ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The use of capital budgeting offers an objective view that helps managers figure out how to invest capital in order to increase business value but also helps the overall health of the company. Capital budgeting is part of the larger financial management of a business, focusing on cash flow implications when making an investment decision.

Budget 459

Budget Technical Review Software Review Executing 459

Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Welcome to my PMI Wicked Problem Solving review! Project management has so many challenges to solve every day, so having a toolbox of techniques (and the right attitude) will help you deliver projects successfully. I had not heard of Tom before, but he is a tech pioneer, facilitator, and TED speaker. It turns out you do.

PMI 462

PMI Technical Review 2021 Underperforming Technical Team 462

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 23, 2023

Recently I audited the Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management course from University of Virginia Darden Business School. It’s one of the most popular project management courses on Coursera. How I did this review I signed up for a Coursera free account and audited the class.

Technical Review 498

Technical Review Planning Certification Risk Management 498

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 10, 2025

Project management has developed the means to increase the likelihood of successful completion. That starts by breaking a project down into project management phases. What Are the 5 Project Management Phases? The five project management phases are a structured approach to planning, executing and completing a project.

Software Review 217

Software Review PMO Technical Review Risk Management 217

Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Do you have a release manager on the team? It wasn’t until I worked in IT as a project manager that I had a lot of contact with the release management process. In this article, I’ll explain what a release manager does and what skills you need to make a success of this role. What does a release manager do?

Technical Review 461

Technical Review Software Review Cadence Software Developers 461

ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

When a project or product manager is in the planning stage, theyre scheduling tasks to meet a schedule and not exceed the budget. Acceptance criteria in project management are the specific conditions, requirements or standards that a deliverable must meet before it is accepted by stakeholders, clients or end users.

Software Review 347

Software Review Manufacturing Development Team Review Defining 347

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 11, 2024

Change management is often part of a project manager’s role, but we don’t get a lot of formal training in how to make it happen. However, the risk of getting the change aspects wrong can be huge. Power skills BEE Methodology Practitioner Course £349 Learn the Build, Excite, Equip methodology for change management on projects.

Software Review 362

Software Review Technical Review Certification Change Management 362

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 11, 2021

Where is artificial intelligence taking project management? AI has turned up in the project management trends articles over the past few years and it’s now most definitely here to stay. The impacts of artificial intelligence in project management. The applications of artificial intelligence in project management.

Artificial Inteligence 524

Artificial Inteligence 2030 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 524

Scrum.org

MARCH 23, 2025

It accelerates feedback cycles and democratizes programming but raises concerns about maintainability, security, and technical debt. Definition and Origins of Vibe Coding In a way, vibe coding represents a fundamental shift in creating software. This balanced approach could capture speed benefits while mitigating risks.

Software Review 128

Software Review Technical Review Agile Development Team Review 128

ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The value of a POC is it can help a project manager identify gaps in processes that might interfere with success. A POC elicits feedback from everyone involved in a project, including those who might not have otherwise contributed, thereby mitigating unforeseen risk. In this context, it is about finding solutions to technical problems.

Technical Review 309

Technical Review Software Review Defining Estimate 309

ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

If you’re running a business or managing a project, the impact of a cyber criminal on your company can be catastrophic. Bottom line: technology is useful, but it’s also vulnerable. An information technology audit is therefore an official examination of the IT infrastructure, policies and operations of an organization.

Underperforming Technical Team 272

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review Information Technology 272

Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 25, 2022

In this article, we’ll look at why that is and how you can work with a project sponsor as a project manager. There is no single, perfect definition of a project sponsor that all the professional bodies like APM and PMI agree on. to support the team at the request of the project manager. Every project needs a sponsor.

Underperforming Technical Team 352

Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management Influencer Executing 352

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 17, 2022

As project managers, it’s important that we know how to best support our development teams (and vice versa), especially in Agile environments. Here is what we learned from an invaluable brainstorming session with our Tech Lead. In the Planning phase, the project manager also defines internal and external communications.

Technical Review 441

Technical Review Development Team Review Risk Management Agile 441

ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Risks will arise and threaten the successful delivery of your project. Using a risk breakdown structure (RBS) is how you prepare for the unexpected. A risk breakdown structure is great for identifying and prioritizing risks so you know which will be more or less impactful. The Four Categories of Risk in a Project.

Risk 435

Risk Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management Technical Review 435

ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

When managing a project there is always the triple constraint hanging over the project manager’s head like the Sword of Damocles. Cost overrun is not cost escalation; that term is used to describe an anticipated increase in a budgeted cost, say due to inflation. Avoiding budget overrun is key to closing a successful project.

Technical Review 346

Technical Review Software Review Budget Estimate 346

Inloox

DECEMBER 4, 2024

I have interviewed our own project management specialists, Dr. Andreas Tremel and Dr. Tiziano Panico to get them to share their wisdom on what matters in project management in 2025. Tight control of all project data and maximum evaluation due to extreme productivity pressure The days of projects bumbling along are over.

2025 130

2025 Infrastructure Technical Review Software Review 130

ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 13, 2019

This project charter template assists in all phases of scope definition. This free project charter template is what you’ll follow to create the document to present to a senior management person within the organization, usually called a business sponsor. Download Now. ? Please check your email for your download link.

Technical Review 337

Technical Review Software Review Risk Management Executing 337

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 10, 2023

If you’ve been on LinkedIn recently, you’ve probably seen someone in your network sharing that they have earned the Generative AI Overview for Project Managers badge by completing a PMI training course. It includes a prompt engineering guide which you’ll definitely find useful if you are planning to use ChatGPT on any level.

Generative AI 343

Generative AI PMI Artificial Inteligence Technical Review 343

ProjectManager.com

JULY 12, 2018

Managing a project can be complicated, especially when different departments have to work together. This can make project collaboration between departments difficult, due to differences in process and methodology. To create harmony between the various departments and parts of a project, project integration management is implemented.

Technical Review 321

Technical Review Software Review Project Life Cycle Monitoring 321

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 10, 2023

If you’re not working from an agenda or you don’t manage those meetings, that can be true. Let’s take a look at 10 different types of project management meetings and define them, and we’ll start with the definition of what a project meeting is. It all depends on the urgency and type of meeting being held.

Software Review 545

Software Review Technical Review SCRUM Risk Management 545

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 21, 2021

Today I’m interviewing Rachel Mata , Lead Project Manager at Edu-tech company Instructor Brandon. Rachel, how did you get into project management? After that, I got another job as a Coordinator in an Educational Institute, supporting and ensuring the projects were finished and managing resources for those projects.

Technical Review 468

Technical Review Logistics 2019 Innovation 468

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 18, 2019

As project managers, it’s important that we know how to best support our development teams (and vice versa), especially in Agile environments. Here is what we learned from an invaluable brainstorming session with our Tech Lead. In the Planning phase, the project manager also defines internal and external communications.

Technical Review 406

Technical Review Development Team Review Agile Risk Management 406

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

However, in project management, project assumptions are essential for planning a project. Let’s take a look at how project assumptions are defined in project management and why they’re so important. Then we’ll learn about a project assumption log and how assumptions differ from constraints and risk.

Software Review 418

Software Review Risk Management Technical Review Risk 418

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 2, 2020

Project managers are well aware of this and spend much of their time planning in order to avoid negative risk and its potential impact. There are many tools that can mitigate risk in a project, but it also takes skill in something called project controls. Risk management. Cost estimates. Project documentation.

Controlling 529

Controlling Underperforming Technical Team Estimate Risk Management 529

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Solomon talk about the 8 things that you should be targeting if you want the change management effort on your project to stick. What is managed centrally and what is decentralized? An example would be whether you have project managers spread across different departments or a central Project Management Office.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Leadership Risk Management Software Review 93

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Contingency plans are used by smart managers who are aware that there are always risks that can sideline any project or business. If you’re not working on a contingency plan when you’re planning any enterprise, then you’re opening yourself up to unnecessary risk. What Are the Key Risks?

Planning 393

Planning Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Governance 393

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2023

His ‘Managing and Saving Programs in a Changing World’ webinar covers 5 steps for project recovery. There are several things that can go wrong in program management: Business case deterioration: the program started off with a good business case but it no longer stacks up. Bring in technical specialists as required.

Underperforming Technical Team 444

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sustainability Estimate 444

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 1, 2024

I previously wrote about the meaning of self-management with examples in a Scrum context. It is my observation that very little guidance on how to actually achieve self-management is provided in the agile space, often leading to the chaotic scenarios or a path back to micro-management as I discussed in the aforementioned article.

Technical Review 185

Technical Review Cadence SCRUM Defining 185

Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 29, 2021

Risks matter. That’s the point of risk management: thinking about what might go wrong before it does, so you can put a plan together to deal with it if it does. However, at the beginning of your project when your risk log is empty, it can be a bit of a challenge to think of all the stuff that might need to go on there.

Risk 349

Risk Technical Review Risk Management Estimate 349

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Scrum framework introduces the Definition of Done to help teams develop a shared understanding of quality. We often see that teams do have a Definition of Done, but it is in someone’s drawer and not actively refined, referred to, or improved. The workshops are: Help Your Team Get Started With A Definition of Done.

SCRUM 215

SCRUM Technical Review Software Review Risk Management 215

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 9, 2022

EMV is a risk analysis tool that helps establish the contingency reserves for your project activities. It’s a statistical technical for quantifying risk. You would use it to: Establish which new product option or solution is best Establish the contingency reserve required to offset project risk. What is EMV?

Software Review 442

Software Review Technical Review Risk Management Risk 442

Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 1, 2018

There are lots of routes into project management, as I explored recently in an article on how to become a project manager. But reading about what you should do to break into project management isn’t the same as hearing real stories of people who took that leap and got that project management job. Emma Seaton-Smith.

Technical Review 341

Technical Review Prince2 Engineering 2018 341

LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 2, 2022

Why the partnership of technology and people bring more than one benefit. As defined by Professor Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg School of Management, “a team is a group of people who are interdependent with respect to information, resources, knowledge and skills and who seek to combine their efforts to achieve a common goal.”

Technical Review 158

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review PMO 158

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2021

Are you wondering whether it’s worth getting a degree in project management? What can you do with a degree in project management? The simple answer is: you can get a job as a project manager. About 16% of project management jobs require a degree (not necessarily a project management degree). Let’s dive in!

Technical Review 437

Technical Review PMO Retail Healthcare 437

Scrum.org

JULY 9, 2024

Also, to enable quality in the increments it is imperative that the Scrum Team understands what is quality and works on their technical skills and abilities to improve it. It might be due to many reasons, one of which could be absence of trust and courage among team members. This will help the team to focus and address risks.

SCRUM 113

SCRUM Technical Review Software Review Risk Management 113

ProjectManager.com

JUNE 24, 2022

Project manager vs. program manager. Program managers are more strategic in their thinking and deliverables, while the project manager is often working on day-to-day task management on a more cellular level. Here are two quick definitions of project and program in project management. Learn more.

Project Life Cycle 545

Project Life Cycle Certification PMI Software Review 545

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 27, 2019

But greater flexibility generally requires a more skillful approach to governance and project management. For example, we’ve run into many organizations that believe fixed price funding is low risk, but in fact it is very high risk in practice. Low financial risk for both the team and for business stakeholders.

Software Developers 357

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 357