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PRINCE2: The Project Management Method Explained

Rebel’s Guide to PM

What is PRINCE2®? 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. PRINCE2® stands for Projects IN a Controlled Environment (Version 2). Who is PRINCE2® for? It was renamed PRINCE.

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Book review: Risk Happens

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Mike Clayton defines risk as “uncertain events that can affect outcomes,” in his book, Risk Happens!: Managing Risk and Avoiding Failure in Business Projects. Risk management is the most important of your project controls. So what exactly is project risk management? It won’t.

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Do you need a project management degree?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Recently someone got in contact with me to ask about how to become a project manager. She wrote: I have been advised that you have to do a degree in a particular subject e.g. engineering, do project management training e.g. PMI®, PRINCE2® etc and work your way up in order to become a project manager. Is this true?

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Project management degrees: Do you need one and what you can do with it

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Are you wondering whether it’s worth getting a degree in project management? Or what you can do with a project management degree for a job once you finish your bachelor’s or master’s studies? Recently someone got in contact with me to ask about how to become a project manager. “Do I need a degree in project management?”

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Reasons to Adopt AgilePM®

The IIL Blog

The World’s Leading Framework and Certification for Agile Project Management By APMG International July 26, 2023 Agile’s influence on the project management industry continues to rise at pace. Risk Management AgilePM provides practical ideas for managing risk, directly addressing many of the common risks for projects (e.g.,

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The Road to Responsible Collaboration: Architecture and Models

The IIL Blog

This discussion naturally reads like a description of a project management (PM) implementation, and it does indeed use PM concepts. It is, however, a framework for the business management of project delivery and most likely is accompanied by corporate cultural change. in-house standards, PMBOK®, PRINCE2®, etc.).

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12 Ways to Create A Positive Work Culture

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Whenever there is a difficult change to implement, a challenging initiative to lead, a troublesome task to overcome, something to be done, or something that exceeds the capacity of operating teams, we call in a project manager. I have spoken about this with many PMI members, my project team members, business owners and other project managers.

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