Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 24, 2023

Projects and operations are both necessary for businesses to succeed, but they require different approaches. When it comes to managing them effectively, understanding the differences between projects and operations is key. Projects change the business. The context for projects All organizations need to do projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

If you are like many project professionals, you have likely worked with artificial intelligence (AI) in some capacity. In our annual global survey , one in five (21 percent) respondents say they are using AI always or often in project management. Specifically focused on generative AI applications in projects, mainly ChatGPT.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 8, 2024

An army of subcontractors each with their own specific discipline complete construction projects. We’ll also note the difference between an RFI in construction and other construction project management documents before going into the construction RFI process, the different types of RFIs and more. What Is an RFI in Construction?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 22, 2024

I mentor project managers, and the types of problems that people come up with on calls are not technical issues for the most part. Or “resources” as we unkindly call people in project management. Securing the right resource (and enough of it) is a huge headache for PMO leaders and project professionals.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 8, 2024

It would be nice to think that every company has a formal mentoring scheme , and that as a new project manager you can tap into the experience of more experienced people. As a result, people managing projects for the first time often find themselves making mistakes. Learn the vocab Project management has a lot of jargon.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Do you have a release manager on the team? It wasn’t until I worked in IT as a project manager that I had a lot of contact with the release management process. In this article, I’ll explain what a release manager does and what skills you need to make a success of this role. What does a release manager do?

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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. It covers everything from the impact of AI replacing jobs to how AI is used to support the delivery of projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 12, 2023

Despite your efforts to clearly define the scope, time and resources necessary to successfully complete the projects, things simply don’t always go according to plan. Maja Mrsic Here are 3 examples of projects that didn’t go to plan. So why do some projects crash to their doom? So why do some projects crash to their doom?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 29, 2024

Then I’ll show you a worked example (from a fictional proposal but you will be able to see how to apply this to your project). A proposal budget is similar to a project budget, but with a very different goal. For more on how to create a project budget, this article has all the info you need.)

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Once upon a time I used to try to plan my projects around dates when I knew I was going to be in the office. My colleagues joked that I planned the birth date of my first child around a major transformation project go live date (I didn’t). In this article, we’ll look at how to plan and execute a handover to a colleague.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Have you ever been a part of a project that just didn’t seem to be going anywhere? Maybe it felt like there was no clear goal, or that the requirements kept changing. It might feel like you’ll never nail down what you’re supposed to be doing (GDPR project, I’m looking at you). What are project requirements?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 21, 2023

There are plenty of things at work that make it hard for you to progress your projects – the skill is in being able to identify and tackle them so you can keep moving forward. In this article I’ll explain the top three reasons why people aren’t as productive as they would like to be: procrastination, disorganization and poor planning.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 29, 2023

Once the weather starts to change and temperatures start to heat up, project managers from all industries start to have something in common: it’s hard to stay motivated on your project when you’d rather be outside! But I still find it difficult to stay focused on project board minutes or tracking risks when it’s nice out.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 10, 2023

Keeping track of problems on projects is really important if you want to come across as a professional project manager. I use an issues log (it’s an Excel spreadsheet) to make sure I record, remember and manage all the issues on my projects. You can add extra columns and change it to make it work for you.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Build, Excite, Equip: How to Simplify Change Adoption in Your Projects, by Nicola Graham, is a handbook for business change management aimed at project managers. Build, Excite, Equip (BEE) is a simple 3-step methodology backed by neuroscience for making sure change management is woven into your projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 18, 2024

I have mentored project managers for years, and recently, more of my mentees have been going through project management apprenticeships. Maybe an apprenticeship in project management would be the right career move for you? Maybe an apprenticeship in project management would be the right career move for you?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As a project manager with lots of years of experience, I can tell you that the decision log has saved me on several occasions! A decision log template in project management is the document you use to fill in all the decisions made relating to your project. The decision log forms part of your project comms records.

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 28, 2018

Chris could make Excel do anything, except he never used spreadsheets to manage a project. Since then I’ve come across too many project professionals, teams and organizations who stretch Microsoft Excel into a project management tool, and unsuccessfully so. Few people on the project truly understood spreadsheets.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Gantt chart has become a staple of project management. Henry Gantt was an American who worked as a mechanical engineer and management consultant. He’s best remembered for the tool that bears his name and his works in the development of what’s called scientific management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Shiny new tech is always a topic of conversation, and there’s a lot of chatter around AI in project management at the moment. For project managers , in particular, smart glasses have the potential to change the way you juggle tasks, access and visualize data, and communicate with teammates and stakeholders.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It’s perfect for building out a professional profile and solidifying your reputation and credibility as a project manager, whether you are currently looking for a new role or not. As you deliver new projects, complete new training courses or gain new certifications, you should be going back to LinkedIn to add them to your profile.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Projects are made up of tasks. Staying on top of your tasks as a team is so important if you want to hit your project deadlines. In this article you’ll learn how to manage tasks efficiently and how to improve your own task management skills and those of your team. What is task management? Lots of them.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 8, 2024

The project management principle to enable change to achieve the envisioned future state is inherently supported by the Scrum framework. For Project Managers transitioning to Scrum Masters, understanding how to leverage Scrum to guide stakeholders and teams through change is crucial.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 17, 2024

For many projects, basic scheduling techniques are fine. There’s no point in making your schedule more complicated than it needs to be, especially if your project is straightforward with secured resources and a degree of flexibility. Critical path method Do you really know the critical path of your projects?

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Project Risk Coach

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It's a simple question, "Who owns the risks in agile projects?" In this article, let's uncover the role of risk owners and how to perform risk management in agile projects. A risk owner is an individual who is responsible for identifying and responding to potential risks that could affect the success of a project.

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Project Risk Coach

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Risk identification is an integral part of project risk management. It is essential for any project manager to know what risks might affect a project and navigate them. This article will examine the five techniques for risk identification. However, project managers need to identify external risks too.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2023

His ‘Managing and Saving Programs in a Changing World’ webinar covers 5 steps for project recovery. There are several things that can go wrong in program management: Business case deterioration: the program started off with a good business case but it no longer stacks up. You need to regain control.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2023

When I brainstormed a list of project management skills to put on my resume (which over here in the UK we call a CV), it was a long list. How do you list the project management skills required without it turning into a giant list of buzzwords? Power skills) Soft skills are actually the hard part of project management!

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Everything you need to know about project management terms is here in one list! Plus we’ve added handy links to help you dive deeper into different topics with videos, articles and even our round-up of all resources so you can put these important terms into practice with your projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 5, 2023

Imagine my delight at being selected to participate in an invitation-only event about management methods. He spoke about successful project management through telling stories – sticky ones at that. In his opinion a good project has some striking similarities to a good story. What story are you telling about your project?

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Without a plan, projects are in trouble. Project planning is one of the first and most important aspects of project management. Using project planning templates can help you schedule tasks, estimate budgets and allocate resources. Download one or all and get your next project started right.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 7, 2022

It is possible to create an environment where project team members can be more productive, by creating good habits. You’ve read all the articles, you’ve got ideas about how things could be better. Sharing round a link to one more ’10 ways to be more productive’ article just isn’t making change happen.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 26, 2023

Resource management is a balancing act. What advantages or disadvantages come with each of them, and which should you choose for your project? Resource leveling Resource leveling is a project management technique used to adjust the start and end dates of tasks in order to better manage limited resources.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 18, 2021

In this article we’ll look at the types of artifacts in project management, typical documents for each type. There’s also a checklist of project artifacts by phase at the end, which you can use as an aide-memoire for creating your own documentation. The project deliverable is a new app. What is an artifact?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 26, 2023

Carole Osterweil Managers should have a basic understanding of how the human brain works because it helps you navigate difficult situations. Think about the projects you’re working on. The concepts explained below will help you manage change on projects effectively. The bigger the change the stronger the response!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Have you ever started a project and thought: how is all this going to come together? It’s a question I get asked a lot by the project managers I mentor, because frankly, the beginning of a project is an unsettling time. Your role is to be the glue that holds the project together. Failing to communicate 2.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2022

There’s no denying that stakeholder management processes, documents and analysis are a great tool for project communication. But you don’t create engagement or change behaviour by filling in a power and impact grid. Think about why you are doing your project and how it meets the business’s requirements. You need actions.

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