by Stefan Wolpers | Feb 26, 2021 | News
TL; DR: Product-Led Companies, #NoProjects—Food for Agile Thought #281 Welcome to the 281st edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 30,412 peers. This week, we learn to identify product-led companies; we reflect on the effects of top-down...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Feb 25, 2021 | Career, How To, Skills, This article contains affiliate links.
This is a guest post by Helena Liu. Helena Liu Earning a project management certification is the top career goal for project managers — over 1 in 5 PMs want to get a certification. Once you leave education and enter the workforce, trying to learn new things can be a...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Feb 24, 2021 | Skills, This article contains affiliate links.
PMBOK 7 is the short name given to The Standard for Project Management and A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – (PMBOK® Guide) 7th Edition, which are bundled together. They form the basics of what you need to know about managing projects, for...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Feb 22, 2021 | How To, Skills, This article contains affiliate links.
This is an extract from Project Pain Reliever. I contributed two chapters. Are your project requirements constantly changing? Are you expected to get something done without really knowing what it is that you are supposed to be doing? If you find yourself in a similar...
by Stefan Wolpers | Feb 21, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile anti-patterns, Agile Transition, Product discovery, Product roadmap, scrum, Scrum anti-patterns
TL; DR: Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery...
by Kiron Bondale | Feb 21, 2021 | Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, management failure, personal development, project management, team building
A recent Harvard Business Review article warned of the challenges with using the “feedback sandwich” method. The authors wrote that such feedback might irritate the recipient, cause them to ignore the feedback or confuse them. The authors also stated that positive...
by Steve Parker | Feb 20, 2021 | Featured, Reviews
TL: DR – A fantabulous software for robust communication at multiple front ends! Over the last few days, I decided to do a roundup of the best communication and productivity apps to use in 2021. Needless to say, I zeroed in on Groupe.io and absolutely fell in love...
by Stefan Wolpers | Feb 19, 2021 | News
TL; DR: Managing Complexity, Difficult People on Software Projects—Food for Agile Thought #280 Welcome to the 280th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 30,344 peers. This week, we discover almost 50 different personality types you may...
by Steve Parker | Feb 19, 2021 | Accounting, Accounting Tips, Business, Finance, Productivity Hacks
It’s no secret that every industry and every sector is affected by modern trends and technology. Workplaces evolve as time goes by and so do working people. You simply have to adapt or risk being left behind. This is especially true in the accounting sector....
by Elizabeth Harrin | Feb 18, 2021 | Books, Productivity, This article contains affiliate links.
“Time management is dead,” writes Graham Allcott in his book, How To Be A Productivity Ninja. The old time management concepts don’t work anymore, he says, because we don’t have the same working environment. The number of information sources has gone up, and we’re...
