Keep Your Culture Positive!
Which is more effective to improve team performance: positive feedback or constructive criticism? a positive culture or a negative one?
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Welcome to the blog, where practitioners share project management insights with the community. The blogs are written by volunteers of the SVPM Scrum Team Program and external contributors.
Colleges: Teach the “How”!
We’re at an inflection point. Agile practices transitioned over the last couple years from “emerging” to “predominant”. Companies are sampling
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Remote Pair Programming
I’ve been enamored of remote pair programming since briefly leading development at Socialtext, where no three developers were in the
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Strategic Planning: Which Direction Shall We Go?
Signs and times are confusing. Which way should organizations go? Which mix of projects can get you there? So how
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Prescription for Project Success
Today I am at the Project Management Institute (PMI) Community of Practice (Cop) leadership event in San Diego, California. I
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OPM and Agile; Conflicting Frameworks or Complementary Approaches?
Everyone in development knows about Agile. However, Organizational Project Management (OPM) is still relatively unheard of. Simply stated; OPM focuses
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Relationships? Who needs them?
Sticking with my basics theme, how do you feel about building relationships? Does it scare you or does it excite
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Not another meeting!!
In keeping with the topic of back to the basics, lets talk about Communication. In my previous post I mentioned
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Back to the basics…
I just returned from Mexico where I was a “Project Management Specialist Volunteer” for the Peace Corps. I was assigned
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Are You Ready?
I have been writing and speaking for a number of years about the need to create an environment for successful
How to Complain like a Champion
We complain. Oh, not you, of course, just those other knuckleheads. At work, our complaints sound like … “Bill’s cluttered
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