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How to Lead Online Meetings: No Hiding and Practical Tips
Research consistently reports that the three biggest, challenges of leading online meetings are: Technology challenges...
Don’t Blame Meeting Failure on Your Online Meeting Technology
Whether you use Zoom, Teams, WebEx, GoToMeeting, or another online meeting technology, don’t blame the failure of your...
Do NOT Attempt a Design Sprint Without a Professional Facilitator
What is a Design Sprint? Created at Google Ventures, a Design Sprint represents a methodology that helps teams...
Don’t Ruin Your Scrum Sprints — Facilitate Scrum Events Using These Agendas
The Agile mindset demands frequent, and continuing, interaction among its stakeholders. Perhaps more so with Scrum,...
Advanced Real-Win-Worth Screening Method that Supports Strategic Decisions
Previously, we defined 'best' as projects that performed well in an innovation test, focusing on the relative...
Risk Analysis – Method and Questions to Facilitate A Portfolio of Projects
Project portfolios focused on the best opportunities, and accelerate innovation. So how do you build consensus around...
How to Build Action Plans with Shared Ownership and Accountability
To build an action plan (or, a strategic plan) that transfers ownership and accountability to your meeting...
Meeting Killers: Eight Ways to Kill A Meeting and Your Reputation
Below are eight habits we call meeting killers that every facilitator, or meeting leader, must avoid. Neglect to...
How to Use the Principles of Agile’s Daily Scrum in Your Staff Meetings
There are good meetings and there are long meetings but there aren’t many good, long meetings. Therefore, Agile's...
Triple Constraint Theory: Use a Flexibility Matrix to Fortify Product Vision
Triple constraint theory suggests that it is not realistic to expect to build the fastest, the cheapest, and the...
Transform Your RACI Chart or RACI Matrix (Roles and Responsibilities Chart) into a Project Plan
Here's how to create a project plan or RACI chart (or RACI matrix) when your discussion or meeting deliverable...
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