Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 10, 2023

This is very helpful during a retrospective or lessons learned exercise, because it saves time if you hit similar problems again. Project Workbook and Budget Tracker $6.00 You can also keep the relevant details for future reference, so you can look back and review what you did to address the problem.

Technical Review 433

Technical Review Risk Management Budget Risk 433

Project Risk Coach

MAY 3, 2021

Bob emailed the stakeholders a survey link asking, "What items should be included in the project budget?" He compiled and sent the results to the stakeholders asking them, "Do you agree with these budget items? She facilitated the round robin exercise asking each participant for their top three. Why do the disagreements exist?"

Estimate 370

Estimate Finance Budget Risk Management 370

Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

It’s full of very practical exercises that you can use in any kind of workshop, whether small groups, large groups, or virtual. It comes with a Miro board so you can complete the exercises, plot out your diagrams and get some real experience using the tools. To get the most out of the course, you need to do all the exercises.

PMI 462

PMI Technical Review 2021 Underperforming Technical Team 462

ProjectManager.com

JUNE 16, 2021

This exercise a deeper dive into the problem and its causes, rather than accepting the first answer, and brings you closer to what is actually causing the problem. ” A: The hybrid methodology has gaps… This question and answer exercise leads to the root cause of the missed deadlines problem. ” over and over again.

Monitoring 546

Monitoring Sustainability Defining Process 546

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 23, 2023

It’s just another retrospective box-ticking exercise, right? Risk audits provide valuable information that can be used to inform decisions related to resource allocation and budgeting for future projects. Benefits of a risk audit: Is it worth scheduling one? Who has time for that? Should we spend more time on risk management?

Risk 440

Risk PMO Risk Management Government 440

ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

No matter how good your plan is, there will be changes and these will impact your schedule and budget. Conduct Team-Building Exercises. Team-building exercises is a way to upstart trust, especially for new teams that don’t have a lot of shared experience. Make Changes. Update Stakeholders. You need to manage their expectations.

Executing 516

Executing Project Life Cycle Software Review Technical Review 516

Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In this exercise, we should consider: What deliverables must be created to achieve the project objectives? What are the budget constraints? First, decompose the project into deliverables , verifiable work products (e.g., building, software, reports). What will NOT be delivered in the project? What are the assumptions?

Risk Management 397

Risk Management Risk Construction Estimate 397

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 25, 2020

A project manager with a confirmation bias could use a questionable report to justify polluting the environment, since she actually only wants confirmation that the containment cost she missed in her budget is unnecessary. Belief bias in project management. Finally, a project manager should heed the belief bias.

Technical Review 493

Technical Review 2007 Finance Estimate 493

ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 28, 2023

When a project is approved, there’s likely already a plan and budget in place. Without workload analysis, projects can quickly go over budget and miss important deadlines. Estimate Costs and Create a Budget Now that you’ve estimated the resources you’ll need, it’s time to figure out how much each of these will cost.

Manufacturing 461

Manufacturing Monitoring Estimate Executing 461

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 17, 2024

Perhaps your work is very linear so it’s so obvious you don’t need to go through the exercise of working it out. Time-phased distribution of cost Time-phased project budgets allow you to work out exactly when your project budget will be spent. Why does a phased budget matter? For simple schedules, you might not.

Critical Chain 386

Critical Chain Software Review Budget Estimate 386

Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 24, 2022

Close out the budget and contracts. Your project budget and contracts are closed out at project completion. The easiest way to do this is to talk to the person you’ve been dealing with in Finance and make sure they’ve got everything they need to shut down the project budget.

Closing 459

Closing PMO Budget Finance 459

ProjectManager.com

JUNE 29, 2017

The Management and Leadership program at Pryor, which includes live and online learning options, offers a wide variety of management seminars that focus leadership training, motivating yourself and your employees, budgeting skills and effective communications, such as how to effectively deliver criticism and discipline for employee growth.

Leadership 403

Leadership Technical Review 2009 Certification 403

Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Delivering innovative products on time, on budget. In one company, a team of leaders self-nominated themselves to take part in the exercise. I wouldn’t recommend a two-day offsite for this exercise for your PMO. What difference do you want to make to the organization? For example, it could be: Improving project success rates.

PMO 398

PMO Technical Review Information Technology Government 398

ProjectManager.com

JUNE 8, 2022

The key concern of a steering committee focuses on the direction, scope, budget, timeline and methods used by an organization. What does it have authority to do and how does it exercise its governance over a project? Approve the Project Budget. Let’s take a step back and think about the functions of a steering committee.

Software Review 396

Software Review Government Governance Budget 396

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 22, 2023

Project failure can be delivering a project after its deadline, over its budget or not meeting its quality expectations. Fostering collaboration through project management tools , team-building exercises and other tools and techniques will drive productivity. What Is Project Failure?

Estimate 369

Estimate Software Review Budget Controlling 369

Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 18, 2020

Instead, start with some team exercises to warm up people’s brains and help them realize that they are in a safe space where it’s OK to make suggestions. Check out these ways to celebrate success , many of which don’t need any formal budget. Don’t simply launch into handing out the sticky notes. Say thank you.

2014 438

2014 Energy Innovation Risk Management 438

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

One of my favorite exercises from my Professional Scrum Product Owner classes is how to best sabotage a Product Owner as a member of the middle management. The exercise rules are simple: You’re not allowed to use any form of illegal activity. The Exercise: Consider How to Best Sabotage A Product Owner.

SCRUM 227

SCRUM Budget Agile 2022 227

ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Budget: This is an estimate of everything in your plan and what it will cost to complete the project over the scheduled time allotted. ProjectManager.com’s Gantt chart can help make plans, schedules and budgets. Now, it’s not just an exercise to appease senior leadership. Project Plan: It’s time to create the project plan.

Underperforming Technical Team 493

Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Leadership 2019 493

ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Risk management is important, of course, but there’s an even more rigorous process that can be done to make sure the project stays on schedule, under budget and delivers quality. Begin by looking at it as you would a team-building exercise. But don’t use this exercise as a forum to vent or settle scores.

Software Review 355

Software Review Risk Management Risk Monitoring 355

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 1, 2019

Under the umbrella of cost management, you will: Plan how much you are going to approach budgeting Estimate your costs Create the project budget Track and control the budget. Cost management is basically managing project funding. However, I think many managers in the sponsorship role prefer to hold the purse strings themselves.

PMI 405

PMI Risk Management Risk Estimate 405

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 25, 2020

You can read more about this attempt at thanking people on a budget here and find out why it didn’t work out so well. You might be working on a project with a vendor who still has got a budget for giveaways. Then we made personalized gift vouchers. Say ‘Thank you!’. You can never appreciate people too much.

Budget 482

Budget Certification Closing 482

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 3, 2023

It’s through these exercises that design and engineering departments communicate and develop the idea into a working product. Finally, once you’re certain the product prototype is ready and all the bugs have been worked out, build a production-ready prototype that fits your budget. Create a Production-Ready Prototype.

Software Review 413

Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Manufacturing 413

Project Risk Coach

JUNE 19, 2017

Tom started his project with a risk identification exercise with several stakeholders resulting in a list of 77 risks. During the cost planning, the contingency and management reserves are added to the project budget as needed. How can project managers optimize their risk responses and get the results they are looking for?

Controlling 290

Controlling Risk Technical Review Performance Measurement 290

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 24, 2023

Project managers who are excellent at preparing plans, reporting progress, managing budgets, controlling risk and dealing with issues and changes could learn a lot from adopting these principles. Project recovery exercises involve leadership, but they are also very much concerned with management tasks. It’s an attitude.

Leadership 320

Leadership Executing Innovation Defining 320

Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 23, 2021

For example, what are the most significant opportunities related to the schedule, budget, scope, or quality? The affinity diagram is a fun, creative, and beneficial exercise. I will not go through the rules of brainstorming here. However, I would offer this suggestion. Plan your brainstorming questions in advance. Checklists.

Underperforming Technical Team 363

Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Risk Management Risk 363

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

This exercise will give you a baseline for the project’s requirements. The budget. It might be easier to get everyone in the same room to agree the final list, although if you expect there will be some conflicts you could organize individual sessions with each of your stakeholders in the first instance. Set expectations. Project risks.

Controlling 333

Controlling Agile Risk Management Process 333

ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Planning a project is all about control, and a flow chart gives a project manager a tool to exercise control. Following the plan, there are resources, budgets, schedules and more. The flow chart is a graphic display of the project’s objective and helps create a logical order of work required to reach that goal.

Planning 359

Planning Controlling Executing Software 359

Project Risk Coach

DECEMBER 26, 2017

What are the most significant risks related to [ project objective where the objective may be schedule, budget, quality, or scope ]? This technique is a fun, creative, and beneficial exercise. Plan your brainstorming questions in advance. Here are questions I like to use: Project objectives. Project tasks. Checklists.

Risk 306

Risk Software Review Risk Management Energy 306

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 20, 2018

So from the smaller pieces, you go through the exercise of valuing those pieces, so you’re literally drawing pieces according to pictures, and you describe the value of those pieces. So the second step is to create a blueprint. The blueprint tells how we will get there. So it breaks things down into smaller pieces.

Innovation 353

Innovation Project Life Cycle Construction Executing 353

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

These days, companies don’t have the budget or resources to invest in projects that don’t deliver anything useful. And as business priorities change at a scary rate, today’s high profile, top priority project is tomorrow’s pointless exercise. Every project task you do should contribute to achieving those.

Underperforming Technical Team 419

Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management Certification Risk 419

Scrum.org

DECEMBER 6, 2021

One of my favorite exercises from my Professional Scrum Master classes is how to best sabotage a Scrum Master as a member of the middle management. The exercise rules are simple: You’re not allowed to use any form of illegal activity. The Exercise: Consider How to Best Sabotage A Scrum Master. Scrum Team Building & Management.

SCRUM 222

SCRUM 2021 Technical Review Agile 222

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master II class contains an exercise called “Management in Scrum”. This article describes how this exercise can be used for job interviews for Scrum Masters. Doing this exercise with 1 Scrum Master will take you about 1,5 hours. With a group of Scrum Masters, it can easily take 2 hours.

SCRUM 221

SCRUM Influencer Closing Process 221

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 4, 2023

It’s clearly important to identify and define the roles and responsibilities of your project team, but often project managers will neglect the same exercise when dealing with project stakeholders. Not only does this help you keep to your schedule and budget, but stakeholders want to be updated on that valuable data as well.

Software Review 378

Software Review Risk Management Consulting Monitoring 378

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 11, 2022

Do an ice breaker exercise if your attendees won’t think it is cheesy (mine would). Present the budget figures related to the area and the confidence levels around meeting those. For example, there are always conversations about budget. 9.30am: Welcome. Use this time for introductions. Prepare for conflict.

Planning 424

Planning Cadence Closing Defining 424

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 31, 2020

You’ve just got one day for budget approval,” said Claire from Finance. It is highly likely that the result of doing this exercise is a project that will finish later than you originally had in mind. “Looking at this, we’ll be done by June,” he said to the team. You do know that the approval cycle is three weeks?

Estimate 363

Estimate Finance Defining Planning 363

Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 13, 2022

It helps project managers to make decisions about how to best complete a project within the iron triangle constraints of time, budget, and scope – and all the other constraints that fall outside the somewhat outdated triangle model! You could use that as a prompt to come back to your philosophy and reflection exercise later.

Leadership 410

Leadership PMO Defining Agile 410

Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2024

Standish Group data reveals a startling 58% of Agile teams struggle with delays, budget issues, and dissatisfied customers. Please create a concept for this class, comprising lectures but mainly exercises covering the previously mentioned topics. Activity: Team-building exercise focused on effective communication and trust.

ChatGPT 198

ChatGPT SCRUM Artificial Inteligence Agile 198