Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 5, 2022

It’s easy to find examples of high-profile projects that fail. The ones that hit the papers are often public sector projects because their audits and budgets are more open to scrutiny. The Scottish Parliament went through five iterations of its project plan and suffered a delay of 20 months. Failure or success?

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Project Risk Coach

JANUARY 8, 2023

Risk management is an important part of the decision-making process for any project. It involves identifying, assessing, and responding to potential risks that could impact the project. However, many project teams still make common errors. Read through them, thinking about one of your projects.

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 30, 2021

In a recent HBR article , the authors wrote about research they had conducted over a year on the relationships between how dispersed teams were and the speed at which their projects either succeeded or failed. They might place greater faith in senior leadership’s ability to overcome significant issues with the project.

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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

JUNE 4, 2023

I get asked about project success criteria a lot – in fact, it’s one of the most searched terms on this site. So I thought it was about time that I pooled all my resources into one definitive guide to project success criteria. Let’s start with a definition of project success criteria. Organizations don’t define failure.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

TL; DR: Why Velocity Is a Useless Metric from a Management Perspective Typically, the obsession with velocity doesn’t originate from the team itself. It trickles down from management. Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! ?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Managing Risk and Avoiding Failure in Business Projects. Risk management is the most important of your project controls. It enables you to manage the project more effectively and work towards a smooth outcome. So what exactly is project risk management? Using risk logs to manage risk.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

In case you’ve only just stumbled across this blog, in 2021 I celebrated 15 years of blogging about project management. I thought it was time to look back and see what the stand-out articles were over the years. Here are the top 15 articles year by year. At the time, the project was desperately short of cash.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 24, 2022

In his book, Second Order Project Management , Michael Cavanagh sets out a set of values for project teams to live by. Project team values. We accept that poor decisions are a consequence of a failure to communicate our vision, purpose and values. Values are what hold a project team together.

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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. In this article, I’ll share some simple things you can do to boost stakeholder engagement through good project communication at all levels. The story starts with your vision for your project.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 29, 2022

I have been a bit lax with project management reading recently but one book that I have made time to review again is The Conscious Project Leader: How to Create a Culture of Success for Your Projects, Your Team and Yourself. What is a Conscious Project Leader? Colin Ellis. These are: Culture Methods Leadership.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 30, 2022

Instead of setting myself up for failure by making promises to do new things, I wanted to turn it on its head. I try really hard not to, but sometimes it takes me forever to get one article written or to get round to doing a difficult task. I wouldn’t say I do this a lot, but I do know of project managers who do.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 13, 2022

It’s not uncommon for people in management positions to feel like they’re always playing catch-up. I want to do my projects to the best of my ability, but there’s so much to do and so little time to do it that it can be difficult to stay on top of everything, let alone have a chance to think about the bigger picture.

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Project Risk Coach

MAY 21, 2023

Project management standards matter because they provide consistency and predictability. In this article, we will explore five benefits of studying PMI's Standard for Risk Management in Portfolios, Programs, and Projects. They help us avoid confusion, mistakes, and chaos.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

I’ve long used products from Cornelius Fichtner of The Project Management PrepCast fame for my own professional development. That’s what we’re covering in this article. For a start, both companies offer Project Management Professional (PMP)® training. But I also know the team behind Brain Sensei. User interface.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 11, 2022

Listing projects on your resume helps make your job application stand out. Here’s how to showcase your projects on your CV (as we call a resume here in the UK, and I’ll use both terms interchangeably in this article) to make it clear what you are capable of. What projects to include on your resume. Here’s how to do it.

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Project Risk Coach

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ask 10 different risk management experts to define emerging risks, and you will likely receive different points of view. In this article, let's define emerging risks, discuss ways to identify them, and look at different ways to manage these risks. What are Emerging Risks? Click to Tweet. Well, because of a natural bias.

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Project Risk Coach

JULY 5, 2022

In this article, we will explore this domain, why it's critical to projects, how to engage stakeholders, and some common stakeholder risks. This domain "addresses activities and functions associated with stakeholders" ( A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, PMBOK® Guide, Page 8). Early in your projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 22, 2023

Let me tell you about a project decision that was awkward for me — then I’ll share some tips on how to do decision-making better. My project sponsor was on holiday in Canada. The easier part is always implementing that decision – after all, isn’t that what project managers do? We would delay the pilot.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 13, 2022

Project communication management is especially important, because we need people to understand what we are talking about and take the relevant action so they can engage their teams or do a particular task. If your message is not understood, that can put your project at risk. A version of this article first appeared in 2017.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 31, 2023

We know instinctively that it’s worth working together to get projects done. Here are some clear and compelling reasons why it’s important to collaborate on projects. Here’s a definition: Teamwork: the act of bringing several individuals together in order to efficiently and effectively complete a project.

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MPUG

APRIL 18, 2024

Accurately defining the scope of a project and getting stakeholder signoff early on is one of the keys to project success. For a deeper dive into defining scope and getting stakeholders on-board, refer to the previous article – Scope Creep: How to Prevent a Major Source of Project Failure.

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The IIL Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

By Jorgelina Bross-Puglisi February 28, 2024 Project Managers Have One Key Goal: Project Success By integrating risk management into project management processes, project managers can anticipate and respond to potential challenges, increasing the likelihood of project success.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 9, 2021

Early on in my career, I had a call from the post room manager. I was happy that my project to in-source a service had completed as expected. Engagement helps drive action on projects. Read next: my book Engaging Stakeholders on Projects: How to harness people power. Helping people take part in the project.

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Kiron Bondale

OCTOBER 3, 2021

One of the misconceptions I like to clear up with learners in the project management fundamentals courses I teach is that there is no such thing as a “waterfall” or “agile” project. But projects are unique endeavors possessing uncertainty. But let’s consider the purely predictive life cycle.

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NimbleWork

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Have you ever come to the end of a project that and wondered what could have been done better? If the project was not successful, are you curious to learn what contributed to the poor result? A project post-mortem may help to answer some of these questions. What is a Post-Mortem in Project Management?

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2023

By: Veronica Thraen Do you have a new project but don’t know where to begin? Have you been assigned to manage a large project with multiple teams, but you’ve never been a project manager? Here are 8 steps to ensure the greatest project success — even if you are not a trained project manager: 1.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 7, 2021

TL; DR: Essential Agile Failure Patterns — When Noise Interferes with Signal. There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. When Scrum becomes an element of an agile transformation, the following three common essential agile failure patterns prove to be an exceptionally tough nut to crack for any Scrum Master.

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NimbleWork

APRIL 15, 2024

Project management is a critical discipline that ensures projects are completed efficiently, within budget, and to the satisfaction of stakeholders. At the heart of successful project management is the project manager, who must possess a unique blend of leadership, communication, and organizational skills.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 1, 2022

This article is based on the talk/mini-workshop I held with an enthusiastic group of participants at Agile with Ukraine. Like an athlete, businesses must also understand that failure is part of the journey to success. Failure should be productive as well. Learning from those failures is essential.

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PM Times

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Published on September 24, 2019 Every project is attached with a risk of failure. Hence, it should be your top responsibility to identify and plan ahead in order to avoid these points of failure. A risk can be a threat with a negative impact on the project principles or it can either be an […].

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Inloox

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Tesla as a pioneer in the modularization of megaprojects In Germany, it is almost a tradition that large public projects fail. A project of similar scope was the first Tesla Gigafactory in Nevada. Monolithic project approach as reason for failure Projects in the past have typically formed a self-contained, monolithic entity.

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PM Times

APRIL 26, 2023

Whenever you take on a project, you are taking on some level of risk — a chance that the project might fail. No one is perfect, not even highly trained project managers; but you do have a responsibility to do all you can to ensure your project doesn’t fail.

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Kiron Bondale

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

I wrote an article a few months ago about the importance of securing contingency reserves , so I didn’t expect to return to this topic so soon. The project manager is well aware of the risks of proceeding without contingency, but the client is adamant. But it goes beyond this.

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The IIL Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

November 15, 2023 All management disciplines, project management included, contain words and expressions that have meanings susceptible to change over time. The importance of understanding value appeared several decades ago in articles discussing systems engineering activities. By Harold Kerzner, Ph.D.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 30, 2022

Thomas asked this question during the PMI Learning, Education and Development Community of Practice presentation I gave about Collaboration Tools for Project Managers. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management.

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