Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 20, 2021

GetApp’s survey of over 1,000 managers, decision-makers and SME owners has revealed that despite the proven benefits project management software brings to businesses, more than half of employees opposed their managers’ suggestion to implement PM software. The next most common reason was ‘budget reasons’ (haven’t we heard that before?),

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We’ll go through some of the most popular project management methodologies, which are applied in many sectors such as software development, R&D and product development. When to Use It: The practice originated in software development and works well in that culture. Get work management software that fits with every methodology.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2024

Plus, there are technical skills we have to consider -- employers definitely look for those too. One in five projects is unsuccessful due to ineffective communication, according to research by PMI (The Essential Role of Communications, 2013). I think the area will grow in importance over the coming 10 years.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 31, 2023

And many of the professional bodies offer certificates and credentials that require pre-requisites – difficult to get if you are just starting out in technical project management. I’ve spent many hours reviewing the materials and going through the lessons so you can save time in your own course evaluation.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 4, 2020

It is not only because the book is good, but I felt connected with one of the case studies. They got the idea of increasing the complexity of dependency management and longer lead time due to the handoffs having individual accountability. Or measuring things like defects per story, defect removal efficiency and code coverage, etc.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 31, 2018

It deals not in technical issues, but the business concerns of the project, and it needs to be comprehensive. Do a Feasibility Study. Once the business case has been approved, the next step is taking a feasibility study, which documents potential solutions to the opportunity or business problem that the project is proposed to address.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 7, 2023

OPAs and the PMP exam Let’s face it: I first came across the term OPA while reviewing PMP exam training material. You might have landed here for the same reason: studying for the PMP exam and wondering how to make sense of this nothing-y term. Don’t get me started on Enterprise Environmental Factors either.) What is not an OPA?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 13, 2024

If you’ve arrived here, you’re probably ready to get into my Google Digital Marketing & E-commerce: Professional Certificate review! I’ve spent many hours reviewing the materials and going through the lessons so you can save time in your own course evaluation. I completed the quizzes and worked through the training videos.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

It’s a huge help with exam techniques such as managing your time and using the ‘mark for review’ option. Pick an area you want to study. Review the questions you got wrong, using the helpful references to understand what the right answer should have been. Review the references to go deeper into that topic.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 19, 2021

And what about the socio-technical skills of Developers? In this post, I summarize the findings from an academic peer-reviewed publication by Daniel Russo (2021), a professor at the University of Aalborg. Case-based research is hardly objective, and Dikert and his colleagues urge for more objective data in future studies.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The time value of money is about the potential rate of return on the investment as well as the reduced purchasing power over time due to inflation. Whatever capital budgeting decisions one makes, project management software can help track those costs. Conducting a feasibility study is a good idea.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 24, 2024

It also assists in planning and review and can be used when managing multiple projects. ProjectManager is an award-winning project management software that offers a variety of tools to plan, schedule and monitor projects such as online Gantt charts, dashboards, timesheets and advanced resource planning and cost tracking features.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Project management software is used by construction project managers to plan, manage and track the project. ProjectManager is award-winning project management software that has powerful Gantt charts that break the project into five construction phases. A feasibility study is done to make sure the project is worth pursuing.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2021

Or what you can do for a job once you finish your bachelor’s or master’s studies? That’s due to: an increase in the number of jobs requiring project management-oriented skills (i.e. most knowledge work jobs as well as industries where PM has traditionally been important) higher demand due to economic growth retirement rates.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 8, 2019

Gap analysis is a formal study of how a business or project is currently progressing and where it plans to go in the future. There are various perspectives that can analyzed, from business direction to business processes, from information technology to product management. You’ve done the due diligence, and now it’s time to act.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

RapidStart PMO: Online Project Management Training Review. This is all about making sure your PMO is more than just technically successful: your executives need to be happy with what you are doing too, and feel that you are adding value. Personally, I wouldn’t be happy diving into this and studying week-by-week. Limitations….

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 9, 2022

It’s a statistical technical for quantifying risk. Here’s a simple example analysis to show you how to calculate EMV in a simple case study. For a while it was something considered important to study for the Project Management Professional ( PMP )® exam. Read Our Review. What is EMV? It has two options to consider.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

One product I came across recently is BrainBOK, and as you can guess from the name it’s a PMP® study tool. He kindly gave me access to the product for a short while so that I could review it for you. Study Flashcards. It’s an app from Harwinder Singh, the project management expert behind the PMP® prep blog, Deep Fried Brain.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 5, 2022

Here are some high-profile failed projects: Following an internal review, Multiplex, the Australian development company responsible for the reconstruction of the Wembley Stadium, became aware that costs for the project were escalating to the point that the company would make a loss of £750 million on the project. billion to £10.9

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

If this isn’t the right time to be asking, give it 6 months and review the situation again. There have been enough studies about it. The study also reports that 32% of hiring managers found that productivity increased. Be honest with yourself: what did your last performance appraisal say? Explain why you want to work remotely.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 6, 2020

Another study revealed that remote workers are 29 percent happier than those who work in an office setting. While some technological issues related to servers and computers can be managed if the financial resources are available, local internet outages and spotty access can leave virtual teams impotent. Disadvantages of Virtual Teams.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Education PDUs are those earned from formal and informal learning across the three areas of the PMI Talent Triangle: Technical, Leadership and Strategic and Business Management skills. Technical PDUs can apply to more than one of your certifications as long as the subject is relevant. Education PDUs. Claim for mentoring.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

ProjectManager is award-winning project management software that helps plan, manage and track projects in real time. Their responsibilities are the same in that they plan, review plans, schedule tasks and monitor and control projects to ensure that they’re delivered on time without overspending.

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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. The chair found it hard to give different people the floor as several people were due to give short presentations but he couldn’t make the laptop show their slides. 3: Check Your Tech. So check it.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 15, 2022

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. We did have a team of developers who built some in-house apps, and web front ends to databases, but we were not, at heart, a company that built software.

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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? Personally, I think employers value work experience over a degree, so a degree in project management, while it will show that you have the technical and soft skills, will not ensure you a job. This article is for you!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 19, 2023

You can claim the time you spend on reviewing the course material as self-directed learning. Typically, PMI will only let you claim 1-2 PDUs for organization meetings per certification renewal cycle, so review the upcoming calendar for your local Chapter and see what events are coming up. Choose something that sounds interesting!

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In 1969, in Philadelphia, Jim Snyder, of Smith, Kline & French Laboratories, and Gordon Davis, of the Georgia Institute of Technology, were having dinner and decided there was a need for an organization that offered project managers a forum to share information and discuss their industry. Certification.

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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. Your next steps.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 12, 2023

After $170m spent on a project to upgrade its computer system, the FBI project crumbled because the requirements were ill-defined from the beginning and the software didn’t function the way the agency had hoped. They were unable to adapt to upgraded technology and modern methods which, eventually caused the company to throw in the towel.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 13, 2019

These are the business case and feasibility study. Like any project, the research and due diligence you put in before the project pays off during the project. Review your notes and when you start a draft, show it to the people who attended the meeting. There are also the technology-specific technology objectives.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 27, 2016

I talk to a lot of project managers about the software they use and there is often a common theme: they are pushed into finding something better because they can’t carry on as they are. This is what happened to Dara Ingoldsby from Prophix, a firm that develops software to automate financial and operational processes.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Due to their dependencies, delays caused by a critical resource’s unavailability in completing their work can delay other tasks and meet milestone deliverables. Incorrect forecasting due to lack of appropriate tools Many organizations are still using legacy tools and home-grown solutions for resource forecasting.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

ProjectManager is award-winning project management software with powerful Gantt charts for manufacturing processes. This is done through the selection of technology and processes, planning and the design of the factory. We offer a generous benefits package and bonuses based on performance are awarded annually after a review.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 16, 2022

To get the most out of business process management, you’ll need to use business process management software to analyze your business processes, model how they work in various scenarios, implement changes, monitor the new process and continuously make improvements. Software helps with the application of business process management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 24, 2023

Lots of companies work through ‘transformation’ projects which are designed to create large-scale organizational change such as mergers and acquisitions or culture change, or meeting the expectations of technology use through implementing digital strategies. Tip You are probably have more experience working on projects than you think you do.

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