by Kiron Bondale | Sep 13, 2020 | Agile, Process Peeves, project management, Project management terms, Project performance
In 2015 I wrote an article intending to debunk some common myths about project management. Like many of you, I spent a reasonable amount of time during my first few years participating in online forums correcting agile misconceptions. Unfortunately, just like lopping...
by Kiron Bondale | Sep 6, 2020 | Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, management failure, project management, Risk Management
Harvard Business Review published an article this week about how boards can prepare for unexpected calamities such as pandemics, natural disasters or cyber-attacks. The authors provided a three-pronged approach for dealing with both true black swan events as well as...
by Kiron Bondale | Aug 30, 2020 | Facilitating Organization Change, personal development, project management, team building
Following a presentation I gave this week on how project managers can cultivate psychological safety within their teams, an attendee asked me to what the relationship is between psychological safety and emotional intelligence (EI). After answering her I felt it was...
by Kiron Bondale | Aug 23, 2020 | improving project management, personal development, project management, team building
The restrictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in more project managers working remotely. While this keeps everyone safe, it also means that there is a larger supply of project managers available to lead a given project since location is less...
by Kiron Bondale | Aug 16, 2020 | Agile, Agile Project Management, management failure, project management
After daily coordination events (a.k.a. Scrums, standups or huddles), velocity might be the most misused tool by teams new to agile and the stakeholders supporting them. Used appropriately, it can help a team to understand how much work they can complete in a fixed...
by Kiron Bondale | Aug 9, 2020 | Change Management, communications, Facilitating Organization Change, project management, Risk Management, team building
It would be an understatement to say that project managers have had to deal with a lot of change this year. Projects have had their budgets vastly reduced or been cancelled outright, and remote work has become the norm rather than the exception. We are still far from...
