Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 7, 2022

I’m probably the ideal audience for this book: I don’t need convincing. I wrote a book about stakeholder engagement too. This book sets out a way to manage stakeholders that many project managers will recognize: Identify and document Analyze Develop strategies Plan approach Engage Watch, listen, react and review.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 18, 2022

That’s the question I answer in my book, Managing Multiple Projects. The best processes in the world won’t help if you feel personally disorganized and struggling with productivity. If you want more information on how to make this happen for you, the step-by-step approach is covered in my book. Productivity. Get Your Copy.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 5, 2019

They are often active, and they can have a positive or negative influence depending on their actions. Stakeholders can influence everything and everyone in a project or organization, including senior management, project leaders, team members, customers, users and many others. Also, who will wield the most influence?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The 3 performance domains in project management are: People Process Business Environment. You still need to engage people, create effective processes and operate within your business environment: it’s all project management at the end of the day. Domain II: Process. Let’s look at each of those domains next.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 9, 2021

We define it like this: The systematic identification, analysis, planning and implementation of actions designed to influence stakeholders. Read next: my book Engaging Stakeholders on Projects: How to harness people power. Beyond the interest and influence grid. Helping people take part in the project. So why do we bother?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 6, 2023

Business Resilience: A practical guide to sustained progress delivered at pace is a book by an impressive authoring team. The tone is set immediately with the powerful introduction: this is not a book for the faint-hearted! There are 5 domains in the business resilience framework laid out in the book. Who is this book for?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 25, 2022

She’s even written the book on it. We do it as children, we do it as teenagers (often terrifying our parents in the process) and we do it as adults. 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”.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You know the drill – map influence and interest , then work to try to move any negative stakeholders into the quadrant where they should be through interesting communication approaches and stressing the project benefits for them. Richard Newton, in his book, The Project Management Book , sets out another 4 benefits of stakeholder management.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

During the five process groups of the project life cycle, there are multiple objectives and outcomes for each phase. After the project initiation and the planning processes, the execution of the project begins. During this phase a project leader will focus on these key processes: Managing people. Following processes.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

What is an Influencer? These gentlemen are in all the top-10 lists of being the ‘the best’ Politician, Influencer, world changer, etc. So before diving into the Product Owner taking an Influencer stance, let’s first inspect what an Influencer is. The Influencer is also referred to as the Politician.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

I’m probably the ideal audience for this book: I don’t need convincing. I wrote a book about stakeholder engagement too. This book sets out a way to manage stakeholders that many project managers will recognize: Identify and document. Worsley in Stakeholder-led Project Management: Changing the Way We Manage Projects. “I

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 7, 2022

They don’t waste time looking for stuff or trying to work out how to get things done because there are systems, tools and processes that support them. Whole books (like this one, my favorite) have been written about how to improve productivity. People are influenced by the people around them. Work is done efficiently.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 21, 2023

Procrastination Procrastination is the biggest productivity killer for over a third of project managers, according to research I did for my book, Managing Multiple Projects. Try to influence your environment to bring more stability to the work.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The buck stops with me but there are very few ways I can influence the direction of travel. There are peaks and troughs — Peter Taylor, AKA The Lazy Project Manager , talks about this in his book of the same name. Book a call. Let’s look at those. The work is stressful. Project management is stressful.

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Proofhub

JUNE 7, 2022

Book a DEMO now!” For several reasons, higher base pay significantly influences employee retention. Overall, this suggests that employee retention is influenced not just by where individuals work but also by who they work with. A high termination rate might also indicate issues within the hiring process.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 17, 2024

Block out half a day a month Book a meeting with yourself for half a day a month and call it ‘process review’. Refine your processes. Book time to write reports Book a recurring meeting to schedule the time in your diary for reporting. Book team meetings for the rest of the year Yep, get them in the diary now.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2020

You know the drill – map influence and interest , then work to try to move any negative stakeholders into the quadrant where they should be through interesting communication approaches and stressing the project benefits for them. Richard Newton, in his book, The Project Management Book, sets out another 4 benefits of stakeholder management.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 8, 2018

There are outside influences that will impact it, not to mention the project is executed by people, and people are notoriously difficult to place in box. The key to successful leadership today is influence not authority.” – Kenneth Blanchard. There will always be external and internal factors that influence that plan.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Jennifer defined it as a process whereby a person influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal. Transactional leaders are those who influence others by what they offer in exchange for their help. So, leadership is a process where an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

He is the author of Reinventing Communication by Routledge, a book on how to design, lead and manage high performing projects. You can see Mark’s book, and all the other experts’ books on Amazon here. He is author of 13 best-selling books, including four about project management.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2018

Hence, it’s important to know all possible constraints, their influences on each other and the project management tools that address those constraints. Most project management books will tell you this: If you make sure that the triple constraint is covered, you won’t have any problems. Organizational Processes & Structures.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 14, 2022

I have a process to follow for straightforward project decisions. The incremental model of decision making is a process used to make decisions in a step-by-step manner. As decision making models go, it’s a good choice for complex decisions that require a lot of information to be processed. When it’s most appropriate.

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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. Will your project result in new work processes? Consider how standardizing processes or using checklists could help you embed the change more effectively. Where employees fit in the process of making decisions can influence their behavior.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Or book a power hour with me and get started on your mentoring journey straight away! Having read the policy/process document/standard operating procedure on Y, I have a few questions. Do you have any book recommendations on X topic? What might my blind spots be in this process? Who are the key influencers for Y?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a project manager, you are expected to have all-round skills encompassing the technical fields of project management like planning and scheduling, through to the interpersonal skills like communicating up and influencing others. Boost your skills: Make sure everyone on the team knows how to manage risks and what the process is.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Understanding plus action plus influence gives you engagement. The core aspects of engagement, are understanding, your stakeholder perspectives and building, trusting relationships, taking some kind of action and then influencing stakeholder perspectives to shape the work in the direction of the intended outcomes.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 24, 2020

The company culture has a lot of influence over what is done and what is ignored not followed up. If your work so far has uncovered things that concern you, then consider investing some time in a formal healthcheck process. You can also talk to your mentor (you can book me for an hour chat if you want someone impartial to talk to!).

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The Lazy Project Manager

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Book your VIP option place here [link]. More information and booking here [link]. Based on the Amazon #1 Bestselling Project Management Book by Peter Taylor. PMO Influencer of the Year 2020 (PMO Global Alliance). Or there is a Self-Study option [link]. Peter Taylor. Grab your place today here [link]. Peter Taylor.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 31, 2025

These levers can be treated as practical guidance that will allow you to influence effectively pragmatically. Unclear Processes: A lack of clarity in roles, policies, or workflows can lead to confusion, inefficiency, and inconsistent outputs. If you want to implement change in your workplace, create a sense of urgency around it.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 3, 2019

Knowing what people do and the influence they have is an important of part of how to manage a project. Another use for it is for process mapping. If you are going to change a process as part of your project you can use RACI to step through the process and record who is going to be affected by any process change.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 16, 2022

This is how I like to receive information, this is how I like to process information”, because really once you’ve that base understanding of each other’s personality, you really can start to work well together. That could be the title of my next book. Our book of the week is Colin’s book.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 29, 2019

It’s a process, a mindset and a shift to keep our global economy sustainable, innovative and engaged. My overall impression of conferences, papers, books and social media channels is that there are great women doing great things, and yet we never seem to hear about these achievements.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

She’s even written the book on it. We do it as children, we do it as teenagers (often terrifying our parents in the process) and we do it as adults. 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”.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 23, 2022

This is an edited extract from my book Customer-Centric Project Management , co-authored with Phil Peplow (Routledge, 2012). Project teams are made up of wide groups of diverse professionals, and ensuring that stakeholders are engaged in the project process is essential to the success of the project. Project customer vs sponsor.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Normally, PMI provides enough notice to candidates so they can finish up studying with their existing training materials and get their exam booked before it changes. If you knew the contents of the book, and could manage your time in the exam, you’d be OK. That also gives training providers time to update their courses.

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Planio

JULY 22, 2020

A good project management book. the truth is that project management books are a more in-depth way to get inside the minds of the best managers out there. We combed through best-seller lists, spoke with veteran PMs, and read a ton to put together this list of the best project management books for upgrading your career in 2020.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

Six videos covering tools and techniques, the process and more. Read Anthony Mersino’s excellent book: Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers. RPA is Robotic Process Automation. Recommended Training. Change Management Workshop. $79. Learn how to do change management on projects and prepare for successful delivery.

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