by Stefan Wolpers | Jul 6, 2020 | Agile and Scrum, Distributed Teams, Impediments or problems, Remote Agile
TL; DR: Agile Laws and Remote Agile On many occasions in the recent past, working with distributed agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. Starting changing, and I am not referring to the...
by Kiron Bondale | Jul 5, 2020 | improving project management, project management, Project performance
I’m sure some of you have led projects where everything appeared to be going swimmingly right up to the finish line only to find that you had somehow stepped into the project equivalent of the Hotel California. Everyone has a desire to wrap things up and move on to...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Jul 4, 2020 | How To, PRINCE2, This article contains affiliate links.
If you aren’t using PRINCE, or if you want some general guidance as well about project closure documents and so on, read this next: How to close a project. A project has a start, a middle and an end, so closing a project is an important part of the project management...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Jul 4, 2020 | How To
We tend to spend lots of time talking about project set up, having a fully-thought through business case, or all the stuff you have to do while the project work is being done. But there’s another area that is arguably as important, if not more so than those: how to...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Jul 4, 2020 | Career, Mentoring
This is a guest post by Ben Snyder, CEO of project management training and consultancy firm Systemation. In this article, Ben Snyder looks at the different skills/behaviors that lead someone in a project manager’s role to become successful. His analysis is based on...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jul 3, 2020 | News
TL; DR: Ruinous Scrum, Losing Out to SAFe — Food for Agile Thought #249 Welcome to the 249th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 26,763 peers. This week, we analyze the ruinous Scrum claim of some developers; we empathize with a failed...
by Steve Parker | Jul 3, 2020 | Agile, Agile Project Management, Featured, Lists, Productivity Hacks, TED Talks
It’s year 2020 already. Life hasn’t been kind to us because of COVID-19 pandemic, work from home and many other obstacles. Regardless, there is a heavy cloud of despair and confusion all around us which demotivates us even further. We have a solution for you, if you...
by Steve Parker | Jul 3, 2020 | Blog, Marketing, Marketing 101, Productivity Hacks
Marketing is a term we hear daily, both online and in the real world. On that note, marketing-related skills have become so essential to conducting any business, that there’s an entire science behind the topic with methodologies and guides as to how to develop them...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Jul 2, 2020 | Project Management Skills, This article contains affiliate links.
This is a guest article by Dr Mike Clayton, the brains behind OnlinePMCourses.com. It’s an edited extract from his book Risk Happens! Dr Mike Clayton In the 1970s, the social psychologist Irving Janis examined how groups make decisions. He found that a group’s dynamic...
by Steve Parker | Jul 2, 2020 | Productivity Hacks, Tips
Nowadays, working from home – and that too via an ergonomic home workstation is a very convenient thing to do if you want to save your time and comfort. To begin with, you don’t have to waste time commuting. Also, you are able to work from the comfort of your own home...
