The IIL Blog

JULY 24, 2024

In the past, business risk management related to projects was considered a responsibility of the project sponsor, the project governance committee, and even senior management. If the group must be broken down in smaller groups, multiple concurrent virtual sessions may be necessary. This is no longer the case.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 12, 2022

Project governance is an important part of project management processes – even if it’s not the most exciting part of getting work done. Governance is a key part of that, and gate reviews are part of navigating through the project. Governance is a key part of that, and gate reviews are part of navigating through the project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 1, 2019

In my mentoring group we often talk about how projects don’t quite work the way the textbooks make you think they should. What’s the difference between project management and project leadership? A recent APM report, Project Leadership; skills, behaviours, knowledge and values , explored this question. . Carole Osterweil.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 10, 2025

They align the initiative with business goals, liaising between leadership and the project team and provide strategic direction. Their role is to define the project’s purpose, establish governance structures and secure approvals necessary for transitioning into detailed planning.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 4, 2021

First came PRINCE in 1989 as the UK government standard for IT project management. There are other differences: the PMBOK® Guide usefully covers procurement, whereas PRINCE2 assumes you are operating in an environment constrained by a contract, because of its roots in government IT projects. 10/05/2021 01:32 am GMT.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 19, 2021

Underneath, I list skills grouped together by: Interpersonal skills Leadership. They include: Communication (written and verbal) Listening Stakeholder engagement Conflict management Negotiation Influencing Leadership Team building Change management. Mine is called ‘Skills Profile’. Hard skills. Pin for later reading.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 6, 2023

It can be a department in that organization or a group of professionals, either inside or outside the organization. They all share similar responsibilities, but one deals with an organization’s project and the other deals with either a program, a group of related projects or a portfolio of projects. What Is a PMO Director?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In the group identifying as having ‘some experience’, 41% have considered or seriously considered leaving. It’s a little less for those identifying as ‘experienced’, as only 35% of that group had considered or seriously considered ditching the job. Within this group, 52% are managing between 2 and 5 projects. Always schedule.

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Kiron Bondale

APRIL 3, 2022

For every person who adamantly insists that estimates are needed to support proper governance, someone else will argue that the inherent wrongness of an estimate and how estimates are abused will wipe out any benefits of defining them. Throughput and Monte Carlo received 11% of the votes and #NoEstimates only received 5%.

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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. Mine is called ‘Skills Profile’. Ethics, diversity and inclusion and managing workplace stress all fall into this category as well.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2021

Here are some different industries that frequently recruit project managers: Construction Government/public sector Healthcare Oil and gas IT Supply chain management Charity work Retail Manufacturing Engineering Human resources. Government jobs typically pay better than working in education. That varies depending on the industry.

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Kiron Bondale

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Boards play a key governance role in the successful running of companies. To do this, committees need to be staffed with a diverse group of leaders. Boards are often actively involved in the succession planning process for leadership positions, helping to cue up the best candidates for key leadership roles.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 31, 2024

It’s a common management tool worldwide, used across industries, including government and nonprofit organizations. This was originally used for nonprofit organizations but later expanded to for-profit businesses and government agencies. Norton is a founder and director of the Palladium Group.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 10, 2023

Project meetings for teams bring together the group to solve a problem or improve progress to meet certain goals and expectations. Steering committees are a type of governance that involves stakeholders who are responsible for overseeing the project and providing it with support. Steering Committee Meeting.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 19, 2024

Governance management Program governance happens at 3 levels: Project level The project manager/project sponsor keeps the individual projects on track and reports progress to you. Organization Could be the PMO or the executive management – the group that the program manager reports into.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 18, 2023

A portfolio is a bunch of projects and the project portfolio manager has to allocate resources across all the projects in the portfolio efficiently and deliver on the strategic agenda of the organization that has governance over the portfolio. This requires project management software. But that’s not all.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

During the five process groups of the project life cycle, there are multiple objectives and outcomes for each phase. Ineffective corporate governance. 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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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2023

It is a discipline that is used across industries as varied as construction, manufacturing and IT to healthcare, professional services and government. Project management is a growing industry and one that offers great opportunities for people of all skills and experience. Here’s what you can do to get a foothold in this exciting industry.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 24, 2023

For example, in the UK, the Infrastructure and Projects Authority manages projects and shares best practices for UK government projects. In the United States, the Government Accountability Office publishes regular reports into major projects. These are all great sources of examples of projects.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 24, 2022

What is Agile governance? Simply put, Agile governance is a way to maximize the flow of value within an organization in the fastest way possible. In small, lean startups, there aren’t a lot of legacy processes and systems in place to overcome, and your teams are small and conducive to an Agile governance model.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Since then, the implications have reached beyond industry and the kaizen principles have been used to help in healthcare, psychotherapy, government, banking and even life coaching. ” In this context, it’s about leadership and knowing what is happening at every level of the organization. That’s where you want to be.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Ministry of Works, Government of Bahrain. Support faculty, staff, students and the UMW community as a source for project management leadership and expertise. If you are looking for more examples, universities and government departments often publish their goals and mission statements, so start there with your search.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2024

The creation process for an organization’s project strategy is in the hands of leadership and management. They can be an internal department or an external group or an agency. Leadership and stakeholders should follow the steps listed below as it’s the process by which a viable project strategy can be made.

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 6, 2020

At other times, it’s external, in the form of new market preferences, competitor landscape, or government regulations. . More than anything, your organization needs adept leadership. A huge part of strategic leadership is changing the culture. Perhaps there’s no other entity that can genuinely attest to this than a business.

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NimbleWork

OCTOBER 21, 2024

At the helm of this shift are a group of visionary leaders who are pushing the boundaries of how projects are managed. What distinguishes these influencers in the landscape of project management thought leadership? Brad Egeland Brad is a Business Solution Designer and IT/PM consultant with over 25 years of experience.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 2, 2023

Any project management course at university level should cover the interpersonal and fusion skills that are required for success as well, such as leadership, communication, people management and teamwork. Government jobs typically pay better than working in education. That varies depending on the industry.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 14, 2024

He managed all the logistics for the project including booking rooms for testing and training, making sure the right delegates showed up to the training, supporting them with claiming expenses, organizing project boards, steering groups and other governance milestones, and generally making everyone’s lives easier.

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Leading Answers

DECEMBER 21, 2017

I was working for IBM at the time and was able to persuade my account manager to pitch the approach on one of our government projects. A clean-sheet development opportunity with a smart team and engaged business group – what could go wrong? As it turns out, plenty due to my ill-advised approach. My enthusiasm was about to be tested.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 14, 2025

Portfolios connect corporate goals to Scrum Teams, like a ladder from leadership to developers. Information will be stored in so-called work items grouped in categories called work item types (more about work items and work item types here ) that represent the specific scope of work.

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Kiron Bondale

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

So I decided to conduct a poll in the LinkedIn PMI Project, Program and Portfolio Management discussion group to get feedback from a larger sample of practitioners. This poll also garnered a number of comments from the group and here are some of the more interesting ones.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 4, 2019

Executive (n): Person or group appointed and given the responsibility to manage the affairs of an organization and the authority to make decisions within specified boundaries. It could also be a board member of a Fortune 500 organization, a government minister, or a chairwoman of a global non-profit organization.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 30, 2019

All of these are challenges for people who want to move from technical roles into project management and leadership roles. Do technical experts have to shift their communication style in order to be successful in project management and leadership roles? Back to Domenic. This is why it’s important to me. That’s great.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 30, 2024

Consider a traditional organisation design where individuals are grouped based on their skills into specific functions, such as Sales, Marketing, Product, and R&D. Often, when work arrives at a function, that group is already engaged with other tasks, forcing the new work to wait. This leads to significant delays.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 27, 2021

Would you like to feel confident working with challenging and diverse groups, and with senior leaders? Dr Penny Pullan is recognized for creative collaboration for project professionals, plus Virtual/Hybrid Leadership. And she’s the author of that book about making workshops work, and the virtual leadership book.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 18, 2022

Product Ownership is a leadership position in the first place. Consequently, support your Scrum team on its path to fully embrace Scrum, namely self-management, as the entrepreneur level is focused on product leadership. How would you engage with different groups of stakeholders in the process?

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The IIL Blog

APRIL 9, 2025

A French investment group acquired it for $300 million in 2021. The Program Management Improvement Accountability Act ( PMIAA ) of 2016 aimed to enhance federal program and project management practices by mandating government-wide standards and policies. The Project Management Institute (PMI) is the largest certifying body, with 1.6

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 25, 2022

And this means three things to me: The Governance Hierarchy This is your sponsor, steering group, project board, project auditors and assessors, and anyone else who has a responsibility for the proper performance of your project. This means giving leadership and support, guiding and developing them, and allocating work wisely.

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