article thumbnail

10 Secrets To Being a Good Sponsor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The book includes a list of 50 secrets in Appendix D which is a summary of The Standish Group’s Chaos Manifesto 2012: The Year of the Executive Sponsor. Understand project management techniques. Yes, this is the job of the project manager, but you don’t want them to be able to bamboozle you with jargon. Those are the headlines.

2012 413
article thumbnail

Using Multi-Product/Portfolio Level Product/Agility Practices To Support Your Project To Product Operating Model Journey

Scrum.org

Back in 2012 or so, I met an SVP responsible for a 1000-person delivery organization that was working in a traditional waterfall. Another was to start with a lighter touch intervention at the portfolio level by visualizing, understanding, and managing flow at the portfolio level, to see and begin breaking the waterfall.

Agile 193
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Project Management and Leadership – can you have one without the other?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project management is a field that is becoming increasingly valued within both large and small organizations – our project management training has never been so much in demand! Companies tend to adopt a project management method such as PRINCE2® to ensure that everyone works to the same framework. So what are the differences?

article thumbnail

9 Steps to Managing Risk for Your Projects

LiquidPlanner

Risk and uncertainty are inherent parts of all project work, making project risk management an important topic for teams to address. When studies tell us that easily half of all IT projects run over budget and past deadline , we see how easily risk turns into real trouble for projects and their organizations.

article thumbnail

Asana vs. Microsoft Project: In-Depth Comparison

ProjectManager.com

Asana is a popular work management software that helps teams collaborate on tasks and projects. Microsoft Project is a popular project management software that has the tools that project managers need to manage teams and projects. ProjectManager is the project management winner in the Asana vs. Microsoft Project bout.

article thumbnail

5 Reasons to Get Your PMI-RMP® Certification

Project Risk Coach

I recently had a project manager ask me which of the PMI certifications he should pursue. That depends—it depends on your goals as a project manager. Certainly, the Project Management Professional (PMP) ® and the Project Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP) ® certifications supercharged my project management career.

PMI 214
article thumbnail

Product Development with the Stage-Gate® Process (Part 2): Strengths, Weaknesses, Pitfalls

Inloox

Reduces risk through repeated review oft the project at the gates. Generally, two groups of people can be distinguished in the Stage-Gate® process: the gatekeepers and the stage managers. It has been proven to be successful that different gatekeepers are used depending on the risk of the project. Edgett, S. Cooper, R.