Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 16, 2022

We discussed creating a project team culture. Elizabeth: This week in the Project Management Cafe Facebook group we’ve been talking about team culture and various different bits and pieces, and I know this is something that you’re kind of an expert in, because you’ve been chipping in and answering the questions.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 31, 2025

The Change Formula The Change Formula is a highly practical tool developed over the past decade. He guides readers through applying this understanding to various aspects of life, enabling them to recognise how their minds operate, understand and manage their emotions and thoughts, and develop themselves into the people they aspire to be.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 1, 2018

They listed the following: Develop the decision-making ability of leaders. Transfer your vision to the team, so everyone understands it. Develop your inner circle to offer guidance and advice. Become an influencer to better guide those following you. Become an influencer to better guide those following you.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

Successful CEOs Ram Charan and Larry Bossidy define execution in their book Executive: The Discipline of Getting Things Done : “Execution is a specific set of behaviors and techniques that companies need to master in order to have a competitive advantage. Communicating information to all key stakeholders, sponsors and team members.

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Nine times out of ten, I hear the answer—poor communication. What happens when poor communication exists? Consequently, individuals misunderstand and make bad assumptions. Here's the bottom line -- poor communication drives projects into an abysmal valley. Heck, your team may even abandon ship.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 29, 2019

Stevens is a podcaster, author, speaker and works with women in project management to reinforce within themselves their true value to their team, company and industry. This year, I’m going to spotlight an initiative called #CelebratingWomeninProjectManagement launched by Elise Stevens , CEO of FixMyProjectChaos. Invest in your network.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

And in no particular order we start with: Mark Phillips Mark Phillips High performing teams are motivated by an exceptional vision. The vision becomes a touchstone for difficult discussions with stakeholders, a path to unity for all project participants and a guide post for decision making with your team throughout the project.

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The Lazy Project Manager

MARCH 2, 2021

For the second time in 12 months I readjusted my business to meet what market there was and became a PM ‘influencer’ working with companies like Wrike, Clarizen, Microsoft, Sharktower, and more. It hasn’t all been bad. New keynote topics developed and ready (just call please). And guess what?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Being able to act as a credible, trusted leader is dependent on you and your team making ethical choices about how you manage and lead the work. Yep, that’s correct: the PMBOK ® Guide isn’t the only reference book you need to look at. It’s giving your clients a poor service and doing a disservice to your team as well.

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Stick with me, and we’ll explore what project requirements are, why they’re important, and some tips for developing good ones. First, they provide the project team with a shared understanding of the project’s goals and objectives. Stick with what you can influence: you know broadly what the objectives and goals are.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 25, 2022

You’ll learn tips and techniques for engaging senior leaders in the role so you can build effective working relationships and act as a team. to support the team at the request of the project manager. They will be able to identify new risks and make the team aware of what is happening elsewhere in the organization.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 9, 2018

It’s an edited extract from his book Risk Happens ! People with more extreme positions are more likely than others to develop clear arguments and are also most likely to voice them. A bright cover for Mike’s own book, Risk Happens! This is a guest article by Dr Mike Clayton , the brains behind Online PM Courses.com.

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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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Project Risk Coach

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

As you struggle with project estimates, budgets, and risks, you engage with team members that bring their personal and professional issues into your world. Your ability to influence and manage these individuals is essential to your success. I’ll provide tips on how to use words and actions to show respect to your team members.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 16, 2018

Don’t ignore them or listen to them exclusively, but put them in the pot with all your other influences for action. Yes, You Can: It takes confidence supported by due diligence, such as clarifying your vision, creating a team to execute it, enlisting support and acting. Be classy, sassy, and a little bad too. You can do this.

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Inloox

MAY 27, 2021

Another reason can be the influence of the project environment or a high number of stakeholders. A good project manager knows that some developments are out of their control. Entire books have been devoted to explaining this law. Augustine's Law: "A bad idea executed to perfection is still a bad idea."

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Scrum.org

APRIL 5, 2022

As a community, we excel at putting our fingers on the sore spots of what teams and organizations do wrong. Some examples of good Scrum versus bad Scrum we all seem to agree on…. But how useful is it for members of a Scrum team or an organization that actually wants to succeed with Scrum? Why does it matter?

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 15, 2017

cited that $122 million was wasted for every $1 billion invested due to poor project performance. Because engineering projects aren’t just about technical issues and rational factors, they are often more heavily influenced by non-technical and emotional factors. Why Engineers Need to Care About Project Management Skills.

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Project Bliss

JULY 26, 2020

A scrum master servant leader can lead his team to greatness with this advice from Geoff Watts’s wonderful book Scrum Mastery. It’s important to say this leans on the teachings of Geoff Watts and his brilliant book Scrum Mastery. Scrum teams regularly build better products faster, while being happier too.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 23, 2022

The most obvious are impacts on project success, team performance, budgets and timelines. The best short answer is to appreciate what is within your realm of control and influence in order to create an action plan. That may give you an opportunity of influence outside the unit. The impact of bullying on projects.

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 5, 2018

toxic culture, poor compensation) which are preventing you from attracting them, and in a pinch, contracting might be the way to go. Development team members are also valuable, but talent across most skill areas is available for the right price and with the right culture in place.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 3, 2018

High performing teams are motivated by an exceptional vision. The vision becomes a touchstone for difficult discussions with stakeholders, a path to unity for all project participants and a guide post for decision making with your team throughout the project. Mark Phillips runs a consultancy focused on high performing projects.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 31, 2024

By Debra Khan Practitioners of content strategy do not have to go it alone when developing a strategy for a content project. Align with the Business Need A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge ( PMBOK ), the bible for project managers, states that “projects are initiated due to internal business needs or external influences”.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

This post is for anyone who wants to inspire, change or influence others through their efforts as professionals, with emphasis on the latter. What is the optimal size of a team? Should teams be stable over at least several years, or is it a good idea they change at will? How should leadership interact with autonomous teams?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

This article, How to Create a Project Team Culture with Colin Ellis , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. We discussed creating a project team culture. How did you get into the whole area of working with teams on culture? I recently did a Live Q&A with Colin Ellis in my Facebook group.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 26, 2021

In their book Agile Retrospectives , Esther Derby and Diana Larsen popularized the idea that a Sprint Retrospect comprises five stages. The second stage refers to gathering data so that the Scrum Team can have data-informed Retrospectives. The Scrum Team identifies the most helpful changes to improve its effectiveness.

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Project Risk Coach

APRIL 30, 2016

Have you ever had problem team members? These individuals hide missed deadlines, possess bad attitudes, and criticize other team members. They seldom volunteer to help other team members or jump in to pick up the slack. Team members watch project managers to see how they respond to problems. Babe Ruth.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 14, 2023

This time we are focussing on the following Agile principle – “At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjust its behavior accordingly.” As a developer, if you wanted to do it you had to work covertly and build time into your estimates to improve things.

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Kiron Bondale

JULY 4, 2021

. “ Until this point, I had felt that most people would willingly choose to behave in a safe manner if they felt they had the freedom to do so, but her assertion that psychological safety is not a natural outcome for teams made me reconsider this assumption. Mercy is for the weak.

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Planio

MARCH 7, 2018

The humble meeting gets a bad rap. Here is how we've structured this blog post: Step 1: Before you book, ask what’s the true cost of this meeting. Step 4: Keep the meeting focused (and stop being a bad influence). Bad meetings aren’t just lost time. But somehow they have. They’re actively killing your company.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In many large organizations, Scrum teams fall into the ‘feature factory’ trap, focusing more on churning out features than creating real value. It’s too bad that this shift undermines Agile principles and hampers long-term success and innovation. Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ?️

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Leading Answers

DECEMBER 20, 2019

In his best-selling book  Drive: The Surprising Truth of What Motivates Us , Dan Pink explains three attributes (Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose) that people want to feel satisfied and motivated at work. It is a great book, but we can do more. Outline the problem, let the team tell you how it intends to solve it.

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Project Risk Coach

AUGUST 15, 2016

” Nine times out of ten, I hear an answer — among others — related to poor communication. What happens when poor communication exists? Here’s the bottom line — poor communication drives projects off the cliff into an abysmal valley. Photo courtesy of Adobe Stock (edited in Canva).

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Leading Answers

JUNE 22, 2022

This is part one in a series on leading agile teams from the Beyond Agile book. We will examine what leadership entails and how it applies to agile teams. We can create backlogs and release plans all we like, but until there is a motivated team with a shared vision of the end goal, it is like trying to push a rope—ineffective.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 29, 2022

Do you start a new Scrum team by explaining the roles, artifacts, and events? And not because frameworks are categorically bad (they aren’t). And I’m sure that most readers have taught this to teams and organizations at least once in their lives, and probably far more often than that. I think this is problematic.

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Scrum.org

JULY 11, 2021

Jimmy is the author of the book “96 Visualization Examples — a toolkit for the Agile coach”. In short: it’s very difficult to measure because even if a team or organization is successful, are they successful because of your contribution, or despite it? They do not manage or lead the team by telling them what to do or how to do it.

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