Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 2, 2020

I decided to be a project manager. Admittedly, it wasn’t until I started working that I knew such a job existed, but when I realised I did, I knew it was for me. However, even though I thought I knew what I was letting myself in for there were still some things I didn’t know about being a project manager before throwing myself into the job. Here are 6 things I learned about being a project manager – things I didn’t know back in 2000 when I started out. 1.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 31, 2020

As technology advanced, so did the workforce and how teams work. No longer were organizations tied to dipping into the local talent pool. With broadband, mobile devices and software solutions, teams could be recruited anywhere and work remotely. While this widened the net in terms of capturing skilled workers, it creates a whole new set of problems for managers.

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The Digital Project Manager

MARCH 10, 2020

The post How to Develop a Quality Management Plan appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 30, 2020

As a project manager, you will sometimes be asked to make presentations to a board, to a senior leader team, an external vendor, or to your organization. Here are opportunities to help your stakeholders understand your projects. With every presentation, you can try new things and learn to improve your presentations. Improve Your Presentations. 1. Plan your presentations.

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The objective of this research is to dispel misunderstandings about crucial project management terms and their definitions. It aims to accurately place these terms and facilitate a comprehensive global understanding of their meanings.

Project Bliss

MARCH 25, 2020

Virtual teams need to put forth extra effort for effective collaboration. This list helps you cover all your bases. When you’re working with teammates on a project, you’ve likely got common understanding about how you’ll work together. Group collaboration can produce wonderful solutions to challenges and problem. But for the most effective collaboration, your team needs to follow certain behaviors and guidelines.

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LiquidPlanner

MARCH 18, 2020

Not every project manager is an entrepreneur, but all entrepreneurs need to be project managers if they want their business to succeed. Whether it’s developing a new product or securing investment, where the process involves a series of steps, it should be managed like any other project. Although many elements of project management apply to startups and large corporations alike, in a small business, the approach is distinctly different to large scale organizations.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 5, 2020

This is a guest post from Varada Patwardhan from Xebrio. This is the story of my friend Angela, see if you relate. Angela always excelled at playing leader or manager at group projects growing up. She believed that she was destined to lead. College, a few odd jobs, and an internship later, she landed a job as a design engineer and got to work on some exciting and challenging projects.

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Project Bliss

MARCH 10, 2020

This is a guest article written by Ashley Wilson. Productivity is a big issue. When a workplace is inefficient, it leads to missed deadlines, eats time, and affects employee morale. In extreme cases, it can even make your company a less safe place to work. But productivity isn’t a standalone issue. It has various causes, including noise and lack of organization.

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Online PM Courses

MARCH 4, 2020

The spread of the Coronavirus infection COVID-19 is now global. It is starting to look like many countries could see massive disruption. The post COVID-19: A 7-Step Response Plan for Project Managers appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Kiron Bondale

MARCH 15, 2020

The product owner role is extremely challenging for most organizations to fill. It is also the role which has the greatest impact on achieving expected delivery outcomes. An average delivery team might still be able to successfully launch a product or service even if it is late, over budget or not at the highest level of quality. But if the product or service itself is lacking key requirements which stakeholders need, it will never succeed.

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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. There are many tools that can mitigate risk in a project, but it also takes skill in something called project controls. Like the name implies, project controls are about controlling the project and keeping it from exceeding budgets and deadlines.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 17, 2020

TL; DR: Remote Agile, Part 1: Practices & Tools for Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and Product Owners. Agile has always been about colocation, about direct communication, physical boards, and all the other haptic and analog moments to create value in the digital realm. As a Professional Scrum Trainer, I strive to provide training classes without using PowerPoint or digital devices.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 25, 2020

We’re living in extraordinary times, and many people will be working from home for the first time. Trust me, working from home is great. But it is a shift in mentality. And we’re all in this together. I decided it would be OK to share some free and paid resources that you might find useful to help you keep your projects and teams moving forward, wherever you find yourself based over the coming weeks.

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LiquidPlanner

MARCH 5, 2020

“ Dear Elizabeth: Can you help me with starting right on an international project? I will be responsible for the delivery of 3 projects in Australia and New Zealand. I have a formal project management certification, but managing projects with international teams is new to me. Any tips?”. The principles of managing projects with international teams are the same as managing a project with a team all in your own country.

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Binfire

MARCH 8, 2020

Binfire is a work management application consisting of project management, task management, collaboration, and storage facilities and versioning tools. It is designed as all in one application with features you need to manage your business. The app is integrated with tools like Google Drive, Google Calendar, iCalendar, Dropbox, and soon G-Suite and SalesForce to create a true work management system.

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Kiron Bondale

MARCH 8, 2020

I’ve written a few articles over the past weeks which have touched on the current COVID-19 global outbreak. Things are likely to get worse before they start getting better, so I felt this week’s article would serve as a keystone for the series. The media are well known for sensationalizing threats and artificially elevating fear levels among the public.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 31, 2020

Although the term “strategic initiative” might sound like inflated business jargon, it’s far from useless. A strategic initiative is a compass that guides businesses and targets future goals. It speaks to the PMI’s A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) , which says all projects must be strategically aligned with the organization’s business strategy.

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Empower yourself as a project manager with insights that directly influence the financial landscape and strategic direction of your organization! Join us for a deep dive into the world of financial strategy, as we dissect key metrics that drive CFOs and business leaders’ investment decisions. This session will equip you with the necessary tools to craft compelling business cases as well as a comprehensive understanding of the crucial distinction between capital expenditure and operational expend

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Scrum.org

MARCH 30, 2020

TL; DR: Mastering Zoom — Remote Agile (Part 3). In this third post of the Remote Agile series, we address the tool at the heart of working with a distributed team as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach, or Product Owner: Zoom. While Zoom is an excellent video conference application—particularly for larger groups of twelve or more attendees—by all standards, its killer feature is breakout rooms.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 13, 2020

Trust matters because it helps build a resilient project team. Trust helps get things done. 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. . Trust is a shortcut to better working relationships and better project outcomes. That’s the premise behind Thomas P.

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LiquidPlanner

MARCH 9, 2020

These days, many business leaders are laser-focused on goals. Organizations don’t just want to have broad goals that only top-level personnel are aware of — they want to set, track, and measure goals across the entire company. That’s where the concept of Objectives and Key Results (or OKRs) comes into play. . OKRs are a goal-setting framework developed by Intel co-founder Andy Grove and implemented at major companies like Google.

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Leading Answers

MARCH 3, 2020

It’s easy to believe that work breakdown structures (WBS) have been around since the pyramids were built in Egypt, and that product backlogs are new inventions by youngsters in too much of a hurry to plan correctly. However, like most things, the truth is more complicated. In 1957, the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) approach was created by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and described organizing tasks into product-oriented categories.

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Certification

Kiron Bondale

MARCH 1, 2020

Part of tailoring our approach to delivering a project needs to consider its relative level of uncertainty. While it is not the only determinant of complexity, uncertainty is certainly a key contributing factor. And while there are other dimensions which need to be evaluated when deciding whether to utilize a predictive or adaptive life cycle, higher uncertainty would be a supporting factor for the latter.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 23, 2020

Collaboration is a call to action that is sounded by many in business. Managers and upper-echelon executives sing its praises. They ask teams to work more collaboratively in order to boost productivity. The irony is that these same people often neglect collaboration within their own circles. If only there was a way to foster collaboration not just at a team level, but at an enterprise level.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 16, 2020

The Old Farmer’s Almanac is the oldest continuously published periodical in North America. It was first published in 1792 by Robert B. Thomas who wanted an almanac “to be useful with a pleasant degree of humor. Many long-time Almanac followers claim that its forecasts are 80% to 85% accurate. . This claim was seriously tested in 1816 when Thomas made a mistake in his Almanac.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 19, 2020

Are you looking for an online tool that offers powerful Gantt chart templates and all the other bits you need for collaboration like file sharing, exporting and resource management? GanttPRO might be just the solution for you. Read on…. (Full disclosure: I was compensated for my time in preparing this review but the views expressed are my own and this is an honest review/tutorial of how I found it.).

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