Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

A project manager’s job isn’t just about managing the work. Part of a resource management plan is to build the skills of your team. Normally we’d think of that in terms of the technical skills they need to deliver the project, like taking a course in a programming language or brushing up their system maintenance skills.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 7, 2019

This is often due to the various forces at play that impact decision-making, like those related to the project budget, schedule or resources. There’s a term to explain this idea: technical debt. If you’re about to embark on a new project, take a moment to read about what technical debt is and why you’ll want to avoid it at all costs.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 23, 2018

If project managers don’t learn from their mistakes, then they’re not growing professionally and will revisit the same problem in future projects. Project managers can learn as much, if not more, from failed projects as they can from successful ones. Long before it discontinued the technology, Betamax was already irrelevant.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 22, 2024

Risks are a bit different than issues; risks are issues that haven’t happened yet. By identifying what risks are probable, you can prepare for them and have a response in place if and when they show up in your project. That’s called risk or issue management. Risks are the potential problems lurking in your project.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

What do you need to know to succeed at project management? While there’s some truth to that joke, it’s not helpful to the student or the experienced professional who is looking for a way to understand the myriad responsibilities of being a project manager. What is PMBOK in Project Management? Project Integration Management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 14, 2019

A project manager’s job isn’t just about managing the work. Part of a resource management plan is to build the skills of your team. Normally we’d think of that in terms of the technical skills they need to deliver the project, like taking a course in a programming language or brushing up their system maintenance skills.

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Project Risk Coach

JUNE 20, 2022

The Project Management Institute (PMI) released the PMBOK® Guide, Seventh Edition in July 2021. In this article, let's look at each principle and why each one matters with respect to managing risks. Be a Diligent, Respectful, and Caring Steward 2. Optimize Risk Responses 11. Table Of Contents. What are Principles?

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Technology, labor, distribution and consumer demographics have all massively changed just in the last few years. 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.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 7, 2023

Project managers are often faced with the challenge of managing complex projects and ensuring that they stay on track. I’ll confess: when I started out as a project manager, this was a piece of jargon that honestly didn’t mean much at all? But what is an organizational process asset (OPA)? Think intranet or policy library.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 30, 2024

We’ll explain that first and go into the various features this technology-driven business intelligence tool has and what they can be used for. Businesses without a project management system with task, resource and cost progress data, the reports aren’t trustworthy. Power BI is a tool that delivers that information.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 10, 2023

If you’re not working from an agenda or you don’t manage those meetings, that can be true. Let’s take a look at 10 different types of project management meetings and define them, and we’ll start with the definition of what a project meeting is. But meetings are critical for project planning and team collaboration.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 13, 2021

This month’s free project management template is a Terms of Reference document. I use it mainly for two things: Putting down in writing what my Steering Group are actually supposed to do to set the ‘ground rules’ for that group and their meetings. It must be time for a new template! Explain what this involves.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

Let’s review strategies and tools you can use, and learn how they can help you close that gap to promote successful project execution. We’ll hear from experts and review key takeaways that project leaders can immediately put into practice in their programs and projects. Manage Team. You need to manage their expectations.

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 2, 2022

Why the partnership of technology and people bring more than one benefit. As defined by Professor Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg School of Management, “a team is a group of people who are interdependent with respect to information, resources, knowledge and skills and who seek to combine their efforts to achieve a common goal.”

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Contingency plans are used by smart managers who are aware that there are always risks that can sideline any project or business. If you’re not working on a contingency plan when you’re planning any enterprise, then you’re opening yourself up to unnecessary risk. What Are the Key Risks?

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LiquidPlanner

MAY 24, 2023

That’s why effective project management should go beyond theory, and expand to include risk factors – both internal and external. A practical project risk management strategy accounts for team member miscommunications and mistakes, scope creep and shifting client expectations, and any technical difficulties along the way.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2023

His ‘Managing and Saving Programs in a Changing World’ webinar covers 5 steps for project recovery. There are several things that can go wrong in program management: Business case deterioration: the program started off with a good business case but it no longer stacks up. Bring in technical specialists as required.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 17, 2021

Professor Tirado is a native New Yorker, and when he started out in this field he was one of 5 people in the world who married together managing initiatives through projects and industrial psychology. Project management is affecting how humans perform or adopt technology. So the change management and training is not intensive.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2021

Are you wondering whether it’s worth getting a degree in project management? What can you do with a degree in project management? The simple answer is: you can get a job as a project manager. About 16% of project management jobs require a degree (not necessarily a project management degree). Let’s dive in!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 9, 2022

EMV is a risk analysis tool that helps establish the contingency reserves for your project activities. It’s a statistical technical for quantifying risk. You would use it to: Establish which new product option or solution is best Establish the contingency reserve required to offset project risk. What is EMV?

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 24, 2024

Projects help execute those strategic plans, and organizational project management is the framework that aligns that work to the organization’s objectives. Let’s start by digging deeper into the definition of organizational project management and the various components that make it up. What Is Organizational Project Management?

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Project Risk Coach

JANUARY 14, 2019

Project managers constantly think about risks, both threats and opportunities. Let’s consider a simple but powerful tool to capture and manage your risks—the Risk Register. What to Include in a Risk Register. What to Include in a Risk Register. ” Risk Owner. .” Risk Score.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 1, 2018

There are lots of routes into project management, as I explored recently in an article on how to become a project manager. But reading about what you should do to break into project management isn’t the same as hearing real stories of people who took that leap and got that project management job. Emma Seaton-Smith.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 12, 2018

Managing a project can be complicated, especially when different departments have to work together. This can make project collaboration between departments difficult, due to differences in process and methodology. To create harmony between the various departments and parts of a project, project integration management is implemented.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 20, 2017

But before you jump into that project plan and begin to tackle the scope of your project, let’s review the basics. The SOW is also a guideline for the project manager. Who are the people or groups of people both inside and outside the project who will be impacted? Reduce ambiguities and risks. Manage expectations.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 1, 2024

ProjectLibre is open-source project management software attractive to IT professionals due to its cost-effective solution. It’s an alternative to commercial project management software, but is it better? The only way to find out the value of ProjectLibre is to use it to manage a project, and we did just that.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 20, 2023

I use it mainly for two things: First , putting down in writing what my Steering Group are actually supposed to do to set the ‘ground rules’ for that group and their meetings. I find a ToR is helpful when there’s a technical stream of work being led by someone, and then other strands being picked up by other people.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 16, 2021

I don’t have the time (or the requirement) to take a certification course, but I’m always prepared to develop the project management competencies I need to succeed. In this article we’ll talk about the top competencies for project managers and how you can develop your skills. 9 Competencies You Need as a Project Manager Today.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 17, 2020

Most project managers will have experienced a situation where they have found a stakeholder to be really difficult. This often causes stress and it’s challenging for project managers to find ways to deal with it. What happens instead is that they create situations which are challenging for the project manager.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 2, 2022

The mission of a project portfolio manager is clear enough: maximize the business benefits of projects. In this article, you’ll learn the top 5 key considerations and knowledge areas under which the main criteria for managing a project portfolio can be grouped. How to execute the approach, that’s where the devil lies.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 31, 2024

The action register template I use is so simple (and you can grab it below from my project management resource library, which is full of editable templates). Let’s learn about how to make the most of this amazing – and oh so simple – project management tool. You can do the same, and honestly, it’s a game changer.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 2, 2020

Project managers are well aware of this and spend much of their time planning in order to avoid negative risk and its potential impact. There are many tools that can mitigate risk in a project, but it also takes skill in something called project controls. Risk management. Cost estimates. Project documentation.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Due to improvements in networking and the quality of internet connectivity, cloud based backup options have gained market share and are in fact superior to onsite backup in most applications. Project managers typically have to work with a number of stakeholders ranging from clients and vendors to senior management and internal customers.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 2, 2023

Are you wondering whether it’s worth getting a degree in project management? Or what you can do with a project management degree for a job once you finish your bachelor’s or master’s studies? Recently someone got in contact with me to ask about how to become a project manager. “Do I need a degree in project management?”

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 17, 2024

In this article, you'll learn 20 practical ways to stay organized at work, tested and approved by project managers! Block out half a day a month Book a meeting with yourself for half a day a month and call it ‘process review’. If you don’t, you risk de-prioritizing them in favor of plodding on with the work. Here are some tips.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Project management is no different. The Project Management Institute (PMI) is a nonprofit organization for those working in project management across the globe. As an organization, it offers training and certification in project management, and it reports regularly on industry trends. A History of PMI.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 20, 2022

TL; DR: Scrum Master Interview Questions on the Sprint Review. And that demand causes the market entry of new professionals from other project management branches, probably believing that reading one or two Scrum books will be sufficient. It is the Sprint Review. The Sprint Review According to the Scrum Guide.

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