This Month’s Agile Interview Corner Features Alexander Frumkin Talking About Psychological Safety
This interview was conducted and written by SVPM Scrum Team program volunteers, Katie Karp and Meghana Panth. Executive Editor, Donald …
Commitment
How to schedule 2 weeks of vacation when we have aggressive delivery schedules.
Hello, this is Laura Lee Rose. I am a speaker and author. I am an expert in time and project …
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Why are managers more satisfied with their life than non-managerial employees?
A recent Pew Research Center survey found that managers are more satisfied with their family life, jobs and overall financial …
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You can’t get your money, unless you ask for it
4 weeks after I had completed his taxes for him, I asked this friend-first-removed if he had received his refund yet. He confessed that he has the forms signed, but he has not mailed them in yet.
“Well — you know you can’t get your money, until you mail the forms in….”
It’s the same in life and work. It’s more difficult to get what you really want if you don’t explicitly ask for it and then follow-through with your plan.
How to Introduce Process Improvements Successfully
Does your team seem to be allergic to process? Have you been trying to implement project management best practices and …
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How can a career vision help me with my career
Steve Wynkoop and I were talking a lot about designing and managing our professional careers on a weekly interview on SSWUG.org. This episode was about what steps to change your position in the your current company.
What if two product managers disagree on something and can only agree to disagree?
I received the below great question a few days after my Art of War for Product Managers and High-Performing Professionals. …
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Do one scary thing a day.
This week we will take a short-cut into slapping ourselves back on the path. We won’t spend time investigating why and what took us off our course. Instead, we will jump into action with the idea of “doing one scary thing a day” to help keep up moving forward at a faster pace.
The Confidence to Go For It!
(This article is part of a series originally published in Japan by ALC Press English Journal, and is written in …
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What we can learn from Judge Judy
It’s impossible not to judge. Telling someone else “not to judge” — shows you have made the judgment that they are judging. Most opinions, descriptions, decisions, views, rulings, and critiques are judgments.
How a diet tip helped me get a work-related request accomplished.
I know this sounds strange, but I used a diet tip that I read from Micheal Thurmond’s “6 Day Body Makeover” – to accomplish career critical tasks.
If you can drive, you can understand project managing.
This is Laura Lee Rose, a business and life coach that specializes in professional development, time management, project management and …
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Replay with additional proactive techniques
With some additional proactive (Quadrant 2 preparation — sign up for the online coaching sessions for more information on this technique), …
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Replay with Time-boxing and Parking Lot method.
Time-boxing is a method which allows you to do everything that you want to do without the above pitfall. You …
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Why Won’t They Change?
It seems like I’m talking and writing about change quite a lot these days. And there’s good reason for that. …
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How many threads can you hold?
This article is about attention and focus, in your own life and the life of the teams you lead. Attention …
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Project Managers are Supporters
Many of the things that go wrong in projects will be wholly and completely out of your control, but can have a massive affect on your project. You will need to find a way to support your team while they work through whatever issues they may be dealing with.
Project Managers Pave the Way
As a Project Manager, it is going to be necessary to pave the way through obstacles that come up as the project progresses. Some say that this is the main responsibility of a Project Manager, and I tend to agree. It is up to the Project Manager to ensure that obstacles are dealt with and mitigated before they affect the project team and the project itself. Generally, there are three different kinds of obstacles that projects face: Technical, Political, and Emotional.
Project Managers are Leaders
Think about a person that you would follow regardless of where they were going. What makes them a leader worth following? In terms of the business world, a leader doesn’t necessarily make decisions, and a leader doesn’t necessarily have the highest ranking title. A true leader is someone that has earned the trust and respect of their team; and as a result, that team will follow that person in whatever direction they take.
Totally Commit to Finding a Way
Scrappy Project Management Mindset Series – Part 4 of 4. If you’re going to lead projects to success you’ve gotta …
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