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Project Management Job Titles: Understanding the Types of Roles in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

An IT Project Manager is — unsurprisingly — based in the IT department of an organization. They work on technical projects, which could be software, application, platform, infrastructure, security, or projects that bring together subject matter experts in all IT disciplines to deliver something.

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The growing need for project leadership

Susanne Madsen

In the UK the Infrastructure and Projects Authority, reports that less than half of their projects had a green or amber/green rating upon delivery. Traditional dimensions of project management such as cost, schedule and performance are necessary but insufficient. The numbers vary by industry and region. Available on Amazon.

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Skills Of A CIO – Within Reach Of A Strategic PM?

The Strategic Project Manager

These roles involve more responsibility and leadership in managing IT systems, projects, and teams. Leadership Development – Seek opportunities to develop leadership skills and gain experience in managing people, projects, and budgets.

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Gate Reviews: What Project Managers Need To Know

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Gate reviews, or stage reviews are part of the PRINCE2® process, and also part of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority’s Project Roadmap in the Governance module. The hard part is in changing the culture of the organization to want to work this way, but as someone skilled in change management , you’ll find a way ?

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Project Documentation: 10 Essential Project Documents

ProjectManager.com

Project Planning: Project management plan, work breakdown structure, project budget, project schedule, change management plan, scope management plan, risk management plan. Project Execution: Project status report, lessons learned template, timesheets, change requests, change orders.

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How to Get Into Project Management: 5 PMs Share Their Stories

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I was not very tech savvy, but thanks to my mentors and coach in the company I learnt not only IT but also leadership skills that I continue to use and develop today. After my experience in several IT organisations, I’ve realised that my passion is being a great project manager. There are some myths about project management.

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Industrial Psychology for Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

He looks at, amongst other things, using automation to streamline processes and looks at the adoption that we are trying to implement as part of a project, and what is the desired change, and takes a much wider and holistic view of human behaviour at work. He gave the example of changing from MS Word to Google Docs.