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12 Ways to Create A Positive Work Culture

Rebel’s Guide to PM

All surveys focusing on project managers’ skills highlight the ability to communicate and build relations, so this should already sound obvious to many of you. Good relations are the key to influencing people, getting their attention and finally getting things done. Do make sure you find an owner for this task. Build Relationships.

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Project management degrees: Do you need one and what you can do with it

Rebel’s Guide to PM

She wrote: I have been advised that you have to do a degree in a particular subject e.g. engineering, do project management training e.g. PMI®, PRINCE2® etc and work your way up in order to become a project manager. You can find my views on whether CAPM or PRINCE2 is the right choice for you here. Is this true? It is a well-paid job.

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Project Management Trends [2022]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In the APM Salary and Market Trends survey 2021 , 61% of respondents reported that working from home options were an important criterion for choosing a new role, up from 52% in 2020. I’ve written in the past about the results of my survey into why people are leaving project management. People want flexible options for work.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

That’s the minimum (and the approach advocated by PRINCE2). In every case, you should have people on the group who understand the project (or who can be brought up to speed) and who have influence and interest in the outcomes. Project manager: the person leading the project (you). Of course, the project manager should attend too.

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Project Closure: Your Complete Guide to How to Close-down Your Project

Online PM Courses

Before we look at what project closure entails,let’s just make a brief survey of what some of the formal approaches to project management have to say on the subject. Axelos’s PRINCE2®. ‘Closing a Project’ is one of PRINCE2’s seven processes. In this article, we will examine each of them in detail.

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What are the Best Project Management Books?

Online PM Courses

Andy Crowe has created a thorough survey and deftly extracted large amounts of gold from the data he’s mined. The Influence Agenda: A Systematic Approach to Aligning Stakeholders in Times of Change. Managing successful projects with PRINCE2. Buy from Amazon.com Buy from Amazon.co.uk. Alpha Project Managers. Andy Crowe.

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How Much Do Project Managers Make?

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According to the Project Management Institute’s “ Earning Power: Project Management Salary Survey—Eleventh Edition (2020) ”, 72 percent of project managers reported that their total salary increased in the last year. As discussed earlier, geography can have a significant influence on project management salary.

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