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.

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PMO Sustainability Certification Influencer 455

The IIL Blog

JULY 24, 2024

This balance will be key to achieving effective and sustainable strategic value realization. Many companies today conduct a study every year or two to identify the four or five strategic career paths in the company that must be cultivated so that the growth of the firm is sustainable. Q4) Virtual work is getting increasingly common.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 23, 2017

This article, Communicating Change: A New Book From Elizabeth , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. It’s the book I would have found really useful on the major enterprise-wide change programmes I’ve led, but I couldn’t find anything to tell me what to do. “ I loved the book! Everyone’s heard of them.

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2017 Sustainability Change Management Agile 0

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Pernille Eskerod and Anna Lund Jepsen’s book, Project Stakeholder Management Stakeholder management seems to stay a hot topic regardless of what year we’re in. In the book, they argue that proactive stakeholder management is far better than adopting a reactive ‘wait and see’ approach. It remains relevant today.

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2013 Sustainability PMI Influencer 466

ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2018

Most project management books will tell you this: If you make sure that the triple constraint is covered, you won’t have any problems. Sustainability. The sustainability of a project can play a major role in the long-term strategy of a company, and can often affect a project’s success. Tool for Handling Sustainability.

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Technical Review Software Review Sustainability Risk Management 393

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 19, 2024

I talk about how to choose, get started and collaborate with technology in my PMI best-selling book, Collaboration Tools for Project Managers. APM focus heavily on stakeholder engagement (and I wrote the book on stakeholders for them ). We wouldn’t have had that use of technology 10 years ago.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2023

This conflicts with the advice Scott Berkun gives in his book, Making Things Happen. You need to sustain progress while planning recovery. Sustained control is necessary to prove that something has been turned around. The way out of this is to make big, targeted changes quickly.

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sustainability Estimate 444

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It became a part of agile when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book “Agile Software Development with Scrum” in 2001. This organization produces a book called the “project management body of knowledge” or PMBOK. First introduced in 1997, in the book “Critical Path” by Eliyahu M.

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Technical Review Prince2 Lean Manufacturing 505

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 29, 2019

Even after all that time, women in project management are still a hidden key to our global and economic sustainability. It’s a process, a mindset and a shift to keep our global economy sustainable, innovative and engaged. For the last four years, I’ve published my annual women in project management blog for ProjectManager.com.

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 30, 2021

It is relatively easier for leaders to make staff who are co-located with them feel comfortable about speaking up, but it takes greater effort for them to establish and sustain such safety with dispersed team members. It’s available on Amazon.com and on Amazon.ca as well as a number of other online book stores).

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Sustainability Government Governance Leadership 358

Scrum.org

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For months, I have been working on turning the popular Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide PDF into a new book from Scrum-org’s Professional Scrum Series , published by Pearson. Creating the graphics has been challenging at times; there will be more than 50 cartoons and sketches in the book. The Origins of Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide.

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Henny Portman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Every day, we are confronted with alarming news about climate change, making sustainability more crucial than ever. This is precisely why ‘Sustainability in Project Management’ by Gilbert Silvius, Ron Schipper, Julia Planko, Jasper van den Brink, and Adri Köhler remains a valuable read, even more than a decade after its release.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The project tolerance definition I use in my book, Project Manager , is this: Tolerances are how much you can flex within your project without having to go back for approval. Sustainability tolerance Sustainability tolerances are new for 2023 in PRINCE2 7. Welcome to the wonderful world of project tolerances.

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Prince2 Sustainability Risk Management Budget 370

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 21, 2020

For example: Commuting on the train: read a book Working out at the gym: listen to a podcast Waiting for the children to finish swimming lessons: read a professional journal, many of which are available online if you log in to the professional body’s website Cooking dinner: play another podcast Driving to work: play another podcast.

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2020 PMI Certification Software Review 487

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 15, 2016

It took me a while to get my hands on Simon Moore’s book, Strategic Project Portfolio Management *, but I’m rather glad I did. I read a lot, and I notice fonts, layout, box copy, but in this book, most of all the lovely tables. Praising a book because it is pretty is probably shallow, but it does matter for the reader experience.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 25, 2024

The book laid out the principles of lean manufacturing, which focuses on reducing waste, creating customer value and seeking continuous process improvement, and kanban. Toyota used it to organize its manufacturing operations, such as logistics, supplier management and customer delivery.

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Manufacturing 2004 Software Review 2009 447

NimbleWork

JANUARY 2, 2025

They drive meaningful change through their books, talks, social platforms, and real-world implementations. Author of influential books like Succeeding with Agile and User Stories Applied, Mike is a sought-after speaker and trainer, with over 7,000 licenses sold for his video courses on Agile topics.

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Lean Influencer Technical Review 2025 105

Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 28, 2017

The definition of change management I use in my new book is this: The way we facilitate the shift from current practice to new practice in order to achieve a benefit. In doing all of this you are ensuring that your change has the best possible chance of long-term sustainability and success. Defining Change Management. Testing engineer.

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Change Management Technical Review 2007 Engineering 298

ProjectManager.com

JUNE 28, 2018

From the top down, the entire organization must be committed to sustaining quality improvements for them to be achieved. Control: In order to make sure that these improvements are sustainable, monitor them by creating a control plan. There are characteristics to manufacturing and businesses processes that are definable and measurable.

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Lean Manufacturing Transportation Sustainability 417

Scrum.org

JANUARY 15, 2025

What I learned from this book is The purpose (goal) of Lean is to get to the shortest sustainable lead time with quality and value. Yet again, I will recommend a book with the same title by Mary and Tom Poppendieck to get a good hold of the subject.

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Lean SCRUM Software Review Software Developers 185

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 15, 2022

And here are some others: Sustainability: Does the thing support sustainability goals? Has it been created with sustainability in mind? There isn’t much in the way of specifics in the book but what I took from it is: Your quality plan should link in with any organizational quality policy. Can we use it?

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Planning Software Review Sustainability Controlling 443

The Lazy Project Manager

JANUARY 27, 2016

With a practical framework for guidance, such as this book, and a supporting experience coach then the organisation benefits that have led to the PMO investment will be secured in an optimum time frame and with reduced risk of failure. The risk to not doing so is to, at the very least, slow the return on investment of the new PMO down.

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PMO Sustainability 2012 Underperforming Technical Team 170

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 7, 2022

Whole books (like this one, my favorite) have been written about how to improve productivity. I’d love to say the answer is to introduce a team productivity tool (especially as I literally wrote the book on collaboration tools for project managers ). And we want to make those habits sustainable. Lead by example.

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Underperforming Technical Team Influencer Sustainability Leadership 447

Kiron Bondale

MAY 16, 2021

After reading an HBR article this week in which the authors provided a number of suggestions on how to sustain newly adopted behaviors in the context of the imminent return to in-person office work, I thought that a nudge-based approach might also help with increasing psychological safety.

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Sustainability Government Governance Leadership 229

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 22, 2017

Driving Project, Program, and Portfolio Success: The Sustainability Wheel [Book Review] Projects are not very good at integrating long term strategy because they are short term endeavours. Strategic Project Portfolio Management [Book Review] If you work in a PMO this is one book that you won't want to miss.

Software Review 298

Software Review PMO Sustainability Software 298

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! ? Management, knowingly or unknowingly, fosters an environment where velocity becomes the altar at which everyone worships, sacrificing the tenets of meaningful work, sustainable pace, and, most importantly, customer value.

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Sustainability Technical Review Innovation SCRUM 251

Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Desert island: Each participant has to state one book, one music track and one luxury item they will take on a desert island, giving explanations on why for each chosen item. Quotes: This is a fast icebreaker activity. Individuals pick a quote and then explain what each quote means to them.

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2028 2005 Executing 2020 508

Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 9, 2021

Read next: my book Engaging Stakeholders on Projects: How to harness people power. Engagement serves two aims: It creates, uses and sustains positive interest in the work. We define it like this: The systematic identification, analysis, planning and implementation of actions designed to influence stakeholders. So why do we bother?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 19, 2023

For example: Commuting on the train: read a book Working out at the gym: listen to a podcast Waiting for the children to finish swimming lessons: read a professional journal, many of which are available online if you log in to the professional body’s website Cooking dinner: play another podcast Driving to work: play another podcast.

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2023 PMI Certification Software Review 440

NimbleWork

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Elizabeth is also a prolific author, having published seven books on project and change management. Her book, Shortcuts to Success: Project Management in the Real World , was shortlisted for the prestigious Management Book of the Year Award in 2014, further cementing her status as an influential voice in the field.

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Influencer 2025 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 111

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 4, 2022

This can be considered a subset of integrated project delivery, especially when dealing with the repair, renovation, maintenance, sustainability and even small new construction jobs. Each contract uses a unit price book to set the price for each job and this is done across a multi-year umbrella contract.

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Construction Risk Management Risk Closing 417

Gunther Verheyen

DECEMBER 11, 2019

During the fall of 2019, I got totally consumed (and sometimes drained and overwhelmed) by an exciting new Scrum book project. O’Reilly Media envisioned adding a book about Scrum to their “97 Things” series and got in touch with me (through Dave West of Scrum.org). I had the honor of curating the initiative.

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SCRUM 2019 2020 Sustainability 122

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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2020 Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 148

Scrum.org

MAY 2, 2022

The third blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations - A Systemic Approach , by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. A product is developed and sustained by a system of people, components, and processes. Identify the required organization elements to develop and sustain the product.

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Defining Sustainability Energy Agile 224

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 2, 2018

Likely with good intention, since it is culture that enables groups of talented but different people to come together in a way that allows a project to be completed, a team to grow and success to be sustained. Another popular word that gets tossed around often is innovation. I’ve outlined a few below. Reward the Correct Activities.

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Innovation Technical Review Software Review Leadership 343

ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

But is there a unifying theory of improvement, and if so, can it be sustained? The idea was codified by Masaaki Imai, an organizational theorist and management consultant, over 30 years ago with the publication of this book, Kaizen: the Key to Japan’s Competitive Success. The question is how can one improve? Have you heard of kaizen?

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Manufacturing Lean Healthcare Software Review 385

Scrum.org

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The many books on Toyota TPS tell us they dont focus on quick fixes or chasing short-term goals. The Benefits of Capability-Driven Improvement Building capabilities instead of chasing outcomes delivers three key benefits: Its Sustainable: When you improve capabilities, you improve how the work gets done, not just the results.

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