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30 Team Building Activities

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Teams don’t just come together and click into well-oiled productivity machines, at least not always. There’s often a period of time when the team members have to get to know one another and develop a rapport. In other words, every team can find value in team-building exercise. Communication Activities.

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Get Inspired: 13 Creativity Exercises for Non-Creatives

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We’re tasked with developing new products, taking them to market, making our systems more efficient and well, so much more. But when you look online for creativity exercises to help breakthrough those blocks, artists dominate the conversation. Quality is a very good thing in an end-product, but it can slow you down in development.

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Development Team Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns. After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. The Role of the Development Team in Scrum. Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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How to Conduct a Killer Kickoff Meeting

Project Risk Coach

Proper planning prevents poor performance. Project managers should work closely with their project sponsor to develop an agenda for the project kickoff meeting.

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Agile Metrics — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Scrum.org

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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12 Sure-Fire Ways to Improve Project Risk Management

Project Risk Coach

His response revealed his belief in risk management but a lack of actual application with his teams. I will first present a common reason for poor risk management and then present the positive actions you can take. They facilitate risk identification exercises that result in a boatload of risks. Frankly, he did not know how.

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How to Be a Productive Project Manager: 7 Tips

Project Risk Coach

Susan, the project manager, had a gnawing feeling that the network team might fall behind schedule on a high profile project. The network manager failed to order the network cable and routers on time, and now the team is scrambling to make ends meet. When asked about his exercise, Tom says, “I don’t have time.” Guess what?