Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Ruth Pearce knows everything there is to know about motivating your project team. She’s even written the book on it. I caught up with Ruth to find out more about how to motivate teams and why it’s something you should be actively doing. Why do you think motivation on project teams is so important? I love this question.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Without exception, I hear—poor communication. Let’s look at five bad communication habits to avoid and what to do about each. Bill could periodically review the charter with his project team to ensure that the team is aligned with the original intent of the project. We all develop habits, some good and some bad.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Wouldn’t life be better if your team were, well, just a little bit more productive? It is possible to create an environment where project team members can be more productive, by creating good habits. But no one is telling you HOW to get your team to adopt new ways of working. What is team productivity?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 2, 2019

But we do know that when it comes to business, leadership, personal productivity and work-life balance, a slew of seriously helpful self-help books has recently been published that can help you make 2019 your best year yet. If you start your new year by reading just one of these books, you’ll be starting out on the right foot.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2020

Suitable agile metrics reflect either a team’s progress in becoming agile or your organization’s progress in becoming a learning organization. At the team level, qualitative agile metrics often work better than quantitative metrics. A team may have deliberately built some temporary solutions to speed up experimentation.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

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. There is no career development. Let’s look at those. The work is stressful. Project management is stressful. If you set it up right, the project should pretty much run itself.

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Project Bliss

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Learn how to think better by using productive thinking approaches with Tim Hurson’s book Think Better – An Innovator’s Guide to Productive Thinking. In the book Think Better: An Innovator’s Guide to Productive Thinking , Tim Hurson teaches a step-by-step process for dealing with big challenges. .

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2023

There’s only one thing worse than being told bad news, and that is being told about bad news late. This conflicts with the advice Scott Berkun gives in his book, Making Things Happen. Using an outside assessment team creates objectivity. In this step you would also initiate contact with the program and project teams.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Without exception, I hear—poor communication. Let’s look at five bad communication habits to avoid and what to do about each. Bill could periodically review the charter with his project team to ensure that the team is aligned with the original intent of the project. We all develop habits, some good and some bad.

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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

JANUARY 3, 2020

But we do know that when it comes to business, leadership, personal productivity and work-life balance, a slew of seriously helpful self-help books has recently been published that can help you make 2020 your best year yet. If you start your new year by reading just one of these books, you’ll be starting out on the right foot.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 4, 2021

PRINCE2 is process based, with processes covering starting a project, directing a project, initiating a project, managing stage boundaries (sign off and moving between stages), controlling a stage, managing product delivery (there is an emphasis on product based planning) and closing a project. And what are the weak points?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

A complete book in itself! Producing the SWOT analysis for our 3-year plans for the IT team was one of the highlights of my year – my boss might be surprised to hear me say that! SWOT stands for: Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats. We used to do root cause analysis a lot in the IT team. Earned value analysis.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 5, 2020

Management expert Henry Mintzberg, in his book, ‘Managing‘ suggests that the open-ended nature of the job is one of the most significant adjustments for new managers. According to the HRPA (Human Resources Professionals Association), 63% of millennials believe that their organisations are not developing their leadership skills.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 3, 2018

We’re tasked with developing new products, taking them to market, making our systems more efficient and well, so much more. Quality is a very good thing in an end-product, but it can slow you down in development. The Exercise : This one is easy; come up with as many ideas as possible — good and bad. Work in a New Location.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

There is always at least one constraint, and the theory of constraints uses what is called a focusing process to identify that constraint, and then restructures to address it. That applies to processes, organizations, individual team members, whatever or whoever is a risk to the successful completion of the project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

I caught up with Mark so that he could explain that interesting title and talk more about the book. Visual Project Management is a process that uses the visualization of the project delivery process to drive team behaviors: to collaborate and effectively manage projects to deliver on time. Let’s talk about the unexpected.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 30, 2020

I could write my book without his case study. Career-limiting because: No one wants to work with the project manager who emails the operational team a closure document and is never seen again. As I talk about in my course on how to write awesome project status reports , surprises are bad. And I told him so.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 31, 2022

Subtitled ‘Learning and Development in Practising Change’ and with a truly awful cover I wasn’t sure what to expect from Participative Transformation. The authors say that it’s better to develop collective reflections as a basic of being able to meet the uncertainties of the future. This book review first appeared in 2016.

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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. It’s a process, a mindset and a shift to keep our global economy sustainable, innovative and engaged. It’s Time to Change the Ratio. Invest in your network.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Given I literally wrote the book on Collaboration Tools for Project Managers, you’d expect that I’d be using my software for stakeholder comms every day. I do use Slack for project management on a daily basis, as it’s a good way to stay in touch with the team. Team Engagement Tactics. Using collaboration tools.

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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. We commit to active listening as we believe communication is a two-way process.

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 8, 2022

In a project-oriented structure where the project manager has people management responsibilities for their team members, it is expected that an individual’s performance on project work is the primary basis for their formal (HR) evaluation. But this is not something I’ve run across frequently.

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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. Elizabeth is also a prolific author, having published seven books on project and change management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

1: Book Virtual Meetings on a Schedule. Sofia Hess says: Virtual meetings are essential for geographically dispersed teams. This is incredibly important for our team. 3: Understand The Strengths of Your Team. In turn, my team developed a deeper understanding of their strengths. 2: Delegate.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 4, 2022

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. The bad news, it’s hard to master. Scrum is part of agile software development and teams practicing agile.

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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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Scrum.org

AUGUST 22, 2019

Early September a new book will be added to the Professional Scrum Series : Agile Leadership Toolkit - by Peter Koning. Traditional management and leadership practices were developed to manage work, to build the process, and to provide the intelligence for work to be done. In numerous cases I’ve seen these teams.

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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. Tips for developing good project requirements. Well, this is my life!

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This certification exam usually gives two answers to choose from that could be applicable; the correct one requires an ability to differentiate situations and circumstances and connect to specific project management process keywords and concepts. From experience, projects become late and over budget due to poor communication.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Whether that’s through ongoing Agile retrospectives or by talking about continuous process improvement as you go, keep thinking about what you could do better. Then you can tweak what you are doing to improve the project and the processes. Work with your team to establish what to do about them. Create a Common Goal.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 28, 2022

Normally I take lots of notes when I’m reading books for review. I’m seeing this more and more in project management books (I like to think I started a trend !) There is a logical flow to the book. Virtual teams are very much the norm now. It’s all brilliant. and it works very well. Section Two looks at skills.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Therefore, you need to systematically track and evaluate the performance of the actions you take to mitigate risk against established metrics throughout the acquisition process while developing other options. Either way, you need a template to manage the process of resolving risk. Bad news should first be communicated in person.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 23, 2022

In this article you will learn: Why enabling Scrum Teams with UX Design capabilities is important. Why introducing UX capabilities to Scrum team is frequently hard. What is the job of an UX Leader in a product development organization. How to use a UX Design maturity level to coach teams to deliver better outcomes. . ??

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Kiron Bondale

JULY 18, 2021

The latest version of the Scrum Guide states “ The Developers can select whatever structure and techniques they want, as long as their Daily Scrum focuses on progress toward the Sprint Goal and produces an actionable plan for the next day of work. Some of our team members aren’t able to attend the daily standups.

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