Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Here are some of the things project managers reported in the survey as wanting to learn more about: How to speak with clients with less stress How to keep the team motivated and how to manage stress How a manager can reduce stresses. There is no career development. See the trend? Management makes it hard to get things done.

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NimbleWork

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

According to a survey by the Project Management Institute , organizations that use project management practices are 38% more successful in delivering projects on time and within budget. In this article, we’ll explore the 10 best project management tips specifically tailored for marketing teams.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 11, 2025

It guides the development of objectives, solutions and strategies to ensure all stakeholders understand the issue’s significance and scope. Whether in project management, business process improvement, product development or research, using a problem statement ensures a focused and strategic approach to finding solutions.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 24, 2020

Suitable agile metrics reflect either a team’s progress in becoming agile or your organization’s progress in becoming a learning organization. At the team level, qualitative agile metrics often work better than quantitative metrics. Also, consider contributing to the Agile Metrics Survey 2020. TL; DR: Agile Metrics.

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Planio

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

A Microsoft survey of over 20,000 leaders and workers around the globe found that more than half of all managers feel like they have too much on their plate. Delegation is the process of reassigning work to other team members because it’s more relevant to their skills, priorities, or workload. Building trust across your team.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 12, 2023

During a company integration program, customer service levels dropped by 25-50% because the team management focused their efforts on reorganizing and changing employees’ roles and responsibilities, all with “the best of intentions”. Consequently, the difference in corporate culture led to numerous issues causing anxiety among team members.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 16, 2020

However, beyond the bad news we’ve had to deal with since the beginning of this year, these changing circumstances have ushered in a different kind of enthusiasm for making process improvements in how we work together as well. So far, a turbulent pandemic, uncertainty, crisis, and a volatile global situation.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 11, 2022

However, beyond the bad news we’ve had to deal with since the beginning of this year, these changing circumstances have ushered in a different kind of enthusiasm for making process improvements in how we work together as well. Does Agile project management for marketing really work?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Producing the SWOT analysis for our 3-year plans for the IT team was one of the highlights of my year – my boss might be surprised to hear me say that! SWOT stands for: Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats. We used to do root cause analysis a lot in the IT team. Root cause analysis. Forecasting. Affinity grouping.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 10, 2019

As to the latter, there are many ways for a person to asses their leadership qualities and, by so doing, strengthen their weaknesses and buttress their strengths. Related: How Team Leaders Use ProjectManager.com. Everyone has leadership traits that are their strengths and deficits that expose their weaknesses.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

It’s a set of tools to help you develop the knowledge and skills to solve the tricky issues (and probably even the easy ones). You have to complete the final course evaluation survey to get the PDUs. How can you turn the problem into a visualization like a diagram so the team has a shared understanding of the challenge?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

A product vision is more than just a statement; it's the guiding star that illuminates the path for your product, team, and stakeholders. It serves as a rallying cry that keeps the team focused, motivated, and driven by a shared purpose. It helps your team understand what they are working towards and why it matters.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Performance reporting is the process of documenting and defining the projects, products or services that a company makes and measuring their success with a reporting system that covers scope, costs, quality assurance, and schedule. Once that analysis is complete, you can make suggestions to improve decision-making in your business processes.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 25, 2019

That’s the first step of smart product development. Related: The Importance of Customer Development for Startups. Back to Olsen, who has created a process to establish a product-market fit. He has developed a six-step framework, which he called the Lead Product Process. Know Your Target Customer.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 5, 2020

The latter requires that leaders be globally fluent and defend against biases, strive to build more cohesive teams, be proactive, scout opportunities for the individuals they lead and help them grow. The evaluation of the new leaders should dictate the subject matter and process of the training.

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nTask

JANUARY 19, 2021

This “oiling the cogs” in the organizational paradigm is Process Management. What is Process Management? Usually, Process Management consists of the following: Purging any redundant and wasteful process. Usually, Process Management consists of the following: Purging any redundant and wasteful process.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Stick with me, and we’ll explore what project requirements are, why they’re important, and some tips for developing good ones. First, they provide the project team with a shared understanding of the project’s goals and objectives. Tips for developing good project requirements. Well, this is my life!

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 26, 2021

Creating a construction budget, therefore, is one of the most important pieces when developing a construction plan. A construction budget is an estimate of the money required to take a construction project from initiation to closure, including all associated costs and expenses that are accrued during the building process.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 10, 2019

Both are points that can be mapped, and once you have these destinations on the horizon, then you can use tools to survey how to get there. Knowing intimately how your business works internally, and the current and developing conditions in your market, is crucial. Essentials of the Strategic Planning Process.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 17, 2023

The sales team sells unauthorized features to meet its quota. I will describe a conflict situation in a Scrum team. Your suggestions include surveys, talks, interviews, team meetings, games, exercises, or including other parties like stakeholders or line managers, and other useful practices.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It is a step-by-step process that project managers can implement to estimate and allocate resources effectively. Suppose a project manager has an upcoming project for website development and design. The project has a defined timeline of six months, and the resources involved are developers, testers, UI/UX designers, analysts, etc.

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Scrum.org

JULY 17, 2023

Health Checks for Agile Teams Agile teams thrive on continuous improvement and adaptability. Self-assessment isn’t just a health check measuring tool but a compass guiding teams toward their potential. It’s not an audit; it’s a mirror reflecting a better version of your Agile team. Source : Squad Health Check model.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2021

Did you know that 56% of your project budget might be at risk due to poor communications? One of the most valuable resources in a project is the people (developers, engineers, subject matter experts, etc.) One of the most valuable resources in a project is the people (developers, engineers, subject matter experts, etc.)

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Scrum.org

APRIL 5, 2022

As a community, we excel at putting our fingers on the sore spots of what teams and organizations do wrong. Some examples of good Scrum versus bad Scrum we all seem to agree on…. But how useful is it for members of a Scrum team or an organization that actually wants to succeed with Scrum? Why does it matter?

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Each year, our senior management team would meet with a credit rating agency to share our goals, strategies, and progress. We perform all the risk management processes, but for some reason, we may fail to get the desired results. So, let’s review the risk management processes and see how we can improve the results.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In Scrum, the Product Owner’s purpose is to maximize the value of the Scrum Team’s work (the product). Delivering value to the customer (beneficial customer outcomes) is the ultimate measure of success for the Scrum Team, including the Product Owner. We can consult with Developers on the Scrum Team for ideas.

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 15, 2017

cited that $122 million was wasted for every $1 billion invested due to poor project performance. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, however, if it isn’t bolstered with legitimate study of project management fundamentals, then it can become a bad thing in the right situation.

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Proofhub

AUGUST 17, 2021

7 Best Practices To Lead And Coach Remote Project Management Teams Source: [link] Does your remote project management business have a strategic plan for communicating, training, and delegating? Does it run on seamless systems and processes? And what about your team members?—?are

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Scrum.org

APRIL 26, 2021

The second stage refers to gathering data so that the Scrum Team can have data-informed Retrospectives. As I have observed in practice, many Scrum Teams either limit the data gathering part of the Retrospective, thus lacking vital information. The Scrum Team identifies the most helpful changes to improve its effectiveness.

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Planio

OCTOBER 14, 2024

One survey found that nearly 40% of people frequently experience bias that leads to unfair treatment based on factors such as their age, gender, or race. As team leaders or project managers, we need to do better. As our brains evolve, we develop unconscious biases as a way to process information faster.

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Workamajig

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

68% - more than 2/3rd - of organizations in PMI's annual survey said that they used outsourced or contract project managers in 2018. ( As per Wellingtone's survey, only 22% of organizations use a PM software. 50% of respondents in a survey said that their biggest challenge is that PMO processes are seen as overhead.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 14, 2020

TL; DR: A Remote Retrospective with a Distributed Team. This fifth article now dives into organizing a remote Retrospective with a distributed team: practices, tools, and lessons learned. By the end of the Sprint Retrospective, the Scrum Team should have identified improvements that it will implement in the next Sprint.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Bad management can send employees racing for the door. ProjectManager.com lets teams collaborate online and in real time. Jason Patel, founder of Transizion , a college and career prep company, says, “Our favorite way to retain talent is to involve them with more of the processes that run the business. Offer Incentives.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 31, 2024

By Debra Khan Practitioners of content strategy do not have to go it alone when developing a strategy for a content project. Based on the needs analysis, project leadership typically develops a business case and charters a project. With the latter, the charter might evolve over time.

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Scrum.org

MAY 6, 2022

Why many Scrum teams struggle with continuous improvement, and how you can do better. Are members of your team wondering what the point is of talking about improvement when nothing ever happens? Are you struggling to improve with your team, even though the whiteboard, Mural, or desk is littered with stickies with improvement ideas?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Its purpose was to use all our personal experiences and creativity, to identify quick tips around team autonomy, and its components self-management, and cross-functionality. This article is focused on quick tips to make your Scrum team more self-managing. Within the Scrum Team Survey, we call these 15% Solutions “Quick Tips”.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 15, 2021

One of our goals is to increase velocities across all our teams by X%. A company known for developing “Agile” products surveyed more 18,000 customers and Software development professionals, which is what they discovered. . 77% practice Agile Development. Atlassian Survey,2016. Atlassian Survey,2016.

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