Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 21, 2021

Today I’m interviewing Rachel Mata , Lead Project Manager at Edu-tech company Instructor Brandon. Rachel, how did you get into project management? After that, I got another job as a Coordinator in an Educational Institute, supporting and ensuring the projects were finished and managing resources for those projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 8, 2022

We have forecast and actual dates, timesheets, budgets, databases of lessons learned , risks, issues and changes. For example, imagine reviewing estimates from the project team. We should be capturing it and presenting it to new project managers so the organization learns and adapts for more successful project delivery.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 10, 2023

If you’ve been on LinkedIn recently, you’ve probably seen someone in your network sharing that they have earned the Generative AI Overview for Project Managers badge by completing a PMI training course. Read on for my review. It’s not aimed at any particular job type or role, and you don’t need any project management experience.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The use of capital budgeting offers an objective view that helps managers figure out how to invest capital in order to increase business value but also helps the overall health of the company. Capital budgeting is part of the larger financial management of a business, focusing on cash flow implications when making an investment decision.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – ( PMBOK® Guide ) 7 th Edition represents a major shift in the way ‘how to do project management’ is presented by PMI. Instead of the Knowledge Areas , we have the whole body of project management split up into 3 performance domains. Domain I: People.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 14, 2020

It’s a cliché to say that nothing is constant except for change, but the adage certainly applies to anyone who has ever managed a project. Whatever the change, it must be managed and analyzed, then accepted or rejected. Change control is the process used to manage all these variables. Teams get sick. Weather gets in the way.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 29, 2022

What is the future of project management? Let’s look ahead and see what the next 10 years will bring for project management software, jobs, and the role itself. Does Project Management Have a Future? So will we need ‘professional’ project managers in the future? People who just do managing projects?

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

You wouldn’t believe the number of project managers I speak to on mentoring calls who struggle to get their budget approved. This article will explain project contingency, how to calculate contingency and how to manage it within the scope of your projects. So risk is critical to understanding contingency: that’s the first step.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

When managing a project there is always the triple constraint hanging over the project manager’s head like the Sword of Damocles. Cost overrun is not cost escalation; that term is used to describe an anticipated increase in a budgeted cost, say due to inflation. Avoiding budget overrun is key to closing a successful project.

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Think about the future so you can make better decisions in the present. Let’s talk about how to plan your risk management from start to finish. Some people think of risk management plans in the wrong way. Risk management plans are not a list of risks and what you plan to do (e.g. Methodology.

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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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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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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

It’s easy to get lost in the weeds when you’re managing a project. There are day-to-day operations that the project manager obsesses over, but they also need to see the big picture. Plus, we’ll give you tips on how to write a better one before showing how project management software can make the process even more efficient.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In this article, we will discuss the different types of assumptions, their links to other parts of the project, the real reason why you need to have them documented, and how to manage them during the project lifecycle. You can manage this by assuming that resource costs will be constant, and that price escalation will not occur.

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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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nTask

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Project management is one of the most influential organizational processes that help the company and the team members alike when it comes to generating value for the company. 6 Best Linux Project Management Applications to Use Right Now in 2021. 6 Best Linux Project Management Applications to Use Right Now in 2021. OpenProject.

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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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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

However, in project management, project assumptions are essential for planning a project. Let’s take a look at how project assumptions are defined in project management and why they’re so important. Then we’ll learn about a project assumption log and how assumptions differ from constraints and risk.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 13, 2022

Project communication management is especially important, because we need people to understand what we are talking about and take the relevant action so they can engage their teams or do a particular task. If your message is not understood, that can put your project at risk. Explain technical language. Well, we can be mindful.

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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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Moira Alexander

APRIL 24, 2017

Founded by Harvard University and MIT in 2012, edX is one of the biggest MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) platforms available and offers many project management (PM) courses. Introductory project management courses. Intermediate project management courses. Related Video.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A key part of a PMO leader’s job is to develop and maintain project management standards and processes and to support the people doing the delivery – project managers, program managers , and teams. It also presents a vision of the future, what’s possible for the team, and where the PMO wants to be. Your purpose.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 21, 2019

Projects bring risks, and risks bring unexpected costs. Independent reviews of estimates. This includes any technology implications, system configurations, schedules, strategies and relations to existing systems. Present Estimate to Management: Brief decision-makers on cost estimates to get approval.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Product Managers and Product Owners frequently have to balance market needs, user experience, customer outcomes, and technical feasibility. People who own or manage a product are often not fully equipped to handle the financial aspects of product development. To see more on customer value, please visit my other blog posts.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 6, 2022

This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management. They all seem to be led by highly experienced project managers who have the confidence and skills to deal with the complex sociopolitical environments of their projects, international and virtual teams and other factors that make their work particularly challenging.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 30, 2020

Information technology (IT) is a broad field that encompasses anything related to computer technology. Teams that work in IT are there to support these technologies and the people who use them. Unfortunately, the promise of technology often falls short of reality, and things malfunction. What Is Problem Management?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 27, 2019

But greater flexibility generally requires a more skillful approach to governance and project management. The estimate should be presented as a fairly large range, often +/- 25% or even +/- 50% to reflect the riskiness of “fixed price” estimates. Low financial risk for both the team and for business stakeholders. Funding Option.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2020

Project management software tools are essential to manage projects efficiently. In this article I’ll share my top 15 project management tools that I use for managing multiple projects. This is the number one tool I use and I really couldn’t manage without it. But they aren’t the answer to everything.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 11, 2022

In my experience as a hiring manager, I want to see the relevant experience that applies to the job. If you work in legal project management , talk about your process improvement initiatives or projects relevant to the job you are going for today. Decide how to present the projects. Ready to include work projects on your resume?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Today I present to you 7 productivity tools for teams that you’ve never heard of (maybe – there are two on the list that you might have come across, but I couldn’t leave them out). These days I’m doing a lot less technical project management and a lot more business-led project management and change management.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 13, 2019

This free project charter template is what you’ll follow to create the document to present to a senior management person within the organization, usually called a business sponsor. A project charter, on the other hand is based on the SOW and gives the project manager the authority for a project kick-off. Project Definition.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

They let you know whether you can go overspent or what risk mitigation actions are the right ones for this point in the project. Often an internal senior department manager, client account manager or supplier project manager/representative. Project manager: the person leading the project (you).

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

We have forecast and actual dates, timesheets, budgets, databases of lessons learned , risks, issues and changes. For example, imagine reviewing estimates from the project team. We should be capturing it and presenting it to new project managers so the organisation learns and adapts for more successful project delivery.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – ( PMBOK® Guide ) Seventh Edition represents a major shift in the way ‘how to do project management’ is presented by PMI. Instead of the Knowledge Areas , we have the whole body of project management split up into performance domains.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 13, 2021

Managing a project is complex. Project managers are trained to plan schedules and allocate resources to meet deadlines and stay within budgets. Companies employ contract managers to manage this often-complicated contract process. Companies employ contract managers to manage this often-complicated contract process.

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