trade-offs, but the people who will perform the work make the final estimate.”. If the Product Owner is hoarding backlog items, the risk emerges that older items become outdated, thus rendering previously invested work of the Scrum Team obsolete.).

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Scrum.org

JUNE 23, 2019

The Product Owner may influence the Development Team by helping it understand and select trade-offs, but the people who will perform the work make the final estimate.”. If the Product Owner is hoarding backlog items, the risk emerges that older items become outdated, thus rendering previously invested work of the Scrum Team obsolete.).

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