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Real-life tips for managing Red projects and getting back to Green

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It is something you can handle, so let me share my top tips for surviving the Red stage and let’s get you tooled up to talk to stakeholders and get back to Green. Maybe your estimates were poor or you forgot to add something into scope that you really should have worked out in advance. It happens.

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7 Tips for Managing International Project Teams

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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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7 Ways Project Manager Roles Are Changing

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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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Project Risk Management: How-to guide (with tips)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article we’ll look at tips for risk management, the role of the risk log, how risks relate to issues and share some project risk examples. Talking about risk puts you in a better position to do something about them especially, as Mark pointed out, “most of our executives are too far remote from the rest of the team.”

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12 Resource Allocation Tips for Managers

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Resource allocation is just a fancy term for a plan that you develop for using the available resources at your disposal in a project. The following are some general tips to help you with your resource allocation when managing a project. This is mostly a short-term plan set in place to achieve goals in the future. Know Your Scope.

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What Is Aggregate Planning? Strategies & Tips

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Aggregate planning is a method for analyzing, developing and maintaining a manufacturing plan with an emphasis on uninterrupted, consistent production. Aggregate production planning also lets manufacturers know what staff, materials, output rates, timeline estimates and budget costs they need. Set up your budget, then manage costs.

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11 Project management skills employers expect you to have

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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.