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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PMI 150

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 29, 2016

They curate the best articles from their blog. The LiquidPlanner pinners use Pinterest to save their blog articles and tips. The vast majority of my blog articles are on my blog Pinterest board , and I have a selection of other boards too, from PM templates and printables to PM infographics. Project-Management.com.

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Software Review PMI Consulting Engineering 190

Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 12, 2016

This year I received two emails that changed the way I think about this blog. I’ve been writing this blog for over 10 years now and it might sound odd to say it, but it’s only been the last couple that I’ve thought about what you might need. Maintaining a blog costs money. But that’s next year… Watch this space. Simplestimate.

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Green Project Management

JANUARY 3, 2016

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

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 14, 2016

It’s been in the works for the past few years through many different channels: a twitter hashtag (#womenInAgile), blog posts , as well as informal networking at the open space part of Agile conferences. I heard so many women and men discussing “why” and making future plans for events, presentations, blogs and the like.

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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. She blogs at projectbliss.net. She’s worked in the public and private sectors, and domestically and internationally.

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Prince2 Software Review Executing Process 263

TeamGantt

MARCH 27, 2016

Want your project plan to live up to its expectations? You’ve got to do some research first. These 6 questions can help you build a successful project plan.

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Planning 68

Green Project Management

JANUARY 3, 2016

This blog post is part of a series that provides a foundation for understanding sustainable change delivery. This post highlights the importance of portfolio management for 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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Green Project Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

This blog post is part of a series that provides a foundation for understanding sustainable change delivery. This post highlights the importance of incorporating value management into sustainable change delivery. There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

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TeamGantt

APRIL 11, 2016

While we were all together over the winter, we got to talking about the history of TeamGantt. We had a pretty good idea of the big picture but it was great to hear it directly.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

If you like the blog, you’ll love the newsletter – it’s full of. Don’t need this template? Check out my other free project management templates. You'll also like: Newsletter The Girl’s Guide to PM Newsletter comes out about once a month.

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Planning Project Life Cycle Influencer Risk Management 249

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 31, 2016

4 ways to use blogs on your project Communication is always a problem on large projects: making sure everyone on the outside has a similar view of what is going on and that. I assume yes – if you are reading this blog. Learn how to leverage the skills and competencies of a business analyst on your project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 10, 2016

Dave Gordon , USA, who blogs at The Practicing IT Project Manager and is on Twitter as @PracticingITPM. If you like the blog, you’ll love the newsletter – it’s full of. Claire Sezer. I manage around 12 projects at any one time. This article shares loads of tips for staying on. Can we use Facebook to manage projects?

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Prince2 Technical Review PMI Risk Management 205

Musings on Project Management

AUGUST 3, 2016

This quote comes from a nicely argued case -- from the agile blog 'leading answers' -- for mixing agile methods in rather traditional businesses, like the oil and gas exploration/production business If ever there was a business that.

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Musings on Project Management

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

I read a recent posting about agile from a very odd corner of the PM space for an agile conversation to be: CriticalUncertainties, a (conservative) blog about critical safety and failure (or fail safe) requirements in complex systems.

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Agile Planning 174

TeamGantt

DECEMBER 20, 2016

How we made online gantt charts better in 2016, and ways to improve your project management tool set in 2017!

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2016 2017 60

Musings on Project Management

JUNE 2, 2016

If you follow this blog you've read several references to the project balance sheet. So, is this about accounting? Yes, and no: Yes, it's about a double entry tool to keep track of "mine" and "yours", but no, it's not the accountant's tool used in your father's accounting office. Take a look at this figure: What have we got here?

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Risk Management Risk 163

Musings on Project Management

MAY 5, 2016

In an email blast of a blog posting, guru Mike The latest: trying to "freeze" hard the sprint backlog may be impractical. It may be more slushy than a hard freeze. Didn't we all know that all along?]

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Planning Agile 150

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. And, it truly helped!

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2015 2013 Governance Government 174

Musings on Project Management

MARCH 17, 2016

I like headlines that have a simple message This one--No more self-organizing teams--caught my eye for three reasons: I agree with the sentiment It was written by Jim Highsmith, who rights some good stuff I have an interest in leadership per se Now, to be fair, Mike Cohn has an excellent counter-point blog, except he more or less supports the thesis (..)

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 18, 2016

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. Celebrating 10 Years of Blogging About Project Management! I know you love free project management templates. Consider this. You’ve recently taken over a project that has. Hello 2016!

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2016 Closing Risk Management Risk 175

Musings on Project Management

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

And we ask this because: From essayist Eric Grill writing in the leadership blog of St Thomas University we learn that: Autocratic leaders typically make all major decisions on their own, with little or no input from others Autocrates and autocratic leadership -- on the one hand -- and the classic risk management on the other hand.

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Risk Management Risk Leadership 186

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. Trust me, they are always real people and they do get their books! The promoter is: Otobos Consultants Ltd (company no. 09056328) whose registered.

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Consulting Agile Planning 151

Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

It’s an app from Harwinder Singh, the project management expert behind the PMP® prep blog, Deep Fried Brain. One product I came across recently is BrainBOK, and as you can guess from the name it’s a PMP® study tool. He kindly gave me access to the product for a short while so that I could review it for you. Flashcards. Quizzes.

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Software Review Technical Review PMI 2016 246

Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

If you like the blog, you’ll love the newsletter – it’s full of. Enter your email below to download it now (Excel spreadsheet). You'll also like: Newsletter The Girl’s Guide to PM Newsletter comes out about once a month.

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2016 2017 Energy Planning 255

Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 22, 2016

For example, Yammer is deployed as a business-focused alternative to Facebook; various Instant Messaging tools such as Skype for Business take the place of WhatsApp and enterprise tools such as SocialCast are found in organisations as a replacement for micro-blogging tools such as Twitter.

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Technical Review Influencer 165

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

It started the same with Vizzlo: “Dear Elizabeth, we love your blog, please review our software.”. Me (answering Me): No. I’m happy with the tools I have thanks. Software company: So will you review it? But then I looked at it. And bought it. That’s only happened once before, with Apollo (which I actually don’t use any more).

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Software Review 2016 Software Underperforming Technical Team 232

Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

If you like the blog, you’ll love the newsletter – it’s full of. IT projects need soft skills This research by CIO Connect won’t come as a surprise to anyone who has had the slightest involvement in projects. Yes, IT projects fail without.

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2016 Leadership Defining PMI 342

Musings on Project Management

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

Here's an excerpt from blog posting that you might want to pay attention to: 1. PMI has changed the way some PDUs are earned and recorded. Most of these changes went into effect with the dawn of 2016. It is simplified Names of the categories are simplified, and the category letters disappeared.

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2016 PMI 150

Ron Rosenhead

OCTOBER 24, 2016

This Blog is brought to you courtesy of Dr Mike Clayton. It covers the very important topic of project governance. Projects are all about getting stuff done, I was once told. And this wonderfully simple view is very appealing, isn’t it? So the last thing we need, is someone getting in the way.

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Governance Government Innovation Influencer 204

Project Risk Coach

JULY 11, 2016

I often blog on random project management topics. Occasionally, I write a series of articles on a common theme, as I did on The Principles of Project Risk Management , earlier this year.

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Influencer Risk Management Risk 183

Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

There are books, research, and blogs out there (including this one!) She was endlessly patient with my many, many questions, and I’m extremely grateful. There are also several people who I have never met but whose work I admire and turn to when I’m not sure what to do. What other career development things are you working on?

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Construction Risk Management Consulting Process 316

Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 16, 2016

If you like the blog, you’ll love the newsletter – it’s full of. I returned to work properly and saw a project go live (yep, just the one). I’ve drunk more tea. Newsletter The Girl’s Guide to PM Newsletter comes out about once a month.

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2017 2015 Technical Review 2012 208

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 20, 2016

In her spare time, you can find Elisa in her studio where she blogs about weddings amongst other things, edits her photos, makes stuff, and plans her next trip abroad. She also contributes to creating long-lasting relationships with clients and a positive environment to work in.

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Energy SCRUM Agile Innovation 200

Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 15, 2016

About the author: Kayleigh Töyrä is half-Finnish and works as a Digital Copywriter at GWS Media where she writes about all things digital on the GWS blog. I assume yes – if you are reading this blog. Do you think any of these traits benefit project managers? Follow Kayleigh on Twitter. Do you love managing projects?

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Energy Sustainability Governance Government 173

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 15, 2016

A version of this book review first appeared on my blog in 2010. Reading this was a pleasure; I’m sure I’ll refer to it again in the future – and if you work in a PMO, you should too. This post contains affiliate links, which don’t cost you any more to click.

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