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Top PM 10 Articles of All Time

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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.

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How Poor Risk Management Is Hurting Your Program

Project Risk Coach

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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How to Solve the 5 Top Challenges of Manufacturing Projects

LiquidPlanner

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.

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Hard Costs vs Soft Costs in Construction: Definitions & Examples

ProjectManager.com

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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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide

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?

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Project Management Trends [2022]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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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Could psychological safety increase organizational risk?

Kiron Bondale

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?

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Legal Project Management: A Quick Guide with Free Templates

ProjectManager.com

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.

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Project Management and Leadership – can you have one without the other?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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.

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Fragen und Antworten: Scrum skalieren mit dem Nexus Rahmenwerk

Scrum.org

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.

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Breaking Ground on Better Payment Processes: Strategies for Construction Pros

Speaker: Timothy Allsopp

Payment challenges often lead to delayed projects, financial bottlenecks, and strained relationships. With construction projects becoming more complex, outdated processes are no longer sustainable. By refining financial workflow, companies can improve cash flow, reduce error, and foster trust between stakeholders. Discover practical strategies for redesigning payment systems to overcome workflow challenges while creating a smoother, more reliable process for contractors and subcontractors alike.

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Failure and Blame: Learn to Avoid Project Failure | Video

Online PM Courses

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.

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The Top 10 Features of ProjectManager

ProjectManager.com

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.

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Capacity Planning: The Secret to Successful Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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.

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Cuatro habilidades clave del agile coach

Scrum.org

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.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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The Complete Guide to Scaling Agile and SAFe for Business Agility

Agilemania

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

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What project managers need to know about resource utilization

Resource Guru

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.

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What Project Managers really need to know about leadership

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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.

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¿Cómo puedo hacer un presupuesto en Agile?

Scrum.org

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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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

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.

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The Diffusion Innovation Theory Model Applied to Strategy and Project Management

The Strategic Project Manager

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.

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5 Excellent Knowledge Base Management Systems to Use in 2022

nTask

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.

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What is a PDU (in Project Management)?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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.

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How the Scrum Values direct your behavior during the Daily Scrum - Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework (35)

Scrum.org

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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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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4 Tips on How to Manage Globally Distributed Teams with Maximum Efficiency

Epicflow Blog

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.

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Review The good mate

Henny Portman

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.

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How To Recover troubled programmes (part 1)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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.

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Die Bedeutung Agiler Führungskräfte für Agilität im Unternehmen

Scrum.org

„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.

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Navigating Chaos in Project Management

This text offers practical guidance for project managers navigating diverse frameworks. It covers topics like centralized reporting, standardized metrics, communication, training, risk management, and alignment reviews. By implementing these strategies, project managers can improve efficiency and achieve their project goals.