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by Christian Bisson
Conflicts arise on any team. It’s inevitable. What’s important is making sure they’re resolved before they grow into something bigger.
It often feels like unfamiliar territory to some, but resolver of conflicts is one of the many hats a scrum mas…
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by Marat Oyvetsky, PMP
When professional service organizations work with customers to implement technical solutions, teams often rely on in-house technical staff for support and system/network access during implementation, testing, validation and training. And this is happening more during the pa…
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Have Gantt Charts gone the way of the dinosaur? An important consideration to Lynda Bourne’s argument about reporting is whether you are using a traditional or agile approach to project management. Reporting for the two methodologies can be very different. While traditional PM can have a focus on metrics and measures that tell the story of hours worked and budget and schedule, Agile’s focus tends to be reporting on the team.
What are your views on PM reporting?
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By Lynda Bourne
Projects mean reports! Many project teams are required to produce weekly and monthly reports for their client as part of a contract, or because of an internal set of reporting requirements. This process comes with challenges:
The information is out of date—project …
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by Mario Trentim
I’ve been familiar with remote work and virtual teams since 2010. I’ve also witnessed how digital transformation has enabled the adoption of new business models, flatter organizational structures and hybrid project management approaches since then.
In the wake of t…
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By Cyndee Miller
Alexis Ohanian has racked up quite a list of accomplishments in his 37 years. He cofounded Reddit, sold it and then came back to help rescue it. He wrote a bestselling book. He cofounded a seed stage venture fund. But when it came time to have a chat with one of his fellow speake…
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In my experience, the most common reason relationships sour on projects in because of unrealistic expectations and poor expectation management. Often, contracting and expectation-setting is done by a sales team without a project manager and/or product manager present for the negotiations. Because assumptions made during this process are rarely documented and projects become derailed, its often necessary and recommended that a third party, like the role Emily Luijbregts describes in her blog post, intervene in troubled projects. A fresh set of eyes and a new perspective can be utilized to re-align the expectations of all stakeholders. A new project plan may be needed, and communication efforts should be redoubled.
From Voices on Project Management:
by Emily Luijbregts
I often take on the role of escalation manager. I’m brought into projects when things are going wrong. It’s my goal to bring the project back on track and repair the working relationship with the teams and the end-customers to ensure we can have a lasting, producti…
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by Dave Wakeman
As we’ve moved through the pandemic, I’ve learned more and more about leadership—what good leadership looks like and what bad leadership looks like.
Since early July, the first question I pose to guests on my podcast, The Business of Fun, zeroes in on ho…
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One of the most arduous tasks a manager faces is the annual review – and its really quite a shame because, any time there is an opportunity to give feedback, there is an opportunity to provide paths for growth for an employee or resource. I think Yasmina Khelifi covers many important points in the accompanying blog posts, and I think I would include laying out a plan to improve should the feedback be negative or critical. Even if the feedback is positive, schedule recurring, one-on-one meetings to discuss career goals and improvement techniques.
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By Yasmina Khelifi, PMI-ACP, PMP
“People reported to me that they had difficulties working with you.”
These were the words a manager spoke to me early in my career—and I haven’t forgotten them. I was very shocked to hear the feedback, as no one approached me about any g…
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The dictionary defines resilience as “an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change” (Merriam-Webster, 2020). As Jorge Valdés Garciatorres points out in his blog post – we’ve all been trying to adapt to a massive amount of change in recent months. As project managers, we anticipate that, in our endeavours, we will face some tough times. But how do we cope when our entire world is turned upside down? I’ve found that one way of dealing with this disruption is to really lean on my resiliency network – those people I’ve surrounded myself with in the past who have supported me in good times and in bad. We all have to accept the fact that we cannot get through trying times alone – we need to rely on the energy of others to help manage adversity.
What lifelines do you depend on to get your Teams through trying times and perhaps even thrive?
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By Jorge Valdés Garciatorres, PMP
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
—Milton Berle
Experts say that the world will never be as we once knew it. I personally think that it will take us several years to return to some sense of normalcy. We&r…
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By Cyndee Miller
Full disclosure: I’m a big fan of Trevor Noah. But even I was a bit surprised at his eloquence in speaking about managing projects—and what it takes to deliver them.
Project skills are life skills that can be applied both professionally and personally, the comedian…
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