Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 7, 2022

But no one is telling you HOW to get your team to adopt new ways of working. First, let’s look at what we are talking about when we’re thinking about how to increase team productivity. How to boost project productivity. How to boost project productivity. How to introduce new habits. Lead by example.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 6, 2023

Business Resilience: A practical guide to sustained progress delivered at pace is a book by an impressive authoring team. The chapter on tools for business resilience is useful too, as it talks about the specific tools you can use, their purpose and how to use them.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 7, 2019

You can scroll down and get the highlights, and then read all the advice in the How To Make 2019 A Successful Year for Your Projects ebook. He is the author of Reinventing Communication by Routledge, a book on how to design, lead and manage high performing projects. I couldn’t fit it all in this blog post. So I made you an ebook.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 3, 2018

This article, How To Make 2018 A Successful Year for Your Projects , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. You can scroll down and get the highlights, and then read all the advice in the How To Make 2018 A Successful Year for Your Projects ebook. Would you like to make 2018 a successful year for your projects?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 1, 2022

How to coordinate the flow of work. The first area to focus on in your work agreements is how to coordinate the work as it flows from member to member. How to coordinate the use of skills. Another important area is how to coordinate the use of skills. Another important area is how to coordinate the navigation of conflict.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

These are: Sustain their position Change their attitude Activate their help potential Reduce their harm potential Let’s look at each of these in turn and see how they could affect stakeholder plans for your project. Sustain their position Stakeholders who already feel positively about the project need to stay feeling that way.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

In the dynamic landscape of business, identifying and addressing issues promptly is crucial for sustained success. Avoid high-level issues that are beyond the team’s influence or authority. Cue the blank stares and nervous shuffling of papers. It’s like being caught on stage with no script. What Is A Business Problem Statement?

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Consumers are demonstrating a significant preference for sustainable products and socially responsible corporations (SRC). The Nielsen Company, a global market research company, published it’s insights into sustainable shoppers , revealing: 81 percent of shoppers “feel strongly that companies should help improve the environment”.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 31, 2024

You could also add in sustainability, or anything else that makes sense for your project. Introduce some complexity and then risks, resources, quality and expectations all become major influences over the success of the project and the triple constraint model can prove to be lacking. Use those as a starting point and build from there.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

This visual tool is handy when deciding how to allocate resources to maximize their effectiveness. We’ll also provide a free download for an impact effort matrix template and show how to make one from scratch to better understand how it works and its value. One is the impact effort matrix, which we’ll define shortly.

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Software Review Budget Energy Influencer 282

Scrum.org

DECEMBER 10, 2023

TL; DR: How To Spot Successful Scrum Masters In this article, I unravel the secrets of what makes a Scrum Master not just good but amazingly outstanding. Their ability to promptly and effectively address obstacles, be they technical, process-related, or interpersonal, is essential for sustaining team momentum.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 30, 2024

So the first part is about helping people understand Scrum theory and how to put it into practice. And you know you’re not supposed to be telling the Scrum Team how to work (that would undermine ownership and self-organization). And then, what am I doing as a Scrum Master to influence this factor in a positive direction?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

But no one is telling you HOW to get your team to adopt new ways of working. First, let’s look at what we are talking about when we’re thinking about how to increase team productivity. How to boost project productivity. How to boost project productivity. How to introduce new habits. Lead by example.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 29, 2019

Even after all that time, women in project management are still a hidden key to our global and economic sustainability. It’s a process, a mindset and a shift to keep our global economy sustainable, innovative and engaged. For the last four years, I’ve published my annual women in project management blog for ProjectManager.com.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 28, 2022

Lately I had an epiphany, realising that most of my writing has been for Product Owners and how to they should interact with the environment, but what about how to interact with Product Owners? This is also an excellent way to guide them in revealing what their circle of influence and circle of control is.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The relationships part of this principle’s title is all about the project ecosystem and how soft power and networks influence the way work gets done. What’s missing from PRINCE2® (thankfully) is the detailed guidance on ‘how’. For example, it talks about creating a schedule, but doesn’t mandate how to do that.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 16, 2023

For about one hour we talked about how to be a servant leader for such a group of Scrum Masters. Servant Leadership Here’s how I describe servant leadership in the paper “ The 6 Stances of a Scrum Master ”. You don’t manage or lead the team by telling them what to do or how to do it. Here are some specific examples.

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Planio

AUGUST 5, 2024

5 lesser-known factors that cause analysis paralysis The productivity consequences of analysis paralysis How to avoid analysis paralysis and make hard decisions easier 1. The desire to please high-powered stakeholders often influences how we make decisions. Jump to a section: What is analysis paralysis? When does it happen?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 15, 2024

A gradual decline in their effectiveness can be a subtle, insidious process heavily influenced by the size and culture of an organization. Criticality: This decline is significant as it can lead to our protagonist’s diminished role and influence within the team, questioning their effectiveness and relevance.

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Velociteach

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Projects are instrumental in defining an organization’s vision for a more sustainable future. Dr. Joel Carboni talks about Sustainable Project Management, and the goal to achieve a stated objective while considering the project outcome’s entire lifecycle to ensure a net positive environmental, social, and economic impact.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 18, 2022

By the end of this article, hopefully, you will have a better understanding of how to approach requirements gathering (which we should really call eliciting requirements) for your next project! Requirements also help you cover off other success criteria like quality expectations, sustainability requirements, and more.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Short-Term Focus : Driven by quarterly results or immediate performance metrics, these organizations push for quick deliveries, often at the expense of long-term value or sustainable development. The disconnect leads to a lack of valuable feedback that would help steer the product in the right direction by validating hypotheses.

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Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Sustainability 213

LiquidPlanner

DECEMBER 7, 2022

As such, most of us are facing resource constriction and forced now to think about how to do more, with less. This article offers several solutions to this challenge, providing prioritization, process and people tips and how technology can be leveraged. How it will benefit new customer prospects. Try it free for two weeks.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 18, 2022

The key to achieving this level of alignment among the critical stakeholders is that they know how to delegate decisions while being transparent about the underlying system. Engaging with influencers: Learn to distinguish between the formal role of “influencer” and the individual that genuinely exercises influence.

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Scrum.org

JULY 30, 2021

Every experiment can deliver value in the form of new insights and learnings, even if the experiment was not suitable to answer the question at hand and we learn how to shape a different experiment. The question is, how do we constrain this eagerness. The only way an experiment can fail is if we do not learn something from it.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Too many OKRs are set without any respect/consideration of the ability to deliver them sustainably while dealing with other work in the organization. Even worse, some organizations don’t even bother with a serious consideration of how they did on their OKRs…) . Defining OKRs and then forgetting about them until it's time to grade them.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 8, 2021

A song lacks luster when it maintains a sustained volume. It contributes to life experience as well, and if you’re influencing and leading others you know range is critical to meeting people where they are and calling forward the utmost potential of others. Embracing a True Sustainable Pace. Sustainable pace.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 23, 2024

They inspire their teams by modeling how to base strategies on solid evidence and encouraging innovation through validated learning and experimentation. Amazon: Beyond Retail Amazon’s venture into cloud computing with Amazon Web Services (AWS) was a strategic pivot influenced by internal technology capabilities and market potential data.

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Innovation Leadership 2024 Retail 188

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Your primary influence is the environment you create. He works with organizations like Google, Nike and Visa to help them frame and sustain productive dialog, deepen their facilitation skills, and coach them through the innovation process. Agile Camp Berlin 2021: Adapt How You Lead for Agile Success with Johanna Rothman.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook : How to Launch, Lead, and Sponsor Successful Projects is a masterclass in how to make project management work in modern businesses. There’s a new project management ‘bible’ in town and it could displace some of the weighty tomes you have on the shelf (Lock, I’m looking at you).

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Scrum.org

JUNE 20, 2023

After all, we are not paid to practice Scrum but solve our customers’ problems within the given constraints while contributing to the organization’s sustainability. The puzzling question is why adopt an approach — here: separating both roles — which has no upside but probably many downsides?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 21, 2023

It introduces a sustainable approach to product discovery, addressing the challenge of aligning customer value with business value. You will gain a comprehensive toolkit for successful collaboration, influencing stakeholders, and optimizing roles. Join the community and help create the next edition of the Scrum Master Salary Report !

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The IIL Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

Lacking essential power skills such as emotional intelligence, empathy, communication, influence and directiveness can harm both reputation of the IT leadership team and the stability of IT departments. Successful IT leaders need to develop and lean into a set of power skills.

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Kiron Bondale

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

According to John Kotter’s model for leading change, the first step to overcoming inertia requires us to instill a sense of true urgency in those we need to support, implement and sustain the change. At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to implement change more effectively , then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 18, 2019

Like anything else, SCM didn’t show up fully formed but was influenced by other disciplines. The field is anything but static, with developments continuing to this day, including taking into consideration issues of sustainability, as well as other ethical concerns, and incorporating risk management. Diverse Discipline.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 9, 2024

The Daily Scrum, specifically, enables developers to plan their day with a focus on achieving the Sprint Goal and creating Done Increments, integrating any new information that may influence their tasks. Thus, Scrum not only enhances initial planning but also ensures sustained alignment through dynamic adaptation to the development landscape.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 10, 2023

Mike Cohn describes a high-performing team as one that “sustainably exceeds expectations in achieving clear goals. You feel your Product Owner understands and honors the concepts of sustainable pace, the importance of setting the vision and Product Goal, and the radical collaboration that Scrum encourages. Continuous learning is.”

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