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·        Interpret the source and stage of the conflict

·        Analyze the context for the conflict

·        Evaluate/recommend/reconcile the appropriate conflict resolution solution

·        Set a clear vision and mission

·        Support diversity and inclusion (e.g., behavior types, thought process)

·        Value servant leadership (e.g., relate the tenets of servant leadership to the team)

·        Determine an appropriate leadership style (e.g., directive, collaborative)

·        Inspire, motivate, and influence team members/stakeholders (e.g., team contract, social contract, reward system)

·        Analyze team members and stakeholders’ influence

·        Distinguish various options to lead various team members and stakeholders

·         Appraise team member performance against key performance indicators

·         Support and recognize team member growth and development

·         Determine appropriate feedback approach

·         Verify performance improvements

·        Organize around team strengths

·        Support team task accountability

·        Evaluate demonstration of task accountability

·        Determine and bestow level(s) of decision-making authority

·        Determine the required competencies and elements of training

·        Determine training options based on training needs

·        Allocate resources for training

·        Measure training outcomes

·        Appraise stakeholder skills

·        Deduce project resource requirements

·        Continuously assess and refresh team skills to meet project needs

·        Maintain team and knowledge transfer

·        Determine critical impediments, obstacles, and blockers for the team

·        Prioritize critical impediments, obstacles, and blockers for the team

·        Use network to implement solutions to remove impediments, obstacles, and blockers for the team

·        Re-assess continually to ensure impediments, obstacles, and blockers for the team are being addressed

·        Analyze the bounds of the negotiations for agreement

·        Assess priorities and determine ultimate objective(s)

·        Verify objective(s) of the project agreement is met

·        Participate in agreement negotiations

·        Determine a negotiation strategy

·        Evaluate engagement needs for stakeholders

·        Optimize alignment between stakeholder needs, expectations, and project objectives

·        Build trust and influence stakeholders to accomplish project objectives

·        Break down situation to identify the root cause of a misunderstanding

·        Survey all necessary parties to reach consensus

·        Support outcome of parties’ agreement

·        Investigate potential misunderstandings

·        Examine virtual team member needs (e.g., environment, geography, culture, global, etc.)

·        Investigate alternatives (e.g., communication tools, colocation) for virtual team member engagement

·        Implement options for virtual team member engagement

·        Continually evaluate effectiveness of virtual team member engagement

·        Communicate organizational principles with team and external stakeholders

·        Establish an environment that fosters adherence to the ground rules

·        Manage and rectify ground rule violations

·        Allocate the time to mentoring

·        Recognize and act on mentoring opportunities

·        Assess behavior through the use of personality indicators

·        Analyze personality indicators and adjust to the emotional needs of key project stakeholders

·        Estimate project tasks (milestones, dependencies, story points)

·        Utilize benchmarks and historical data

·        Prepare schedule based on methodology

·        Measure ongoing progress based on methodology

·        Modify schedule, as needed, based on methodology

·        Coordinate with other projects and other operations

·        Determine quality standard required for project deliverables

·        Recommend options for improvement based on quality gaps

·        Continually survey project deliverable quality

·        Determine and prioritize requirements

·        Break down scope (e.g., WBS, backlog)

·        Monitor and validate scope

·        Consolidate the project/phase plans

·        Assess consolidated project plans for dependencies, gaps, and continued business value

·        Analyze the data collected

·        Collect and analyze data to make informed project decisions

·        Determine critical information requirements

·        Anticipate and embrace the need for change (e.g., follow change management practices)

·        Determine strategy to handle change

·        Execute change management strategy according to the methodology

·        Determine a change response to move the project forward

·        Define resource requirements and needs

·        Communicate resource requirements

·        Manage suppliers/contracts

·        Plan and manage procurement strategy

·        Develop a delivery solution

·        Determine the requirements (what, when, where, who, etc.) for managing the project artifacts

·        Validate that the project information is kept up to date (i.e., version control) and accessible to all stakeholders

·        Continually assess the effectiveness of the management of the project artifacts

·        Assess project needs, complexity, and magnitude

·        Recommend project execution strategy (e.g., contracting, finance)

·        Recommend a project methodology/approach (i.e., predictive, agile, hybrid)

·        Use iterative, incremental practices throughout the project life cycle (e.g., lessons learned, stakeholder engagement, risk)

·        Determine appropriate governance for a project (e.g., replicate organizational governance)

·        Define escalation paths and thresholds

·        Recognize when a risk becomes an issue

·        Attack the issue with the optimal action to achieve project success

·        Collaborate with relevant stakeholders on the approach to resolve the issues

·        Discuss project responsibilities within team

·        Outline expectations for working environment

·        Confirm approach for knowledge transfers

·        Determine criteria to successfully close the project or phase

·        Validate readiness for transition (e.g., to operations team or next phase)

·        Conclude activities to close out project or phase (e.g., final lessons learned, retrospective, procurement, financials, resources)

·        Confirm project compliance requirements (e.g., security, health and safety, regulatory compliance)

·        Classify compliance categories

·        Determine potential threats to compliance

·        Use methods to support compliance

·        Analyze the consequences of noncompliance

·        Determine necessary approach and action to address compliance needs (e.g., risk, legal)

·        Measure the extent to which the project is in compliance

·        Investigate that benefits are identified

·        Document agreement on ownership for ongoing benefit realization

·        Verify measurement system is in place to track benefits

·        Evaluate delivery options to demonstrate value

·        Appraise stakeholders of value gain progress

·        Survey changes to external business environment (e.g., regulations, technology, geopolitical, market)

·        Assess and prioritize impact on project scope/backlog based on changes in external business environment

·        Recommend options for scope/backlog changes (e.g., schedule, cost changes)

·        Continually review external business environment for impacts on project scope/backlog

·        Assess organizational culture

·        Evaluate impact of organizational change to project and determine required actions

·        Evaluate impact of the project to the organization and determine required actions