Causes of Conflict in Project Management

There will be times when a project doesn’t run as smooth as you had planned. When you put together a group of intellectuals that all have the same goal, but have different ways to achieve that goal, is when you’ll run into problems in project management. Team conflict is challenging for project leaders but it is not necessarily bad. Conflict can lead to new ideas and approaches and facilitate the surfacing of important issues between team members if it is managed well.

In fact, according to various research studies on team conflict, the major sources of conflict among project teams are project goals not agreed upon, disagreement of the project's priorities and conflicting work schedules. This is no surprise since most organizations today run multiple projects and employees often find themselves serving on a variety of project teams.

Here is an infographic from Visual.ly that highlights the key causes of conflict in project management teams today:

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Power Up Your Agile Product Planning & Analysis: Collaborate to Deliver Value – Complimentary Web Seminar

Power Up Your Agile Product Planning & Analysis: Collaborate to Deliver Value
- Ellen Gottesdiener,  Founder, Principal Consultant, EBG Consulting, Inc.
Wednesday, August 8th, 2012, 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET Reserve your webinar seat now at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/264528265

For continual value delivery, stakeholders must partner to reach a shared understanding of the product needs. How does this partnership gain a focused yet holistic understanding of the highest-value needs? How to the partners effectively plan so that the delivery team builds the right product, at the right time?

Join Ellen Gottesdiener, co-author with Mary Gorman of the soon-to-be released book, Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning & Analysis, and learn how to engage in "structured conversations" that explore, evaluate and confirm product options.

Ellen shares the 7 Product Dimensions and shows how they both transcend and deepen stories and personas. She explains how you collaborate to discover options, assess options using the partners' value considerations and allocate options to delivery cycles. You'll learn how these conversations fuel your daily product discovery work, enable you to quickly plan and analyze to deliver high-value candidate solutions.

Bonus! One lucky attendee will win a copy of the just released book, Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning & Analysis.

Participants will also receive a subscription to EBG's eNewsletter, Success with Requirements.

By registering you submit your information to the webinar organizer, as well as the presenter, to communicate with you regarding this event and their other services.

About Ellen Gottesdiener

Ellen Gottesdiener is founder and principal of EBG Consulting, experts helping you deliver high-value products your customers want and need. Ellen is an internationally recognized facilitator, coach, trainer, speaker and expert in agile product management practices, product envisioning and roadmapping, business analysis and requirements, retrospectives, and collaboration. She works with global clients and speaks at numerous numerous industry conferences.

Author of two acclaimed books-Requirements by Collaboration and The Software Requirements Memory Jogger- Ellen is co-authoring (with Mary Gorman) a book on practical agile planning and analysis practices. View articles, Ellen's tweets and blog, free eNewsletter, and find a variety of useful practitioner resources on EBG's website, ebgconsulting.com.

About EBG Consulting

EBG Consulting experts help you deliver high-value products your customers want and need. Based on many years of experience in a variety of domains, EBG helps you calibrate your practices to produce timely, quality products. EBG is a leader in helping business and technical teams collaborate to deliver valued, useful and usable products using the agile practice. EBG helps you incorporate appropriate business and requirements analysis practices to ensure a shared understanding of product needs.

Free Web Seminar: Managing Risk Using Better Requirements

Date/Time: Wed, Dec 9, 2009 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST

Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/613727752
Mention priority code MWS0027BLOG

Incomplete or inaccurate requirements are often cited as one of the main causes of project failure. Whether you are 10 feet away from the user or an ocean away, it is imperative that you accurately elicit and document requirements in order to mitigate your project risk. Presenting a complete requirements picture early on and staying on course throughout the project life cycle is crucial to success. Managing your project risk through the use of business analysis best practices is a best practice in itself.

During this presentation, we will discuss the vital link between business analysis best practices and improvements in risk management and will present a tool to assess your project risks and opportunities early in the project life cycle.
This presentation provides a framework to discuss five best practices in business analysis.

Key Learning Points:
• Key components of managing risk on projects
• Proven techniques to define better user requirements
• How to leverage business analysis best practices to mitigate project risk

Featured Speaker
Glenn R. Brûlé, CSM, Executive Director of Client Solutions, ESI International

Meet Some of Our Presenters

Being on hand to document this year's event, I have a chance to meet with our presenters, get them to share some highlights of their presentation, as well as record some of their discussions for everyone to share in. Yesterday, I had the chance to meet with some and here they are for you:

Alora Chistiakoff, Change Management Executive, presenting 'You Gotta Walk Before You Can Run: Getting Started with Portfolio Management'



Alain Arseneault, Chief Strategist, and Julian Sammy, Chief Architect at the International Institute of Business Analysis. Here they discuss their presentation, 'Requirements Management Planning for Success.' You can visit their blog to learn more.



Lisa DiTullio of Lisa DiTullio & Associates who is presenting 'Expected Behaviors: Road Rules for Project Team Performance - Not Road Rage.' You can read more about this here.



Amy Nichols, Sr. Vice President, Director of Systems Development Optimization for Wachovia Bank and Glen Brulé, Director of Client Solutions of ESI International held a Learning Lab: Creating a BA Center of Excellence.