Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Power skills include: Communication (written and verbal) Listening Stakeholder engagement Conflict management Negotiation Influencing Leadership Team building Change management. That gives an employer something to ask about at an interview: “Tell me about a time when you have had to facilitate a workshop.”

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NimbleWork

OCTOBER 21, 2024

These top 25 influencers for 2025 aren’t just keeping up with the trends—they’re setting them, reshaping how teams collaborate, innovate, and deliver in today’s fast-paced world. What distinguishes these influencers in the landscape of project management thought leadership? in Buddhist Studies.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 26, 2022

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

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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. And then came lockdown 2.0 (and and then a little later in the year) lockdown 3.0.

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The Lazy Project Manager

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The workshop will explore a number of key questions in regard to the use of AI in project management, including: Will AI be the end of the project manager or the opportunity to become even more successful project managers? PMO Influencer of the Year 2020 (PMO Global Alliance). AI and the impact on Project Management. Peter Taylor.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 25, 2022

Modelling is the reason we don’t want our children to hang out with “the wrong sort of influence” and it is the reason we want them to hang out with “the right sort of people”. I will be running some workshops and doing some coaching. I hope to get more project managers to take the training to build their skills.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 12, 2018

” The conference will look at how the profession is delivering value in a transforming world and transitioning from a position of facilitation to influence. There is a good mix of presentations, hands-on workshops and coaching. This four day conference will bring together PMO leaders for advanced workshops and networking.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 17, 2022

It can influence how people communicate with each other, what language they use, and the types of communication that are considered appropriate. It can influence the way people communicate by dictating what is considered appropriate behavior and what is not. Common questions about how culture affects communication.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 10, 2023

Co-creation workshops enable collaboration and generate better ideas. Matrix of Influence Source: Book Product Mastery by Geoff Watts Image Created By Lavaneesh Gautam. High Influence High Interest: This is the most important group and you need to collaborate with them. Refine as you learn. Users may fall into this.

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Scrum.org

JULY 14, 2021

How can Scrum Masters and Agile coaches support this through exercises and workshops? For example, perhaps the number of plants in the team room has a microscopic influence on their effectiveness. The only contextual factor that seemed to have a small (positive) influence was the experience of Scrum teams.

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Project Risk Coach

APRIL 10, 2017

Use your interpersonal skills to influence the resource manager and others who select the team members. You could facilitate a mini-workshop where you (or a business analyst) teaches the team to define, analyze, document, and validate requirements. What should you do if resources are preassigned? Improve the Interactions.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 24, 2020

Action if they aren’t clear: Ask the project sponsor to hold a workshop on defining this and providing ultimate clarity for everyone. The company culture has a lot of influence over what is done and what is ignored not followed up. ‘No’ means there is much more work to do here to understand what the project is trying to achieve.

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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. We do a lot of workshops and process mapping, looking at as is/to be or current state and future state. Adapt and flex as you go, reviewing priorities and working on what you can while the other stuff unfolds. That pulls you off your other work.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

Think about how you are going to run remote team meetings and workshops – it is different to holding meetings face-to-face. Change Management Workshop. $79. Take a change management class (like my fab workshop which has loads of templates and support resources included). What you can do. Recommended Training. What you can do.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Prompt of the Competition Instead of asking a simple question, I used the following prompt on designing a complete workshop on Product Backlog management to test Jeff Sutherland’s Scrum GPT and my customized standard ChatGPT 4.0: “ I am planning to create a 6-hour Product Backlog management class in the form of cohort training.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

We discuss how the skills of storytelling and workshop facilitation, underpinned by core facilitation principles, significantly bolster a PO's ability to navigate through backlog management and stakeholder engagement. A well-designed workshop can act as a catalyst for value-driven backlog management and stakeholder collaboration.

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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

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. Components of MINDSPACE - Messenger : We are heavily influenced by who communicates information. Norms : We are influenced by what others do.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Making Risk Management Work is a slim read but it’s full of tips for how to run effective risk management workshops. It will teach you how to influence others, even when you are not directly managing them. It’s about influence and negotiation and how to get things done. PDU claim: 2 hours. PDU claim: 2 hours. PDU claim: 6 hours.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Techniques to use to do this are talking (face-to-face is better), inviting them along to workshops so they’ll hear all the great stuff about the project, and giving them a formal role on the project so they feel involved, relevant and important. In other words, use all your wily ways to convince them that the project is A Very Good Thing.

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Scrum.org

MAY 2, 2022

You can download the PDF here or check the package that includes 30 Quickstart workshops ! . Psychological safety makes it easier and safer for teams to learn and try new things and positively influences team performance. And what seems to be influencing our psychological safety?". 3 Do-It-Yourself Workshop To Dig Deeper.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Workshop Design: A Product Owner's Must-Have Skill For a Product Owner, steering the dynamics of a Product Backlog toward achieving a shared vision and the Product Goal is the essence of their role within a Scrum Team. A well-designed workshop can act as a catalyst for value-driven backlog management and stakeholder collaboration.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Workshop Design: A Product Owner’s Must-Have Skill For a Product Owner, steering the dynamics of a Product Backlog towards achieving a shared vision and the Product Goal is the essence of their role within a Scrum Team. A well-designed workshop can act as a catalist for value-driven backlog management and stakeholder collaboration.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

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. Other DIY workshops to consider are….

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Scrum.org

APRIL 5, 2022

This often happens when teams cannot influence impediments or don't know how to do so, and their well-intentioned improvements remain superficial. Happy-Clappy-Scrum often happens when teams cannot influence impediments or don’t know how to do so, and their well-intentioned improvements remain superficial.

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Scrum.org

MAY 15, 2022

You can download the PDF here or check the package that includes 30 Quickstart workshops ! . If you'd like to dig deeper with your team, we also offer a selection of more extensive do-it-yourself workshops and additional resources to investigate the use of Sprint Goals more fully. 3 Do-It-Yourself Workshop To Dig Deeper.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In Scrum, however, leadership is about influence and facilitation, goal setting and decentralized decision making, not authority. It's about influencing and inspiring your team through example, understanding, and adaptability. Inflexible Leadership Style: Project Managers might be used to a one-size-fits-all leadership approach.

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Scrum.org

MAY 18, 2021

Key Influencers: Fredrik Wendt | Scrum.org , Ralph Jocham | Scrum.org , Andy Hiles | Scrum.org. Developing and influencing product governance and controls to enable professional Scrum. Influence the Developers during Planning and Refinement by helping them select and understand trade-offs. Audience: Product Owners.

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Scrum.org

MAY 30, 2022

That’s why we created the do-it-yourself workshops. All of the workshops we’ve included in this blog post include a step-by-step approach to use them and help you move in the right direction. The workshops and experiments are: Generate Insights And Ideas For Your Product With “Design The Box”. What are our users saying?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Modelling is the reason we don’t want our children to hang out with “the wrong sort of influence” and it is the reason we want them to hang out with “the right sort of people”. I will be running some workshops and doing some coaching. I hope to get more project managers to take the training to build their skills.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 26, 2021

The Professional Agile Leadership Essentials TM (PAL-E) is a hands-on workshop that uses a combination of instruction and hands-on exercises to help managers and other leaders who work directly with agile teams understand how to best support, guide, and coach their teams to improve their agile capabilities.

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Kiron Bondale

JUNE 14, 2020

Stakeholders with a low appetite for a particular type of risk might influence a stronger risk response than is warranted which can impact efficiency. Risks can be positive or negative, but risk appetite usually has a greater influence on how we handle threats rather than opportunities.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

They can also be customers, influencers, users, buyers, business partners or suppliers. The benefit of stakeholder engagement Stakeholders can provide early input and insights that can go a long way to help us, as the Product Owner, improve the product's value. (See They can be internal developers, leaders or customers.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 9, 2020

AgileDC is a 1-day workshop held each fall where people from around the region share their best practices.” Multiple workshops, dinners, meetups, and webinars are held each week, along with several professional development days,” Alan says. Try to join some of the expat groups on Facebook.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 30, 2024

Co-creating a Value Stream Operating Model Co-creation involves collaborative workshops where we design the operating model together. Pilots The field of Complex Adaptive Systems has significantly influenced our understanding of organizational design. This type of work is fraught with complexities and many "unknown unknowns."

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 16, 2024

If you’ve done everything in your power to get them to work together: regular team meetings, cross-functional workshops, bringing people together in person and virtually – and nothing is working, then escalation might be the answer. When you can’t break down the silos Teams that work in silos are difficult.

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