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Project Management Antipatterns
We all think that we are unique. Even when we make mistakes – they are unique. But it seems we are so predictable, that people already studied and classified all our epic fails – past and future ones....
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Do Not Lose Your Face or PMs Guide to Tricky Questions: Why Use Fibonacci?
We are all used to just implement the well-known “best practices”, not even thinking much about the reasons they were created. Especially in Agile. We like all those rituals, as they make us fill as...
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The fun is dead, long live the fun!
Are you happy on Monday morning? What about Friday evening? We all know how office workers are waiting for the Friday evenings… Because work is hard. Because there is no more joy. Really? How people...
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PMs guide to tricky questions: To rewrite, or not to rewrite?
During the last several months our team came across 3 projects with the same issue – customers had the “almost done” project (usually customers state smth like “85%” or “95% done”) but they could not...
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Employee engagement: WTF is this?
Reading the twitter feed over the weekend I came across several posts about the employee engagement. What is employee engagement? To me it sounds like the old-fashion term used by HR managers. They...
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Project status reports for juniors
This week our PM intern asked me about the best way to write the project status reports. I like when interns ask me questions. I can spend one more working hour speaking about the question topic,...
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Collection Of My Favourite Project Manager’s Fails
This time I would like to share my personal collection of manager’s errors which I have been made (at first I wanted to write “errors which I came across” pretending that other managers made them and...
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Late Autumn Essay: “Why each time we end up in software hell.”
Creating software is easy. It’s like you are building a plane and they forgot to provide you the building materials and you have to install both wings on one side according to the specification but no...
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Say “agile” one more time
Everyone is agile nowadays. I think that even my cat knows this word. Our sales team is agile, our development teams are agile. We do daily stand-ups, why would you say we are not agile? I am really...
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How to Empower Teams Sketchnote: Continued Reading “Management 3.0”
I know that I am slow) Finally continued reading “Management 3.0″ by Jurgen Appelo. Chapter 7.
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