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. How To Do Engagement. Stakeholder-neutral.

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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. How to Manage Project Stakeholders. Types of Stakeholders.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 7, 2023

One key tool to success is understanding how to use organizational process assets effectively. You might have landed here for the same reason: studying for the PMP exam and wondering how to make sense of this nothing-y term. They influence how we do the work. But what is an organizational process asset (OPA)?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2023

How do you list the project management skills required without it turning into a giant list of buzzwords? Here’s how. How to include project management skills on your CV Let’s just go with the fact that CV and resume are interchangeable terms for the purposes of this article. On my CV, I have a section that covers skills.

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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. How to do engagement. Stakeholder-neutral.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

How can you check what you’ve got and what needs to be done next? Let me guide you through how to assess the state of the project you’ve inherited. Here are the instructions on how to write a project overview statement. 5: Review the governance structure Is there a governance structure ? How do you spend it?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Leadership is that branch of management concerning the development, nurturing and utilization of influence as way of motivating others to some end or objective. First, there’s a big problem in business concerning how to implement strategy. Where the leader outlines a vision, the manager works to take people towards that vision.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Plus, we’ll give you tips on how to write a better one before showing how project management software can make the process even more efficient. The project team is involved in this process to help determine how to implement the delivery of the project and fulfill what the business needs. Key Stakeholders.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I caught up with Ruth to find out more about how to motivate teams and why it’s something you should be actively doing. Modelling is the reason we don’t want our children to hang out with “the wrong sort of influence” and it is the reason we want them to hang out with “the right sort of people”. She’s even written the book on it.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 3, 2020

Managing upwards to the sponsor, governance committee and client, as well as looking at the performance of the project team. I think that for me the top three ways are: Setting the culture, expected behaviors and environment for the project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – ( PMBOK® Guide ) 7 th Edition represents a major shift in the way ‘how to do project management’ is presented by PMI. This domain represents the technical expertise of a project manager and the expert knowledge that you bring to a team about how to use project processes to get work done.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

Here’s an introduction to these important groups as part of the governance framework so you can get yours set up and working on your project. A project board provides oversight and governance for the project. What you need is adequate governance for the project. What is a project board? Call your meetings anything you like.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 20, 2021

Knowing how to manage a meeting is one of the core skills for project managers. Instead, the ECO talks about communication, knowledge transfer, engaging the team, governance and a whole lot more that you would often use meetings to accomplish. In short, you need to have a general understanding of how to make meetings work for you.

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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. Here are some of the things project managers reported in the survey as wanting to learn more about: How to speak with clients with less stress How to keep the team motivated and how to manage stress How a manager can reduce stresses.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 3, 2018

This article, How To Make 2018 A Successful Year for Your Projects , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. You can scroll down and get the highlights, and then read all the advice in the How To Make 2018 A Successful Year for Your Projects ebook. Would you like to make 2018 a successful year for your projects?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 17, 2022

In this article, I’ll give you some tips about how to be aware of the impact of culture on communication at work and how to create an environment that is inclusive. Common questions about how culture affects communication. How is culture related to communication? The basics.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The History of PRINCE2® PRINCE2® is part of the best practice guidance that came out of the UK Office of Government Commerce. A British government agency, the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency, licensed it for use in government IT projects back in 1979. It was renamed PRINCE.

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Scrum.org

JULY 11, 2021

Check the video to learn how these questions were answered: . In this blog post, we focus on one specific question that was raised: “How to measure the success of an Agile Coach or Scrum Master?”. I’ll focus mostly on how to measure the success of a Scrum Master because that’s closest to my own experiences.

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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. We were all set for a big client success and who better than the British Government for good publicity! Opportunities to influence the change initiative. My enthusiasm was about to be tested.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 28, 2018

You might use the term Project Board or Governance Committee, or something else that means a similar thing. Here’s an introduction to project steering groups as part of the governance framework so you can get yours set up and working on your project. The Governance Framework. Your governance framework can be flexible.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The incremental decision making approach is often used in government settings, such as defining public policy. How to make incremental decisions. Suitable decisions Not suitable decisions How do I affect change by influencing policy? How do we meet the upcoming regulation changes? Who is going to do this task?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 2, 2022

So is the general approach: a central administration oversees which projects are initiated, how many resources they receive and what they yield. How to execute the approach, that’s where the devil lies. The less governable aspect, however, is who judges, and not what is being judged or how to judge it.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

Last time I interviewed Peter about how to manage when your sponsor is rubbish. We spoke about how to get the best from your sponsor and tips for first-time sponsors. Project managers must take an active role in influencing and educating project sponsors in these best practices to get the leadership support the project requires.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 10, 2023

Here is the link to the article on how to use Empathy Mapping Canvas. 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. Users may fall into this.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 18, 2022

The key to achieving this level of alignment among the critical stakeholders is that they know how to delegate decisions while being transparent about the underlying system. Consequently, do not privilege internal team members over external ones if not mandated for legal or governance reasons. Overruling the Product Owner?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 25, 2022

The role is predominantly assurance and governance, approving deliverables and making sure the work moves through any gate reviews and governance points as necessary. How can they make the decision when they don’t work daily with the detail? How to manage your first meeting with a new project sponsor.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

Some might want to save the celebrations until the final delivery, but having milestones , acknowledging them and rewarding the team throughout the execution phase is how you keep morale up, which influences productivity. Ineffective corporate governance. Meet Regularly. Execution Gaps. Disengaged executive sponsors.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 17, 2024

I'll also share some examples of what being organized looks like and how to get organized if you are overwhelmed. Create a To Do list This is how to organize daily tasks at work. Make a contact list so you know how to get hold of people and what they do on the project or in the company. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – ( PMBOK® Guide ) Seventh Edition represents a major shift in the way ‘how to do project management’ is presented by PMI. Domain III: Business Environment The Business Environment domain covers how to operate within the context of your organization. Yes, that’s right!

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

They might include providers or government regulators. They can also be customers, influencers, users, buyers, business partners or suppliers. The benefit of stakeholder engagement Stakeholders can provide early input and insights that can go a long way to help us, as the Product Owner, improve the product's value. (See

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 29, 2021

As such, you may have a bit more influence on these if appropriate actions are taken early. External risks can occur due to a variety of factors, often caused by influences more outside of our immediate control. Includes a RAID log and a guide on how to use it. Governance risk. Some examples of internal risk are: 1.

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Susanne Madsen

MAY 24, 2021

Emotions and feelings The last of the four levels of communication is the emotional level where we express how we are feeling in certain situations and enquire about what’s going on for our team members or stakeholders. Consider for a moment some of the stakeholders, or clients, that you need to influence and win the support of.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2024

The main difference between scrum and kanban is that scrum is a method that has strict rules when it comes to the roles and responsibilities of the scrum team , and guiding their everyday activities such as how they should plan their work and how often they should meet, among other things.

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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.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 30, 2024

You'll hear project managers talking about their RAID logs as part of how to manage a project , or updating the RAID, but what does it all mean? A RAID log is a way of tracking the things that affect and influence your project. It is part of the governance and control mechanisms around your project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 8, 2016

How can you check what you’ve got and what needs to be done next? Let me guide you through how to assess the state of the project you’ve inherited. Get this free printable checklist about how to take over a project from someone else. Check #5: Governance. Is there a governance structure? How do you spend it?

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