Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 1, 2019

What’s the difference between project management and project leadership? A recent APM report, Project Leadership; skills, behaviours, knowledge and values , explored this question. . The authors concluded project leadership is future-focused. Repeat the exercise often and review your project management approach accordingly.

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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. Roland Hoffman.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This exercise illuminated James's habitual approach to complex work and the gaps in his understanding of effective team leadership. As the course progressed, James learned about servant leadership, effective communication, and the importance of fostering a collaborative environment. The result?

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

Conduct Team-Building Exercises. Team-building exercises is a way to upstart trust, especially for new teams that don’t have a lot of shared experience. Lackluster leadership. To make sure strategies get put into motion, you must make sure you have the talent with the right project leadership skill sets to manage the project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how to develop a leadership philosophy for your projects and what skills are useful to underpin your chosen ways of working. How do you develop a personal leadership philosophy? Your personal leadership philosophy can be the difference between success and failure on a project. Here are four tips.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The Project Management Coaching Workbook by Susanne Madsen is a book about how to operate with a coaching leadership style in a project environment. You can use the checklists and exercises to assess yourself and improve your skills. 6 Steps for self-coaching.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 19, 2019

It often details how the project aligns with strategic goals in the org, and as such is a crucial yet often overlooked responsibility for managers, who assume that senior leadership is responsible for this, or who simply get quickly subsumed by the day-to-day responsibilities of delivering the project.

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 22, 2021

Turn Conflict into a Problem-Solving Exercise You can help stakeholders resolve the conflict by reframing the conflict as a problem-solving exercise. Project managers must use their leadership skills to influence the stakeholders. There's less likelihood of stakeholders undermining the decisions later. How persuasive are you?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 31, 2023

Teamwork builds leadership skills It’s common to think that in every teamwork there must be a team leader who ensures that project tasks run smoothly. Everyone can build and use leadership skills in a team environment. You don’t have to be the person nominally in charge to step up and demonstrate leadership. Lead your area.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 6, 2020

Team-building exercises help, but even under the best circumstances, there will be challenges. The first thing to do is make sure that everyone is on board with the decision to go remote—most importantly, the leadership team. This is especially the case when it comes to virtual project management. The most common is poor communication.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 16, 2021

This exercise a deeper dive into the problem and its causes, rather than accepting the first answer, and brings you closer to what is actually causing the problem. ” A: The hybrid methodology has gaps… This question and answer exercise leads to the root cause of the missed deadlines problem. ” over and over again.

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Project Risk Coach

AUGUST 24, 2020

They facilitate risk identification exercises that result in a boatload of risks. Some project managers wait until things are out of control before they exercise risk management. What must we do? Lead by example. Failure to focus on the risks that matter. Some project managers start their programs and projects with gusto.

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Leading Answers

AUGUST 6, 2022

.  However, let’s start by examining what servant leadership already contains.     Servant leadership was popularized by Robert Greenleaf and described as a mindset and set of practices. Servant leadership is a mindset and value system which recognizes that the team members deliver the project benefits.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 7, 2023

The course includes instructions of how to access a free Jira Software Cloud site to complete the lab exercises, so you’ll need a computer to do that, you can’t use the Coursera app. University of California, Irvine’s Career Success Specialization The first course in this 10-course Career Success Specialization is on project management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 20, 2023

For CAPM certification renewal, you need: a minimum of 9 Education PDUs including two in each Talent Triangle area: Leadership, Technical and Strategic and Business Management a maximum of 6 Giving Back PDUs with a maximum of 2 for working as a professional and 4 for volunteering and creating knowledge. What type of PDUs do you need?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 2, 2023

Make a list of all your open projects and all the other things you do around the edges of those, like mentoring colleagues, organizing team events, training, team leadership, management activities or the general admin that just needs to get done. I’ve done this exercise with many people and it’s always eye-opening.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 12, 2019

after he has participated in one of my recent Professional Agile Leadership (PAL-E) certification courses in Munich Germany. In this episode we spoke about the value of the exercises in the course and the facilitated group work. More importantly we connected the facilitation techniques to the leadership role. Listen here.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 7, 2021

For example, a communication plan for an entire organization might be created by someone in HR or leadership. This can be a challenging exercise, but it improves the salience of the message. Depending on the context of the plan (whether it will be instituted organization-wide or used for a single project) this person will vary.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 26, 2017

In other words, every team can find value in team-building exercise. Now give them 25 more index cards and have them do the exercise again, but without tape. Even teams that have been working together for years might need a bit of team-building to reinforce their strengths and minimize their weaknesses. Machine Made.

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Project Bliss

AUGUST 17, 2020

Team building exercises are a fantastic way to build that essential esprit de corps , even when you’re not sharing the same physical space. Telecommuters can easily begin to feel isolated from their colleagues and their leadership. Team Building.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Support faculty, staff, students and the UMW community as a source for project management leadership and expertise. In one company, a team of leaders self-nominated themselves to take part in the exercise. I wouldn’t recommend a two-day offsite for this exercise for your PMO. Just put half a day aside and see how you get on.

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Planio

MAY 2, 2018

Goal-setting exercise 1: Effective goal-setting starts at the top and cascades down. Goal-setting exercise 2: Get clear about your culture of goal-setting. Goal setting exercise 3: Use OKRs to choose the right goals for your engineering team. Goal setting exercise 4: Use MMOM metrics to measure your goal progress.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 7, 2020

This is a remote team-building exercise used by Microsoft. By working to ensure such communication is done well, GitLab can: maintain leadership during remote work; reduce ambiguity in communication modes; add an element of flexibility in the day-to-day lives of team members and support the long-term vision for a global remote workforce.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 2, 2019

Courageous Leadership. Given the prevalence of disruption, my first priority has to be exemplary leadership. I don’t think you’ll find many countries today where there is a consensus that national leadership fits this description. So, we must be aware of them, as we establish our seven priorities for project managers in 2019.

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LiquidPlanner

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

I just finished the last chapter of Susanne Madsen’s piece on The Power of Project Leadership (2nd edition). I’ve been a longtime student of both Project Management and of researchers like Brené Brown , who explore emotional intelligence with leadership. The Power of Project Leadership is an excellent book on leadership in general.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 15, 2023

Leadership is about mentoring, coaching and further helping the team in whatever capacity they need. There are a number of ways to do this, including team-building exercises. If you’ve not had time prior to starting the meeting to engage in team-building exercises, meeting icebreakers can help build bonds between team members.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2020

For CAPM certification renewal, you need: a minimum of 9 Education PDUs including two in each Talent Triangle area: Leadership, Technical and Strategic and Business Management a maximum of 6 Giving Back PDUs with a maximum of 2 for working as a professional and 4 for volunteering and creating knowledge. It’s going to be easy, trust me.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Courageous Leadership. Given the prevalence of disruption, my first priority has to be exemplary leadership. I don’t think you’ll find many countries today where there is a consensus that national leadership fits this description. So, we must be aware of them, as we establish our seven priorities for project managers in 2023.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 6, 2020

Are you supporting Scrum Teams in a leadership role, stakeholder, or other capacity and want to understand how Scrum works and how to collaborate together? The rules, roles, and principles of Scrum are leveraged during the exercises. It's fun to work as a Scrum Team in Sprints to deliver a product & the exercises to learn Scrum.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2024

You're managing a piece of work, so step up and do it otherwise you are not showing demonstrable leadership. Decisions make that happen, and show that you are acting in a leadership role. Not doing the exercise to find out what lessons the team learned when a piece of work is done means you are unable to learn from your mistakes.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 8, 2022

This was change from what was initially called servant leadership. Eventhough I really love the concept of servant leadership as I have shared on my blog post that I wrote five years ago but I personally think that leadership is leadership. We do not need to put an additional noun infront of "leadership".

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 30, 2020

You’re managing a piece of work, so step up and do it otherwise you are not showing demonstrable leadership. Decisions make that happen, and show that you are acting in a leadership role. Not doing the exercise to find out what lessons the team learned when a piece of work is done means you are unable to learn from your mistakes.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Some exercises across the courses are the same e.g., create a RACI matrix , but the templates are different – that’s weird. Some of the exercises were the same, for example, creating a RACI or a RBS, but they had different templates. What I didn’t like about it The disadvantages that I found are as follows.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 26, 2021

One of the best ways to acclimate Leaders to a new Agile product development environment is through participation in the Professional Agile Leadership - Essentials (PAL-E) class. I love the Professional Agile Leadership - Essentials (PAL-E) class because this course is all about helping leadership understand how best to support Agile teams.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Icebreaker activities are also a great team building exercise for traditional and remote teams. You’ll find at the end of the team-building exercise that everyone is laughing and happily working together. Instead of dismissing meetings whole cloth, you could try some icebreaker games to make them more fun and productive.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 3, 2021

This exercise is based on the 1, 2, 4, All technique from LiberatingStructures.com , which you can modify based on group size. To complete the exercise, the group as a whole decides the best improvement idea to focus on in the upcoming Sprint. . Professional Agile Leadership - $1295. . 1, 2, 4-All .

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

. & Judith W Umlas October 23, 2024 THE NEED FOR PROJECT KINDNESS PRACTICES When was the last time you opened a project management textbook that included a section on demonstrating kindness during project management leadership? Have you heard speakers lecturing on project management discussing leadership kindness? Like Judith W.

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