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Meeting Management Techniques for Project Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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. The chair found it hard to give different people the floor as several people were due to give short presentations but he couldn’t make the laptop show their slides.

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The 7 Habits of Successful Project Managers

ProjectManager.com

This is about technical competence, at the least, and technical excellence if you want to really succeed. They review outstanding risks on a regular cycle and push constantly for progress. Some goes to your governance tiers, your boss, client or sponsor, and some goes to your team and colleagues. Review your experiences.

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20 Practical tips to get (and stay) organized at work

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Block out half a day a month Book a meeting with yourself for half a day a month and call it ‘process review’. Set up calendar reminders Forward-schedule anything you need to be aware of this year such as project management conferences or team members’ birthdays. Sort out your tech Don’t put up with a phone that doesn’t work.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here’s an introduction to these important groups as part of the governance framework so you can get yours set up and working on your project. A project board provides oversight and governance for the project. What you need is adequate governance for the project. What is a project board? Call your meetings anything you like.

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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. Are there eligibility requirements?

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

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Mark Engelhardt, at a the Art of Projects Conference in Hungary one year (I forget when we were there), said: “You don’t have a choice about whether you’re going to look stupid on a project. If there isn’t any governance around that then no one will ever know that there are shortcuts being taken. Want more guidance on project reports?

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The Evolution of Project Management

The IIL Blog

and Cynthia Snyder Dionisio, MBA, PMP We have all attended project management workshops, conferences, and symposiums. When the Department of Defense (DoD) decided to expand the need for more technical projects following World War II, pressure was placed upon the aerospace and defense community to develop expertise in project management.

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