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How to give constructive criticism that works As a project manager, helping your team to reach their full potential or adapt to the roles that are expected of them often requires highlighting where they could be doing something differently. Constructive criticism is when a manager manages to point an employee in the right direction in...
Recent years have seen even greater expectations placed on project managers to align projects with the overall successful course of their organization. This has led to the concept of “Project Portfolio Management” becoming particularly popular. Similar to how investment portfolios seek to balance risk and deliver optimum returns for investors, project portfolio management seeks to...
The organizer and the improviser. The risk-taker and the voice of caution. It takes all kinds to get the job done. But a range of personalities can also lead to clashes in the workplace. One study found that 40 percent of workers report difficulties with conflicting personalities. But this is no reason to start dividing...
“Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets” – W. Edwards Deming Technology in business allows organizations to improve both the performance and overall effectiveness of products, systems and services, which, in turn, enables businesses to meet anticipated goals more quickly and efficiently. Tech, coupled with the right minds and culture, is also the linchpin of innovation, enabling traditional...
Wondering how to improve your Project Management Skills? You’re in the right place. In this blog, we’re going to discuss the underlying ideas of project management, as they have withstood the test of time and proven to be the pillars of good project management. In recent times, the discipline of project management has undergone a...
Agile transformations are complicated endeavors, especially for large enterprises trying to keep pace with today’s fluid digital marketplace. Add the additional difficulties of having to orient delivery teams around products and bridging entrenched organizational silos – well that is quite a challenge that requires uplift across multiple dimensions. Many teams have begun their transformational journeys...
In 1996, John Kotter, then a professor at Harvard Business School, published a book, Leading Change, which set out his seminal “Eight Step Change Model”. Despite being written nearly a quarter of a century ago, the Kotter Change Model is regarded as the leading methodology for implementing change management in a team or organization. Understanding...
On a daily basis, we help our customers with connecting various SDLC tools, so that they can use best of breed tools and still communicate clearly with each other. An example would be a Jira integration with a support tool like ServiceNow. After attending the Atlassian Summit, I noticed an interesting pattern that was common...
Agile leadership, also known as servant leadership, is one of the most important shifts needed for an organization to successfully scale agile. For some organizations, this change comes easily with the implementation of agile, but for others, the change from top-down command and control to one of empowerment is difficult. It’s not as simple as...
If you are reading this blog, you know that ideation and engaging the power of the crowd is at the heart of any innovation program. That’s why we need your input! Planview Planview IdeaPlace is conducting the fourth annual State of Crowdsourced Innovation Management survey and study. The purpose of the survey is to gather...
