Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 15, 2022

I worked in the IT team at my old job. We did a fair amount of off-the-shelf software deployments, and we frequently made the point that we were a healthcare company, not a software development firm. I would not have said we had software development as one of our core organizational competencies. Leadership.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Managing real estate projects is better served with real estate project management software than struggling with Excel spreadsheets or, worse, trying to stay organized on loose sheets of paper. What Is Real Estate Project Management Software? The following is a short list of these essential tools.

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 21, 2022

How often have you found new requirements towards the end of your projects? Or perhaps your team said they had gathered the requirements, but in reality, the team had hastily rushed through the requirement process resulting in rework, missed deadlines, and another blown budget. Poor requirements change process.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2020

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns. After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. The Role of the Development Team in Scrum. Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Microsoft Project Gantt chart is typically seen as the centerpiece of that project management software. We’ll highlight key features, show you how to build a Microsoft Project Gantt chart and identify some of the pitfalls of the Gantt chart for Microsoft Project. Microsoft Project is not known for its collaboration or ease of use.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 17, 2024

Being able to identify them and their relationship to the project informs how to manage their expectations. Project management software can take a stakeholder register to the next level. ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software that helps to manage stakeholder expectations.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

We challenge leaders, we talk about risk and what might go wrong and we call people out on poor performance through project monitoring and control. Conflict should be a healthy part of any team’s development, and it’ a good way to challenge requirements and ensure that your business case and plans stand up to scrutiny.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 25, 2023

How COQ does this, especially in project management, is what we’ll define. But we’ll also discuss the cost of good quality vs. the cost of poor quality and show you how to measure COQ. Whether you’re manufacturing products or delivering a service, project management software can help you with the cost of quality.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 3, 2023

Ideas are essential to product development, but they’re intangible. Below, we’ll define what a prototype is, why it’s important to make a product prototype and explore how to make a prototype. Below, we’ll define what a prototype is, why it’s important to make a product prototype and explore how to make a prototype.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. Why is code quality so often an issue? Why do software teams?—?despite But also a field that has much to say about code quality and how we can be better developers. Technical Debt and Code Smells.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Teams get sick. Whatever or wherever the change comes from, change control determines its value and how to feasible implement it. Change is an opportunity for your team to work together to figure out how to respond to the change request. Weather gets in the way. Supply chains break. For one, it improves teamwork.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 7, 2024

This requires first an understanding of demand management and how it benefits business. Next, we’ll outline the demand management process to learn how to implement this planning methodology and how software can facilitate that process. Use the team page or the color-coded workload chart to monitor your team’s allocation.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2024

Your thoughts turn to what you should be doing for your professional development in the months ahead… and there’s a lot of choice. 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. Self-awareness We all have limits.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Without having a contingency plan in place, the chances of completing a project successfully will drop considerably, even if that project plan was made with planning software. How to Create a Business Contingency Plan. Of course, human resources are another risk, as teams get sick, leave projects or are terminated.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 3, 2020

Does your team struggle to get items to Done? Do they experience a high amount of spill-over into the next cycle because they are waiting on another team or another person? Do items sit in a blocked state and age out while waiting on other teams or people to complete work? Dependencies are an epidemic in software development.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Managing those tasks is a constant communicative effort with your team. You wouldn’t start a project without a plan in place, and so a communications plan is equally important, as it defines how you’re going to get the critical project information out to the people who need it, clearly and in a timely manner. What are they?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 1, 2019

Sometimes leading a team, project or organization goes well. In Review – Crisis Management: How to Lead During a Crisis. Jennifer noted that whether you’re leading a team , project or organization, things are either going well or poorly. These crises impact teams. Sometimes it doesn’t. Project Crisis Examples.

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Nine times out of ten, I hear the answer—poor communication. Hence, let's look at how to improve your project communication. What happens when poor communication exists? Consequently, individuals misunderstand and make bad assumptions. Here's the bottom line -- poor communication drives projects into an abysmal valley.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

You’ve made the product or developed a great service, now you need to create a marketing plan. That requires work, of course, and a lot of coordination between departments, which can be streamlined by project management software. Marketing team: You’ll need to assemble a marketing team to achieve your goals.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you how your role is evolving. In Review: 7 Ways Project Manager Roles Are Changing As Jennifer said, project manager roles are changing. Plus, clearer performance tracking improves transparency and accountability for both team members and stakeholders. What do you do?

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 2, 2021

But all that work is pointless if they don’t communicate the purpose of the project to their team and clients. The team and client know the mission statement, the vision statement and the project plan. It’s all part of the meeting agenda and makes sure the project team starts off on the right foot. It sets up project success.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 10, 2018

This is a review of Proggio software using Firefox browser, in November 2018. Languages: I didn’t see any options to change the software language. Proggio is task and project management software that looks visually attractive and is fast to build out schedules. How to Create a Project in Proggio. Name: Proggio.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Being self-managing, they decide who does what, how, and when. Being self-managing, they decide who does what, how, and when. The Scrum Team delivers a valuable, useful, and usable Increment(s) every Sprint. The team is ideally a "slice of cake team," which can deliver value in the form of an integrated Increment.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 23, 2021

4 How to Get Started 5 Tools for Identifying Opportunities 6 Think Outside the Box 7 Where Will You Capture Opportunities? Consequently, these project managers and team members fail to take advantage of these upside risks. After each project, conduct a post-review where you capture the most significant opportunities. Checklists.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Can we get individual productivity up by teaching them how to work efficiently? Or we have to look at how to remove constraints, provide them better resources, and guide them about what meaningful work is so they can perform well. Scrum doesn’t help complete the product faster rather than how quickly a team can release a product.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Trello vs. Asana is a likely matchup for anyone looking for the right project management software. Yes, Trello has project management features and Asana has a timeline and other tools to help manage tasks and teams. Both are popular work and project management software products, but only one will come out on top. What Is Trello?

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Then, we will explore how to develop a practical quality management plan. The Cost of Poor Quality First, we may not meet customer's needs and expectations. Fifth, your team's morale may suffer. Nobody likes missing deadlines due to rework. This is often a result of poor quality requirements. Click to Tweet.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Still, there are concrete steps you can take to develop a solid project schedule and ensure all aspects of your project are properly planned and accounted for. The best way around this is to involve the team in constructing the list of tasks. Then get the team together to add to it. Step 1: Write Down Your Tasks.

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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. That doesn’t mean that technical debt is all bad. The reason for this negligence could be due to not being aware of the best design pattern, naming convention, documentation or coding guidelines.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 4, 2022

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. The bad news, it’s hard to master. Scrum is part of agile software development and teams practicing agile.

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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. Conduct Team-Building Exercises.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2022

That creates a dilemma: how to spend their budget. How do you go about creating a capital improvement plan document? Are there benefits to developing a capital improvement plan? Are there benefits to developing a capital improvement plan? Can project management software facilitate this work? They are as follows.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Either way, project managers have to prepare for risk, either good or bad—it can interfere with project objectives. More often, you’ll address it during the planning phase when you assign roles and responsibilities to your team members. To manage risk correctly, you need to use project management software. Learn More!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 12, 2024

There’s no need to create a massive document when you can point to your corporate standard or even say you’ll log the risk in the project management software and discuss it at the monthly risk meeting. That way you can head the problems off before they become bigger issues for you and your team to deal with. What is a risk log for?

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The project management software is expensive, complicated and not collaborative. No wonder project teams look for open-source Microsoft Project alternatives. Let’s look at several open-source Microsoft Project alternatives and see what they have to offer, where they succeed as project management software and where they fall short.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 21, 2021

Just as a project has a charter to define its scope, so too must your team have a charter to put their work in context. Teams need to know the who, what, why, when and how of the project, and a team charter is the perfect way to feed them that information. Let’s explore how to put a team charter together.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

And in no particular order we start with: Mark Phillips Mark Phillips High performing teams are motivated by an exceptional vision. The vision becomes a touchstone for difficult discussions with stakeholders, a path to unity for all project participants and a guide post for decision making with your team throughout the project.

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