Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

What should product leadership look like? This is where a simple exercise comes into play, which is all about answering 4 questions, together with your team or stakeholders. You can make it a 15-minute exercise conducted after the Daily Scrum or a 2-hour workshop. How to move from component-driven teams to feature-driven teams?

Defining 231

Defining SCRUM Technical Review Influencer 231

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 26, 2022

If management is doing the right thing, then leadership is doing things right. You can demonstrate leadership skills at any level, from project coordinator to project director. Making leadership work for you. Doing’ leadership, however, is not something that can be codified easily. Leading in a crisis.

Leadership 195

Leadership Estimate Executing Planning 195

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 1, 2022

In the past I have interviewed Susanne Madsen on the topic of project leadership and her book, The Power of Project Leadership. I expected a book about leadership theory but what I got was a hugely practical guide to actually doing leadership with plenty of stories, examples and exercises. See on Amazon.

Leadership 273

Leadership 2015 Energy Innovation 273

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 1, 2019

What’s the difference between project management and project leadership? A recent APM report, Project Leadership; skills, behaviours, knowledge and values , explored this question. . The authors concluded project leadership is future-focused. Repeat the exercise often and review your project management approach accordingly.

Leadership 264

Leadership Consulting Governance Government 264

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 25, 2020

Her leadership and guidance is of paramount importance during planning and execution. Since good decision-making is critical for good leadership and guidance, project managers need to know how heuristics (mental disposition) and biases (personal inclinations) influence a project manager’s decisions. Roland Hoffman.

Technical Review 493

Technical Review 2007 Finance Estimate 493

Scrum.org

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This exercise illuminated James's habitual approach to complex work and the gaps in his understanding of effective team leadership. As the course progressed, James learned about servant leadership, effective communication, and the importance of fostering a collaborative environment. The result?

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Leadership Technical Review 2023 SCRUM 183

ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

Conduct Team-Building Exercises. Team-building exercises is a way to upstart trust, especially for new teams that don’t have a lot of shared experience. Lackluster leadership. To make sure strategies get put into motion, you must make sure you have the talent with the right project leadership skill sets to manage the project.

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Executing Project Life Cycle Software Review Technical Review 516

Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how to develop a leadership philosophy for your projects and what skills are useful to underpin your chosen ways of working. How do you develop a personal leadership philosophy? Your personal leadership philosophy can be the difference between success and failure on a project. Here are four tips.

Leadership 410

Leadership PMO Defining Agile 410

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 6, 2020

Team-building exercises help, but even under the best circumstances, there will be challenges. The first thing to do is make sure that everyone is on board with the decision to go remote—most importantly, the leadership team. This is especially the case when it comes to virtual project management. The most common is poor communication.

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Technical Review Infrastructure Software Review Leadership 487

Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The Project Management Coaching Workbook by Susanne Madsen is a book about how to operate with a coaching leadership style in a project environment. You can use the checklists and exercises to assess yourself and improve your skills. 6 Steps for self-coaching.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Planning 446

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Here are a few simple exercises to help your team identify ways to simplify their processes. Stop, Start, Continue - A simple "Stop, Start, Continue" exercise can help. 15% - Start this exercise by acknowledging that there are a lot of improvement areas for your team, and they can't be solved overnight. Start with small steps.

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SCRUM Leadership Controlling Process 125

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 31, 2023

Teamwork builds leadership skills It’s common to think that in every teamwork there must be a team leader who ensures that project tasks run smoothly. Everyone can build and use leadership skills in a team environment. You don’t have to be the person nominally in charge to step up and demonstrate leadership. Lead your area.

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Risk Management Leadership Risk Innovation 343

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 15, 2023

Leadership is about mentoring, coaching and further helping the team in whatever capacity they need. There are a number of ways to do this, including team-building exercises. If you’ve not had time prior to starting the meeting to engage in team-building exercises, meeting icebreakers can help build bonds between team members.

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Defining Leadership Executing Monitoring 369

ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 19, 2019

It often details how the project aligns with strategic goals in the org, and as such is a crucial yet often overlooked responsibility for managers, who assume that senior leadership is responsible for this, or who simply get quickly subsumed by the day-to-day responsibilities of delivering the project.

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Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Leadership 2019 493

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. There's less likelihood of stakeholders undermining the decisions later. How persuasive are you?

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Influencer Leadership Risk Management Risk 397

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 20, 2023

For CAPM certification renewal, you need: a minimum of 9 Education PDUs including two in each Talent Triangle area: Leadership, Technical and Strategic and Business Management a maximum of 6 Giving Back PDUs with a maximum of 2 for working as a professional and 4 for volunteering and creating knowledge. What type of PDUs do you need?

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2023 Certification PMI 2020 435

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 2, 2019

Courageous Leadership. Given the prevalence of disruption, my first priority has to be exemplary leadership. I don’t think you’ll find many countries today where there is a consensus that national leadership fits this description. So, we must be aware of them, as we establish our seven priorities for project managers in 2019.

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2019 Underperforming Technical Team 2018 Leadership 385

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 2, 2023

Make a list of all your open projects and all the other things you do around the edges of those, like mentoring colleagues, organizing team events, training, team leadership, management activities or the general admin that just needs to get done. I’ve done this exercise with many people and it’s always eye-opening.

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Monitoring Closing Leadership Planning 462

ProjectManager.com

JUNE 16, 2021

This exercise a deeper dive into the problem and its causes, rather than accepting the first answer, and brings you closer to what is actually causing the problem. ” A: The hybrid methodology has gaps… This question and answer exercise leads to the root cause of the missed deadlines problem. ” over and over again.

Monitoring 546

Monitoring Sustainability Defining Process 546

Project Risk Coach

AUGUST 24, 2020

They facilitate risk identification exercises that result in a boatload of risks. Some project managers wait until things are out of control before they exercise risk management. What must we do? Lead by example. Failure to focus on the risks that matter. Some project managers start their programs and projects with gusto.

Risk Management 459

Risk Management Risk Underperforming Technical Team PMI 459

ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Courageous Leadership. Given the prevalence of disruption, my first priority has to be exemplary leadership. I don’t think you’ll find many countries today where there is a consensus that national leadership fits this description. So, we must be aware of them, as we establish our seven priorities for project managers in 2023.

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2023 Underperforming Technical Team 2022 Leadership 370

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 7, 2023

The course includes instructions of how to access a free Jira Software Cloud site to complete the lab exercises, so you’ll need a computer to do that, you can’t use the Coursera app. University of California, Irvine’s Career Success Specialization The first course in this 10-course Career Success Specialization is on project management.

Software Review 458

Software Review Certification Finance SCRUM 458

Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Support faculty, staff, students and the UMW community as a source for project management leadership and expertise. In one company, a team of leaders self-nominated themselves to take part in the exercise. I wouldn’t recommend a two-day offsite for this exercise for your PMO. Just put half a day aside and see how you get on.

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PMO Technical Review Information Technology Governance 398

Leading Answers

AUGUST 6, 2022

.  However, let’s start by examining what servant leadership already contains.     Servant leadership was popularized by Robert Greenleaf and described as a mindset and set of practices. Servant leadership is a mindset and value system which recognizes that the team members deliver the project benefits.

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Leadership Technical Review Software Review Initiating 113

ProjectManager.com

JUNE 26, 2017

In other words, every team can find value in team-building exercise. Now give them 25 more index cards and have them do the exercise again, but without tape. Even teams that have been working together for years might need a bit of team-building to reinforce their strengths and minimize their weaknesses. Machine Made.

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Underperforming Technical Team Construction Influencer Closing 542

ProjectManager.com

JULY 7, 2021

For example, a communication plan for an entire organization might be created by someone in HR or leadership. This can be a challenging exercise, but it improves the salience of the message. Depending on the context of the plan (whether it will be instituted organization-wide or used for a single project) this person will vary.

Planning 459

Planning Energy Leadership Executing 459

ProjectManager.com

MAY 22, 2019

Leadership, if anything, is a creative way to think and engage with people and situations, while guiding and setting an example for others. While there might be types of people who are more likely to think divergently, promoting divergent thinking is possible through various creative exercises. Leadership is no different.

Innovation 316

Innovation Leadership Risk Management Executing 316

Scrum.org

MARCH 12, 2019

after he has participated in one of my recent Professional Agile Leadership (PAL-E) certification courses in Munich Germany. In this episode we spoke about the value of the exercises in the course and the facilitated group work. More importantly we connected the facilitation techniques to the leadership role. Listen here.

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Certification Leadership Agile Innovation 139

Project Bliss

AUGUST 17, 2020

Team building exercises are a fantastic way to build that essential esprit de corps , even when you’re not sharing the same physical space. Telecommuters can easily begin to feel isolated from their colleagues and their leadership. Team Building.

Estimate 296

Estimate Leadership Initiating Agile 296

Planio

MAY 2, 2018

Goal-setting exercise 1: Effective goal-setting starts at the top and cascades down. Goal-setting exercise 2: Get clear about your culture of goal-setting. Goal setting exercise 3: Use OKRs to choose the right goals for your engineering team. Goal setting exercise 4: Use MMOM metrics to measure your goal progress.

Engineering 137

Engineering Technical Review 2018 Executing 137

Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 7, 2020

This is a remote team-building exercise used by Microsoft. By working to ensure such communication is done well, GitLab can: maintain leadership during remote work; reduce ambiguity in communication modes; add an element of flexibility in the day-to-day lives of team members and support the long-term vision for a global remote workforce.

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2028 2005 Executing 2020 508

LiquidPlanner

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

I just finished the last chapter of Susanne Madsen’s piece on The Power of Project Leadership (2nd edition). I’ve been a longtime student of both Project Management and of researchers like Brené Brown , who explore emotional intelligence with leadership. The Power of Project Leadership is an excellent book on leadership in general.

Leadership 112

Leadership Technical Review PMI 2018 112

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2020

For CAPM certification renewal, you need: a minimum of 9 Education PDUs including two in each Talent Triangle area: Leadership, Technical and Strategic and Business Management a maximum of 6 Giving Back PDUs with a maximum of 2 for working as a professional and 4 for volunteering and creating knowledge. It’s going to be easy, trust me.

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2020 Certification PMI Leadership 331

Alan Parker Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Leadership plays a crucial role in driving the success of ISO 27001 implementation, as it shapes the culture, resource allocation, and ongoing commitment necessary for an effective Information Security Management System (ISMS). When leadership is genuinely committed, it influences attitudes throughout the company.

Leadership 52

Leadership Certification Risk Management Sustainability 52

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Some exercises across the courses are the same e.g., create a RACI matrix , but the templates are different – that’s weird. Some of the exercises were the same, for example, creating a RACI or a RBS, but they had different templates. What I didn’t like about it The disadvantages that I found are as follows.

Technical Review 384

Technical Review Certification Software Review PMI 384

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 30, 2020

You’re managing a piece of work, so step up and do it otherwise you are not showing demonstrable leadership. Decisions make that happen, and show that you are acting in a leadership role. Not doing the exercise to find out what lessons the team learned when a piece of work is done means you are unable to learn from your mistakes.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review Leadership 376

Scrum.org

AUGUST 6, 2020

Are you supporting Scrum Teams in a leadership role, stakeholder, or other capacity and want to understand how Scrum works and how to collaborate together? The rules, roles, and principles of Scrum are leveraged during the exercises. It's fun to work as a Scrum Team in Sprints to deliver a product & the exercises to learn Scrum.

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