The Role of Readiness
Demystifying Projects
August 17, 2023
As a Project Manager, your role in a negotiation meeting shares similarities with a coach's preparation before a penalty shootout in football. Last week, we took inspiration from two specific anecdotes about winning approaches by two players in famous situations.
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Tags: Project Management
The Perfect Metaphor for Your Project
Medium
December 15, 2021
Metaphors are not just clever wordplay. A compelling metaphor is a simple yet powerful tool that helps people understand complex ideas. It can be also a great way to introduce new perspectives.
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Tags: Change Management, Project Management
Exploit Agile’s Emotional Intelligence To Make Your Project Successful
Medium
November 07, 2021
The success of a project depends on many factors, but the management of emotions in the team is not optional. It is a key component that should be included in team management practices.
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Tags: Agile, Leadership, Project Management
The 4 Stages of Emotions on Your Project and How to Handle Them
Counter Arts
October 17, 2021
The importance of managing both negative and positive emotions in your team
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Tags: Culture, Project Management, Risk Management
Agile FOMO
Medium
October 10, 2021
Why do I care so much about Agile project management, and the epic fight against the Waterfall evil dragon?
Because I feel the pain of all the organizations that are caught in a deadlock.
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Tags: Agile, Project Management, Risk Management
The Project, the Devil and the Dog
Medium
September 04, 2021
How many Italian bridges belong to the devil?
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Tags: Agile, Project Management, Risk Management
Team performance
Linkedin Pulse
April 16, 2020
If the morale is low, people cannot be expected to be performing to their best - at least, not in the long run. Tasks will need more time to be performed.
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Tags: Agile, Project Management, Risk Management
Quality of Collaboration
Linkedin
April 13, 2020
Whatever the technology, the quality of connections and the familiarity with virtual interactions: people working from home, or in distant teams, have to cope with limitations in communication.
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Tags: COVID19, Project Management, Risk Management
Activities needing proximity
Linkedin Pulse
April 13, 2020
Lockdown measures make many activities impossible, and there is not a viable virtual alternative for all of them.
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Tags: Digital Transformation, Project Management, Risk Management
Sudden death
Linkedin Pulse
April 08, 2020
A possible decision by senior management to suddenly stop the project. This could be a portfolio-level decision, aimed at preserving the chances of success for other projects with a higher priority, and you - as the project manager - might not have a say in it.
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Tags: Business Strategy, Project Management, Risk Management
Non-Explicit Dependencies
Linkedin Pulse
April 08, 2020
Projects always have some sort of dependencies, and there is nothing special about them just because we're in the middle of a pandemic, right?
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Tags: COVID19, Project Management, Risk Management
Decrease of Resource Capacity
Linkedin Pulse
April 08, 2020
The most obvious risk during a pandemic, and it is not infrequent to find it listed as a risk even in ordinary times, for example when a project has a critical phase during the flu season.
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Tags: Business Continuity, Project Management, Risk Management
Critical dependencies from other projects
Linkedin Pulse
April 02, 2020
Unless your project lives in an ivory tower, without influences from other projects, you sure have some dependencies. If nothing else, at least you need that other projects release those resources that you need so bad.
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Tags: Agile, Project Management, Risk Management
Project Financing
Linkedin Pulse
March 31, 2020
If the budget of your project is directly depending on some financial investments, it might be facing a budget cut.
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Tags: Business Strategy, Project Management, Risk Management
Critical Infrastructure
Linkedin Pulse
March 25, 2020
I am fascinated by the growing popularity of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction in the last two decades, and I often wonder if it has an impact on how younger generations feel the societal impact of the pandemic outbreak.
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Tags: Business Continuity, Project Management, Risk Management
Availability of Scarce Resources
Linkedin Pulse
March 25, 2020
I am fascinated by the growing popularity of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction in the last two decades, and I often wonder if it has an impact on how younger generations feel the societal impact of the pandemic outbreak.
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Tags: Business Continuity, Project Management, Risk Management
Stakeholder distraction
Linkedin Pulse
March 22, 2020
With a pandemic ongoing, priorities are changing: senior managers are likely to be involved in high-priority activities that are necessary to safeguard employees' health and safety, and to ensure business continuity.
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Tags: Business Strategy, Project Management, Risk Management
Freedom of Movement
Linkedin Pulse
March 20, 2020
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Tags: Digital Transformation, Project Management, Risk Management
Machiavellian wisdom for Risk Management
Linkedin Pulse
July 13, 2016
A note about Risk Mitigation - and the virtues of Risk Management in general - written about 500 years ago by Niccolò Machiavelli in his masterpiece, "The Prince".
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Tags: Culture, Project Management, Risk Management
Projects and Methodology
Il Sole 24 Ore
April 07, 2016
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Tags: Agile, Project Management, Risk Management
Big Data and Risk Prevention
Il Sole 24 Ore
October 28, 2012
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Tags: Agile, Project Management, Risk Management
Leverage the Power of New Technology and Get Rid of Innovation Anxiety
Conferenzia World
December 02, 2022
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Tags: Agile, Digital Transformation, Project Management
RPA: a Bottom-Up Innovation Story
Conferenzia World
May 19, 2022
Expert talk at the Global Smart Manufacturing & Process Automation Summit
19-20 May 2022
Frankfurt, Germany
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Tags: Agile, Digital Transformation, Project Management
Global Insurance Innovation Conference
Conferenzia World
February 24, 2021
How agile practices can support innovation, and how agile principles can also be lived within a classical or hybrid project organization.
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Tags: Agile, Business Strategy, Project Management
PPM & E-PMO Conference
Johnson Event Services
April 07, 2016
Fight the bias: it’s not bureaucracy!
- PMO and Portfolio: the multi-project-manager Cinderella syndrome
- Stakeholders: the usual suspects?
- Learn their language - and find the right translation
- Develop your own Brand
- KPIs for the PMO itself, not just for projects
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Tags: Agile, Culture, Risk Management
Innovazione a Trieste
Tra La Gente
November 11, 2010
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Tags: Innovation, Project Management, Risk Management
Tra Social Media e mondi virtuali: la nuova “dimensione sociale” nella formazione e nella comunicazione d’impresa
Innovaction 2008
February 16, 2008
Corporate presence on Social Media and Virtual Worlds
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Tags: Metaverse, Project Management, Risk Management