The Lazy Project Manager

MARCH 2, 2021

It was (and I still can’t quite believe this) one year ago that I last stepped off a plane after a visit to Geneva and Zurich to deliver a series of presentations and workshops for CERN and PMI Switzerland. Won the PMO Influencer of the Year award. We know that now! It has, in more than one way, been an astonishing year.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

Brush up on your virtual leadership skills. Think about how you are going to run remote team meetings and workshops – it is different to holding meetings face-to-face. Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best Out of Virtual Work and Virtual Teams. Change Management Workshop. $79. What you can do.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Stick with what you can influence: you know broadly what the objectives and goals are. New leadership likes to make a mark on things. We do a lot of workshops and process mapping, looking at as is/to be or current state and future state. When the project’s stakeholders change. People change their mind.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 29, 2019

A number of people inside and outside Scrum.org collaborated with me in 2018 and early 2019, to talk about 21st-century executive leadership. The conversations strongly influenced what the reader will see in the coming posts in this blog series. 21st-century executive leadership, what to stop doing .

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Books that cover ways of working, technical project management, leadership , power skills, soft skills for the workplace, business acumen and also strategic and business management topics count. Making Risk Management Work is a slim read but it’s full of tips for how to run effective risk management workshops. PDU claim: 2 hours.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 26, 2021

One of the best ways to acclimate Leaders to a new Agile product development environment is through participation in the Professional Agile Leadership - Essentials (PAL-E) class. I love the Professional Agile Leadership - Essentials (PAL-E) class because this course is all about helping leadership understand how best to support Agile teams.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 19, 2021

The dotted lines represent the influence of external drivers on the success factor, while the arrows display the relations among success factors. There are broadly three groups that influence successful Agile transformations; Developers, Product Owners & Scrum Masters, and top managers. The H[1–5] tags represent the hypotheses.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 26, 2024

Effective leadership and management lies in the ability to adapt and evolve. This article explores how the MINDSPACE framework, originally developed to influence behaviour through public policy, can be pivoted towards fostering successful Scrum adoption in your teams. Norms : We are influenced by what others do.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 30, 2024

Each organization possesses a unique blend of people, processes, culture, mindset, governance, management, and leadership. Co-creating a Value Stream Operating Model Co-creation involves collaborative workshops where we design the operating model together. This type of work is fraught with complexities and many "unknown unknowns."

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

— What should product leadership look like? It influences the Product Owner's role, determines the self-managing capabilities of the Scrum team, and the opportunities to ship fast and gather feedback from your stakeholders. You can make it a 15-minute exercise conducted after the Daily Scrum or a 2-hour workshop.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Three key responsibilities arise from this new type of leadership: A leader’s primary role is to deliver clear, aligned and inspiring direction. The best practice is to run multiple workshops where leaders and several different team members collaborate to craft a direction. Watch ‘ Agile Leadership Nutshell ’.

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Scrum.org

MAY 18, 2021

Key Influencers: Fredrik Wendt | Scrum.org , Ralph Jocham | Scrum.org , Andy Hiles | Scrum.org. This Product Owner is a key position that sets the tone for product leadership and the definition of success in the organization. Developing and influencing product governance and controls to enable professional Scrum.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The era of robotic, detached leadership is fading, and in its place, a more genuine approach is emerging — poised to reshape organizational cultures. Think of a work environment where you and your coworkers feel understood and valued by leadership, and internal values reflect the organizational mission. Core of Authentic Leadership.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 25, 2017

Hard elements are easier to identify, define and understand for project managers because these factors hugely influence your projects. This element relates to leadership style. The leadership style you adopt as a project manager will directly influence your team. Flex your leadership style as your project requires.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 7, 2019

Leadership – ethical, authentic leadership is what helps get work done and set you apart from your peers. Successful project managers will be those that embrace the mantle of leadership. Throughout the project, leadership is simple – you serve your team. Let’s jump in. And in no particular order we start with….

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 23, 2022

This is a complex question that I have created an entire presentation and workshop on. The best short answer is to appreciate what is within your realm of control and influence in order to create an action plan. That may give you an opportunity of influence outside the unit. Do your investigative homework (i.e.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Given its vast influence, it’s important to have a basic understanding of PMI and its history. During the 1990s, PMI tripled its membership to 90,000 in 120 countries, under the leadership of then president Virgil R. It also provides networking opportunities and workshops. Quick Facts About PMI. The PMI footprint is huge.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

It is no surprise that the researchers conclude that “Product Owners perform a wide range of challenging activities which require experience and high-status in order to be able to exert influence”. Product Owners perform a wide range of challenging activities which require experience and high-status in order to be able to exert influence.”.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 16, 2022

There just aren’t enough role models, and in all of the talks and the training that I do, I encourage people to be role models for other people when it comes to leadership, choosing to be different and also creating teams and environments in which anyone can flourish. What would it be like if I was in one of your all day workshops?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 16, 2023

Regardless if you’re an Agile Coach or Scrum Master, servant leadership is the desired mindset, behavior, and attitude. Servant Leadership Here’s how I describe servant leadership in the paper “ The 6 Stances of a Scrum Master ”. Servant leadership proves to be the backbone of the Scrum Master role.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 29, 2020

We held a series of workshops to upskill everyone and had kicked off strongly. I bought the discovery to the Product Owner, who was also a senior manager with a lot of influence in the organisation. Leadership is about creating clarity and an environment where people can be successful and high-performing teams can emerge.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Prioritize Key Metrics While it's tempting to consider every piece of data, focus on the most relevant metrics directly influencing your goals, filtering out the noise. Encourage Decisive Leadership Cultivate a team culture where decisions are made confidently once backed by sufficient data.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 26, 2024

This seemingly subtle shift in terminology can profoundly influence managerial perspectives and the overall dynamics of the workplace. It propels a leadership style that is inclusive, supportive, and attuned to individual needs, highlighting the irreplaceable contributions of each team member.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This team of Agile Transformation Coaches consists of people focused on executive-level understanding and Agile leadership, people that teach team-level technical practices, and everything in between. . Leadership’s Role in Agile Transformation. Agile Coach’s Responsibility. This role isn’t just teaching people new practices.

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Project Risk Coach

JUNE 20, 2022

Demonstrate Leadership Behaviors 7. Another example would be to facilitate a risk identification workshop with key stakeholders. Demonstrate Leadership Behaviors Leadership is the ability to influence others including individuals, groups, and organizations. Create a Collaborative Project Team Environment 3.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Justify investing in technical excellence to the leadership by demonstrating the long-term cost savings and increased speed of future feature development due to a more robust and flexible codebase. Display this vision prominently in your team space and reference it in all Scrum events.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Your primary influence is the environment you create. Modern leadership is not leading through statements, fiats or dictates – it’s leading through questions, through inviting the conversations we want to cultivate, and creating the conditions for transformation. Our lives are lived one conversation at a time.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Who Needs to Be Involved: Leadership and Management : Senior leadership must champion the change, providing the necessary support and resources. Initiating Change: Workshops and Training : Organize workshops and training sessions to educate everyone on the importance of customer value and how the new incentives will support this focus.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 26, 2024

Effective leadership and management lies in the ability to adapt and evolve. This article explores how the MINDSPACE framework, originally developed to influence behaviour through public policy, can be pivoted towards fostering successful Scrum adoption in your teams. Norms : We are influenced by what others do.

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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. The changing face of IT leadership is shifting as new generations enter the work force. It’s not the 90’s anymore.

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Henny Portman

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Stakeholder engagement is the systematic identification, analysis, planning and implementation of actions designed to influence stakeholders. You can use a workshop to create a stakeholder list or start with stakeholder segments and you can ask already known stakeholders who must be involved too. Projects and programmes change things.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 19, 2021

The readiness isn’t easy to generalize since it depends on the nature of the product itself, the Scrum Team’s experience, and the organization’s leadership style. From my experience, this influences the readiness and availability of a Scrum Team to contribute to the refinement process effectively. Not involving stakeholders. .

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Leading Agile

MARCH 28, 2022

From a leadership perspective, you may not even know that people are worried about these things personally. So how do we influence change while supporting the people making the changes? The ones implementing the change—leaders, influencers, or stakeholders— need to have a vision or a hypothesis for the change when it’s complete.

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Scrum.org

MAY 8, 2023

They might start feeling more comfortable writing stories and executing experiments and, over time, learn to influence, design product experiments, and make tougher prioritization decisions with multiple demanding stakeholders. Doing this requires figuring out the product architecture and moving towards an empowering leadership style.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

This team of e Agile Transformation Coaches will consist of people focused on executive-level understanding and leadership, people that teach team-level technical practices, and everything in between. This role is, in effect, a high-influence peer to the executives who act as a trusted advisor. Leadership Experience.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 14, 2023

Successful Scrum Masters continuously find ways to improve their practice to have greater influence and impact on their teams and organizations. By embracing continuous learning as Scrum Masters, we gather empirical data we can use to increase our influence and impact. That’s a missed opportunity. Longing to have more impact?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The Sprint Review is an opportunity for inspecting both and providing feedback that will then be considered and perhaps reflect in the Product Backlog, influencing future work. Creating the conditions for the successful healthy implementation of OKRs takes focused leadership over months if not years. Fixing OKR Theater isn’t trivial.

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