Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 18, 2016

I know you love free project management templates. As I’m celebrating 10 years of blogging about project management this year, here are 10 of the most-clicked free templates from this site. You’ve recently taken over a project that has. This month's free project management template is a Roles and.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 3, 2016

It’s also something mentioned in the standards for professional project management bodies. Apparently, business acumen is something that project managers should have. I believe that my success at working with senior stakeholders and on difficult projects is to do with business acumen. Do You Have Business Acumen?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 15, 2016

It took me a while to get my hands on Simon Moore’s book, Strategic Project Portfolio Management *, but I’m rather glad I did. Choosing Projects For The Best Returns. Moore’s book looks at how project management offices should choose and prioritise projects in order to give businesses the best returns.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

It’s also something mentioned in the standards for professional project management bodies. Apparently, business acumen is something that project managers should have. I believe that my success at working with senior stakeholders and on difficult projects is to do with business acumen. Do You Have Business Acumen?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 13, 2016

It’s time for another installment of Inspiring Women in Project Management and today I’m delighted to introduce you to Traci Duez, chemist turned project manager and now someone who inspires women herself. Traci, how did you get into project management? Do you have a favourite project that you worked on?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 15, 2016

Taking a leaf out of the Nordics’ book can help you rethink how you manage your projects. Switch up your project management Nordic-style to become a better project manager. You try it: Emphasise team accountability over individual responsibility for projects. Don’t just use management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 3, 2016

This blog post was originally a newsletter article. For a while I had staff management responsibilities (although I’ve lost those very recently). It has meant juggling lots of different projects, each with different stakeholders. Managing multiple smaller projects is not what I was used to before the boys were born.

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Green Project Management

JANUARY 3, 2016

This post focuses on the current challenges of sustainable risk management within sustainable change delivery, with useful perspectives, tools, and techniques. This blog post is part of a series that provides the foundation for understanding sustainable change delivery. 219, 1849) “The golden axiom of […].

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Each part of my career journey has afforded me the opportunity to perform and teach project management. Five years ago, I followed in my twin brother’s footsteps who blogs at CPA-Scribo. I started blogging at the Project Risk Coach. I will expand my teaching through multiple channels : Blogging.

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Ron Rosenhead

MARCH 29, 2016

The question was: So what is project sponsorship like in your organisation? To clarify; the column on the left are positive comments about project sponsorship and the ones on the right are negative ones. The demand for project managers is increasing and the demand for project management training is increasing.

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Binfire

DECEMBER 19, 2016

As many of my readers know, I have been a project manager for longer than I care to admit. In my career, I have mentored many young project managers at the start of their careers. At the same time, I have seen project managers burn out mid-career for multiple reasons (perhaps the topic of a future blog).

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

In case you’ve only just stumbled across this blog, this year I’m celebrating 10 years of blogging about project management. I reported on the state of the Gypsy Moth IV project : the restoration of a historic yacht. At the time, the project was desperately short of cash. Don’t know what that is?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Today, I’m handing the blog over to Leigh Espy. She might not have been blogging about project management for long, but she has made quite an impact with her personable and helpful articles. As you grow in your project management career, you’ll be called upon to make various presentations. Leigh Epsy.

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Green Project Management

JANUARY 3, 2016

This post highlights the importance of portfolio management for sustainable change delivery. This blog post is part of a series that provides a foundation for understanding sustainable change delivery. It is not the strongest of species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 12, 2016

This year I received two emails that changed the way I think about this blog. The first was from a lecturer in Africa who teaches project management to female students. Some part of what we do here might have inspired a new generation of girls to go into project management. Project Viewer for Primavera.

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Green Project Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

This post highlights the importance of incorporating value management into sustainable change delivery. This blog post is part of a series that provides a foundation for understanding sustainable change delivery. Drucker Management of Value (MoV) was the […].

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 31, 2016

If I’m honest it has been a while since I’ve worked on a project that has gone totally off the rails. What matters is whether it feels as if your project is under control and whether your stakeholders believe it is under control. Here are the 3 ways he set out to help you reel a troubled project back in. Work With Your Team.

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Green Project Management

MAY 30, 2016

By request, I have started a series on our blog to break down each SDG from a PM perspective. The post The Sustainable Development Goal to End Poverty and Project Management appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project at a time. To watch the Webinar, Click here For the series, I will start at […].

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Wrike

OCTOBER 26, 2016

. Unless you’re a certified Project Manager, you’re probably wondering why all managers need to learn the basics of project management. Chances are, even though you may not be a Project Manager, you are probably already managing a project. Improves your ability to manage projects.

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Project Management Hacks

AUGUST 4, 2016

Leigh Espy, FedEx Project Manager. What is like to work as a project manager? In today’s article, you will hear directly from Leigh Espy about her journey into project management success at FedEx. This led me to a project coordinator position in local government early in my career. FedEx Profile.

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Paymo App

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

To manage projects from start to finish can be a daunting task, especially if you’re not a certified project management professional. You (really) need a plan to manage projects. what’s the limit of what the project is expected to accomplish? (Eg. is there a fixed or a flexible budget?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

BrainBOK: Project Management Training Online. Project management training has been online for a long time but right now it seems like there are more choices than ever before. Project management training has been online for a long time but right now it seems like there are more choices than ever before.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

I remember that a few weeks after I started back at work after maternity leave, one of my long-time stakeholders sent a message to someone pretty high up in the business saying ‘project communication was so much better when Elizabeth was around’. Good communication on projects is so important, and I hear this from you guys all the time.

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Wrike

MARCH 15, 2016

Project management has not been immune to technology improvements. It has been intensely impacted, with managers facing changes in teams’ working environment on a yearly, if not quarterly basis. Remote project teams. Tasks are tracked in a project management tool. Better Portfolio Project Management.

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The Lazy Project Manager

MARCH 31, 2016

Can I borrow you for a sec because I’m stacked? It will be a win-win situation. I have been blue sky thinking and want to keep you in the loop on my thinking outside of the box, as well as picking your brains, I’m just playing devils’ advocate on this teamwork/dreamwork idea. Will it work? Well how long is a piece of string? Have I lost you?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 22, 2016

One day your project management status updates might self-destruct. In a parallel universe, some of the key drivers of project management are to communicate, to inform and to develop high performing teams. Given how popular and powerful social media has become, what will this mean for the way we manage projects?

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Wrike

JANUARY 12, 2016

When you’re managing projects, it’s all too common that tasks slip and releases get pushed back. It highlights the key ways you can use Gantt chart makers and proper project management to make sure work stays on track. We value your input in helping us teach people better ways to manage work.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

It started the same with Vizzlo: “Dear Elizabeth, we love your blog, please review our software.”. As regular readers will know, I have two jobs: I’m a copywriter, speaker and author here at GirlsGuideToPM.com and I work as a salaried project manager as well. Software Review: BusiBI Project Manager 2016 v5.7

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Wrike

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The art of project management is strongly influenced by the line of work you’re in. In some companies, project management is a full-time job, overseeing large teams and multiple, complex projects. When it comes to managing creative wor k, the project manager is often also a team lead—and a team mediator.

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Wrike

JANUARY 5, 2016

Look no further than our list of top project management conferences for 2016. Stay up-to-speed on the latest industry developments, pick up tips from respected experts in the field, meet other project management professionals, and have some fun learning new tricks of the trade away from the office. North America.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 6, 2016

I’ve been following Jerry Ihejirika’s project management blog for a while now, partly because he’s interesting and writes beautifully, partly because I like to know what’s happening in project management in the rest of the world. I was responding to comments on my blog and social media.

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Brett Harned

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

” It’s a question many project managers ask themselves. The term the industry uses is “accidental project manager,” but that sounds a tad too aimless to me. A growing network of blogs written by the brightest people in the field. “How did I get here?” So we’re here.

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Wrike

MARCH 16, 2016

You can improve in all three areas by focusing on just one aspect of work: your collaborative project management. Refining this will enable everyone from the CEO on down to communicate with colleagues, manage projects and ideas, actively work together on tasks, and get work done efficiently.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 30, 2016

You'll also like: Terms and Conditions These terms and conditions relate to giveaways and competitions promoted on this blog. Even on holiday… Admittedly, I don’t wear my ‘project management clothes’ out in public very often, but this Projects@Work T-shirt, illustrating the triple constraint, was fine for hanging.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

If you think overseeing creative projects and supervising creative teams is the same as managing a project with software developers or a manufacturing crew, you may want to think again. Below are the three crucial keys to successfully managing a project with creatives: Creative project management requires empathy.

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Wrike

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Managing a project successfully takes knowledge, preparation, and the right personnel. Here are four steps that lead to effective project management: 1. Managing a project starts with having a strong sense of precisely what the team is striving to accomplish. Get real-time reports on specific projects.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Planning and overseeing a project so that it’s completed on time, within budget, and meets expectations is not an easy feat. The best project managers know how to balance stakeholder communications with preventing scope creep, watch out for risk, and clarify roles, responsibilities, and priorities within their team.

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