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PRINCE2 and PMBOK: How They Compare

Rebel’s Guide to PM

First came PRINCE in 1989 as the UK government standard for IT project management. There are other differences: the PMBOK® Guide usefully covers procurement, whereas PRINCE2 assumes you are operating in an environment constrained by a contract, because of its roots in government IT projects. PMI regulates the PMP certification.

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Meeting Management Techniques for Project Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Meeting management skills are no longer part of the Exam Content Outline (ECO), which you can download from the PMI website. Instead, the ECO talks about communication, knowledge transfer, engaging the team, governance and a whole lot more that you would often use meetings to accomplish. People join conference calls from cars.

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Come and join your Tribe at #ThePMTribe

The Lazy Project Manager

Ellis – Colin started his career as a project manager in 1997 and worked his way up through program manager and PMO manager to eventually head up large project departments in the private sector and government in the UK, New Zealand and Australia. lanes) during facilitated conference call discussions.

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The 5 Skills You Need For Managing Complex Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

She explained about how her company had to standardize and bring together 12 disparate government websites. Process maps are a good communication tool, especially if you do what Tera suggested and have a printed out version that you can spread on a conference room table. Numerous moving parts. Complexity Coping Skill #3: Communication.

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#ThePMTribe: A Community with a Difference

Rebel’s Guide to PM

He started his career as a project manager in 1997 and worked his way up through program manager and PMO manager to eventually head up large project departments in the private sector and government in the UK, New Zealand and Australia. He’s an author and has a background in engineering and technology, as well as government contracting.

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How to list project management skills on your resume

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There’s now a trend towards calling them ‘power skills’ (started, I believe, by PMI) because calling them ‘soft’ makes them seem easy. But we call them ‘soft’ because they are difficult to quantify and are more to do with interpersonal activities and emotional intelligence.

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

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Optimizing risk responses is one of the 12 Project Management Principles in the PMI/ANSI Standard for Project Management which is now bundled with the PMBOK® Guide. If there isn’t any governance around that then no one will ever know that there are shortcuts being taken. The PMI Risk Practice Standard doesn’t include anything.