Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 25, 2022

You’ll learn tips and techniques for engaging senior leaders in the role so you can build effective working relationships and act as a team. 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.

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Project Risk Coach

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

PMOs are shifting from being project watchdogs to orchestrating conversations between senior leaders, business unit heads, product owners, and project teams. And it starts with a clear definition of the PMO goals and roles. While many organizations perform risk management informally, a more structured approach has its benefits.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 17, 2024

This then acts as a central repository for stakeholder information, which the project manager and project team use to understand the project stakeholders and their needs, expectations and any risks or opportunities associated with their involvement in the project. Then, they can share the plan with the project team and stakeholders.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2024

How do you lead a post-mortem on your project to learn how to repeat the good stuff and lose the bad stuff? Each project team can develop its post-implementation review process to make it as detailed as needed, but here are some general post-implementation review steps that can be applied to any project.

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Inloox

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

risk analysis ), concepts are usually created as a starting point for important and large projects, as well as other endeavors. Thus, concept development is an important key skill for project managers and all those who want to become one. Definition of a concept What exactly is a concept? Following various analyses (e.g.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2024

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.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 11, 2021

AI has turned up in the project management trends articles over the past few years and it’s now most definitely here to stay. It’s about saying there might be a risk, so let’s examine whether there is a risk.”. They don’t just want to know where their risks lie but how they can fix them.”. Lloyd Skinner.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 2, 2020

If something bad is going to happen on a project, it’s likely related to time, cost or scope. Project managers are well aware of this and spend much of their time planning in order to avoid negative risk and its potential impact. Risk management. These two constraints are some of the greatest risks to your project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 13, 2020

Trust matters because it helps build a resilient project team. Trusted team members not only do only what is asked, but what the project needs them to do, because they know that the project manager will trust their decisions and actions. . Wise’s book, Trust in Virtual Teams. A new definition of virtuality.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Often after exploring the definition of done in our Scrum.org training, and exploring its importance to promote transparency and is a commitment to the increment every Sprint. A common question we get asked is how do we get started with creating a Definition of Done ? Importance of Definition of Done.

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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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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

APRIL 2, 2023

There’s only one thing worse than being told bad news, and that is being told about bad news late. Technical failure: this creates a program integration risk as what you are building might not sit in the organization’s architecture any longer. Using an outside assessment team creates objectivity.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

It’s really important to have a definition of what Red means, that everyone understands, before you have to use it. Maybe your estimates were poor or you forgot to add something into scope that you really should have worked out in advance. For example, bring in a contractor to speed up developing an IT system. It happens.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Over the years I've heard my share of these kinds of statements from various levels of executives: "When my guys run a product development release I really want to know what I will get at the end so I can make business plans accordingly". "In Types of Uncertainty in Product Development. Let's make it clear up front.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 16, 2024

Scenario planning is a strategy used to consider possible future events for an organization or project to develop an effective and relevant long-term plan to respond positively to that change. That is easier said than done as there’s no definitive way to predict the future.

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Project Risk Coach

MAY 28, 2016

Ever have this sinking feeling that a bad moon is arising on your project? The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) defines risk as, “An uncertain event or condition that, if occurs, has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.”. One of the most dangerous threats may be the unknown risks.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

This is a similar definition to that of project risk , which I define as uncertainty that can affect outcomes. Re-frame Bad Luck. If all you notice is bad luck, then you will feel unlucky. We do learn quickly how to move from poor to good, by fixing mistakes. It’s easy to dwell on bad luck—even to brood on it.

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Project Risk Coach

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Vague risk statements lead to poor risk response planning. When organizations or project teams fail to respond to significant risks (i.e., Risk management starts with identifying risks and writing clear risk statements. Why do people define risks poorly? Test Your Risk Statements.

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Inloox

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Know the risks in your project! Risk management plays an enormously important role in project management. The task here is to identify, analyze, control and ultimately minimize risks. Although some risks can be eliminated with a suitable solution strategy, certain risks can never be completely avoided in the project context.

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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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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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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? What Is a Contingency Plan for a Business?

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Then, we will explore how to develop a practical quality management plan. The Cost of Poor Quality First, we may not meet customer's needs and expectations. Fifth, your team's morale may suffer. This is often a result of poor quality requirements. Project managers and teams focus on meeting the customer's needs.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

But she was worried that other people were interpreting the estimate as definite fact. The PMI website says: Ethical choices diminish risk, advance positive results, increase trust, determine long term success and build reputations. It’s giving your clients a poor service and doing a disservice to your team as well.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 1, 2022

Long has spoonfeeding solutions and off-the-shelf feature descriptions prevailed in many development teams. Although some issues might have been fixed, I rarely see the full potential of a Scrum Team being achieved. Going all-in on predefined features fails to capitalize on hidden ideas in the brains of team members.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This is all done in an environment of seven themes: business case, organization, quality, plans, risk, change and progress. The values put collaboration and business value at the heart of delivery, and you definitely need the people skills to do that, even though there’s less specific reference to them.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 16, 2022

We discussed creating a project team culture. Elizabeth: This week in the Project Management Cafe Facebook group we’ve been talking about team culture and various different bits and pieces, and I know this is something that you’re kind of an expert in, because you’ve been chipping in and answering the questions.

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Project Risk Coach

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

A project manager makes decisions based on their risk perspective. Misunderstanding of the stakeholders’ risk appetite. In this article, let's explore the what, why, and how of project risk appetite. What is Risk Appetite? Let’s look at this definition closer. First, risk appetite is the degree of uncertainty.

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Project Risk Coach

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

A project manager makes decisions based on their risk perspective. Misunderstanding of the stakeholders’ risk appetite. In this article, let's explore the what, why, and how of project risk appetites. What is Risk Appetite? Let’s look at this definition closer. First, risk appetite is the degree of uncertainty.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 4, 2022

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. We’ll explore the scrum methodology in-depth, but before that, let’s start with a simple scrum definition. Learn More!

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Portfolio managers must be able to prioritize tasks within projects, monitor their team’s performance, and allocate their resources effectively. A project is defined as an activity done by one or many team members over a specific timeframe that ends with a deliverable. This involves different teams. Plan Ahead.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

It’s a set of tools to help you develop the knowledge and skills to solve the tricky issues (and probably even the easy ones). How can you turn the problem into a visualization like a diagram so the team has a shared understanding of the challenge? It’s attractive, and the team has definitely made the course a great user experience.

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Scrum.org

JULY 10, 2018

Often I hear people say that Scrum does not take care of risk: there is no risk log, risk is not on the agenda of the Sprint Review or Retrospective as a standard agenda-item. The Development Teams need to be accountable for the quality of the product and how it's made. That's a risk right there!

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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. First, you have to invite your team members to join if they aren’t already set up in the system. Plus, things only get better from here! Adding Tasks and Making a Project Map.

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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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