Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

By the way, the answer to that question is: “Yes, let me analyze what the impact will be and bring you a recommendation for what that means for our current budget and timeline.”). Scope creep is the more common term but you might hear both, especially if you are working in software development. What’s so bad about scope creep anyway?

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

You’ve heard the phrase, “Always have a Plan B.” ” Well, “Plan B” is just common vernacular for what’s known as a contingency plan. In other words, a contingency plan is put in place in case the primary plan that you’re executing doesn’t unfold as expected.

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MAY 16, 2024

This is called scenario planning. To better position a business to be prepared to respond to the unknown, learn what scenario planning is and what the different types of scenario planning are. What Is Scenario Planning? Scenario planning is different from forecasting. All have advantages and disadvantages.

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Project Risk Coach

JANUARY 24, 2022

Poor risk management is costly. Let's look at the cost of poor risk management through the example of Tom Whitley. Although Tom missed a few deadlines, he implemented most of his projects, though small, on time and under budget in his first year. The senior management team praised Tom for the early action.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2022

It’s not uncommon for organizations to have more plans than they have funds. That creates a dilemma: how to spend their budget. A capital improvement plan can guide an organization when it’s trying to figure out which large projects or purchases in which they should invest. But what exactly is a capital improvement plan?

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Project Risk Coach

MAY 21, 2018

Featuring baselines, subsidiary plans, and other ancillary plans Do you know the 5Ps? Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance. If this is true, why is it that some project managers put so little time in developing a project management plan? Focus on keeping the plans simple and practical.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2024

How do you lead a post-mortem on your project to learn how to repeat the good stuff and lose the bad stuff? It’s also a great way to identify project successes, deliverables and achievements and learn lessons from those parts of the project that didn’t work out as planned. Find out if the planned goal aligned with the results.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The days of technical, scope, scheduling, budgeting, assigning resources and delivering deliverables on time have evolved to include soft skills such as conflict resolution, leadership, and even trends towards more business management skills such as business modeling and strategic analysis. Here’s a shot of the whiteboard for your reference!

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 21, 2022

The software development life cycle (SDLC) is how it’s done in software development. What Is the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)? The software development life cycle (SDLC) is a process by which software is developed and deployed. Planning & Designing. SDLC Phases. Deployment. Waterfall Model.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Maybe your estimates were poor or you forgot to add something into scope that you really should have worked out in advance. Should you have a plan to get back to Green by the point of doing the escalation? If you’re running over budget, you need approval to increase your budget. It happens. Circulate and socialize!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2024

Your thoughts turn to what you should be doing for your professional development in the months ahead… and there’s a lot of choice. I don’t have the time (or the requirement) to take a certification course, but I’m always prepared to develop the project management competencies I need to succeed. Self-awareness We all have limits.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 21, 2020

You got the project delivered on time and within budget, but your stakeholder deems the project a failure. If you’re tasked with producing a service or product, it not only needs to be delivered on time and within budget, but also at a level of quality that makes the service or product viable. What Is a Quality Management Plan?

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

You’ve made the product or developed a great service, now you need to create a marketing plan. Your marketing plan defines the strategies that your organization will use to reach target customers, outperform competitors and position your brand. Basically, it’s taking a marketing plan and executing it.

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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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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Now, those goals must be communicated to the team responsible for executing the individual tasks that will lead to achieving those goals. Project management software is more conducive to sharing strategic plans. More than that, we have resource management, time tracking and task management features that help teams reach those goals.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

That’s the first step in planning, managing and mitigating risk in your projects. A risk breakdown structure is a tool for managing risks, which are any events that you have not planned for or expected. Risk is usually thought of as a negative impact on the project’s budget, timeline or quality. Management. Contractual.

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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 cost of quality is a method by which an organization calculates how much it will cost to deliver a product or service that meets the quality expectation standard set in the project plan. What Is Cost of Quality (COQ)?

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 21, 2022

Or perhaps your team said they had gathered the requirements, but in reality, the team had hastily rushed through the requirement process resulting in rework, missed deadlines, and another blown budget. No requirements management plan. Poor requirements change process. Let's look at 12 common requirements mistakes.

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Having designated risk roles ensures that significant risks receive attention and allows everyone on the team to focus on completing the project successfully. First, sponsors develop and cast the project’s vision, including goals , risk appetite , and risk thresholds. Project sponsors have several responsibilities.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The need for a business case is that it collects the proposal, outline, strategy and marketing plan in one document and offers a full look at how the project will benefit the organization. SWOT: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats. Financial plan. Project Plan: It’s time to create the project plan.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 17, 2024

This then acts as a central repository for stakeholder information, which the project manager and project team use to understand the project stakeholders and their needs, expectations and any risks or opportunities associated with their involvement in the project. Then, they can share the plan with the project team and stakeholders.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 7, 2024

That doesn’t happen without an organizational strategy to plan for the organization’s long-term success. Organizational strategy is the long-term planning a company does to achieve some goal in the future. It’s not only communicative but helps management develop strategic plans so the company can accomplish its goals.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 20, 2017

Project scope is part of the planning process of any project. But before you jump into that project plan and begin to tackle the scope of your project, let’s review the basics. It’s that part of the project planning process that determines and documents what are the project goals, deliverables, tasks, costs and deadlines.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Teams get sick. If the change is accepted, that is it must be responded to—which opens a whole new set of procedures to make sure you stay on track and within budget. The change control process is part of the larger change management plan. Change control informs the project manager during the planning phase of the project.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 1, 2019

Sometimes leading a team, project or organization goes well. Jennifer noted that whether you’re leading a team , project or organization, things are either going well or poorly. Jennifer noted that whether you’re leading a team , project or organization, things are either going well or poorly. These crises impact teams.

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Inloox

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Concepts are the bridge to project planning because you can derive the most important tasks from them. Thus, concept development is an important key skill for project managers and all those who want to become one. You need the following competencies for successful concept development: 1. Information for the project team.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 9, 2019

“How much detail do we need for our release plan?”. This is an important question to ask at the beginning of a software development project, or in the case of a long-standing product team, before the development of a major release of a system. In short, agilists aim for just enough planning.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 2, 2020

If something bad is going to happen on a project, it’s likely related to time, cost or scope. Project managers are well aware of this and spend much of their time planning in order to avoid negative risk and its potential impact. In fact, the project controls are key to a strong project plan. Project Planning.

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 5, 2023

Clarity can help project teams gain better insight into potential threats and opportunities. This shared vision is essential for team members to understand how their involvement can help achieve project goals. Improve Risk Evaluations How can an individual or a team evaluate a poorly defined risk?

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 7, 2019

Planning for a project is essentially choosing one path forward to achieve your goals and objectives. There are many ways to proceed, but through research, experience and good judgement, the best route is picked when creating a project plan. But things don’t always work out as planned. What Is Technical Debt?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Here are some of the things project managers reported in the survey as wanting to learn more about: How to speak with clients with less stress How to keep the team motivated and how to manage stress How a manager can reduce stresses. There is no career development. See the trend?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

We challenge leaders, we talk about risk and what might go wrong and we call people out on poor performance through project monitoring and control. Conflict should be a healthy part of any team’s development, and it’ a good way to challenge requirements and ensure that your business case and plans stand up to scrutiny.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 23, 2024

When you’re a PMP, program manager or portfolio manager, you need to deliver all those multiple projects on time and within budget. This requires an organization with a well-developed project management process. Rather, it’s a team effort guided by standardized processes, well-defined roles and responsibilities and collaboration.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s easy to get lost in the planning and execution as these are foundational processes that help deliver successful projects. Enterprise environmental factors can be defined as conditions that aren’t under the immediate control of the project team. Projects aren’t executed in a vacuum.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

After the project initiation and the planning processes, the execution of the project begins. Project execution’s key purpose is to complete the work defined in the project management plan and to meet key project objectives. Communicating information to all key stakeholders, sponsors and team members. Manage Team.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 20, 2024

Construction projects are structured with schedules, budgets and resource allocation. To help you once you break ground on your construction project, we’ll throw in some free construction project management templates on estimating, scheduling and budgeting. ProjectManager has workload charts to keep teams productive.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 7, 2024

Next, we’ll outline the demand management process to learn how to implement this planning methodology and how software can facilitate that process. It’s a planning methodology that tries to forecast what a customer will want, when they’ll want it and the logistics of getting that product to them. What Is Demand Management?

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