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ProjectsAtWork has joined forces with ProjectManagement.com. Here you can follow our bloggers and access our extensive archive of articles and deliverables. Moving forward, our contributors will continue to create content for ProjectManagement.com, including the Agileist and Driving Strategy newsletters. As ProjectsAtWork officially moves to Projec... tManagement.com, here are answers to some frequently asked questions, including how you can continue to access our content on ProjectManagement.com, and what happens to your profile, comments and subscriptions moving forward. The Agile voting mechanism known as "Fist of Five" is a great way to drive your team towards consensus and commitment. It's a simple, powerful process that can strengthen alignment and increase transparency on your projects. Heres a look at how and why it works. The popular managerial acronym VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity) can be useful in identifying and categorizing risks, but a complementary framework known as VUCA-Prime is more helpful in shaping appropriate responses to those risks by focusing on vision, understanding, clarity and agility. ProjectsAtWork is joining forces with ProjectManagement.com, the worlds largest online community of project management practitioners. Combining resources, expertise and energies, we will be more focused than ever on delivering the content that helps you get things done in the real world. Managing risk is not exclusively about minimizing it. Risk is also about maximizing rewards. Here, a lead project manager shares some thoughts on playing it safe to stay on track and avoid issues versus taking a plunge to pursue an unexpected opportunity. Projects may be unique endeavors, but they cant be managed in isolation. They must be integrated and assessed within the context of strategic enterprise goals a portfolio-level perspective enabling synchronized adjustments on the way to delivery. And this requires project leaders to adjust as well. As project and program managers you have plenty ...Read More