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Rebel’s Guide to PM
JULY 12, 2024
Plus, there are technical skills we have to consider -- employers definitely look for those too. One in five projects is unsuccessful due to ineffective communication, according to research by PMI (The Essential Role of Communications, 2013). As such, sometimes we need to use our influence to support project success.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JUNE 25, 2020
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. What are heuristics? The confirmation bias prompts people to agree with evidence that confirms their prior decisions.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
APRIL 30, 2023
And you can control and influence how you say something by understanding paraverbal communication. Paraverbal communication involves the use of nonverbal cues such as tone and volume to influence how your message is received. You probably already know that how you say something is just as important as what you say.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 7, 2023
OPAs and the PMP exam Let’s face it: I first came across the term OPA while reviewing PMP exam training material. You might have landed here for the same reason: studying for the PMP exam and wondering how to make sense of this nothing-y term. They influence how we do the work. I’m kidding, EEFs aren’t that different.
Scrum.org
DECEMBER 23, 2021
So I was pleasantly surprised when Carsten Grønbejrg Lützen pointed at a peer-reviewed academic paper by Michele Tufano and his colleagues (2015), called “When and Why Your Code Starts To Smell Bad”. In this post, I summarize the insights from the study by Tufano and draw in more recent research. Technical Debt and Code Smells.
Scrum.org
AUGUST 19, 2021
And what about the socio-technical skills of Developers? In this post, I summarize the findings from an academic peer-reviewed publication by Daniel Russo (2021), a professor at the University of Aalborg. Case-based research is hardly objective, and Dikert and his colleagues urge for more objective data in future studies.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 11, 2021
I’m not convinced that 2030 is a realistic target, though, given the project management maturity levels and willingness to adopt new tech that I see on a daily basis. It’s early days for Greyfly and others in the space, but we’ll surely soon be seeing an influx of AI in project management case studies to prove how all this works.
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