Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 7, 2023

Outside of the world of PMI, I’m not sure that the term is widely used at all, but let’s put that aside for a moment and consider what they are and how to use them. They might be influenced by market conditions (risk appetite statements might change, for example, if the market suddenly gets a lot more competitive).

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In this article, we will cover strategies to usher in this adoption and certain tasks that can be augmented with AI. At this level, it is likely that the individual’s depth of experience and knowledge about their organization, industry, and project management will influence the quality of the final outcomes.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

PMI defines ethics like this: Ethics is about making the best possible decisions concerning people, resources and the environment. Later in this article is an example of an ethical scenario that Jeff Furman found himself in on a project. What is the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In this article, I’m saving you some time by highlighting 15 of my recommended books for PDUs, but first, let’s cover off some details about using reading. How to claim PDUs for reading You can claim PDUS for reading by logging them in the PMI CCRS or your professional body’s equivalent record system. What books qualify for PDUs?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

This can lead us to set up risk management activities that are less than effective, or influence our approaches to managing project risk. The book is not method specific, so it doesn’t matter if you use PRINCE2® , the PMI® equivalent or any other national or international standard. Set up your risk management structures straight away.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 18, 2022

She wrote: I have been advised that you have to do a degree in a particular subject e.g. engineering, do project management training e.g. PMI®, PRINCE2® etc and work your way up in order to become a project manager. A good starting point if you want to check out what is available is this free course from PMI. Kickoff from PMI.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – ( PMBOK® Guide ) Seventh Edition represents a major shift in the way ‘how to do project management’ is presented by PMI. 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.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 20, 2021

Meeting management skills are no longer part of the Exam Content Outline (ECO), which you can download from the PMI website. If you want your meeting to end up with a decision don’t underestimate the amount of influence you have in getting there by doing some pre-work informally with your attendees. 7: Do The Work.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

According to our recent MPUG survey, 53% of project managers rank stakeholder management as their biggest challenge and it’s often these invisible influencers who create the most significant impacts. ” This simple question often reveals critical hidden influencers. The ripples extend far beyond the initial point of impact.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In this article, I’ll outline what’s currently announced about the changes and how you can prepare. Every so often PMI carry out an assessment of what people in project management jobs do all day. At the time of writing, PMI had not yet announced the new date from which all candidates would be taking the new exam. I didn’t know.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

And this article is a summary of what they replied. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) 7th Edition A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (also known as the PMBOK® Guide -- 7th Edition) is core reading as prep for PMI exams. But what does it take to get there?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 16, 2021

In this article we’ll talk about the top competencies for project managers and how you can develop your skills. Soft skills include: Communication Leadership Self-awareness Confidence Resilience Teamwork Business acumen Influencing and negotiating Networking Stakeholder engagement. Influencing and negotiating. Networking.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 9, 2022

In 2022, PMI updated the Talent Triangle to include business acumen. In this article I’m going to give you some specific actions you can do to improve your business acumen. If you like, you can download a summary of this article as a free checklist so you can work through the actions at your own pace.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Use this quick link menu below (on the main full article page) to jump to the relevant portion of the year. PMI Sweden Passion for Projects: Stockholm, Sweden 11-12 March 2019. PMI EMEA Global Congress: Dublin, Ireland, 13-15 May 2019. PMI Australia: Gold Coast, Australia, 27-28 May 2019. January to March 2019.

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NimbleWork

OCTOBER 21, 2024

These top 25 influencers for 2025 aren’t just keeping up with the trends—they’re setting them, reshaping how teams collaborate, innovate, and deliver in today’s fast-paced world. What distinguishes these influencers in the landscape of project management thought leadership?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 25, 2022

Modelling is the reason we don’t want our children to hang out with “the wrong sort of influence” and it is the reason we want them to hang out with “the right sort of people”. The courses are all eligible for PMI PDUs which is great! This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Projects are the future, a good portfolio office can influence and shape strategy and project management is the only way to holistically deliver improvements. PMI (and other professional bodies) are keen to elevate the role of the project manager beyond someone who simply ticks boxes and marks tasks as 100% complete. All good stuff.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

One of the reasons for that is scope creep – and that’s what this article is all about. These are laid out in a research paper from PMI *. Change control or change management is the process of managing unplanned but desired influences on the project. Paper presented at PMI® Global Congress 2009—North America, Orlando, FL.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 2, 2023

This article is for you! She wrote: I have been advised that you have to do a degree in a particular subject e.g. engineering, do project management training e.g. PMI®, PRINCE2® etc and work your way up in order to become a project manager. PMI reports an expected global need for 25 million new project professionals by 2030.

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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. There’s now a trend towards calling them ‘power skills’ (started, I believe, by PMI) because calling them ‘soft’ makes them seem easy. Here’s how.

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Project Risk Coach

AUGUST 5, 2019

In this article, let's explore what you need for a great project charter. PMI Pulse research shows actively engaged sponsors are by far the top driver of projects meeting their original goals and business intent. These same stakeholders will discover the project later and may adversely influence the project. Click to Tweet.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 27, 2020

grow the influence of individual practitioners! John is a Certified Disciplined Agile Instructor (CDAI), PMI-ACP, Certified Scrum Professional and Certified Scrum Master. I’m the author of the PMI bestselling book, Collaboration Tools for Project Managers (and a bunch of other books). Get Project Confident.

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Inloox

JULY 26, 2021

Besides certification programs and extensive market research programs, PMI has been publishing its PMBOK guide (Project Management Body of Knowledge) since the late 1990s by setting standards for project, program and portfolio management. In this article we explain briefly what is new. Leadership: Motivate, influence, coach, and learn.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

I have spoken about this with many PMI members, my project team members, business owners and other project managers. Good relations are the key to influencing people, getting their attention and finally getting things done. Quite often we have no team directly reporting to us. All of that creates a positive, productive atmosphere.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Perhaps that number (from research by PMI ) surprises you, but I’m sure you aren’t surprised by the fact that good communication management on projects leads to higher success rates. This article is a guide to project communication management. Did you know that 56% of your project budget might be at risk due to poor communications?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 19, 2024

In this article, I’ll share the skills that have been the most useful for me in the role. Interpersonal skills Interpersonal, or power skills, to use PMI terminology, are arguably more important than technical skills. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management Want to make it as a program manager ?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

I think it’s been that way since A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge ( PMBOK® Guide ) finally included a tenth knowledge area on managing stakeholders (although in my mind, stakeholders were important to the project management profession way before PMI wrote it into the book). What success did you have?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 4, 2019

In this article, I’ll show you what project resource management is, set out a simple process to do it, describe the tools to help and give you tips to overcome some of the common issues. Now you need to do the negotiating, influencing, badgering to get the people and other resources you need at the times you need them.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 7, 2023

But if you are new to the workplace, you’ll pick up some useful tips on how to work effectively with other people and develop what PMI calls Power Skills, and what IBM calls Success Skills. Yes See the course This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management And no one can argue that they aren’t needed.

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Kiron Bondale

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

I wrote an article a few months ago about the importance of securing contingency reserves , so I didn’t expect to return to this topic so soon. If so, a core require is professional responsibility on the part of practitioners of a profession which is why PMI identifies Responsibility as one of the four values within its Code of Ethics.

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Kiron Bondale

MARCH 27, 2022

K nowledgeable – Do they have sufficient product domain knowledge but also the organizational savvy to know who to engage, influence or persuade? I ran a poll in the PMI LinkedIn Project, Program and Portfolio Management discussion group to learn what others had experienced.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 23, 2022

This is a guest article by Paul Pelletier, LL.B., The PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct included as part of the standard for Responsibility the statement: “We report any illegal or unethical conduct.” That may give you an opportunity of influence outside the unit. Neutrality isn’t an option.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2021

Perhaps that number (from research by PMI ) surprises you, but I’m sure you aren’t surprised by the fact that good communication management on projects leads to higher success rates. Did you know that 56% of your project budget might be at risk due to poor communications? We know that all projects use finite resources to achieve an objective.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 25, 2022

In this article, we’ll look at why that is and how you can work with a project sponsor as a project manager. There is no single, perfect definition of a project sponsor that all the professional bodies like APM and PMI agree on. Without trust, influence is almost impossible.”. Every project needs a sponsor.

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Online PM Courses

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

The PMI Talent Triangle is a simple tool that reminds us all about the value of a broad range of professional skills. The most succinct – and possibly best known – articulation of that full range of capabilities is the PMI’s Project Management Talent Triangle. Just a Moment… Who or What is the PMI?

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Project Risk Coach

JUNE 17, 2016

Mark Langley, President and CEO of the Project Management Institute (PMI), penned a great article entitled Using Project Management to Reduce Risk. While the article was written for Chief Financial Officers (CFOs), it’s a message that all leaders should read. “Leadership is influence. Educate stakeholders.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Positions at this level carry a significant amount of influence over strategic direction and policy. This article first appeared on Rebel's Guide to Project Management and can be read here: Portfolio Management: The Career Move Youve Been Looking For? Is it sounding like something youd be interested in so far?

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