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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ProjectManager.com

MAY 9, 2022

Managing a project is a very challenging, but project evaluation makes it easier. Everything starts with careful planning, which sets the stage for the execution phase where estimations, plans and schedules guide the project team as they complete tasks and deliverables. What Is Project Evaluation?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 9, 2023

I have been working on agile projects for the past 10 years. Without robust empirical measures, organisations tend to turn to the symbols they can see, such as team happiness, velocity, throughput, visualisation of work by using post-it notes, attendance at Agile events, or number of PI planning events held.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

It’s easy to get lost in the weeds when you’re managing a project. There are day-to-day operations that the project manager obsesses over, but they also need to see the big picture. That’s why a business requirements document is so important. What Is a Business Requirements Document?

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Monitor project progress with our free project management dashboard template. Track task status, budget and your project progress. A dashboard is an essential project management software tool that provides you with an at-a-glance overview of your project. Download your Excel project dashboard today!

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 8, 2022

Resource management is one of the most important aspects of project management. That’s because projects need resources and those resources must be managed. Project resources are all the raw materials, equipment and human resources necessary to execute project tasks. What Is Resource Management?

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 24, 2020

Projects are made up of a large number of tasks, and keeping track of those tasks is a primary role of a project manager. Sometimes, the tasks in a project all run smoothly and independently of each other, and there are no complexities. What is Float in Project Management? What is the Critical Path?

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Teamweek

JANUARY 24, 2024

This guide explains what soft skills are, why they matter and how to understand if the candidate has the soft skills needed for the job. Already know what you’re interested in? You can jump right into the section by clicking on the links below: What are soft skills? Why soft skills matter?

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 2024 Software Review 105

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 8, 2019

It was an informal pre-kick off meeting for something that might turn into a project. We talked through the bare bones of what they wanted to do and I think there is something there. The next step will be properly initiating the project. The Project Initiation Phase. How Long is Project Initiation?

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 20, 2020

And what kind of rules or guidelines would you need to have in place? What is a Work From Home Policy? Regardless of whether you do or don’t allow your employees to work remotely, it’s important that you have an official work from home policy in your employee handbook so that all workers understand the rules.

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Leadership 2020 Executing Software 411

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Reporting – it’s what a project manager does. Here is an outline of five of the more common types of project reports, but are nonetheless crucial to the successful running of a project. It’s the kind of question project managers hear a lot. Status Reports. Risk Reports.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 28, 2022

Cost and plans: Free plan (includes Vizzlo branding on your images), Professional Plan at $11 per month, plus options for businesses that include sharing images between team members from $45 per month for 5 seats. It started the same with Vizzlo : “Dear Elizabeth, we love your blog, please review our software.”.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2018

SMART is an mnemonic acronym that establishes criteria for ideal goals and objectives in a project. Without goals there is no focus, and without focus the chance of successfully completing a project is slim. . What Does SMART Mean? But what does that really mean? Begin by defining what it is that you’re trying to achieve.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 19, 2022

This blog post is also available as a nicely designed PDF. From that moment on, I captured my struggles, failures, and successes in a series of blog posts. Over the years, the sum of these blog posts resulted in the paper “ The 8 Stances Of A Scrum Master ”. You can download it for free here. The 6 Scrum Master Stances.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

It’s a meeting after the project has concluded, during which successes and failures are discussed with the project team. It’s a great way to learn from your mistakes and repeat those actions that worked as planned. The problem with a postmortem is it’s after the fact. What Is a Premortem?

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Software Review Risk Management Risk Monitoring 239

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Resource allocation is just a fancy term for a plan that you develop for using the available resources at your disposal in a project. This is mostly a short-term plan set in place to achieve goals in the future. The following are some general tips to help you with your resource allocation when managing a project.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It’s a task management tool that’s part of the larger Microsoft universe, which includes Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Project. It might seem as if Microsoft has cornered the market in project management until you take a closer look. It organizes teamwork and tasks for project management. How Microsoft Planner Works.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 7, 2023

What working part-time actually meant for me However, back to the story. Fridays were my main writing and blogging days, where I draft emails to send to you, my lovely readers, met with my virtual assistant and generally got life admin stuff done. Looking for advice on how to ask to work remotely? I’ve got you covered.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2018

Project design is a major first step towards a successful project. A project design is a strategic organization of ideas, materials and processes for the purpose of achieving a goal. Some might rush through the preliminary stages of a project, such as the project design, but that would be a mistake. The Details.

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Scrum.org

MAY 20, 2020

I keep telling this story in my The Scrum Master training program and use it to teach senior management through coaching. I keep telling this story in my The Scrum Master training program and use it to teach senior management through coaching. What is story point estimation. What are the challenges with story point.

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LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Risk and uncertainty are inherent parts of all project work, making project risk management an important topic for teams to address. Which is why so many projects—especially large technology projects—run into trouble. And, people start asking for you to run their projects!). Create a project risk register.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 18, 2022

. The portrayal of a Scrum Master on a Scrum Team is barely the same as the role of the traditional Project Manager. A project manager generally has to go through a hierarchy of a pyramidical system. What happens when a Scrum Master encounters resistance? Let’s see, What do the Scrum Masters do when faced with resistance?

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 8, 2022

Most of my Professional Services colleagues don’t utilize project management software. In my 10+ years of working in professional services, it’s always been a pain point to juggle multiple priorities and projects with various deadlines and resource constraints across teams. When will my project work be finished?

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Software Consulting Estimate Underperforming Technical Team 153

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2017

In this installation of the occasional series of Inspiring Women in Project Management, I’m interviewing Pam Shergill, Director of PS Management Consultancy. Pam and I talk about how she got into project management by ultimately making herself redundant, and how she manages to get two months off a year. By accident!

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Underperforming Technical Team Energy 2016 2017 311

ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Intuition is an important part of decision making. So, there’s a lot of sense in letting your gut, or your intuition, inform your decisions when managing projects. What Do We Mean by Intuition? What we know through intuition is often not true. Any serious project manager would do well to read his books.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 6, 2022

Of course, models are always poor approximations for the reality of the world, but I am drawn to this model because it provides supporting evidence to what I see in terms of how organizations are wrestling with new ways of working that are accompanying the Digital Age. So what are the implications for how we work?

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Inloox

JUNE 10, 2021

As the field of project management becomes more complex and our tasks more demanding, we may lose sight of basic principles. By following these 8 simple guiding principles, it is possible to improve project performance, provide more value to the organization, and hopefully make the project manager 's job a little easier.

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LiquidPlanner

MARCH 31, 2022

What’s the purpose of April Fool’s Day? I am telling this story because a lot of the chaos of daily project management can sometimes feel like April Fools pranks. Something that seemed like a small detail was a massive liability to the success of this project! No project ever happens without at least some surprises.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 21, 2019

What does that all mean? What Is a User Story? For example, a user story might be written like this, “As a project manager, I want to print out my Gantt chart, so I can review it regularly on my office wall.” As you can tell, the user story is often written from the perspective of the end user.

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Technical Review 2005 Software Review Development Team Review 287

Scrum.org

APRIL 13, 2020

Instead, Scrum provides the minimal boundaries within which teams can self-organize to solve complex problems with an empirical approach. Want to listen instead of read to this blog-post? People who love Scrum usually don’t feel much love for projects. People who love Scrum usually don’t feel much love for projects.

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SCRUM Prince2 PMI Risk Management 237

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

There are no shortcuts in project management really, but wouldn’t it be nice if we had a few ways to speed things up? If there are any decisions to be made, talk to them about the options and informally canvass their opinion on what they think is the right way forward. I never write a project document from scratch.

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Energy 2015 Software Review Risk Management 279

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 4, 2018

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.

Energy 325

Energy Defining Risk Management Monitoring 325

ProjectManager.com

JULY 23, 2019

Now, get out there and change the world— one project at a time! Those rules are what level the playing field and protect fair competition. Every problem is a gift—without problems we would not grow.” – Anthony Robbins. Daily affirmations have long been used to boost self-esteem. The brand that gave us “Just do it!”

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Risk Management Healthcare Risk Executing 402

Resource Guru

MARCH 7, 2023

The same goes for projects. If your project isn’t built on a solid foundation at the initial phase of a project it’s far more likely to run into much larger problems further down the line. What are the project initiation activities and deliverables? What is the project initiation phase?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Sometimes projects can seem a bit overwhelming. I know – I’ve cried with frustration after a meeting where totally the wrong people put together an unachievable plan. Not only are you feeling that the project is like a cat you can’t get in the carry case to take the vet, but there are a ton of other complicating factors.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Harold Kerzner What is meant by project management complexity or project complexity? Why is it important to know now? How will knowing this make my life (as a project professional) easier? Organizational projects are by nature far-reaching and complex.

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Technical Review Risk Management Executing Governance 89

Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Today, Mike Cottmeyer sits down with Andrew to discuss how LeadingAgile is talking about OKRs and KPIs, the impact governance and teaming strategies have on your ability to run them effectively, why your project mentality might be getting in the way, and how you can get started using them in your business.

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