Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 22, 2023

Every journey starts with the first steps and every project with a plan. In order for stakeholders and executives to get onboard with a certain initiative, PMs (project managers) must draft a compelling overview covering all the bases: objectives, necessary resources, tasks, schedules, milestones, deliverables, so on and so forth. At this early stage in the project, we’re mainly dealing with ballpark figures like a rough order of magnitude estimate and educated guesses based on previous similar

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Musings on Project Management

JULY 22, 2023

You shall.I will.You or I may.Heard these phrases before?What to make of them?Actually, if you're sitting in the PMO reading a contract or other legal document handed to you by your contract's administrator, or you're on the other side helping to write an RFP , then these words are important."Shall" should be understood to be directive without discretion to act otherwise.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 22, 2023

You want to get some professional development time on your calendar. But the budget is tight. Your manager says there isn’t a lot of money to spend on career development activities. And frankly, you don’t have a lot of time to dedicate to it either. It’s important, but not ‘I’m going to get an MBA’ important. In this article I’ll share 15 easy ways to develop professionally.

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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. We were due to go live with our pilot software launch but things didn’t feel right. We had the go/no go meeting and as I sat in the office, it just felt like we weren’t ready. My project sponsor was on holiday in Canada.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 22, 2023

A reader got in touch recently and asked for more info on document version control and how to do it. It’s not that hard to do for Word documents, or you can rely on software like SharePoint to make it a whole lot easier. In this article we’ll discuss the principles of version control for files so you can get started, whatever software you use.

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