Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I've also had the joy and the pain of implementing three Project Management Offices (PMOs), two in Information Technology Departments and one Enterprise PMO. Through the years, I've noted many reasons that PMOs fail or struggle. It's rarely just one thing; it's usually a combination of things. Here is a list of causal factors.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Perhaps you’ve been asked to mentor an apprentice , or someone new to the PMO or team. However, you might find that as a project manager in the PMO, you are mentoring others across the business who are doing projects but who do not work in the PMO – they can feel the same about the role being isolating. Need a mentor?

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International Institute for Learning

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I recall a time when I was the program manager of a large initiative, and the PMs who reported to me would constantly roll their eyes when they had to submit their weekly status reports to the PMO. I recall having a disagreement on how “proper” risk statements should be written with the PMO manager. What can we do?

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Velociteach

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Constance Dierickx lays out a new paradigm for leadership that offers a way to synthesize thinking, emotion, and behavior. Meta-leadership goes beyond conventional leadership attributes, emphasizing not only the possession of knowledge and skills but also a keen sense of observation and discernment. Who am I trying to please?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

RapidStart PMO: Online Project Management Training Review. Diab is the CEO of Leadership Formation, a consulting firm that focuses on helping organisations with strategy, alignment, execution and people. The paid course covers everything you’d need to get a PMO up and running in a few months. Workstream 2: Operating the PMO.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

I have been a bit lax with project management reading recently but one book that I have made time for is The Conscious Project Leader: How to Create a Culture of Success for Your Projects, Your Team and Yourself. It didn’t take much browsing on his website to realise that it was going to be my kind of book. Leadership.

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The Lazy Project Manager

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A new book from the author of #1 best-selling book ‘The Lazy Project Manager’ Enabling project managers to adapt to the new technology of artificial intelligence, this first comprehensive book on the topic discusses how AI will reinvent the project world and allow project managers to focus on people.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

Leadership : ethical, authentic leadership is what helps get work done and set you apart from your peers. He is the author of Reinventing Communication by Routledge, a book on how to design, lead and manage high performing projects. You can see Mark’s book, and all the other experts’ books on Amazon here.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 15, 2024

I once worked with an organisation where the PMO presented metrics that were manipulated to align with expected outcomes. This organisation, driven by the fear of leadership's reaction to the real numbers, chose to paint a rosier picture than the reality. Just ask!

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The Lazy Project Manager

MARCH 2, 2021

You don’t do my type of work (project management, PMO leadership at a global level, keynote speaking, consultancy and training) without clocking up some pretty impressive airmiles and flight status. Won the PMO Influencer of the Year award. We know that now! It has, in more than one way, been an astonishing year.

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Henny Portman

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

AIPMO is developing the first ‘leading’ international PMO standard based on a combination of research findings and expert knowledge. P3O or IPMA PMO certifications are not comparable to AIPMO’s core certifications in terms of approach, content and outcome. AIPMO’s core PMO certifications covers much more!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 21, 2021

In this extract from their new book, Jahn Karsybaev and Fred Obiero share the characteristics and behaviors of successful and unsuccessful project leaders. — Leadership. They run meetings inefficiently, which results in participant frustration and complaints to VPs of PMO. What makes a bad project manager? Fred Obiero.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

You’ll receive broad direction from your leadership team. These could be project managers or PMO colleagues. It’s part of the leadership skills you’ll have to demonstrate in the role. However, you could move into program management from a senior operational role or another PMO role as well. Stakeholder Engagement.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

She has written five books on project management including Communicating Change, Collaboration Tools for Project Managers, Handbook of People in Project Management, Shortcuts to Success: Project Management in the Real World and Customer-Centric Project Management. Related: Top Project Management Conferences of 2019. Jason Westland.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Or book a power hour with me and get started on your mentoring journey straight away! What’s it like running big projects/a PMO/working in X field? Do you have any book recommendations on X topic? Book a power hour with me. Book a power hour This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

Brush up on your virtual leadership skills. Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best Out of Virtual Work and Virtual Teams. Read Anthony Mersino’s excellent book: Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers. It’s a way of automating repetitive tasks and it’s having a bit of an impact on the PMO community.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Perhaps these individuals are influencing you through a blog, online videos, online courses, or books. From the UK, Susanne Madsen is an internationally recognized project leadership coach, trainer, and consultant. She is the author of The Project Management Coaching Workbook and The Power of Project Leadership. Susanne Madsen.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

You’ll receive broad direction from your leadership team. These could be project managers or PMO colleagues. It’s part of the leadership skills you’ll have to demonstrate in the role. However, you could move into program management from a senior operational role or another PMO role as well. Stakeholder Engagement.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Learn more in my book, Project Co-ordinator: This is a similar role to the Project Administrator, but people with this job title are more likely to do ‘hands on’ project work as well as admin. Portfolio Manager/Director: A portfolio manager is a senior leadership position in an organisation, overseeing an entire portfolio of change projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 19, 2023

If you are working in any kind of project delivery role, PMO role, or similar in any industry, you can count some of your professional service working hours towards the maximum requirements for Giving Back. Get instant access to 10 high quality webinars on leadership and specialist topics to help you earn the difficult 'Power Skills' PDUs.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 22, 2023

Join a community A community of interest can take many forms, from your professional community of project managers at work, perhaps organized by your PMO, an online community or an industry group or professional body that you are part of — one that has regular meet ups. For that, you need to turn to the good old fashioned book.

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The Lazy Project Manager

JANUARY 4, 2019

I am the author of the number 1 bestselling project management book ‘ The Lazy Project Manager’ , along with many other books on project leadership, PMO development, project marketing, project challenges, presentation skills and executive sponsorship as well business transformation.

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 11, 2022

All-inclusive leadership : Getting the best out of your teams, whether they’re human or machine. In my book ‘AI and the Project Manager: How the Rise of Artificial Intelligence Will Change Your World 3 ’ I conclude: “You know, we are not going to go all the way towards the autonomous project management experience (my opinion).

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The IIL Blog

JULY 26, 2023

Techniques described in the second article, Strive for Alignment, and other leadership actions, should ensure the team shares objectives and is solidly behind the project. The project management office (PMO) originated to align all projects with standard operational procedures. The burden is shared. References 1 Hornby, Robin.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

You don’t need a PMO to be able to put it to use. Leadership skills and other power skills (AKA soft skills) are things you might already have or can pick up on the way. I didn’t read any other PRINCE2 books beyond the official manual and the training material provided on my course. It’s cost-effective. On to the courses….

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

I wrote a book all about this: Collaboration Tools for Project Managers (published by PMI), which talks about how to choose, set up and use the right tools for your workplace. Oh look, another subject I wrote a book on! Leadership. Demonstrate leadership behaviors. Stakeholders. Effectively engage with stakeholders.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 24, 2020

That’s the question answered by Peter Taylor’s new book, The Social Project Manager. Peter, we last spoke about your books a while back when ‘Get Fit With The Lazy Project Manager’ came out. Now you’ve written another book! Your book is The Social Project Manager. This interview was first published in 2015.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 7, 2019

You can see a list of all their books in one place here. Leadership – ethical, authentic leadership is what helps get work done and set you apart from your peers. He is the author of Reinventing Communication by Routledge, a book on how to design, lead and manage high performing projects. Many of them are authors.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

James Archer and Penny Pullan, editors of Business Analysis and Leadership. So comes in the BA role to “challenge, lead and influence” according to Debra Paul in the Foreword to this book. The book is (obviously) focused on leadership. However, the whole book was enlightening. Business analysis has come of age.

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LiquidPlanner

JUNE 27, 2022

In my book ‘ AI and the Project Manager: How the rise of Artificial Intelligence will change Project Management ’ I tried to articulate this concept. Let’s take just one aspect of the work that I and thousands of others do, in project leadership. Well because big, no make that ‘huge’, changes are coming. 2] [link] [3] [link].

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The IIL Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Did I talk to one of my students in a Grateful Leadership course? Especially in coming up with great examples it found like the Ohana culture at Salesforce, as an example of Grateful Leadership in an AI environment? ” This was starting to feel familiar. – Edward Gonda; Senior Project Manager, Boston Scientific Great course!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 12, 2022

This wasn’t a survey about project portfolio management at the PMO level. Responses ranged from: The numerous enterprise /PMO metrics which are measured on a monthly cycle combined with reporting out to the stock market every 12 weeks. As someone running several projects at a time, which of these challenges do you face? Get Your Copy.

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The Lazy Project Manager

JULY 8, 2016

Peter Taylor is a PMO expert currently leading a Global PMO, with 200 project managers acting as custodians for nearly 5,000 projects around the world, for Kronos Inc. – a billion dollar software organisation delivering Workforce Management Solutions.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Perhaps these individuals are influencing you through a blog, online videos, online courses, or books. From the UK, Susanne Madsen is an internationally recognized project leadership coach, trainer, and consultant. She is the author of The Project Management Coaching Workbook and The Power of Project Leadership. Susanne Madsen.

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The Lazy Project Manager

DECEMBER 14, 2018

A new book for you and your team: How to become a more confident public speaker the ‘Lazy’ way – Available now on Amazon. I could also say that I continue to get interest and bookings for future events. It also evolved in to a one day ‘Presentation Skills’ workshop – see the end of this book.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Education PDUs are those earned from formal and informal learning across the three areas of the PMI Talent Triangle: Technical, Leadership and Strategic and Business Management skills. Leadership and Strategic and Business Management PDUs count for every certification you hold. Education PDUs. Contribute to a Wiki.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 7, 2022

It is a platform for project leaders to gain knowledge and share experiences on topics that are driving the leadership of projects today and in the future. PMO Conference UK: London – 8th – 9th June 2022 & Edinburgh – 14th – 15th June 2022. The Future PMO: London, UK, 6 October 2022.

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