Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Note: At the time of writing, the PMBOK ® Guide – 7 th Edition has not yet been published, so this information is taken from various sources of publicly available information from PMI webinars and articles. I’ll update the article when more information is available. Leadership. Demonstrate leadership behaviors.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 19, 2021

Let’s just go with the fact that CV and resume are interchangeable terms for the purposes of this article. Underneath, I list skills grouped together by: Interpersonal skills Leadership. Ethics, diversity and inclusion and managing workplace stress all fall into this category as well. Mine is called ‘Skills Profile’.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 24, 2024

As an example, different skills may be needed for strategic projects that demand radical rather than incremental changes from how the firm conducts business. Some of the new skills needed for strategic projects include design thinking, rapid prototype development, crowd storming, market research, brainstorming and change management.

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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 5, 2021

I frequently see questions asked in project management discussion groups about hybrid projects. As I wrote in last week’s article, projects themselves can’t be waterfall, agile, traditional or hybrid but how we approach them can be. But what does “hybrid” really mean?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

These tend to be transformative programs, delivering organizational or cultural change such as a restructure or fundamentally changing the operating principles of the business (going paperless, for example). While it helps in many ways to have such overt senior support, it does push resistance to change underground!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2023

How to include project management skills on your CV Let’s just go with the fact that CV and resume are interchangeable terms for the purposes of this article. And you don’t have to work as a project manager for very long before you realize they are truly not easy. FAQ What skills are needed for project management?

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The IIL Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

By Dr. Elissa Farrow March 20, 2024 Leadership futures are where change is not a challenge but an opportunity. The journey they embark upon goes beyond managing change; it’s about co-creating, empowering, and fostering continuous improvement. It is all in the framing, tone, and demonstration.

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NimbleWork

OCTOBER 21, 2024

This article presents the top 25 project management influencers who have distinguished themselves through visionary thinking, practical expertise, and an unwavering commitment to advancing the profession. What distinguishes these influencers in the landscape of project management thought leadership?

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PM Times

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Agile methodologies focus on teamwork, flexibility, and ongoing improvement—all of which are significantly influenced by a leader’s emotional awareness and ability to manage interpersonal relationships.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

A while back, I asked project management experts w hat we should be aware of as we go into the new year to achieve their most successful year ever? And this article is a summary of what they replied. I’m sure you take away tips and ideas for making this your best year yet managing projects at work. Let’s jump in.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 17, 2024

and co-founder of the 8020 Excellerate leadership development program. Her specialties include coaching and developing change leaders at all levels of the organization; consulting on complex organisational change initiatives including enterprise agile PM rollouts, business transformation projects and merger/acquisition change programs.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 14, 2024

What ‘project manager’ means to one business will be slightly different to how another company uses the term. In this article, we’ll go through what they mean and what you can expect to do in one of those roles. Project managers work on things that have a beginning, a middle and an end, with a defined end result.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This year’s trends, developed by our team of learning, product, and project leadership experts, each highlight a reason why adaptive skill sets are increasingly in demand, and why project leaders at all levels of organizations across different industries should work to develop these holistic capabilities.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 26, 2023

Using SCARF as a manager Understanding how the brain works adds new perspectives to many good leadership practices. Take the adage: ‘When dealing with change, communicate, communicate, communicate!’ Here are more books about change management that I recommend. Key takeaways On projects we rarely work in isolation.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In this article, we’ll cover the basics: what are organizational competencies, and why should you, as an individual, care about them? You can also build competence across the business as a whole by hiring new personnel with the necessary skills or by making changes in leadership. Leadership. Change management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 7, 2022

You’ve read all the articles, you’ve got ideas about how things could be better. Sharing round a link to one more ’10 ways to be more productive’ article just isn’t making change happen. The rest of this article talks about how to get people to work in the new productive way.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 11, 2022

You can draw a recruiter’s attention to your skills, teamwork, leadership, and achievements. Here’s how to showcase your projects on your CV (as we call a resume here in the UK, and I’ll use both terms interchangeably in this article) to make it clear what you are capable of. Should I include academic projects on my resume?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2024

Example: Using ADKAR Let’s say you are delivering a project that has an element of process change and that means 10 users are going to have to do their work differently. ADKAR is the Prosci model for delivering change based on best practice. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In their book, Leading Successful Change: 8 Keys to Making Change Work , Gregory P. Solomon talk about the 8 things that you should be targeting if you want the change management effort on your project to stick. They say that if your project isn’t addressing at least 4 of these elements, then the change is doomed to fail.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Peter speaking at the APM Rethinking Leadership conference. This is a guest post by Peter Parkes, author of NLP for Project Managers. At the same time I identified some lessons for leadership styles for project management. Leadership styles. History of NLP. The project. Considering Followership. Peter’s book.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In 1969, in Philadelphia, Jim Snyder, of Smith, Kline & French Laboratories, and Gordon Davis, of the Georgia Institute of Technology, were having dinner and decided there was a need for an organization that offered project managers a forum to share information and discuss their industry. The Goals & Standards of PMI. PMI Founders.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2022

This would be a good book for people new to the workforce or taking a team leadership job for the very first time. If you are looking for some other suggestions for project management books to read, you can check these out: Best PRINCE2® books Books by Elizabeth Harrin (that’s me!) Business Networking: The Survival Guide.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2021

Are you wondering whether it’s worth getting a degree in project management? This article is for you! For example, let’s say you have a job as an IT team leader or marketing manager. A project management position is a good entry point into an organization. What kind of jobs can you get with a project management degree?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 2, 2023

Are you wondering whether it’s worth getting a degree in project management? Or what you can do with a project management degree for a job once you finish your bachelor’s or master’s studies? This article is for you! For example, let’s say you have a job as an IT team leader or marketing manager.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 11, 2021

Where is artificial intelligence taking project management? AI has turned up in the project management trends articles over the past few years and it’s now most definitely here to stay. I think they mean 80% of what the textbooks say is the discipline of project management, not what project managers actually do.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 11, 2024

Change management is often part of a project manager’s role, but we don’t get a lot of formal training in how to make it happen. However, the risk of getting the change aspects wrong can be huge. A cost-effective and comprehensive self-paced training.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 3, 2023

If you are studying for the Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam, this is the article you need to help you break down and understand the contents of the exam. Domain I: People The People domain covers the soft(er) skills required to be a good project manager. Let’s look at each of those domains next.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 4, 2021

The project management models most likely to come up in your Project Management Professional ( PMP ®) studies and in your work as a project manager are: Situational leadership Communication Motivation Change management Complexity Conflict Negotiation Planning Process groups Team development Stakeholder salience.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In my experience PMO roles have typically been administrative, but the new focus on portfolio management and delivering cost efficiencies is hopefully changing that. If the PMO acts in this leadership role, it’s a natural place for strategy and direction to come from. A version of this article first appeared in 2012.

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International Institute for Learning

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Abstract Change Management is the discipline that guides how we prepare, equip and support individuals to successfully adopt change, which in turn drives organizational success, deliverables, and outcomes. Original article published here. All rights reserved.

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Proofhub

DECEMBER 22, 2020

So, what impacts does the digital transformation have on leadership strategies? Before delving deeper in understanding how digital transformation can affect leadership strategies , it would be a good idea to first understand what this entire concept entails. We find the answer to this and more in this post.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 1, 2018

There are lots of routes into project management, as I explored recently in an article on how to become a project manager. But reading about what you should do to break into project management isn’t the same as hearing real stories of people who took that leap and got that project management job. Elise Stevens.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Let’s look at what a program manager does all day. You’ll receive broad direction from your leadership team. These could be project managers or PMO colleagues. You’ll see these skills on a program manager job description – and if you don’t you should be asking why! Change Management. Stakeholder Engagement.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 5, 2022

This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management. When I did my Foundation and Practitioner exams, I only used the two official PRINCE2 handbooks: Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management. Pin for later reading.

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Moira Alexander

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Change management, similar to project management, involves people, processes, and tools to effectively help organizations manage all the changes that occur, whether as a result of project initiatives, or other factors that might impact the business. Characteristics of change management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 12, 2022

For simplicity, and because the UK government uses the terminology of gate review, that’s what I’m going with in this article. This group could be the PMO or Portfolio office, a business strategy team, an internal senior leadership forum supported by additional approvers, or any other group set up for the purpose. Your next steps.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

You’ve read all the articles, you’ve got ideas about how things could be better. Sharing round a link to one more ’10 ways to be more productive’ article just isn’t making change happen. The rest of this article talks about how to get people to work in the new productive way. Scott Berkun.

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