Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 7, 2022

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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 29, 2022

I have been a bit lax with project management reading recently but one book that I have made time to review again is The Conscious Project Leader: How to Create a Culture of Success for Your Projects, Your Team and Yourself. It didn’t take much browsing on his website to realize that it was going to be my kind of book.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 3, 2020

Because of this, Systemation became intimately aware of the project managers’ strengths and weaknesses in performance and was able to reflect back on the assessment results and draw specific conclusions. If the score was low, they tended to be seen as emotionally volatile and not safe for their team members to get behind and follow.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 20, 2022

Managing international project teams requires cultural sensitivity and an awareness of what makes us different — and the same. In this article you’ll learn 7 helpful tips for working with international teams on global projects. Working with global teams is normal. Many of us do manage international teams now.

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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? So how do we do it?

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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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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 25, 2023

But we’ll also discuss the cost of good quality vs. the cost of poor quality and show you how to measure COQ. The book Quality Control Handbook, published in 1951 and written by quality expert Joseph Juran, defined cost of quality as having both tangible and intangible costs. What Is Cost of Quality (COQ)?

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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

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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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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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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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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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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Scrum.org

MAY 29, 2023

I’d like to believe that since our book, Zombie Scrum completely disappeared. I definitely see many good things happening within our community, and the teams and organizations we work with. In short, I’ll describe how poor facilitation of the Scrum events can cause Zombie Scrum. What’s the dynamic within the team?

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Jennifer Bridges, PMP, discusses common leadership challenges, what the role looks like to the team and the larger organization, and how one must constantly adjust in order to succeed. There are tons of books, articles and lectures with varying opinions about how a leader can get a group of individuals to act as one and achieve a common goal.

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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

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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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

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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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 4, 2021

You won’t find anything in PRINCE2 about people management or the soft skills of project management, although these are covered in other related books. PRINCE2 is the same: there is no point in sticking rigidly to the workflow in the book if it takes you three times as long to get anything done. And what are the weak points?

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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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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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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Imagine you’re a Scrum Master and the line manager of your team believes that the best sign for a successful agile transformation is a steady increase in the Scrum Team’s velocity. Moreover, if the team fails to deliver on that metric something is wrong with the Scrum Team. Cooking the Agile Books — A Simple Exercise.

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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

APRIL 12, 2022

“New work is being assigned without being reviewed for priority or as part of the long term strategy/plan,” wrote one project manager, and many others added similar comments about the lack of organizational portfolio management, like these: Poor strategy planning hence poor implementation in order to realize benefits sought.

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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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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 22, 2018

There are many questions you need to think about, like what should your team culture be, and what are the best project management tools for your tasks? But how can you develop these skills and set yourself up for success? Now you can apply this knowledge to your team leadership, sharpening and refining your leadership skills.

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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. It’s giving your clients a poor service and doing a disservice to your team as well.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

That applies to processes, organizations, individual team members, whatever or whoever is a risk to the successful completion of the project. He focused his theory on project management with another book, Critical Chain , which came out in 1997. A similar concept was developed in Germany in the early 1960s by Wolfgang Mewes.

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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. But what is visual project management?

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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. Develop a personal growth plan to avoid becoming stagnate. First of all, they develop the decision-making ability of the leaders.

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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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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

It’s of paramount importance to everyone involved, from stakeholders to team members. The best a project manager can do is develop an accurate time estimate for how long it will take to satisfactorily complete the project. The main lesson to learn from all this psychological profiling is that our gut is a poor estimator of time.

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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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