ProjectManager.com

MARCH 20, 2019

Leadership can be customized to the individual. This might sound backwards, even counter to what leadership is, but the definition of leadership is broad enough to hold a multitude of approaches. So today, let’s take a look at one of the foundational types of leadership—transactional leadership.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Organizations are continually looking for leadership team that’s experienced in business process management (BPM). Management: This includes such processes as corporate governance , budget and employee oversight. This helps businesses adapt to change, reduce costs and improve quality.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 1, 2019

Amongst her other consulting commitments, she is one of a handful of Project Academy coaches working with Cranfield University and PA Consulting to support the UK Government’s drive to increase senior project and programme management capability across government. What’s the difference between project management and project leadership?

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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. Another challenging topic will be project leadership. This is no longer the case. Project managers will no longer view team members as a cost.

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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

AUGUST 6, 2022

Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. 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. What is a project board?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

I am sure many of you are saying, ‘Isn’t that what leadership has been doing?’ Of course, any organization will apply constraints such as consistent funding and governance processes, tools, or templates. This is a significant challenge for most organizations, requiring decisions on short-term and long-term investments.

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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

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

MARCH 4, 2025

The UK government has the Project Delivery Capability Framework. Yes, you can go on a course to learn more about leadership, but somehow its harder to truly internalise the changes required to lead in a different way and sustain that level of personal change over time. There are several project management competence models.

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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. No, not that I’m aware of.

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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. The low volume for #NoEstimates is not surprising.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

PRINCE2 has its roots in the UK public sector and government but is now used and loved around the world. They all help you learn how to manage a project lifecycle through controllable stages and implement appropriate governance, including a project board. There are 4 PRINCE2 certificates: PRINCE2 Foundation (6 th Edition).

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

It’s all the stuff you know to do anyway, because it’s part of what it means to operate in a leadership role in a modern organization, whether you are working on iterative, predictive or hybrid projects. I’ll update the article when more information is available. Domain I: People.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 11, 2021

And I’m personally not worried about that – that will give us much more time to focus on project leadership and stakeholder engagement; the things that computers can’t (yet) do for us. I think they mean 80% of what the textbooks say is the discipline of project management, not what project managers actually do. How it started for Greyfly.

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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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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 6, 2023

They lead the strategic planning and project governance for the organization and define the project management methodologies that are used to manage those projects. They’re responsible for making sure that the related projects are completed on time and within budget. The responsibilities of a PMO director are varied.

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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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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. You’ll be facilitating cross-departmental collaboration and making sure people on different project teams work effectively together.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 15, 2017

I currently perform IT Project Management for the US Government in Stuttgart, Germany. In my career I have served as an Army Officer on Active Duty, as a contractor in the IT field for the US Government and for the past ten years as a Government Civilian. Tell us about your career path.

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 21, 2022

It supports practices such as increased governance oversight and reduced autonomy and flexibility for staff. If you liked this article, why not pick up my book Easy in Theory, Difficult in Practice which contains 100 other lessons on project leadership? On the other hand, a Safety-II perspective is optimistic.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 19, 2021

Some projects are narrowly defined, but construction project management always involves a wide range of skills and crafts, such as leadership, planning and resource management. The good thing about e-Builder is that it’s made with scheduling government projects in mind. It helps with updating submittals, communications and invoicing.

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Kiron Bondale

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Boards play a key governance role in the successful running of companies. Boards are often actively involved in the succession planning process for leadership positions, helping to cue up the best candidates for key leadership roles. Steering committees play a similar role when it comes to projects.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 15, 2022

You can also build competence across the business as a whole by hiring new personnel with the necessary skills or by making changes in leadership. Leadership. Most firms will want their leaders to be good at leadership because it underpins business performance. I’m thinking of government spy agencies, some R&D firms, etc.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 17, 2022

Project directors are responsible for the successful conclusion of the project by providing leadership, strategically managing risk, monitoring finances and making sure that each phase of the project starts and ends on schedule. As the project director is a leadership role, so is a project manager. Top of the line is leadership skills.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

How organizations are structured, managed, and governed will be increasingly like that of digital natives. Product leadership is empowered. Governance is flexible but transparent. With the introduction of LLMs and tools like ChatGPT, it is more apparent than ever that every organization is digital.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

She explained about how her company had to standardize and bring together 12 disparate government websites. Complexity Coping Skill #5: Leadership. Numerous moving parts. Projects with multiple strands or workstreams are necessarily more complex than when you have one thing to do. There’s just more to juggle and more plates to spin.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Lean portfolio management is a process by which strategy is aligned with execution using a lean approach and agile portfolio operations and governance. The senior leadership team will apply lean principles to manage the portfolio. Execute Lean Governance.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 21, 2021

Iterations are perfect for developing solutions like a website, and the structure of an over-arching program framework provided the governance and schedule expectations that executives wanted to see. We blend a bit of business analysis, leadership theory, change management and project delivery to get the outcome stakeholders deserve.

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Brett Harned

MARCH 6, 2025

We need strong leadership now more than ever. Instead, we’re getting reckless, inhumane budget cuts, mass layoffs, and a government left in total disarray. Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) claim they’re saving taxpayer dollars by gutting the workforce. government. No communication.

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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. Directing gets a process of its own.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

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. Make sure not to micromanage, and adjust your leadership style based on the situation and the team member.

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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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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 9, 2018

Some goes to your governance tiers, your boss, client or sponsor, and some goes to your team and colleagues. Excellent projects often benefit from excellent governance, and I think there is a strong causal link. Sadly, though, you can’t always ensure that your project gets the high-quality governance it deserves.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Here are some verbatim responses from people who had not considered leaving the profession: No direction from leadership. I am asked to skip or rush many of the planning steps and go straight to execution due to arbitrary deadlines set by company leadership. Always schedule. Not being given the most accurate information to work with.

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