Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 3, 2020

Allied to the use of collaboration and social media-style feeds in the workplace, we’ve also seen the rise of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). Today, project managers work in all industries including legal project management, healthc are, hospitality and marketing. Here’s my view on what the main changes have been in project management.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

There are currently over 200 streaming services worldwide , some with a marginal difference compared to others, while some offer a very specific niche like Formula 1, UFC, NFL, and so on. Feeding back to the log Sprint Reviews are perfect events to discuss these elements together with your stakeholders and team.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 31, 2023

So let’s say take for example a farmer, outside of Des Moines, who wants to have a car that he can use to transport his feed for cattle at the end of the day. How to Create a Project Backlog Creating a project backlog ensures that the work you need to get done is completed on time. Follow these steps to create your project backlog.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Lessons learned feed into governance because it shows you have a culture of continuous improvement. And, like toddlers, people respond well when they know how far they can go. But what does governance on projects actually look like? Here are 7 factors that make up good governance. How many of these do you have on your project?

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The best part is that this Gantt chart for Word can adjust itself depending on the data that you feed into it. Download Word File 1. This Gantt chart allows you to visualize your project tasks, the order in which they need to be executed, their duration and due dates over a project timeline.

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MPUG

MARCH 15, 2024

The training involves feeding the model with input data, processing it through multiple layers of algorithms (often neural networks), and adjusting the model’s parameters based on its performance in making accurate predictions or decisions. Here are eight key areas where AI can make impactful predictions.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Key skills that feed into a personal philosophy. Your personal leadership philosophy can be the difference between success and failure on a project. Stakeholders don’t engage if they don’t like working with you – fact. So, how do you develop a personal leadership philosophy? Here are four tips. Define your values. What is important to you?

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Scrum.org

JULY 18, 2023

Part 1, improving an A-level ecosystem: the first steps. There is a travel team, travel feed-engine team, customer data team, and itineraries team. The organizational archetypes of the Org Topologies™ map can be used to plot organization designs that we refer to as ecosystems. These teams work with Scrum.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Long has spoon-feeding solutions and off-the-shelf feature descriptions prevailed in many development teams. Remaining relevant, feeding your target audience with the next best thing, or delving into new markets is needed to remain relevant as an organization, and as a brand. Join the Mastering Agility Discord community. Dr. Timothy R.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

You just want to feed your family and yourself. Photo by Adeolu Eletu on Unsplash What I mean by that is that users request a feature that on a scale from 1 to 10 would deliver a 5 as business value, yet would require an 8 on levels of investment. And I understand that. They just want to get their needs met. But here’s the thing.

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Proggio

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

1) Role-based system access. 4) Data feed. Like Facebook’s and LinkedIn’s homepage feed, your organization should have a central feed of real-time data that will display all of the project or task data that is relevant to the end-user. What software features help support your project team alignment? Stay tuned.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 5, 2024

1 – Productivity culture leads to measuring activities and outputs. 3 – Productivity culture feeds our desire for control. It’s about being adaptive, creative, and resilient. Let’s look at how productivity culture leads to unhelpful behaviors that (often unintentionally) limit these business benefits.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Setting a baseline feeds live data throughout our software. Therefore, the projects or clients you contract with have to be profitable and this is one of the metrics by which you’ll measure the project. How you calculate project profitability can vary, but all approaches should follow these best practices. Evaluate More Than the Budget.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 3, 2022

If you can’t properly automate reports, how else can you streamline the production of reports with templates or data feeds to save you time? Do you want to improve communication on your projects ? And yet make it easier to do at the same time? Use a milestone tracker. The milestone tracker I use is a simple Excel spreadsheet.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This data also feeds into our real-time dashboard and is displayed in easy-to-read graphs and charts. How to Write a Project Summary We’ve gone over the basic components of a project summary. Now let’s look at how to write one. While the project summary is brief by definition, the research is extensive.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Consider creating different areas for product ideas than the Product Backlog or establish a process that feeds the experimentation funnel. Regarding the latter part of the recipe, you will typically encounter two objections: (1) We cannot delete just them; those are part of our documentation.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

This feeds into the business case , which compares costs versus benefits. Our project management software has been repeatedly ranked #1 on Gartner’s GetApp in its project management software category. Follow these steps to make sure that your project plan takes all aspects of the project into account. Planning Basis.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 5, 2020

You should be there to pull in the reins when necessary, not to spoon-feed them all the answers. Here are 4 things that drive engagement in your team and should give you much better results. They Are Empowered To Do What They Do Best. Let the people doing the work do the work. That’s the easiest way of making people feel empowered.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 2, 2022

Consideration #1: Portfolio scope should be an inspiration and a source of debate. How will post-mortem data feed into the larger portfolio assessments? Similarly to a project, a portfolio also has a scope. However, the relation between portfolio scope and results is exactly the opposite to those of a project.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The data saved to your baseline automatically feeds throughout the software. Capturing these three distinct aspects of the project when they’re finalized in the project plan is the performance measurement baseline, acting as the project’s north star ensuring that you’re always on track. Create a Scope Baseline.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 9, 2022

Some numbers suggest that if you need 8 people for a task, you get about 50% efficiency, compared to a team of 1 (hmm, is that a team?). The main reasons for that are: (1) loss of motivation “surely someone will do this….” The idea behind this research is that once you add enough people to a team, the effectiveness goes down.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 22, 2023

It means your job turns into micromanaging, spoon feeding and generally running around after people who probably earn quite enough to be operating in a more professional manner. 1: They have never been given responsibility before so they don’t know what to do now they have it. You can: Be clear that they are responsible.

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LiquidPlanner

APRIL 16, 2022

This can be a quick method but needs robust data to feed it. Using the best online project management software for the job is a huge help, but knowing the methods and learning how to do them well is how you become a great estimator. Expert judgment. This is probably the most common way people get a project estimation.

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The Strategic Project Manager

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The following 1-minute video from McKinsey & Co summarizes what the Digital Quotient Framework is: The McKinsey Digital Quotient (DQ) Framework is a tool developed by McKinsey & Company to help organizations assess their digital capabilities and identify areas for improvement. What Is the McKinsey Digital Quotient Framework?

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 21, 2023

This feeds the real-time dashboard, reports and more to allow users to track their actual effort against their planned effort. Pricing Project Plan 1: $10/user/month Project Plan 3: $30/user/month Project Plan 5: $55/user/month Quick Facts Microsoft Project has a free 1-month trial Microsoft Project doesn’t have a mobile app 3.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The operational strategy is made up of various smaller operations that feed into whatever the company is producing. In other words, the operational strategy for manufacturing a product line will have goals that work in tandem with the company’s larger business strategy. To write an operational plan, follow these eight steps.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Consider creating different areas for product ideas than the Product Backlog or establish a process that feeds the experimentation funnel. Regarding the latter part of the recipe, you will typically encounter two objections: (1) We cannot delete just them; those are part of our documentation.

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Scrum.org

JULY 24, 2023

That would be the job of the process that feeds into the Product Backlog: product discovery. The critical artifact to create value is the Product Backlog, “an emergent, ordered list of what is needed to improve the product.” ( Source.) However, Scrum does not elaborate on how the Product Owner identifies Product Backlog-worthy work items.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

To get up and running with a podcast, you’ll need the following things at a minimum: Hosting provider, like Blubrry or Libsyn with an RSS feed. Here are some tools that can make the process of starting a podcast much easier: Rev.com : audio transcription service for $1/word that often only takes a few hours. Libsyn : podcast hosting.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 12, 2023

By Ben Chodor July 12, 2023 Recently, I’ve seen one of Simon Sinek’s great quotes pop up in my social feeds: “A good leader takes care of those in their charge. A bad leader takes charge of those in their care.” Not just for business success, but more importantly, for fostering a sense of purpose and value among my team. Just say, “thank you!”

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Scrum.org

MAY 15, 2023

The simplest form of prompting ChatGPT is to feed it the task and ask for results. Here are three examples of advanced ChatGPT prompts for Scrum practitioners: Example 1 — the Scrum Master: A Conflict Is Brewing at a Retrospective An example of an advanced Scrum Master ChatGPT prompt: I want you to act as a Scrum Master.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 1, 2019

If you’re a project manager and about to start a project plan , take a moment to look over the three best project management charts to make your plan clearly understandable: 1. Online project management charts take abstractions and make them concrete. Gantt Charts. It’s basically a bar chart that shows the project schedule.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 4, 2020

That’s why I have sliced this topic into three separate posts: Product Owner – Why your Scrum Doesn’t work (1/3). You feed the challenge back to the team so self-organization is encouraged and can take place. Development Team – Why your Scrum Doesn’t work (2/3). Scrum Master – Why your Scrum Doesn’t work (3/3).

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 5, 2019

Percent Complete Tracking #1: Professional judgment. If you feed progress data from tasks into your project dashboard , then you need it to be accurate. But how do you know what to put in the percent complete column? Is it just a guess? Well, that’s one way of doing it! Here are 3 ways of calculating percent complete on a project.

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Productivity Land

JUNE 20, 2023

News aggregator apps like Flipboard or Feedly curate personalized news feeds based on the CEO’s interests and preferences. A corporate CEO has to constantly watch over business operations, and since they can’t be present everywhere physically, they rely on apps to oversee these operations.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 27, 2020

That’s why I have sliced this topic into three separate posts: Product Owner – Why your Scrum Doesn’t work (1/3). Or maybe you – as a Product Owner – have a different understanding of the Product Owner role, like: I must spoon-feed the development team with the tasks they need to execute: they aren’t mature enough to self-organize.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Project Plan 1: $10 user/month. Yes, it has a 1-month free trial. What makes it unique is the social feed shows task updates. We did some editorializing and started the list with our number-one choice and then worked our way down the top 10. ProjectManager. The best Microsoft Planner alternative by far is ProjectManager.

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