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What is a Team Agreement & How to Create One
When collaborating as a team, it’s essential to establish working agreements. Not only they facilitate alignment towards common goals, but also minimize confusion as the team progresses. As long as everyone sticks…
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How to Define Roles & Responsibilities: The Essential Guide
Roles and responsibilities are essential for high-performing teams and effective project management. They offer structure, clarity, and accountability for the project team. Yet, they sometimes slip the radar of management priorities despite…
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The Power of Workstreams in Project Management
In project management, workstreams are a way of dividing labor up into manageable chunks based on the specific needs of a project. By breaking down a project into a network of activities,…
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What is Rolling Wave Planning? Definition, Example & Benefits
If you have a project to plan, but some important information you need to complete the planning is not available yet – don’t worry: rolling wave planning can help you out. This…
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The Six Thinking Hats: Elevate Your Critical Thinker Game
If you’re arguing with someone for more than five hours and yet cannot solve your problem, don’t get desperate: calm down, drink a glass of water, and try the Six Thinking Hats…
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Understanding the Silo Mentality in its Tracks
Silo mentality. You’ve probably felt it before while working on a project—the sensation of being “off” from other members of your team. You’re not really trusting each other, or even communicating at…
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Why Organizations Transition From Project to Product Management
Most people working in IT have gained a large amount of experience with project management over the decades. It has become a very familiar way of ensuring that an IT project stays…
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Understanding Monroe’s Motivated Sequence Approach
Day in and day out, we want to be heard – at work or at home, as we speak or as we write. Sometimes it is easier said than done. While the…
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What is the Downside of Using the Traditional Waterfall Approach?
The traditional Waterfall methodology has been in use for many decades now and has come a long way to be the most common project management methodology. So much so that it often…
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What is a Resource Breakdown Structure? A Quick Guide
You’re in charge of a team that has to build something. You gather the team together and break down the project into their parts. Your goal is to make sure each member…
