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Leading Successful Remote Software Development Teams

Project Management Planet — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:37:45 +0000

Remote work might now be considered the norm, but many software development teams have been doing it since “before it was cool”! That’s not to say everyone does it well, though… This presenter shares his near-decade of experience leading successful software development teams distributed across vast timezones and continents (UK...

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Leading Software Development Teams in Uncertain Times

Project Management Planet — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 21:04:12 +0000

This presentation examines the global effects that force us to reason differently about how we organize and lead people and projects. It discusses valuable skills for leaders in this new climate, especially leaders in software development teams. In the current world, we face endless possibilities to build for a new...

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Effecting Change: How To Leading Software Development Teams

Project Management Planet — Thu, 23 May 2024 14:49:34 +0000

As project managers, we want our software development teams to pursue great ideas and change directions to realize the goals. However, often we find it hard to implement changes. At times there seems to be resistance or at least reluctance to change by software developers. Why can’t the team see...

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Book Review: Leadership, Teamwork, and Trust

Project Management Planet — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 10:00:54 +0000

The late Watts S. Humphrey has been an important personality of the software development world. He led the development of the Software Capability Maturity Model (CMMI), an internationally recognized standard in the field of software process improvement. The title of his last book “Leadership, Teamwork, and Trust – Building a...

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Self-Governing Teams With Sociocracy for All

Project Management Planet — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 17:18:37 +0000

Are you interested in learning more about self-managing teams and how to share authority within an organization? This talk discusses the basic patterns and processes of Sociocracy for All, a system of self-governance that can be used in combination with Agile practices to scale self-organization across all decisions made in...

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Five Reflections for Modern Leadership

Project Management Planet — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 17:17:28 +0000

Why are we as leaders drawn to the simple and quick solutions? Answers over questions? This presentation is a little journey of reflection and discovery for modern leaders. You already know this: The world is constantly changing. We are finding out that “tried and tested” ways of the past are...

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People First Project Leadership

Project Management Planet — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 16:17:22 +0000

We must never devalue people in the process of delivering a technical solution. This requires all roles on a project team to practice the core skills and techniques to lead without authority. This talk highlights a wide range of topics including: the importance of diversity and inclusion on software development...

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Book Review: Stand Back & Deliver

Project Management Planet — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:53:24 +0000

“Stand Back and Deliver” is a book about leadership. This is not an easy topic to be discussed in a book, but this one gives you some tools that will help you to assess situations and act on them. I think that the authors give a very good definition of...

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A Leadership Guide for Reluctant Leaders

Project Management Planet — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 17:47:32 +0000

Regardless of the technology you know, regardless of the job title you have, you have amazing potential to impact your workplace, community, and beyond as a leader. This presentation shares a few candid stories of the presenter’s career failures.. or learning opportunities. The talk starts by debunking the myth that...

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Being Honest in Project Management

Project Management Planet — Thu, 30 May 2013 17:37:53 +0000

“Honesty is the best policy. Truth will out. In vino, veritas.” We have many quotations and sayings which call out honesty and truthfulness to be strong, always winning out over lies and politics. Could it be the same in project management? So why is it hard to be honest? Why...

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