Alan Parker Blog

AUGUST 29, 2024

The SPICE Method: A Recipe for How to Influence People I'd bet that whatever you do, your role often involves persuading others to adopt your ideas or proposals. Influencing effectively is tricky, but I read a book that deeply influenced me regarding influencing people (is that a valid sentence?).

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 30, 2021

Building relationships with clients, senior staff and other influencers. The post Construction Project Manager Job Description (with Free Example!) These are the top-line responsibilities, but there are many more that candidates for your construction project manager job posting will have to handle.

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Inloox

APRIL 16, 2024

How to perform a SWOT analysis Once the SWOT analysis is completed: 5 key approaches for strategy development Concrete example: SWOT analysis in a software development project Conclusion 1. Strategic planning The SWOT analysis supports strategic planning by providing a structured overview of the most important influencing factors.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 2, 2019

There are many examples throughout history that illustrate the importance of teamwork. We cherry-picked 10 of our favorite inspirational examples of teamwork as it applies to a variety of circumstances. Their music is the soundtrack of an era and continues to influence musicians to this day. But don’t take our word for it.

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Project Bliss

MARCH 15, 2017

As project managers, we have to influence others – usually without formal authority. And there are many other events day-to-day that require persuasion and influence to help us be successful. In Influence Robert Cialdini presents eye-opening ways that influence is used on you regularly. I wasn’t disappointed.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 7, 2023

When you start thinking about it, there are loads of examples, from financial databases to standardized guidelines for pretty much anything, product standards, quality standards, historical records, and even very specific things that you may only use in certain circumstances, like defect management processes.

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Leading Agile

MAY 11, 2021

In today’s blog, a continuation of the first in this two-part series, we’ll talk about building trust and influence, and initiating the trust-influence loop. We have found that becoming trustworthy causes another thing to occur – influence. Trust and influence are critical components in an enterprise transformation strategy.

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Planio

MARCH 11, 2024

In this guide, we’ll cover the importance of risk management, how to recognize risks early on, and 11 examples of common risks to look out for. Jump to a section: The importance of risk management in project management Two methods to help you recognize risks early on 11 common project risk examples (and how to avoid them) 1.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2024

For example, one of the top project scheduling mistakes I see is not co-creating the plan. For example, releasing some contingency reserves when project risk has been significantly reduced and it does not make sense to continue tying up funds. As such, sometimes we need to use our influence to support project success.

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Planio

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In this guide, we’ll go deep into what a competitive analysis should include and then provide a step-by-step guide (including examples and templates) to help you create your own. For example, if you’re entering the CRM market, try phrases such as “best CRM system” or make it location specific such as “CRM systems in the US.”

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

JUNE 27, 2022

Influence without authority. Project managers, however, need to be able to influence their project teams without having formal authority. Influence is the ability to have an effect on the behavior of someone or something. The following are five tips on influence based on lessons I’ve learned throughout the years.

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 26, 2019

A common example is comparing how many product backlog items they were able to successfully complete during an iteration with how many they had forecast that they would be able to complete at the beginning of the iteration.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 6, 2022

As you develop further through your career, for example becoming a program manager or leading complex projects, you can take additional certifications that fit the job you are in. I’m one of those examples of coincidences in your life that help you to discover a career path that you really love. Mayte Mata-Sivera.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 3, 2021

This is a measure of how much influence they have over actions and outcomes. For example, how often are they likely to bring you urgent issues? Together, an assessment of these three elements can tell you how engaged a stakeholder is or will be in the work and how they could influence the project. Things that can’t wait?

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Resource Guru

MARCH 21, 2023

5 key project team roles and responsibilities Other roles in a project team Project team roles and responsibilities example Project team role and responsibilities matrix Project team roles FAQs Clearly defined project team roles mean a greater chance of project success What is a project team? And that’s exactly what we’re here to do today.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 18, 2022

For example, imagine you are considering two job offers. That affects how people make choices – and we can influence those choices by how we frame a statement. Framing occurs when people identify the key issues in a situation and then present them in a way that will influence the decision that is made. Which would you choose?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2023

Satya Nadella is also responsible for helping the organization focus on the metrics that truly matter and using those measures to influence the most valuable outcomes. So, that is why, in my opinion, Satya Nadella is a better example of Agile leadership than Steve Jobs. Measuring what matters.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 9, 2024

questions are an example of regret, not only from inaction but also from choosing the ‘wrong’ action. You will set a strong example of your expectations. You cannot control your team, but you can set an example of your expectations. I like to use the example of video games when discussing if you are on the right path.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 7, 2022

In these projects, stakeholders are identified and communicated with in the ‘normal’ way, but their power and influence is relatively low. The final type of project at the other end of the continuum is where stakeholders have a lot of power and influence over the project. Stakeholder-neutral. IT projects often fall into this category.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 30, 2023

And you can control and influence how you say something by understanding paraverbal communication. Paraverbal communication involves the use of nonverbal cues such as tone and volume to influence how your message is received. More examples of effective paraverbal communication at work Remember that these are just examples.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

What is an Influencer? These gentlemen are in all the top-10 lists of being the ‘the best’ Politician, Influencer, world changer, etc. So before diving into the Product Owner taking an Influencer stance, let’s first inspect what an Influencer is. The Influencer is also referred to as the Politician.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As applied to the Professional Scrum Master™ course, you can expect to experience the course over four half-day classroom sessions on a weekly cadence, for example. Learners Have Learning Preferences. Flipped Learning is an extension to our existing course offerings, not a replacement.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

To further illustrate what a Gantt chart is, we’ll give you an example and link to a free Gantt chart template for Excel that you can download and use right away. Later he published Work, Wages and Profits: Their Influence on the Cost of Living (1910), Industrial Leadership (1916) and Organizing for Work (1919). Who Was Henry Gantt?

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 7, 2023

These can influence the outcome of the project, program or portfolio so they must be managed. That’s why project managers and their teams need to take time to identify enterprise environmental factors that might influence their projects and figure out an action plan to mitigate or respond to them in a timely, effective manner.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 22, 2021

A stakeholder map is a visual, four-quadrant influence-interest matrix used to identify stakeholders and categorize them in terms of their influence and interest in the project. An Example of a Stakeholder Map. To give you an example and the opportunity to create your own stakeholder map, download our stakeholder map template.

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Wrike

MARCH 23, 2022

Influencer marketing is not an emerging trend anymore but a strategic part of companies’ overall digital marketing budget. While a decade ago, influencer marketing did not exist, the adoption of influencer marketing is rising fast and 93% of marketers use it today. What is influencer marketing? billion in 2022.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Impact Effort Matrix Example Let’s imagine that Acme Corp. Factors that can influence the decision include time, resources , financial costs or complexity. It works by determining a list of criteria that can influence a situation and then assigning a weighted value to each. is considering various projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 10, 2022

Ensuring teams have these skills allows them to maintain influence with a variety of stakeholders – a critical component for making change. Examples of qualifying activities for Power Skills PDUs. But what does that actually translate to, as tasks we can do for PDUs?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 10, 2023

Matrix of Influence Source: Book Product Mastery by Geoff Watts Image Created By Lavaneesh Gautam. High Influence High Interest: This is the most important group and you need to collaborate with them. Low Influence High Interest: This group is very keen to know what we will deliver but have little or no influence.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 17, 2022

For example, in the United States, eye contact is often interpreted as a sign of interest or attentiveness. For example, if you’re working with an international project team, it’s likely you’ll have team members from a variety of cultures. For example, in some cultures, direct eye contact is considered to be a sign of respect.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Can you show me an example of when you’ve done Y so I can compare it to what I’m doing? Ask your mentor for actionable advice, for example, if they could share examples of project management documents that have landed well with stakeholders so you can use them for inspiration. Who are the key influencers for Y?

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Planio

JANUARY 31, 2022

How to organize your roadmap: Free product roadmap examples. Basic product roadmap example. Agile product roadmap example. Gantt chart product roadmap example. Here is an example from Jeff Gothelf from 2017: Roadmaps connect your strategic goals with potential features and changes that will help you hit them.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Underneath, I list skills grouped together by: Interpersonal skills Leadership Each of those headings has a list of bullet points underneath that give examples of how I have demonstrated those skills. Below, we’ll look at some examples of common project management skills for your resume. Mine is called ‘Skills Profile’.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 22, 2020

In these projects, stakeholders are identified and communicated with in the ‘normal’ way, but their power and influence is relatively low. The final type of project at the other end of the continuum is where stakeholders have a lot of power and influence over the project. Stakeholder-neutral. IT projects often fall into this category.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 11, 2024

Work isn’t only performed in an office, and field service is an example of this. For example, a contractor works on one’s home or a professional services firm installs a new system in a client’s office. Learn more Field Service Examples Because field service applies to multiple industries, examples of field service work vary.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Examples include: Generating reports Analyzing documents with multiple types of data Summarizing meeting notes Organizing information into company templates Performing calculations. The first level on the spectrum – automation – is the recommended starting point.

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Planio

MARCH 25, 2024

Customer acquisition influences everything from how you prioritize features to your go-to-market strategy. For example, an accounting product may look to boost its product’s exposure by investing in its SEO rankings for the search term “Best accounting software in the US.”. Influencer marketing. Content marketing.

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