NimbleWork

OCTOBER 21, 2024

These top 25 influencers for 2025 aren’t just keeping up with the trends—they’re setting them, reshaping how teams collaborate, innovate, and deliver in today’s fast-paced world. What distinguishes these influencers in the landscape of project management thought leadership?

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Kiron Bondale

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Most executives don’t care how you deliver as long as business objectives are met. I’m not suggesting that executives shouldn’t want to know anything about how those results are produced. And they must know how they can best use their power and influence to get their projects to succeed.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 9, 2024

It depends on their influence and impact on the project. It can also give teams the tools they need to execute change and managers visibility into that process to ensure it meets deadlines and budgets. Change Request: How to Submit, Manage and Execute What Is A Construction Change Order?

Change Management 456

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 25, 2021

Create and execute marketing plans with the best tools available. If you’re honest with yourself, though, you’ll realize how it has influenced what you buy. If you follow them, you combine the soft science of psychology with hard physical factors to influence customers. Learn more. Why Is Marketing Management Important?

Transportation 435

Transportation Influencer Logistics Monitoring 435

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 24, 2019

Those standards and practices are called corporate governance, and they are going to influence your project. If corporate governance is a set of rules, controls, polices and resolutions to dictate corporate behavior, shareholders are going to have a great influence on those decisions. Roles in Corporate Governance.

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Government Governance Influencer Executing 370

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 9, 2022

Stakeholders are very important because they can have a positive or negative influence on the project with their decisions. While every project has stakeholders and those stakeholders can be anyone with influence or that can be influenced by the project. Types of Stakeholders. External Stakeholders. Stakeholder Prioritization.

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Software Review Influencer Government Governance 505

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 2, 2020

Think of project controls as the mechanism that keeps a project on schedule when planning and executing, keeping costs within budget. Before execution, a solid plan must be in place, and project controls help to align the whole project with the larger strategic goals of the organization. Project Implementation.

Controlling 519

Controlling Underperforming Technical Team Estimate Risk Management 519

Project Risk Coach

APRIL 5, 2021

Project Scope Management Plan Define how you will plan, execute, and control scope. Project Time Management Plan Define how you will plan, execute, and control the schedule. Project Cost Management Plan Define how you will plan, execute, and control the budget.

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Which stakeholders have the most power and influence? The stakeholder engagement plan is "a component of the project management plan that identifies the strategies and actions required to promote productive involvement of stakeholders in project or program decision making and execution ( PMBOK® Guide – Sixth Edition, Page 723 )."

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 10, 2024

They’ll be able to influence those affected by the change or have a personality that can help guide others or overcome resistance to change. Teams can execute these tasks on a variety of different project views. A change champion catalyzes action and shepherds successful change in the organization.

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Project Risk Coach

JUNE 28, 2021

Use your interpersonal skills to influence the resource manager and others who select the team members. Develop and execute a training plan. Get the Right People If you are able to pick team members, consider competency, chemistry, preexisting relationships, and attitude. What should you do if resources are preassigned ?

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 15, 2023

This involves identifying stakeholders and defining the level of power and influence they have on the project. Communicate with Stakeholders Throughout the Project Execution Once you have a plan you need to keep stakeholders informed. Remember that executives require a different level of status than the team members.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

It’s the difference between doing a reasonable job and being seen as a strategic influencer at work. Domain II: Process. The Process domain covers the ‘technical’ skills of doing the work of being a project manager. I think this domain is my favorite because I know from first-hand experience how much of a career difference it can make.

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Project Risk Coach

JUNE 14, 2021

This is a guest post from Colin Gautrey , an author, trainer and executive coach who has specialized in the field of power and influence for over ten years. He combines solid research with deep personal experience in corporate life to offer his audiences critical yet simple insights into how to achieve results with greater influence.

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The Lazy Project Manager

MARCH 2, 2020

It is a collaborative community with six of the brightest minds in Project Management leading discussions and sharing ideas to help you solve your challenges, increase your influence and accelerate your career! Who are the Faculty? What’s in it for me? The 6 faculty will freely share their expertise and experience in defined specialties (i.e.,

Healthcare 68

Healthcare PMO PMI Influencer 68

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software that has multiple project views to plan and allocate resources to team members who have their choice of tools to execute them. Implementing a new lean training program and executing energy-saving initiatives fall under quick wins. is considering various projects.

Software Review 369

Software Review Budget Energy Influencer 369

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 7, 2023

They might be influenced by market conditions (risk appetite statements might change, for example, if the market suddenly gets a lot more competitive). They serve the same purpose – to influence the context and environment for the project – except they are external influences instead of internal influences.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2024

This is used during the execution phase to ensure that there is a way to measure the project. Therefore, the project manager should identify all internal and external stakeholders and determine their level of interest and influence as well as regularly meet with them throughout the life cycle of the project.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Given their influence, it’d be unwise to neglect your stakeholder management plan. These stakeholders can affect the project either directly or indirectly by influencing the direction of their department on the given project. No project exists in a vacuum—although that would make any project so much easier to execute.

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Planning Underperforming Technical Team Influencer Manufacturing 326

ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Ideally, project managers know better than to execute their project plans without a performance measurement baseline. A performance measurement baseline is also a great tool for updating clients, stakeholders and executives. These include your team, materials, equipment, software and anything else used in the execution of your project.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 8, 2018

There are outside influences that will impact it, not to mention the project is executed by people, and people are notoriously difficult to place in box. The key to successful leadership today is influence not authority.” – Kenneth Blanchard. There will always be external and internal factors that influence that plan.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 25, 2020

Her leadership and guidance is of paramount importance during planning and execution. Since good decision-making is critical for good leadership and guidance, project managers need to know how heuristics (mental disposition) and biases (personal inclinations) influence a project manager’s decisions.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

This may be by adopting a new tool or approach, learning some new skills in listening, influence, or negotiation, or maybe simply allocating more time to it. Bill Dow With the likes of PowerBI and Tableau taking off around dashboard and reporting, I think our executives and leadership are going to want to see more project data real time.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Officially defined by the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMI’s PMBOK) as “the plans, processes, policies, procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization,” operational process assets influence the management of a project. Here are some of the more common examples.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 9, 2024

Projects are planned, but those plans are rarely executed with changes. In project management, budget variance quantifies the difference between the budget and the actual cost of executing the project. Anything that will cost the project or influence those costs will be under the purview of measuring project variance.

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Budget Estimate Software Review Project Cost 396

ProjectManager.com

JUNE 20, 2017

Any change that is going to influence the project needs to be uncovered. Projects will often fail because the scope wasn’t clearly defined from the outset or a mismanagement of changes to scope during the execution of the project. Who are the people or groups of people both inside and outside the project who will be impacted?

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Defining Infrastructure 529

ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

While strategic planning templates help get you started, once you execute the strategic plan, you’ll see their limitations. ProjectManager’s roadmaps help execute your strategic plans. This makes it clear how one objective from one perspective will influence the other objects from different perspectives.

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Planning Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Defining 470

ProjectManager.com

MAY 16, 2019

Operational excellence is when an organization executes its business strategy with consistency and is more reliable in that action than its competitors. It should be consistent and have reliable execution, which means implementing company strategy on an ongoing basis. What Is Operational Excellence? Focus on process. Okapi Method.

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Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management Influencer Executing 312

ProjectManager.com

JULY 11, 2024

Then we’ll explore the key areas of field service management, its challenges and the team that executes field service. Many factors influence the jobs that are beyond the control of field service managers, such as traffic, availability of parts and jobs that take longer than expected. What Is a Field Service?

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Transportation Manufacturing Technical Support Engineering 427

NimbleWork

JANUARY 2, 2025

Whether you’re new to Agile or a seasoned expert, these influencers offer invaluable insights, actionable strategies, and inspiration to elevate your practice. A signatory of the Agile Manifesto, Jeff’s career spans roles as a fighter pilot, medical researcher, and technology executive. Founder of Scrum Inc.,

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 7, 2023

Businesses can’t influence the latter but can have some influence on the former, which includes labor, raw materials and subcontracting. Once a cost breakdown analysis is complete, it’s important that you stick to that calculation as you execute your project to attain the profitability you figured out.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Together they create a guide and then act collaboratively to execute it. Idealized Influence. Executive Transparency: Basically, this means give your teams a chance to get their heads out of the details and remind them of the big picture. What Are the Elements of Transformational Leadership? Bass, who expanded on Burns’ idea.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 6, 2025

Well then explain how to execute a pilot project plan, what should be included, the benefits of doing so and much more. The project team can use kanban boards or task lists to execute their work, while the calendar view keeps stakeholders updated. Learn more What Industries Execute Pilot Projects? What is a pilot project?

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Risk Management Manufacturing Construction Telecoms 306

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 10, 2020

There are external stakeholders, such customers and users, and internal stakeholders, such as executives and team members. It organizes stakeholders into groups according to how much they participate in the project, what their interest level is and how much influence they have. By that definition, there are many types of stakeholders.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 11, 2017

In fact, it’s several not-easy jobs, including the initiation, planning, executing, controlling, and closing of a project. Therefore, before executing the project, you have to put in the work to identify, assess, and control risk. You can set or at least influence the culture of the workplace, and a lighter mood rising all ships.

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Leadership Risk Management Budget Risk 419

Project Risk Coach

AUGUST 26, 2019

Consequently, we fail to challenge assumptions and continue planning and executing based on false notions. Is the flipper a magician who is capable of influencing how the coin lands? There may be inherent risks when we make project assumptions. We assume certain things to be true when in fact, they may not be. This can be costly.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The buck stops with me but there are very few ways I can influence the direction of travel. Time management, risk management, influencing organizational culture and having a positive impact on the people around you — these are all qualities that hiring managers look for, regardless of job title. The reasons to go.

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Underperforming Technical Team Influencer Risk Management Finance 448