Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2024

I've seen project managers and other colleagues crash and burn. Lots of senior managers. There is a reason that project management has a code of ethics. I could write my book without his case study (and I did). It's a game-changing book! Today I want to talk about the opposite: what you should avoid doing at work.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Project managers who want to move more into a strategic delivery role dont always have that many choices. Career paths tend to lean towards larger, more complex and more strategically important projects, or program management. Have you thought about moving into portfolio management? What does a portfolio manager do?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

I asked 570 project managers these questions (and more) to find out what life is like in 2024 for project managers leading multiple projects, to follow on from my research on the same topic in 2022. This wasn’t a survey about project portfolio management at the PMO level. So no change there.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 23, 2024

There is no simple answer to how long the project initiation process should be. Project managers would call the planning phase a different part of the project lifecycle, but sponsors don't see it that way in my experience. These would include the risk management plan, the communication plan, and a detailed project plan.

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The Lazy Project Manager

AUGUST 12, 2024

It’s time to upgrade your use of artificial intelligence (AI) to manage projects if you want to keep pace with your peers. A new Capterra study of project managers worldwide* found nearly half (46%) are already using AI-enabled project management tools and expect to increase those AI investments by an average of 36% by the end of the year.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 2, 2024

It turns your work from average to outstanding, fixes problems, anticipates risks , and delivers better products and services, supporting the creation of superior solutions for customers and businesses. As a manager, you're in a good place to support their goals, even if they don't directly report to you. And it makes work more fun.

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2014 Energy Innovation Construction 345

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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Executing Project Life Cycle Software Review Technical Review 516

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Table of Contents Why is stakeholder management important to project success? What is stakeholder management? Reduce and Uncover Risk 3. Easier Project Closure Why is stakeholder management important to project success? What is stakeholder management? Your stakeholders can also help you identify new risks.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Organizations have to explore the proposal and determine if its a good fit for them in terms of risk, reward, resources and so on. A feasibility report in project management is a detailed analysis that evaluates the practicality, risks and potential success of a proposed project before committing significant resources.

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Technical Review Software Review Construction Infrastructure 221

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 18, 2021

In this article we’ll look at the types of artifacts in project management, typical documents for each type. In project management, artifacts relate to documents: the project documentation you produce that defines and supports the work you are doing. For example: a project management artifact is the project closure document.

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Logistics Artificial Inteligence PMI Performance Measurement 511

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 20, 2022

A lot of it is personal preferences but there are also plenty of good practices for managing daily tasks in your work environment. For me, a notebook is a quick way to be better at time management every single day. Managing Multiple Projects has a whole chapter on personal productivity. Let’s dive in. Or anything else.

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 21, 2022

Thanks to the most recent issue of Tom Geraghty’s weekly Psychological Safety newsletter , I learned about a new model for how we consider safety and risk. A Safety-I perspective is a glass is half-full one – things go wrong and we can find assignable causes in people, process and tools.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 10, 2021

I recently spoke with Anna of Women in PM Network on Clubhouse about project management career tips. Anna said that interviewers want to see that you can make them money, improve processes and so on. Interviewers want to see that you can make them money, improve processes and so on. These are the notes from that conversation.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 8, 2022

Planning is an essential part of what project managers do, so you would expect there to be some mention of how to deal with fixed date projects in the PRINCE2® manuals. Project managers still need some guidance on how to manage projects that have a fixed date. There isn’t. So that’s good.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

This article, 10 Things New Project Managers Should Know , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. It would be nice to think that every company has a formal mentoring scheme, and that you can tap into the experience of other project managers through this. Manage Scope. Project management has a lot of jargon.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 9, 2018

There’s a hugely successful book that you’ve probably heard of and may have read called The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. But what habits apply specifically to successful project managers? So, habits amplify how effective you can be and, therefore, how successful your project management practices are.

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Governance Government Technical Review 2010 416

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

What is a method in project management? We have a ton of project management methods – some you probably don’t spend much time thinking about at all. Types of project management methods. Project management uses lots of methods. But there are some specific project management methods. A complete book in itself!

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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate Software Review Risk Management 472

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

There’s no denying that project management today looks different to how it did even 5 years ago. Project management trends shape our profession. So what are the emerging trends in project management that are going to shape how you do your job in the future? How project management is evolving. Managing a hybrid team.

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2022 PMO Risk Management Artificial Inteligence 499

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. Learn how to help your team manage risk so you can split the work between you.

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Finance Risk Management Budget Risk 364

ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Plan for project risks with this risk register template for Excel. Define risk priority and the potential impact for each. Risk is going to happen, but with this free risk tracking template handy, you can prepare for it and have a response already thought out and in place. Every project has risk.

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Risk Software Review Risk Management Underperforming Technical Team 414

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 17, 2024

In this article, you'll learn 20 practical ways to stay organized at work, tested and approved by project managers! 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. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt! Here are some tips.

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Technical Review Energy Governance Government 384

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2020

Why is stakeholder management important to project success? However, stakeholder management is a very narrow way of looking at how we work with people on projects to achieve a common goal. What is stakeholder management? However, there are other reasons for doing stakeholder management. Reduce and Uncover Risk.

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Finance Risk Management Software Review Influencer 371

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 13, 2022

Watch my free webinar training on the 3 critical skills you need to manage multiple projects. Why do you need to learn how to manage multiple projects ? If you are managing multiple projects it means you have more than one project on the go at the same time. Because most people manage multiple projects.

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Risk Management Initiating Risk Process 449

ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2018

One of the biggest challenges of every project manager is project constraints. Hence, it’s important to know all possible constraints, their influences on each other and the project management tools that address those constraints. Classic Project Management Constraints. An Extended Approach to Constraints in Project Management.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 24, 2024

By Dr. Al Zeitoun and Dr. Harold Kerzner July 24, 2024 The future of project management must have a balance between the tactical and strategic focus, in addition to a balance between digital and human. Q1) Based on your observation, what are the challenges facing project management now? Project Management (PM) 4.0

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – ( PMBOK® Guide ) 7 th Edition represents a major shift in the way ‘how to do project management’ is presented by PMI. Instead of the Knowledge Areas , we have the whole body of project management split up into 3 performance domains. Domain II: Process.

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PMI Technical Review Influencer Leadership 476

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 4, 2022

That’s a long and complicated journey in construction project management, which is why knowing the best construction delivery method is so important. There are many different types, from design-bid-build, design-build and construction manager at risk to integrated project delivery, job order contracting and public-private partnerships.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

How organizations are structured, managed, and governed will be increasingly like that of digital natives. That challenge motivated the book “ Project to Product - How to survive and thrive in the age of digital disruption with the flow framework by Mik Kersten.” Decision-making processes are simple and connected to delivery teams.

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Agile ChatGPT Governance Government 127

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 1, 2019

This article reviews and explains the 10 project management Knowledge Areas from the PMBOK® Guide – Sixth Edition. Basically, each Knowledge Area (which you might see abbreviated to KA) is a category of concepts and processes with a common goal. So how many knowledge areas are there in project management?

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PMI Risk Management Risk Estimate 405

Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Today I’m interviewing Mark Woeppel, author of Visual Project Management. But what is visual project management? I caught up with Mark so that he could explain that interesting title and talk more about the book. Mark, what is visual project management? Very little of the body of knowledge is devoted to execution.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 15, 2022

The big risk as a project manager is that you hit all the project management success criteria: being on time and on budget, but what you deliver doesn’t meet the customer’s requirements. A project quality management plan can help with that. The basics: What is a quality management plan? What quality looks like.

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Planning Software Review Sustainability Controlling 443

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. What is managed centrally and what is decentralized? Will your project result in new work processes?

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Technical Review Leadership Risk Management Software Review 93

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 17, 2022

As project managers, it’s important that we know how to best support our development teams (and vice versa), especially in Agile environments. At White October we continuously reflect on our process to refine the way we work. In the Planning phase, the project manager also defines internal and external communications.

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Technical Review Development Team Review Risk Management Agile 441

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

PRINCE2® is a project management method. It’s structured, and experience-based, created from the lived experience of thousands of project managers and successful projects. It’s a customizable way of managing and controlling the work. What is PRINCE2®? PRINCE2® stands for Projects IN a Controlled Environment (Version 2).

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Prince2 Technical Review Governance Government 403

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 29, 2022

Project managers know the importance of having project documentation. Creating and managing project documentation throughout the project life cycle is critical for project success, but where to start? The term project documentation refers to the project management documents that are created throughout the project life cycle.

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Project Life Cycle Software Review Infrastructure Risk Management 418

Kiron Bondale

APRIL 10, 2022

To understand why, let’s draw a parallel to project risk management. Teams might do a reasonable job at identifying risks, assessing them and coming up with risk response recommendations for the higher priority ones. Unfortunately, often times those risk responses never get implemented.

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PMI Risk Management Risk Agile 358

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 22, 2022

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. Read my guide on the process for decision-making. Understand project management techniques. While that might seem like a long time ago, I feel they are still relevant today.

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