Green Project Management

JANUARY 31, 2024

Ethical leadership as it relates to sustainability is not just a trend but a fundamental shift in how organizations are directed and managed. It demands a leadership style that is not only grounded in traditional business acumen but is also deeply rooted in integrity, honesty, and a commitment to ethical practices.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This article explores the art of Agile leadership, delving into the challenges of finding the right equilibrium between allowing teams to self-organize and providing enough guidance and structure for seamless Agile execution. Conclusion Finding the right balance between flexibility and structure is at the core of Agile leadership.

Leadership 206

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Navigating leadership in complex work environments demands a nuanced approach, blending various tactics, practices, frameworks, and strategies. These principles, presented in no particular order, acknowledge the dynamic nature of leadership. and beyond. Below are ten principles universally applicable to all Evidence-Based Leaders.

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Scrum.org

JULY 8, 2019

TL; DR: Agile Leadership. I recently started aggregating my notes, links, and references related to agile leadership to understand better what it — in the context of an agile transition — may look like. Let’s examine some favorite ideas and concepts around agile leadership. Servant Leadership. “A Intent-based Leadership.

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Inloox

JANUARY 5, 2022

Remote work & leadership. Sustainability & social responsibility. Sustainability & social responsibility. Remote work & leadership The Corona pandemic has achieved something that no one previously thought possible: A widespread rollout of working from home - and within a matter of weeks or even days.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 23, 2024

In the rapidly evolving business landscape, the shift from intuition-based decision-making to innovation-driven leadership is not just beneficial—it's essential. Why the Pivot is Necessary Traditional leadership often relies on gut instincts and personal experiences. Be the leader who pioneers with evidence, not just instinct.

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Scrum.org

MAY 10, 2020

How Effective Servant Leadership (ESL) emerged. I am convinced and successful in creating sustainable change sourced in positivity. The Effective Servant Leadership “doughnut” is an overview i created to summarize the skills and focus areas we need to acquire to become effective servant leaders. You have great soft skills.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 20, 2021

In other words: An Agile transformation is a success when it sustains. This brings me back to the title of this article: What does it take to create a transformation that sustains? Many Agile change initiatives started bottom-up, initiated by teams experimenting with Agile long before leadership did.

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 30, 2021

They might place greater faith in senior leadership’s ability to overcome significant issues with the project. It is relatively easier for leaders to make staff who are co-located with them feel comfortable about speaking up, but it takes greater effort for them to establish and sustain such safety with dispersed team members.

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Sustainability Governance Government Leadership 358

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 19, 2024

A shift to leadership Finally, there’s also more emphasis on leadership. This is a massive move towards project leadership skills instead of simply implementing processes. Sustainability The journey to net zero is top of mind for many forward-thinking organizations, and projects have a huge part to play.

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The IIL Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

By Dr. Elissa Farrow March 20, 2024 Leadership futures are where change is not a challenge but an opportunity. As we open our organisations to leadership’s next generation, it’s clear that the future belongs to those who champion collaboration, innovation, inclusion, and adaptability.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 5, 2021

The path towards true leadership. My opinion is there is no hard and fast rule for a safe path towards True Leadership. People expect differently from the core leadership – how can I move forward in my journey? Thus, the natural tendency of attitude is leading towards balanced, sustainable results. . Our minds do juggle.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Kotter is a professor of leadership, emeritus, at the Harvard Business School. They are the determination that there’s a need for change, preparing and planning for that change, implementing that change and, lastly, sustaining the change. While change happens, managing change takes leadership.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 7, 2024

Leadership creates this multi-tiered company plan to define, outline and achieve specific goals. Examples of Business-Level Strategies This level of organizational strategy creates roadmaps to guide resource allocation and aligns different departments with the goal of sustainable growth, profitability and long-term success.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 21, 2020

People sometimes struggle to earn the required Leadership PDUs, and The PDU Podcast can help with that too. There is a Leadership PDU package which just gives you the requirements for that part of the PMI Talent Triangle. The whole ‘cram as many PDUs as I can in the shortest possible time’ approach isn’t sustainable long term!

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 25, 2022

How sustainable is your pace as a developer? What is a sustainable pace? The notion of “sustainable pace” is closely tied to Extreme Programming practices. But that recommendation was updated to “sustainable pace” by Ron Jeffries later. Pace should be sustainable over a long time. .

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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. Driving Project, Program and Portfolio Success: The Sustainability Wheel Authors: Rich Maltzman and David Shirley. PDU claim: 9 hours.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 28, 2018

From the top down, the entire organization must be committed to sustaining quality improvements for them to be achieved. Leadership is critical. Control: In order to make sure that these improvements are sustainable, monitor them by creating a control plan. What Are the Features of Six Sigma?

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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. Unsurprisingly, those are the organizations where resilience and future-proofing against economic shifts is probably not high on the agenda anyway — are those leadership teams really focused on long-term value?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Aimed at people doing change management in a leadership role (aren’t we all?), The topics covered include sustaining change, change readiness, and there’s a section specifically on change in a project management setting. It’s essential reading if you are studying change or organizational leadership.

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Green Project Management

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Thought Leadership on Sustainability and Project Management. But here’s a reality check: Agile has become another cog in the system it set out […] The post Will AI Be the Death of Agile? appeared first on The GPM Blog.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This path enhances the efficacy of the Scrum framework and cultivates essential leadership qualities, making it a critical step for anyone aspiring to lead successfully in today's dynamic environments. This commitment to ethics builds trust, enhances the organisation's reputation, and ensures long-term sustainability.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 31, 2024

Coca-Cola uses a balanced scorecard to align its sustainability goals with its overall business strategy and monitor its progress. Through the balanced scorecard, they identified areas that could be improved and made the strategic changes that delivered their desired results of regaining market leadership.

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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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The IIL Blog

JULY 24, 2024

This balance will be key to achieving effective and sustainable strategic value realization. Many companies today conduct a study every year or two to identify the four or five strategic career paths in the company that must be cultivated so that the growth of the firm is sustainable. Q4) Virtual work is getting increasingly common.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Stifled Innovation : When the directive is to “go fast,” where is the time for innovation, for trying new approaches, or for learning from failure A Leadership Issue, Not Just a Team Issue Imposing velocity as the sole metric is a form of micromanagement that neglects the nuanced fabric of agile values.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 11, 2024

Servant leadership is about collaboration, trust, empathy, and the ethical use of influence. At the heart of it is the desire to serve people first, with leadership emerging as a by-product of service. They promote a work-life balanced and psychologically safe environment, ensuring team resilience and sustained productivity.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 9, 2021

Engagement serves two aims: It creates, uses and sustains positive interest in the work. It elevates our own behavior so that we demonstrate leadership, motivation, coaching, influencing, teaching. People are busy and your project probably isn’t a priority for them. It minimizes or removes negative interest.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 7, 2020

By working to ensure such communication is done well, GitLab can: maintain leadership during remote work; reduce ambiguity in communication modes; add an element of flexibility in the day-to-day lives of team members and support the long-term vision for a global remote workforce. Be extremely clear with whomever you’re speaking with.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 7, 2020

Aimed at people doing change management in a leadership role (aren’t we all?), The topics covered include sustaining change, change readiness, and there’s a section specifically on change in a project management setting. it will help you understand how to adapt an organisation in readiness for change.

Change Management 397

Change Management 2020 2012 Sustainability 397

Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2023

Steve is great, but in terms of Agile leadership , he doesn’t touch sides – in my opinion – to Satya Nadella. So, a great product owner , absolutely, probably one of the best that has ever lived, but there are chinks in the leadership armour that are impossible to ignore. Innovation and Agile capabilities.

Leadership 194

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 16, 2021

After reading an HBR article this week in which the authors provided a number of suggestions on how to sustain newly adopted behaviors in the context of the imminent return to in-person office work, I thought that a nudge-based approach might also help with increasing psychological safety.

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Sustainability Governance Government Leadership 229

Scrum.org

JANUARY 26, 2023

One example is the VP of Engineering in a growing startup, who decided to take on the SAFe RTE role (Chief Scrum Master for the Agile Release Train) since they felt it was up to them to provide this sort of leadership. If/When leaders take these new ways of leading and showing up to heart, it creates healthy and sustainable agility.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 30, 2024

Really, it comes back to servant leadership. Engaged, motivated teams are likely to sustain their growth and continue to improve, more effectively navigate challenges, and be more resilient when they do encounter challenges and setbacks. And even if you did, you cannot control other people or the variables in your environment.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Leadership Alignment Many organizations underestimate the importance of executive and middle management support for Agile teams. Leaders play a critical role in shaping and sustaining this culture, fostering an environment where team members feel psychologically safe, respected, and valued.

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SCRUM Agile Sustainability Innovation 218

Scrum.org

MARCH 21, 2024

This subtle change signals a seismic shift in mindset: from temporary initiatives to sustainable, evolving solutions. It requires not just a change in vocabulary but a cultural shift, a realignment of values towards long-term impact, customer satisfaction, and sustainable growth. Now, imagine a shift – a simple yet profound one.

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Sustainability Innovation Leadership SCRUM 213

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 19, 2023

People sometimes struggle to earn the required Power Skills PDUs (formerly Leadership PDUs), and The PDU Podcast can help with that too. Get instant access to 10 high quality webinars on leadership and specialist topics to help you earn the difficult 'Power Skills' PDUs. Change your approach going forward!

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