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7 Tips for Managing International Project Teams

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Managing international project teams requires cultural sensitivity and an awareness of what makes us different — and the same. In this article you’ll learn 7 helpful tips for working with international teams on global projects. Working with global teams is normal. Many of us do manage international teams now.

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4 Categories of Project Management Methods

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Producing the SWOT analysis for our 3-year plans for the IT team was one of the highlights of my year – my boss might be surprised to hear me say that! SWOT stands for: Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats. We used to do root cause analysis a lot in the IT team. Root cause analysis. Affinity grouping. Story points.

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PRINCE2 and PMBOK: How They Compare

Rebel’s Guide to PM

And what are the weak points? As I said, PRINCE2 doesn’t cover working with people and as team management and getting the best out of the people is what we all do every day, this seems like a big oversight on the part of PRINCE2, especially as project boards form such a critical part of the standard. Is there something like PMI’s PDUs?

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Get Inspired: 13 Creativity Exercises for Non-Creatives

ProjectManager.com

We’re tasked with developing new products, taking them to market, making our systems more efficient and well, so much more. Quality is a very good thing in an end-product, but it can slow you down in development. The Exercise : This one is easy; come up with as many ideas as possible — good and bad. Work in a New Location.

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Henry Gantt’s Biography & Role in Gantt Chart History

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He’s best remembered for the tool that bears his name and his works in the development of what’s called scientific management. While Gantt charts are named after Henry Gantt, the first Gantt chart was developed by Karol Adamiecki, a Polish engineer, in the mid-1890s. It was later renamed the Taylor Society.

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Project Risk Management: How-to guide (with tips)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article we’ll look at tips for risk management, the role of the risk log, how risks relate to issues and share some project risk examples. Mark Engelhardt, at a the Art of Projects Conference in Hungary one year (I forget when we were there), said: “You don’t have a choice about whether you’re going to look stupid on a project.

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Communications Tools: The Project Banner

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This article, Communications Tools: The Project Banner , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. At conferences or trade shows where your business might have a stand (I’m thinking particularly for PMO teams who are recruiting project managers). It’s a mentoring and career development scheme with a difference.

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