How to Lead Effective Virtual Teams [Tips & Book Review]

by Elizabeth Harrin | Mar 14, 2020 | Books, Stakeholders, This article contains affiliate links., virtual teams

Leading Effective Virtual Teams is an odd book. It’s a bit like a series of very dense magazine articles as every chapter is heavy with bullet-pointed lists of top tips and guidelines. It reads very differently to other books, but it’s very effective given what Nancy...

How to Build Trust in Virtual Teams [Book Review & Tips]

by Elizabeth Harrin | Mar 13, 2020 | Books, Stakeholders, This article contains affiliate links., virtual teams

Trust matters because it helps build a resilient project team. Trust helps get things done. Trusted team members not only do only what is asked, but what the project needs them to do, because they know that the project manager will trust their decisions and actions. ...

4 Easy Tips For Effective Virtual Meetings

by Elizabeth Harrin | Mar 13, 2020 | meetings, Skills, Stakeholders, This article contains affiliate links.

I’m delighted to have worked with Diana Ecker from Redbooth to bring you this sponsored article on how to make virtual meetings easier. #ad Even though we may take them for granted, virtual meetings are a dazzling concept. You bring together people who are working...

32 Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns

by Stefan Wolpers | Mar 2, 2020 | agile adoption, Agile and Scrum, Agile anti-patterns, Agile Transition, Cargo cult agile, Product discovery, scrum, Scrum anti-patterns, Stakeholders

TL; DR: Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns Learn how individual incentives and outdated organizational structures — fostering personal agendas and local optimization efforts — manifest themselves in Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns which easily can impede any agile...

5 Strategies to Improve Team Productivity on Projects

by Elizabeth Harrin | Feb 13, 2020 | Be Productive, Stakeholders, This article contains affiliate links.

Wouldn’t life be better if your team were, well, just a little bit more productive? If there was less chat and more doing? It is possible to create an environment where project team members can be more productive, by creating good habits. You’ve read all the articles,...

12 Days of a Project Manager’s Christmas

by Elizabeth Harrin | Dec 1, 2019 | Elizabeth's Diary, Stakeholders

Are you feeling festive? I am! I can’t wait until the Christmas break and I’ve already started on the mince pies and mulled wine. Here’s the traditional 12 Days of Christmas carol reimagined for project managers. Enjoy and please share! On the first day of Christmas,...