Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2024

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. Not talking about problems Surprises are bad. If you don't talk about problems then you risk hitting your manager with bad news. Project sponsors don't like bad news either.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 8, 2024

No wonder project teams look for open-source Microsoft Project alternatives. Because Microsoft Project can be such a pain to use, project managers and their teams seek alternatives. The more technical teams, working in IT and other departments, are familiar with open source and the Linux operating system.

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Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software 418

ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Managing those tasks is a constant communicative effort with your team. By describing the project landscape, so to speak, you know what your parameters are, and it’ll help you get buy-in from the stakeholders and your team. And you’re going to want to record the measurement process after you close out the project. What are they?

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Binfire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Just like project managers prepare for unforeseen risks in their professional endeavors, wedding planners and couples must anticipate and manage potential issues that could arise before or during the big day. Here’s how you can identify, assess, and manage risks in wedding planning.

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Risk Management Risk Planning Logistics 131

ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Teams get sick. Change is an opportunity for your team to work together to figure out how to respond to the change request. Change control not only reinforces your team’s ability to work better together, but the positive effects bleed into overall efficiency. Weather gets in the way. Supply chains break.

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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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Project Risk Coach

AUGUST 9, 2021

Proper planning prevents poor performance. Project managers should work closely with their project sponsor to develop an agenda for the project kickoff meeting.

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Underperforming Technical Team Initiating Risk Management Closing 397

ProjectManager.com

MAY 7, 2019

The concept of technical debt comes from software development where it refers to the costs of having to go back and resolve problems that arise because of an earlier decision to take the easy route, instead of the best one. That doesn’t mean that technical debt is all bad. Related: The Risk Management Process in Project Management.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

Is your organization failing to close the gaps between strategy and project execution? you can use to help you close those gaps, yet it isn’t easy. Let’s review strategies and tools you can use, and learn how they can help you close that gap to promote successful project execution. Manage Team. Following processes.

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Executing Project Life Cycle Software Review Technical Review 516

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 29, 2021

Your thoughts turn to what you should be doing for your professional development… 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 competencies I need to succeed. How To Develop Your Skills (and those of your team).

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Frustrating, disheartened, disillusioned doesn’t come close and honestly if it wasn’t for the pandemic I would have left some time ago. There is no career development. Some days I would rather drive a bus. Anonymous project manager. And that person is not alone. 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

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Enterprise environmental factors can be defined as conditions that aren’t under the immediate control of the project team. Both being beyond the control of the project team, and even the organization that initiated the project, enterprise environmental factors can affect the outcome of the project, both negatively and positively.

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 28, 2023

As the project management landscape becomes increasingly complex, effectively identifying, assessing, and managing risks has become critical for project managers. The PMI-RMP certification covers various domains, each with its set of tasks and enablers that project managers can leverage to manage risks effectively. Domains (e.g.,

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

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. Root cause analysis. Forecasting. Affinity grouping.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 11, 2023

This is accomplished by a combination of experience and education that directs the construction operations through the development of a detailed schedule and budget. Another delivery method is construction manager at risk (CMAR or CM at risk). Of course, price is a factor, but risk is also assessed. Preconstrucion.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 2, 2024

Jira is project management software designed for agile software development teams. It has tools that allow you to plan sprints, track the completion of tasks, balance your team member’s workload and create product roadmaps. Does Jira Have a Kanban Board? Here are some of the key features of a Jira kanban board.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Software Development Software Developers 465

Project Risk Coach

MAY 21, 2018

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? I’ve developed this checklist to help you develop your project management plan including baselines, subsidiary plans, and ancillary plans.

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Underperforming Technical Team Planning Project Life Cycle PMI 220

Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 23, 2021

3 Is an Opportunity a Risk, Really? Project managers may use qualitative and quantitative risk analysis to evaluate opportunities. Consequently, these project managers and team members fail to take advantage of these upside risks. Therefore, negative risks are considered to be threats and positive risks are opportunities.

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Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Risk Management Risk 363

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 23, 2024

This requires an organization with a well-developed project management process. That’s because the project teams involved with these successful projects follow a defined and repeatable process, which mitigates risk and achieves objectives. It’s essential to keep projects successful for any organization to thrive.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 4, 2021

PRINCE2 is process based, with processes covering starting a project, directing a project, initiating a project, managing stage boundaries (sign off and moving between stages), controlling a stage, managing product delivery (there is an emphasis on product based planning) and closing a project. And what are the weak points?

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Issues might be previously defined risks, or not. Opportunity: not all issues are bad, some can offer an unforeseen opportunity. Concern: is not a major problem, but it’s something you want to stay aware of, because it could develop into something that requires attention. Unlike risk, an issue is not a potential problem.

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Underperforming Technical Team Closing Risk Management Risk 397

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 25, 2019

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’s a good way to challenge requirements and ensure that your business case and plans stand up to scrutiny.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Risk Management 2012 302

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. A similar concept was developed in Germany in the early 1960s by Wolfgang Mewes. There are always other risks and mitigating factors at play. But the idea has deeper roots.

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Underperforming Technical Team Manufacturing Lean Critical Chain 393

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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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Risk Management Engineering 411

Scrum.org

AUGUST 19, 2024

Some organisations just create a BAU team and toss the work over the fence once development ends, others allocate a percentage of time , whilst others continually deprioritise the work for a short term gain or deliverable. Some teams even use their BAU workload as a reason that they can’t go agile? The “Build” part was “Agile”.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 3, 2023

Ideas are essential to product development, but they’re intangible. These mockups can help further the design, materialize your product vision and get feedback from the engineering team. It’s through these exercises that design and engineering departments communicate and develop the idea into a working product.

Software Review 412

Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Manufacturing 412

Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

“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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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Risk Management Engineering 380

Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 24, 2016

You and the team had been charged with implementing a fresh marketing program for a long-time product. The team had been working overtime for four months. The senior team had discovered that a competitor would soon roll out a far superior product requiring your company to divert its resources into product development.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It does this by allowing users to submit service requests, assign responsibility for the request and track its status from submission to when the service request is closed. Now you can visually track the work in real time as it moves through the steps from submission to close. A team or department will review the request.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 10, 2022

To properly schedule the work to execute your project, you need to know the timeline, costs, scope, risk and more. These estimation techniques allow for a more accurate forecast of key elements in every project and include cost, time, scope, risk, resource and quality. They are cost, time, scope, risk, resource and quality.

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Estimate Software Review Risk Management Risk 435

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 9, 2022

When creating and managing a production schedule, manufacturing teams often use kanban boards. The war left Japan without the working capital to finance big-batch, large inventory production methods that were the norm in other developed nations. That doesn’t mean that just-in-time production is without risks.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 30, 2020

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. If you don’t talk about problems then you risk hitting your manager with bad news.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review Leadership 370

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 5, 2020

The latter requires that leaders be globally fluent and defend against biases, strive to build more cohesive teams, be proactive, scout opportunities for the individuals they lead and help them grow. Modern organisations and the leadership gap. Recommended Reading: The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness (Lolly Daskal).

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Initiating Software 381

Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Within a project, you create teams and workstreams. Workstreams are, as you would expect, buckets of tasks that relate to a particular activity or team. This makes perfect sense if you have called them things like ‘Planning Phase’ or ‘Project Close’ but seeing something called ‘Project Board’ that lasts for multiple weeks is just odd.

Software Review 52

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 2018 Risk Management 52

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2017

I was responsible for setting up a new global Telesales team in the UK which made appointments for Sales Managers across the Europe. After several months, whilst the performance of the team was good and they were meeting or exceeding targets, it didn’t ultimately turn into revenue for the company. But you aren’t in Ireland now.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Let's look at how to develop a project summary. It provides the core components for developing your project charter. When you create your project charter , you can start with the content of your project summary and add elements such as deliverables, assumptions, constraints, high-level risks, stakeholders, and team members.

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