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Product Planning Fundamentals: Develop a Product Plan in 6 Steps

ProjectManager.com

You have just developed a product that could potentially be monetized and sold to marketing agencies around the world. Once you have your new product idea, the next step is to develop a high-level vision for the product that can be used to pitch it to potential consumers. Then, assign each task out to the team with due dates.

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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. Objective: Develop listening skills.

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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. Recently, I had an eye-opening experience outside of the professional world that showed me just how much individual negativity can damage a group. Still, these negative attitudes were affecting the whole team's morale and teamwork.

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Product Development with the Stage-Gate® Process (Part 2): Strengths, Weaknesses, Pitfalls

Inloox

The Stage-Gate® process is a process model for the targeted development of innovations - for example, in the form of products and services. In the second part, we now dive deeper into the strengths and weaknesses of the Stage-Gate® process as well as potential pitfalls and responsibilities. Weaknesses of the Stage-Gate® process.

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Develop Better High Performing Teams

ProjectManager.com

As we ease into the new year, many organizations’ executive teams are ramping up hiring for new talent. All these efforts require precise judgment to hire just-in-time talent, using data to make strategic project decisions at a portfolio, program and project level and launching new high performing teams.

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Best Team Management Software of 2021 for Managing Projects

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Managing teams, no matter their size, is an incredibly complex task. It involves knowing each team member’s skills and workloads and creating a plan to make individuals act as cogs in a larger mechanism. This kind of precision demands the best team management software. 2021 Best Team Management Software Rankings.

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How To Motivate Your Project Team

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Ruth Pearce knows everything there is to know about motivating your project team. I caught up with Ruth to find out more about how to motivate teams and why it’s something you should be actively doing. Why do you think motivation on project teams is so important? She’s even written the book on it. So how do we do it? Gertman et.