Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2024

I write a lot about how to be better at your job, how to excel at interview , how to improve your skills and so on, and I interview a lot of experts who talk about those kinds of things. Check they know how to contact you in case they need to (assuming you are still staying in the business). You are not being accountable.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Scope creep is the more common term but you might hear both, especially if you are working in software development. Ultimately, it isn’t the project manager coming up with new requirements and asking the team to “just do it”. What’s so bad about scope creep anyway? It takes its toll on team morale. How do you do that?

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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. Problems facing failing programs Ward identified several problems faced by failing programs: Completing an accurate assessment of program problems is difficult for the program management team because they lack objectivity.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 19, 2019

SWOT: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats. The following is a basic outline to follow when starting to develop your business case. Budget: This is an estimate of everything in your plan and what it will cost to complete the project over the scheduled time allotted. How ProjectManager.com Helps with Your Business Case.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 15, 2025

Job tracking software is a tool or system designed to help businesses, teams or individuals monitor, manage and track the progress of tasks, projects or jobs throughout their life cycle. This makes it an invaluable tool for any organization or team that needs to manage tasks, deadlines and workflows effectively.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 28, 2019

Team productivity is one of the most important ingredients in business, and it’s everyone’s responsibility to keep themselves on track. Without productivity, projects can fall behind deadlines, leaving teams scrambling to deal with the consequences. employers an estimated $544 billion in lost productivity each year.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 6, 2024

It’s up to the production team to determine the proper level for the process being controlled. The team develops it to control the process and ensure the product quality meets customer expectations. The following seven steps capture the process of developing a control plan for manufacturing.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Ruth Pearce knows everything there is to know about motivating your project team. I caught up with Ruth to find out more about how to motivate teams and why it’s something you should be actively doing. Why do you think motivation on project teams is so important? So how do we do it? Because motivation is intrinsic.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scheduling tasks to meet deadlines, assign resources and estimate costs are fundamental to the planning phase in project management. Project timeline software is designed to help project managers, teams and stakeholders visually plan, track and manage the project schedule. It also improves team communication.

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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. We’re going to cover potential pitfalls of managing multiple projects and how to maintain this delicate balancing act through the use of project portfolio management software tools.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2020

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns. After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. The Role of the Development Team in Scrum. Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2022

That creates a dilemma: how to spend their budget. How do you go about creating a capital improvement plan document? Are there benefits to developing a capital improvement plan? A financing plan will have to be created, estimating the overall cost of each project. Related: Free Estimate Template for Excel.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2022

The need for a business case is that it collects the financial appraisal, proposal, strategy and marketing plan in one document and offers a full look at how the project will benefit the organization. How to Write A Business Case. The following is a detailed outline to follow when developing your business case. They have a goal.

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Project Risk Coach

MAY 21, 2018

Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance. If this is true, why is it that some project managers put so little time in developing a project management plan? I’ve developed this checklist to help you develop your project management plan including baselines, subsidiary plans, and ancillary plans.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Teams are not evolving beyond the laid out frameworks or methods. In my experience, I have seen the frameworks, methods become practices to be followed only to showcase a client that the team is doing agile. I once worked for a customer, who had outsourced their software development to 3 different vendors.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 23, 2021

4 How to Get Started 5 Tools for Identifying Opportunities 6 Think Outside the Box 7 Where Will You Capture Opportunities? Consequently, these project managers and team members fail to take advantage of these upside risks. Here are some examples: Your software development project is behind schedule. Table Of Contents.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

We’ll highlight key features, show you how to build a Microsoft Project Gantt chart and identify some of the pitfalls of the Gantt chart for Microsoft Project. Our Gantt charts update automatically and can be shared easily with your project team. What Can You Use a Microsoft Project Gantt Chart For? That’s just one disadvantage.

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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. Cost estimates. There are project controls professionals who are responsible to the project manager, but they touch the entire project team. It is in the estimation of costs and duration of the project where controls are essential.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Still, there are concrete steps you can take to develop a solid project schedule and ensure all aspects of your project are properly planned and accounted for. The best way around this is to involve the team in constructing the list of tasks. Then get the team together to add to it. Step 1: Write Down Your Tasks.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 12, 2025

One of the many challenges that face project managers is how to guide their project to a successful end without enough resources. The better news: we’ll tell you how to overcome a perceived lack of resources. This is also an ideal way to reduce stress on the project team.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 24, 2020

Suitable agile metrics reflect either a team’s progress in becoming agile or your organization’s progress in becoming a learning organization. At the team level, qualitative agile metrics often work better than quantitative metrics. A team may have deliberately built some temporary solutions to speed up experimentation.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Estimation is a complementary practice Scrum Teams use in Product D evelopment. The purpose of estimation is to provide a rough idea of how much effort, time, and budget are needed to complete specific features or PBI- Product Backlog Item of the product. or T-shirt sizes (XS, S, M, L, XL, etc.).

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

It’s probably fairer and less controversial to say that it was ‘estimated’ rather than created totally randomly from scratch. But she was worried that other people were interpreting the estimate as definite fact. How to deal with ethical issues in project management.

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Scrum.org

MAY 29, 2023

I definitely see many good things happening within our community, and the teams and organizations we work with. In short, I’ll describe how poor facilitation of the Scrum events can cause Zombie Scrum. It might seem that a team has all the important elements of Scrum in place. What’s the dynamic within the team?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 2, 2024

Jira is project management software designed for agile software development teams. It has tools that allow you to plan sprints, track the completion of tasks, balance your team member’s workload and create product roadmaps. Additionally, you can attach files and share comments with your team.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Learn more How to Control Costs Being able to monitor costs in real time is important, but that’s only part of a thorough control cost process. Estimate Costs Now that you’ve listed the resource requirements, you’ll want to estimate how much each of those will cost. Estimating can be daunting. Seek it out.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 7, 2024

This requires first an understanding of demand management and how it benefits business. Next, we’ll outline the demand management process to learn how to implement this planning methodology and how software can facilitate that process. Use the team page or the color-coded workload chart to monitor your team’s allocation.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Being self-managing, they decide who does what, how, and when. Being self-managing, they decide who does what, how, and when. The Scrum Team delivers a valuable, useful, and usable Increment(s) every Sprint. The team is ideally a "slice of cake team," which can deliver value in the form of an integrated Increment.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 24, 2022

Too much bad meeting behavior affects your ability to serve you customers at a high level, and ultimately will cost you a lot of money. Now, let’s imagine the beginning of a new product development meeting at Apple. Total meetings = 50,000 Estimated cost per meeting = $250 TOTAL MEETING COST PER YEAR = $1,250,000 (over 1 MILLION!).

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

It’s probably fairer and less controversial to say that it was “estimated” rather than created totally randomly from scratch. But she was worried that other people were interpreting the estimate as definite fact. The PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct defines a set of standards for how project managers should behave.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 12, 2022

“New work is being assigned without being reviewed for priority or as part of the long term strategy/plan,” wrote one project manager, and many others added similar comments about the lack of organizational portfolio management, like these: Poor strategy planning hence poor implementation in order to realize benefits sought.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 7, 2020

Scrum is a great framework for helping teams work more productively together. In fact, the name comes from rugby and like it, scrum is a team sport. Teams learn through experience, reflective meetings and specific roles that add structure and manage work. This gives teams the power to continually optimize its processes.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Resource allocation is just a fancy term for a plan that you develop for using the available resources at your disposal in a project. Once you have those questions answered, then you can make the right decision on what resources you’ll need and how many of them are necessary to complete the project. Resources are varied.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Devin Deen explains how to use Activity on the Arrow diagramming to chart the critical path in this video. B – Project Management Terms Backlog Backlog is a term from the Agile methodology Scrum, but is also used across industries to track every single thing that is needed to complete a product in development.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 26, 2021

Creating a construction budget, therefore, is one of the most important pieces when developing a construction plan. How do you create a construction budget, anticipate the costs for a project and track them to make sure you’re not overspending? How to Create a Construction Budget. Project Development.

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LiquidPlanner

APRIL 5, 2022

It may seem impossible to do both at times, which can quickly lead to burnout and underperformance. And organizations need to foster a healthy working environment for their teams to thrive. Here are some of our best tips for creating and maintaining a balanced workload for yourself and your team: 1. Learn how to say no.

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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. Normative scenario planning is often combined with other types of scenario planning as it focuses on end goals and not on how to achieve them.

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