It can be difficult to know when to stretch your existing team to fill out a project, start a new hiring process in anticipation of work, or simply hire a freelancer to help complete a project team. I’ve worked with companies as a project lead, temporary project manager, and full-time contract project manager, and it’s not always easy to get freelance hiring and fit right. However, a freelance project manager can help your team and projects in many ways: project on-boarding, dedicated budget and timeline oversight, clearer communication with teams and clients, providing valuable status reports, and overall coming into the project with a fresh set of eyes that gets applied to your vision for the project and team direction. You’ll…
I recently wrote a post detailing the process I went through to create a retrospective plan for a non-agile team. Several DPM friends of mine were kind enough to contribute many resources, ideas, and advice towards my questions. Here’s a list of all of the resources I used, below. Thank you to Holly Davis, Larissa Scordato, Rachel Gertz, Patrice Embry, and Carson Pierce. Begin the meeting Retromat Idea Generator During the meeting Working Wall 7 Step Agenda for an Effective Retrospective General resources and articles Blameless Post-Mortems at Etsy The Art of the Retrospective Retrospectives at White October After the retrospective Retrospective of Retrospectives