Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Welcome to my Mplaza PRINCE2® Practitioner review! In this MPlaza PRINCE2 Practitioner course review for project managers, I’ll share: Whether the course is worth it (spoiler: it is). How long you’ll need to spend studying before you can expect to pass the exam. BUT… it’s hugely important to choose a good quality PRINCE2 course.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 23, 2021

So I was pleasantly surprised when Carsten Grønbejrg Lützen pointed at a peer-reviewed academic paper by Michele Tufano and his colleagues (2015), called “When and Why Your Code Starts To Smell Bad”. In this post, I summarize the insights from the study by Tufano and draw in more recent research. Technical Debt and Code Smells.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 27, 2023

If you’re like me, you’ll want to dive into the LearnQuest Scrum Master Certification review below and see if the training is a good fit for your needs. You don’t need any prior knowledge or pre-requisite study, or any particular education requirements in order to take the certificate. That’s why I was excited to take this course.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 25, 2025

Architects and structural, mechanical, electrical and civil engineers provide the design documents and technical drawings used for the takeoff. If specific tradies are involved, such as electrical plumbing and HVAC, subcontractors review the takeoff for their respective scope of work. They are as follows.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 11, 2024

I decided it was time to learn more about change management , and if you’ve come to that conclusion too, keep reading, as I have a detailed review of a very good (and not expensive) course that will help you: the BEE Methodology Practitioner course. The Practitioner course is 4 hours 30 minutes of video across 20 modules.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Then, well add links to some related free templates to help with the feasibility study report. It helps decision-makers determine whether the project is viable by assessing various factors such as technical feasibility, financial viability, operational capacity and market demand. What Is a Feasibility Report?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 11, 2025

This method allows project sponsors to retain full ownership, but increases financial risk due to required repayment regardless of the projects success. Venture Capitalists (VCs): Investors specializing in high-risk, high-reward opportunities, typically funding innovative startups and early-stage technologies. toll roads, hospitals).

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 14, 2024

We gathered 57 of the top AI in project management statistics to help understand this key development in technology. Recent advancements in tech have changed how project managers work in 2024. Only 12% have adopted AI in a substantial way, and the adoption levels are much higher in tech-forward companies (34%).

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The Lazy Project Manager

AUGUST 12, 2024

A new Capterra study of project managers worldwide* found nearly half (46%) are already using AI-enabled project management tools and expect to increase those AI investments by an average of 36% by the end of the year. It’s time to upgrade your use of artificial intelligence (AI) to manage projects if you want to keep pace with your peers.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 11, 2019

One product I reviewed recently is BrainBOK, and as you can guess from the name it’s a PMP® and CAPM® self-study toolkit. He kindly gave me access to the product for a short while so that I could review it for you. So important for when you want to study on the move. Study Flashcards. Take A Quiz.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 25, 2020

Here’s an example of confirmation bias: a smoker may trust statistically irrelevant studies that conclude that cigarettes are not harmful. The goal is not for you to question every action and decision, but one who makes critical decisions with the use of due diligence to avoid human shortcomings.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Working on multiple projects is a great way to get to know a vast range of stakeholders across your organization across, both business and technology, as well as external vendors. Instead, I wanted to know what it’s like as someone who has a workload made up of several projects – because that’s the world I live in too.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 30, 2023

We’ll also explore the impact technology has had on paraverbal communication at work today, because how you say something is different when you are communicating through a tiny square window. Technology has had a profound impact on the way we communicate with one another, and paraverbal communication is no exception.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 16, 2017

This article, Bridging the PM Competency Gap [Book Review] , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. These courses are strong on the technical elements of project management. There are plenty of proposals, case studies and ideas but (rightly) no suggestion that the authors can do it all for you.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Read on for my review. While that’s good because you can get through the content quickly, I wish some of the case studies had taken longer to get into more detail. The human in the loop idea means that we need to take the output of generative AI tools and apply subject matter oversight and analysis to review it. Not quite ready?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 30, 2025

TL;DR: A Harvard Study of Procter & Gamble Shows the Way Recent research shows AI isnt just another toolits a cybernetic teammate that enhances agile work. One particularly relevant study provides empirical insights into exactly how AI affects the kind of cross-functional collaboration at the heart of agile practice.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 10, 2025

They provide technical, financial or operational insights that help shape the projects viability. Feasibility Study: Assesses technical, financial and operational viability to determine whether the project should proceed. They review change requests, enforce decision-making protocols and prevent unnecessary scope creep.

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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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NimbleWork

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Top 25 Project Management Influencers Elizabeth Harrin With over 20 years of experience as a seasoned project manager, Elizabeth Harrin has made a name for herself as both a project leader and an educator, lending her expertise to prominent technology companies.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2021

Today I’m interviewing Rachel Mata , Lead Project Manager at Edu-tech company Instructor Brandon. What was that experience like, studying while working? It was a true challenge because studying takes time and dedication. Working 12 hours a day does not open much space for studying. It came to me from nowhere.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The term scrum was introduced in a “Harvard Business Review” article from 1986 by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. It’s a less technical method of project management that doesn’t put as much emphasis on task order or scheduling, but rather on balancing resources and keeping them flexible. Kanban Methodology.

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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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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. If you are studying for your PMP exam, check out the training course I recommend.

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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. Be consistent.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 21, 2023

Hopefully, the time I’ve taken to work through and review the courses will save you time making the right decision for your career. It’s a true contender and you won’t go wrong by studying the material in the course, regardless of where you are in your career. Both flavors are very similar, and they share 6 courses between them.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 11, 2021

I’m not convinced that 2030 is a realistic target, though, given the project management maturity levels and willingness to adopt new tech that I see on a daily basis. It’s early days for Greyfly and others in the space, but we’ll surely soon be seeing an influx of AI in project management case studies to prove how all this works.

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Binfire

JANUARY 13, 2025

However, with this increased reliance on technology comes heightened concerns about data security. Encryption also makes it very difficult for the wrong people to read or use information, even if they intercept it due to encryption. These technologies study patterns in real-time and can identify and eliminate threats before they occur.

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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 ). In this article, I’ll share some of our key findings. way of communication).

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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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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. Gather Project Proposals First, you’ll want to review the various project proposals and investment opportunities. Conducting a feasibility study is a good idea.

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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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Ganttic

JULY 10, 2024

Providing technical assistance and maintenance engineering for railways, metro lines, and bus networks. The team also holds bi-monthly “workload planning meetings” to review and adjust resource assignments as needed. While each tender expanded the organization’s portfolio, with this growth came unforeseen challenges.

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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 1, 2018

Mayte ‘found’ IT project management after studying chemical engineering. I was not very tech savvy, but thanks to my mentors and coach in the company I learnt not only IT but also leadership skills that I continue to use and develop today. It’s not just spending the day in front of the computer sending emails with due dates!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Companies should periodically assess employees against standards to identify any skill gaps – your HR team probably undertakes regular reviews of what skills the workforce needs to have to best deliver the strategy. You can think of competency at the organizational level as falling into two categories: Technical competencies.

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