Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 14, 2024

As project managers, most of us know how important it is to make sure that what we deliver is actually useful and used by the people we deliver it for. That’s where change management comes in. It’s more a collection of best practices, real-world advice and tried-and-tested strategies for speedy and stress-free change management.

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Change Management 2020 Sustainability PMI 312

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 31, 2024

The most commonly used planning constraint method in project management was historically the “triple constraint” – time, cost and scope – sometimes known as the project management triangle or the “iron triangle” because it’s often shown as a triangle with the constraints at each vertex. What is the Triple Constraint?

Risk Management 359

Risk Management Budget Risk Sustainability 359

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 10, 2022

If you are like many Project Management Professional ( PMP )® certification holders, you might be finding it hard to source enough quality learning materials for your Power Skills PDUs. Ensuring teams have these skills allows them to maintain influence with a variety of stakeholders – a critical component for making change.

2022 442

2022 PMI Certification Leadership 442

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Pernille Eskerod and Anna Lund Jepsen’s book, Project Stakeholder Management Stakeholder management seems to stay a hot topic regardless of what year we’re in. In the book, they argue that proactive stakeholder management is far better than adopting a reactive ‘wait and see’ approach.

2013 429

2013 Sustainability PMI Influencer 429

Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 7, 2022

“I am convinced that stakeholders must always impact upon the way we manage our projects,” writes Louise M. Worsley in Stakeholder-led Project Management: Changing the Way We Manage Projects. “I I wrote a book about stakeholder engagement too. Stakeholder-neutral. Stakeholder-sensitive.

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Influencer Governance Government 2020 374

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2024

Project strategy is the plan that defines a project, which is why project management strategy is so important. To better manage projects, one must clearly understand project strategy, who’s responsible for it in the organization and the steps to create a project strategy. What Is Project Strategy?

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Budget PMO Defining Estimate 374

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 10, 2023

If you’re not working from an agenda or you don’t manage those meetings, that can be true. Let’s take a look at 10 different types of project management meetings and define them, and we’ll start with the definition of what a project meeting is. You can then share them with stakeholders to keep them updated.

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Software Review Technical Review SCRUM Risk Management 480

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Have you got a project management mentor? Maybe you were asked to identify a project manager as a mentor as part of an apprenticeship scheme – that’s the reason I have a couple of mentees at work. How did you get into project management? I’m thinking of taking a project management certification.

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Cadence Logistics Certification Influencer 313

Scrum.org

APRIL 9, 2024

As a manager, tackling team and project challenges effectively can often seem like navigating a complex labyrinth. Fortunately, Scrum offers a structured framework that can guide you through. Here's how Scrum addresses ten common challenges that managers face, providing clear solutions through its empirical approach.

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SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team Sustainability Software Review 190

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

You can earn PDUs (professional development units) for ongoing certification renewal, such as for the Project Management Professional (PMP)®, from reading. I’ve read, I’m guessing, over 150 management books in my career, and you can read my book reviews if you want to trawl through the archives. My timings are just a guide.

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PMI Certification Sustainability Technical Review 348

ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

It acts as a communication tool for stakeholders and shares the project vision in a clear and actionable fashion. Then we’ll throw in some free project management templates that can get you started and show how project management tools help turn the project description into a reality.

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Project Life Cycle Executing Budget Estimate 323

Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

As a project manager, you constantly juggle a million tasks at once. This article will provide clear guidance on how to define and assign risk management roles and responsibilities for projects and programs. Second, project sponsors ensure that the project manager has the required resources. Project manager.

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Risk Management Risk Underperforming Technical Team PMO 396

ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A project charter is a project planning document that sells the project to stakeholders and sponsors. If you’re new to project management , a project charter template can set you up to make sure you’re hitting all the major points. The charter also identifies the main stakeholders and defines the authority of the project manager.

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Risk Management Budget Defining Software Review 510

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

I ran a survey about stakeholder management (thanks, by the way, if you were one of the people who filled it out) and the results surprised me. The biggest reason we do stakeholder engagement activities on projects is because they help us get the resources we need for the project. I know what that’s like.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Because of that, as a project manager, you should be familiar with tools to create your project documents. While it won’t help you with all the documents, charts or diagrams that you need to manage a project, it can help you create some of them. Microsoft Word is one of those tools. For example, you can create a Gantt chart in Word.

Software Review 352

Software Review Budget Estimate Executing 352

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Everything you need to know about project management terms is here in one list! Check back often, as this list of project management terminology is ever-evolving, just like project management itself! Check back often, as this list of project management terminology is ever-evolving, just like project management itself!

Software Review 393

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Lean Event Chain 393

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – ( PMBOK® Guide ) Seventh Edition represents a major shift in the way ‘how to do project management’ is presented by PMI. Instead of the Knowledge Areas , we have the whole body of project management split up into performance domains.

Technical Review 298

Technical Review Software Review PMI 2023 298

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 22, 2024

I mentor project managers, and the types of problems that people come up with on calls are not technical issues for the most part. Or “resources” as we unkindly call people in project management. Why is effective resource management difficult? I’m sure you can think of some poor resource management examples.

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Technical Review PMO Risk Management Software Review 280

Scrum.org

MARCH 26, 2024

Saying "yes" to every stakeholder request creates a chaotic situation and contributes to a lack of focus and direction for the product supported by the Scrum team(s). The Product Owner should carefully consider any stakeholder requests and weigh them against existing work in the Product Backlog before deciding which work to do first.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 4, 2023

Stakeholders are anyone who has a vested interest in the project. They can be internal, such as project managers, teams, owners or investors, or external, such as clients, customers or suppliers. There can be a lot of stakeholders in any project and managing them requires stakeholder management templates.

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Software Review Risk Management Consulting Monitoring 245

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

There are many things that are needed when managing a project. An organizational process asset is a tangible resource that’s used to guide the management of an organization’s projects and operations. Get started for free Why Are Organizational Process Assets Important for Project Management?

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Process Executing Controlling Defining 367

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 22, 2023

What qualifications do you need to land a project management job? What Are Project Management Qualifications? Being qualified for a position as a project manager means you have the skills, experience and temperament for the job. Qualified project managers need the right tools for the job. Thanks for watching!

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Certification Leadership Risk Management Budget 357

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 14, 2022

Davis, MSPM, PMP and Project Management Superhero. Davis, MSPM, PMP and Project Management Superhero. The S in SPERT offers superpowers to all project managers. For me, statistics is about learning, measuring, controlling and communicating uncertainty to my project stakeholders. I caught up with William W. OK, I get it.

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Estimate 2016 Risk Management Software Review 419

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The project management plan is the responsibility of the project manager, although everyone in the team will end up having input to it. It’s made up of lots of sub-plans that cover how you are going to manage quality, risk, change, resources, and so on, so it’s the foundations for the governance and structure for the work.

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Governance Government PMO 2016 427

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

PRINCE2® is a project management method. It’s structured, and experience-based, created from the lived experience of thousands of project managers and successful projects. It’s a customizable way of managing and controlling the work. Manage by exception I love this principle. What is PRINCE2®? Who is PRINCE2® for?

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Prince2 Technical Review Governance Government 358

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

You think you know what your stakeholders want. He shared it with delegates at the PMI Global Congress EMEA in 2015 (it’s still relevant today) and it will give you a huge degree of clarity when starting to work with a new group of project stakeholders or a new sponsor. Stakeholders need to be assured that they can trust you.

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2015 PMI Risk Management Budget 378

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2023

When a program is failing, you should define the problem and potential solutions, and alert stakeholders at the first sign of trouble, according to LeRoy Ward, Executive VP at ESI. His ‘Managing and Saving Programs in a Changing World’ webinar covers 5 steps for project recovery. Using an outside assessment team creates objectivity.

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sustainability Estimate 407

Scrum.org

JANUARY 2, 2024

Quoting from the Scrum Guide 2020, they are accountable for: Ensuring that all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox. The more the Developers and the Product Owner will grow their facilitation skills the better the team will be at self-management.

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2024 SCRUM 2020 Leadership 206

Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In our annual global survey , one in five (21 percent) respondents say they are using AI always or often in project management. First look at the complexity of the task, including how many variables are involved, what data is involved, and if the task requires specific project management knowledge.

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ChatGPT Generative AI Artificial Inteligence PMI 471

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As a project manager with lots of years of experience, I can tell you that the decision log has saved me on several occasions! A decision log template in project management is the document you use to fill in all the decisions made relating to your project. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management

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Project Risk Coach

JULY 5, 2022

The PMBOK® Guide, Seventh Edition contains eight performance domains including the Stakeholder Performance Domain. In this article, we will explore this domain, why it's critical to projects, how to engage stakeholders, and some common stakeholder risks. What is the Stakeholder Performance Domain? Stakeholder.

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Risk Management Executing Risk Monitoring 221

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Your single best investment to improve your professional standing ; order the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now! ? Join me as I explore the potential of a custom GPT based on my Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book in cutting through the maze of Scrum challenges. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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SCRUM ChatGPT Technical Review Development Team Review 205

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Why do stakeholders take part in projects? But aside from the sponsor, all those other stakeholders don’t have to play nicely. It’s a question asked in Project Stakeholder Management by Pernille Eskerod and Anna Lund Jepsen (part of Gower’s Fundamentals of Project Management series).

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Influencer Budget Software Process 375

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

For professional Project Managers transitioning to Scrum Masters, engaging stakeholders effectively is a principle that transcends traditional project management boundaries. The emphasis on proactive stakeholder engagement aligns well with Scrum's focus on delivering value and ensuring customer satisfaction.

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SCRUM Consulting Agile Initiating 184

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 23, 2023

TL, DR: Saying No Without Burning Bridges Are you navigating the delicate art of saying No as a Product Owner or product manager? This article will dive into various approaches, from reframing conversations and fostering stakeholder collaboration to being transparent to data-informed rationale and empathetic engagement.

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Construction 2024 SCRUM Agile 208

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

TL; DR: Lost in Communication and Collaboration Lost in Communication and Collaboration addresses two categories from the Scrum anti-patterns taxonomy that are closely aligned: ineffective collaboration at the stakeholder level, often resulting in an unsuited reporting system based on misaligned metrics. Unrealistic sales promises.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2024

Master Scrum with ease; order the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now! ? For example, I just completed the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book, and I could use its complete text to train a GPT running on top of GPT-4. The most popular discussion on LinkedIn last week was : The Minimum Viable Library — ScrumMaster edition, version 2.0 ! ?

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ChatGPT SCRUM Artificial Inteligence Agile 175