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What Does Your Culture Value: People “Efficiency” or Work Throughput?

Johanna Rothman

Resource Efficiency. A senior manager said, “We give our resources everything they could need: technology, tools, even some training. ” “Each resource has at least two projects so they stay productive and efficient.” Resource efficiency means we watch each person's effort.

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Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1

Johanna Rothman

When I work with these teams or their managers, I realize they're not demoing or retrospecting on a regular basis. That creates distrust and an anti-agile culture. The managers worry that the teams can't finish “anything on time.” That's a cultural change. That's why I say agility requires cultural changes.

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Managing Meetings: How to Drive Productivity and Success

Tom Spencer

Whether you are in consulting, strategy, operations, or product management, the ability to manage meetings effectively is a crucial skill that can significantly impact the success of your endeavors. Time is a valuable resource and each meeting should contribute to the overall project goals.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Resource Management

Epicflow

Successful project delivery is usually a result of efficient management of both workflow and resources. What do you need to know to manage project resources with maximum efficiency? What do you need to know to manage project resources with maximum efficiency? Resource capacity planning.

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Why Do You Need a Resource Management Solution to Boost Employee Productivity?

Epicflow

In a complex multi-project environment with a shared resource pool, there are even more reasons for team members to work as efficiently as possible – otherwise it will be impossible to ensure a seamless and fruitful workflow and successful project delivery. . Company culture . Let’s figure it out in the article. .

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Role of Change Management

Business Consulting Agency

Whether it’s a small adjustment in internal processes or a large-scale transformation, managing change effectively is crucial for the success and sustainability of any organization. Change management is the systematic approach to dealing with the transition or transformation of an organization’s goals, processes, or technologies.

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Effective Agility: Three Ways to Change Your Team’s Project Culture, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. What about those cultural changes? Where the organization rewards resource efficiency, not flow efficiency.)

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