Rebel’s Guide to PM
JANUARY 24, 2022
In case you’ve only just stumbled across this blog, in 2021 I celebrated 15 years of blogging about project management. I thought it was time to look back and see what the stand-out articles were over the years. Here are the top 15 articles year by year. 2006. I reported on the state of the Gypsy Moth IV project : the restoration of a historic yacht.
Project Risk Coach
JANUARY 24, 2022
Poor risk management is costly. Program managers are caught off guard by emerging risks. And these risks may turn into issues costing more time and money. But, it doesn't have to be that way. We can identify risks early. We can assess and prioritize our risks, allowing us to make better use of our limited time. Let's look at the cost of poor risk management through the example of Tom Whitley.
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LiquidPlanner
JANUARY 26, 2022
When you work through manufacturing projects, you face some unique challenges, often with a lot at stake. You have to deliver your product at consistently high-quality standards, navigate end-to-end supply chains and manage strict time-to-market deadlines driven by eager customers or seasonal demands. In some cases, the entire project might be following a process where design, scope, cost, and time scales were fixed at the very beginning.
ProjectManager.com
JANUARY 27, 2022
It’s not easy for construction companies to make accurate budget forecasts. There are many variables to consider, from market to labor costs and always-fluctuating prices. But creating a detailed budget is key to successful construction project management. One way to control your project billing is by defining the hard costs vs soft costs on a construction project.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
JANUARY 24, 2022
There’s no denying that project management today looks different to how it did even 5 years ago. Project management trends shape our profession. We see technology evolving, new tools, consolidation, innovation and more. Trends come and go, or they stay with us and evolve into new ways of working that stick around and become “the way we do things around here.”.
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Kiron Bondale
JANUARY 23, 2022
In a presentation I gave to the members of a PMI Chapter on the topic of psychological safety, one of the attendees asked a great question. If a team possesses a high level of psychological safety, does this increase the likelihood that one of its members might feel safe taking a risk which goes beyond the risk tolerance of the team, the line of business or the organization as a whole?
ProjectManager.com
JANUARY 26, 2022
A project is often considered something purely physical, like construction. The truth is, a project can be any work that has a beginning and an end. To that end, the legal industry has projects, too. Legal project management is well familiar to lawyers, even if they don’t necessarily use that phrase. The end result of their projects are typically a contract, a will or any number of results.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JANUARY 26, 2022
Andrew Trainer. This is a guest post by Andy Trainer of Silicon Beach Training. Project management is a field that is becoming increasingly valued within both large and small organizations – our project management training has never been so much in demand! It’s now widely recognized that having employees with great project management skills leads to more efficient processes, better uses of time, and less wastage than without.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 23, 2022
Als Steward für das Scaled Professional Scrum mit Nexus Training habe ich vor einiger Zeit an einer Podiumsdiskussion von Scrum.org über die Skalierung von Scrum mit dem Nexus Rahmenwerk teilgenommen. Bei dieser Diskussion konnten Yuval Yeret, Ravi Verma, Magdalena Firlit, Patricia Kong und ich nicht alle Zuschauerfragen beantworten, deshalb möchte ich das jetzt nachholen.
Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring
Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?
Online PM Courses
JANUARY 24, 2022
Project Failure is a favorite topic for project managers. From pub conversations to formal reports, we love to discuss failed projects. The post Failure and Blame: Learn to Avoid Project Failure | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
ProjectManager.com
JANUARY 28, 2022
To say that ProjectManager’s work management software has many features is an understatement. From creating simple to-do lists to closely monitoring your remote employees’ workload, you can accomplish nearly any project management task on our platform. Hybrid teams work from different locations and have different work styles and skill sets, so they require a solution that helps them overcome these challenges.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JANUARY 24, 2022
Not that long ago, a project manager – who, for the purposes of this article has asked to remain anonymous – was planning out Phase 2 of her project. There was a lot of work to do for the project management team, which was just her. No problem, she thought. A project coordinator, or an admin resource from the PMO would be the perfect extra pair of hands.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 22, 2022
Existen cuatro habilidades clave del líder cambio que son habilidades de Enseñanza, Tutoría, Facilitación y Coaching Profesional pueden considerarse profesiones en sí mismas. Además, estas habilidades se pueden dividir en dos áreas temáticas; basado en el contenido y basado en el proceso. Las habilidades clave del agile coach. La enseñanza y la tutoría se basan en el contenido.
Speaker: Dylan Secrest
Construction projects are high-stakes operations where even minor inefficiencies can lead to costly delays, safety concerns, and budget overruns. Managing risk in construction has always been a challenge, but as projects grow in complexity, traditional methods no longer cut it. Enter Digital Transformation - a game changer approach that replaces inefficiency with AI-powered analytics, real-time monitoring, and automated workflows to proactively manage risk.
Agilemania
JANUARY 24, 2022
What is Scaling in Agile? Agile is a set of values and principles. Agile is an umbrella term for a group of iterative product development frameworks. The Agile approaches such as Scrum framework, DSDM, Kanban, Extreme Programming (XP) provide rules, practices, and guidelines to build products and solutions using the Agile values and principles. . Product development evolves through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams and their customers and end-users with these
Resource Guru
JANUARY 27, 2022
As a project manager, you’ve probably had the iron triangle of project management drilled into your brain: balancing the budget, scope, and schedule of projects to make projects as high-quality as possible. That may sound simple on paper, but in reality, resource management is one of the top three challenges facing project management offices (PMOs), according to Wellingtone’s 2021 State of Project Management Report.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JANUARY 28, 2022
Martin Webster. This is a guest post by Martin Webster from The Lazy Leader. Search for project management training on Google and you’ll find lots of courses on the topic. Many refer to APMP, MSP, PRINCE2® or even agile project management. What most have in common is an emphasis on project management accreditation, project planning, risk management , reporting progress, controlling change, managing and escalating issues and suchlike.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 28, 2022
La mayoría de las organizaciones de hoy en día quieren hacer un presupuesto en Agile. . Básicamente porqué se enfocan en brindar calidad y obtener la satisfacción del cliente, y eso es lo que Agile proporciona ya de salida. Para lograr esto, el desafío radica en dejar de trabajar de maneras tradicional y empezar la andadura en metodologías de desarrollo ágiles.
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Epicflow Blog
JANUARY 28, 2022
Remote teams are a reality of today. Employment doesn’t have any borders anymore, and managers can hire people regardless of their location based on what really matters: knowledge, skills, and experience. Besides, business owners can have their facilities around the world independent of their place of residence or other teams that aren’t involved in production.
The Strategic Project Manager
JANUARY 26, 2022
Innovation and new ideas are great – but how do you get the word out? This is a challenge, especially for implementing innovation strategies. This post examines a widely held theory about how innovations are absorbed and accepted by people, and the implications for implementing strategy. Diffusion Innovation Theory Model. Diffusion of innovation theory is about how an idea, product, or message disseminates, or diffuses, through a target community, population, or social system.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JANUARY 27, 2022
If you Googled PDU and found a bunch of articles about electronics then you are finally in the right place! Here we’re talking about Professional Development Units. What’s a Professional Development Unit? Professional Development Units is a term for measuring time spent on professional education. In particular, it’s PMI’s ® method of talking about professional education.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 27, 2022
You should expect the use of Scrum to become more successful when the Team lives the Values of commitment, courage, focus, openness and respect. Then empiricism starts to work and trust is being built. . ?? The more people become proficient in living the Scrum values, the more successful the use of Scrum will be. . Let's have a look what living the Scrum Values can bring to the Daily Scrum.
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nTask
JANUARY 24, 2022
As we all know a knowledge management system is a tool that can help you store, share and retrieve a specific piece of information for you according to your needs and requirements. Knowledge management systems can also be a sub-category of an enterprise-level content management system because of their ability to help employees, agents, managers, and even customers get to know the software or the product they are interacting with.
Henny Portman
JANUARY 27, 2022
The book The good mate – How understanding team relationships can make you happier and more productive , by James Johnson and Evan Sorensen, offers the tools and shows the needed skills for successful team relationships. The book combined two decades of research (Standish Group) on emotional intelligence behavior of project teams with 40 years of research on successful marriage and family dynamics.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JANUARY 26, 2022
There’s only one thing worse than being told bad news, and that is being told about bad news late. When a program is failing, you should define the problem and potential solutions, and alert stakeholders at the first sign of trouble, according to LeRoy Ward, Executive VP at ESI. I attended ‘Managing and Saving Programs in a Changing World’, an audio/Webex conference with Ward recently.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 28, 2022
„Warum müssen wir unsere Arbeitsweise ändern? Ich bin Führungskraft in einem durchschnittlichen Unternehmen und nicht in einem Tech-Giganten im Silicon Valley.“ . Das ist die mit Abstand häufigste Frage, die ich in meinem Professional Agile Leadership Training gestellt bekomme. Ich stimme den Teilnehmern zu, dass sie einige Zeit erfolgreich sind, wenn sie nicht wie Amazon alle 11,7 Sekunden eine neue Version ihres Produkts bereitstellen.
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali
As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.
Management Yogi
JANUARY 23, 2022
Work breakdown structure (WBS) is a key element for management planning, monitoring, and control of a project or a program scope. Regardless of the chosen life cycle (predictive, iterative, incremental, adaptive, or hybrid), WBS plays a role in almost every project. A WBS is important to further estimation—cost, duration, or resources, planning for resources, risk identification, schedule.
nTask
JANUARY 28, 2022
Real estate development is not for the faint-hearted, considering the truckload of work you have to oversee at every step of the way. Be it meeting with the clients and discussing their needs, planning, and construction, managing the finances, or keeping an eye on legal matters, real estate development makes sure your hands are full all day, every day.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JANUARY 23, 2022
This is a guest article by Paul Pelletier, LL.B., PMP. Neutrality isn’t an option. If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. Desmond Tutu, Social Rights Activist and retired Archbishop, South Africa.
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