Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 17, 2020

A recent study by Dr Clara Cheung and colleagues found that project managers experience particularly high stress levels in regard to their working relationships. My colleagues and I conducted a comprehensive research study (which can be found here ). The research study reported here was kindly supported by the APM Research Fund.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 23, 2021

In this post, I summarize the insights from the study by Tufano and draw in more recent research. It also ties well into a recent post where we discussed a scientific study that showed how critical the socio-technical skills of developers are to the success of Agile transformations. An interesting study by Søberg et.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 25, 2020

Since good decision-making is critical for good leadership and guidance, project managers need to know how heuristics (mental disposition) and biases (personal inclinations) influence a project manager’s decisions. What are heuristics? The confirmation bias prompts people to agree with evidence that confirms their prior decisions.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 3, 2023

If you are studying for the Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam, this is the article you need to help you break down and understand the contents of the exam. The principles of project management from The Standard for Project Management will apply across the domains, so expect to study them all in an integrated way.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 20, 2021

Even if you aren’t studying to become a PMP ® it never hurts to remind yourself what good meeting best practices look like. If you want your meeting to end up with a decision don’t underestimate the amount of influence you have in getting there by doing some pre-work informally with your attendees. 7: Do The Work.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Jennifer defined it as a process whereby a person influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal. Transactional leaders are those who influence others by what they offer in exchange for their help. So, leadership is a process where an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

For example, there is a section early on that outlines the differences between the 6 th and 7 th editions of the Guide, which really isn’t relevant for anyone who is not familiar with PMI approaches or inclined to study for the PMP ® exam in the future.

PMI 449

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 30, 2023

And you can control and influence how you say something by understanding paraverbal communication. Paraverbal communication involves the use of nonverbal cues such as tone and volume to influence how your message is received. You probably already know that how you say something is just as important as what you say.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 18, 2022

I do think that having a degree (of any kind, in any subject) is beneficial for securing a job, especially as project managers are expected to influence and lead, and many employers want to see evidence of the ability to operate at that level and use a degree as a benchmark for it.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 16, 2021

Soft skills include: Communication Leadership Self-awareness Confidence Resilience Teamwork Business acumen Influencing and negotiating Networking Stakeholder engagement. Influencing and negotiating. As such, sometimes we need to use our influence to support project success. Click here for more on business acumen ? Networking.

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Scrum.org

JULY 14, 2021

We chose to develop our model from observational data from 13 case studies that took place over a period of five years. Although the case studies were not exhaustive of all kinds of Scrum teams, they provided a great starting point for model development by grounding it in real Scrum teams. I will define the core variables below.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 14, 2021

You need to be aware of the project environment and prepare for its influence on your project throughout the project management life cycle. The project manager must understand the project environment and proactively plan to manage the factors that might influence the project. All of these things make up the project environment.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Studies show that if you frame the context of a problem in different ways, people choose different outcomes. That affects how people make choices – and we can influence those choices by how we frame a statement. Key Takeaway: Framing is important in decision making because it can influence the decision that is made.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 19, 2021

Another study discovered that teams with more cognitive diversity tackle problems faster. On the other hand, a manager that exhibits a high degree of negativity is bound to influence other people the same way. People with diverse viewpoints can spot risks and opportunities that others might overlook. Physical engagement.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 29, 2019

It’s possible that “settling in period” might influence how you feel and perform in the exam. It can be insanely difficult to find time to study, especially when you are working. The website guides you through exactly what to do and what to study in what order. For me, that list acts as my study plan.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 11, 2021

Greyfly might be unique in what it offers but it certainly isn’t alone in how it’s approaching the challenge of using project data and new technologies to influence project success rates. There aren’t that many firms operating in the project management/AI space but it seems to me we’ve gone from zero to quite a few in a short period of time.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

There two options for the course: a fully-online, self-study version and a VIP option which combines the on-demand video and with 5 group coaching calls and personal support via email and Voxer so you’ve always got a place to go for your questions.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 7, 2023

It’s hard to know what they are looking for in the Sauce & Spoon case study, so if you’re working through the course, here are some tips as you prepare to submit your capstone assignments. It’s not an agile project management case study but I can tell you that it’s realistic. Should we add a goal around decreasing guest wait time?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 18, 2024

You study and do the job at the same time. They lead to professional qualifications and once you’ve finished the study time, you’ll be well placed to get a job in project environments whether that’s in your existing organization or elsewhere. Different industries will influence that and there is a minimum salary set by the government.

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The Lazy Project Manager

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Or there is a Self-Study option [link]. PMO Influencer of the Year 2020 (PMO Global Alliance). Book your VIP option place here [link]. Elizabeth also offers Project Management Rebels, which is a teaching-led group mentoring programme. Peter Taylor. www.thelazyprojectmanager.com.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

I once did a one-off study on business process improvement for a leadership institute and one of the things that were raised when I was interviewing the Marketing team was how much more time they felt they could save if they had their own fax machine instead of having to walk to a communal machine. Workplace design. Decision allocation.

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Kiron Bondale

MARCH 3, 2019

Response owner awareness is a good starting point, but why should they expend their valuable time, money or political influence? Meeting with them in person and clearly articulating the nature of the risks and the proposed responses might work better.

Risk Management 273

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Normally, PMI provides enough notice to candidates so they can finish up studying with their existing training materials and get their exam booked before it changes. People have been studying for and passing this exam for years. That also gives training providers time to update their courses.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 8, 2018

A business and management academic and author, Henry Mintzberg, has studied management and has found that there is not one magic bullet that shoots through all the skills needed to run a successful project. The key to successful leadership today is influence not authority.” – Kenneth Blanchard. ” – Henry Mintzberg.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 2, 2023

Or what you can do with a project management degree for a job once you finish your bachelor’s or master’s studies? This might apply to you if you have come to your degree studies as a mature student or as part of a career change. It’s still worth applying for jobs even if your studies were in an unrelated subject. Don’t worry.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 6, 2023

Throughout the book you will also find case studies and boxes with stories in, as well as the voices from the front-line section towards the end for more real-life examples. If you are a project practitioner in a delivery role, it is still an interesting and useful read, but it doesn’t necessarily align to the way you do projects now.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Inspired in part by the definition put forth from the Flipped Learning Network and the benefits described above, we are basing our experiment with Flipped Learning on the consideration that there are two phases to this method: Self Study. Gaining knowledge about a concept. An individual, self-paced activity. And, Classroom Sessions.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

It will teach you how to influence others, even when you are not directly managing them. Any books about achieving business goals, portfolio management, strategy execution or case-study driven books will count here. It’s about influence and negotiation and how to get things done. PDU claim: 2 hours. PDU claim: 9 hours.

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Inloox

JANUARY 14, 2021

The success of a construction project is sometimes recognizable even to amateurs and influences the lives of everybody. A study from Oxford in 2015 fundamentally addressed the question of why major projects fail. As a result, a large proportion of privately financed projects went bankrupt after the study. But who is to blame?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 25, 2022

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”. We do it as children, we do it as teenagers (often terrifying our parents in the process) and we do it as adults.

Underperforming Technical Team 409

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Your answers will influence the next steps, but if you don’t agree with the conclusion presented, you have the chance to go through the questions again and change your answers. The tutorial sets out the case study you will be working on and shows what is to come. You’ll be used to this step: every site asks for it.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 26, 2021

That doesn’t have to massively influence your decision, but you might want to consider the reputation of the university and how that is going to affect your job prospects (if you think it will). Consider the length of study. Job prospects vary and it’s fair to say that courses from some institutions are more in demand than others.

Technical Review 311

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Get the project communications plan template I use to plan my project communications If you want to try something different, read this case study on using video for project communications. Do Once planning is done and the project starts, the communication really begins!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

That didn’t sit quite right with her (and she didn’t know she was a perfect example of a project management ethics case study when she was telling me the story!). As you might have guessed, this is a real-life ethics case study. But she was worried that other people were interpreting the estimate as definite fact.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

One consistent pattern in studies about Product Owners is that there is a gap between the theory of the Scrum framework and how it is practiced. . Van Waardenburg & Van Vliet (2013) offer a case study in a large organization and conclude that “The Project Manager focuses on the ’how’ of a project, the Product Owner focuses on the ’what’”.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 7, 2023

Spoiler: I think it is, for new entrants to the profession, people who want to make a sideways move into project management and students looking for an extra certificate to go along side their university studies. If you already have 3+ years of experience as a project manager, you probably won’t learn much new.

Software Review 449

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 6, 2024

The inputs that influence the outputs or product characteristics should also be detailed, such as ambient temperature, weld torch temperature, bolt torque, etc. Determine the Sample Size and Inspection Frequency Determining what the sample size is for inspection is an important part of any empirical study.

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