ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Then we’ll offer a few free IT incident management templates to help you control issues in your IT and how project management software can do what templates can’t. Having project management software is a way to quickly restore service. We have dozens of free templates that cover every phase of the project.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Over the course of this blog, we’ll discuss how ITSM is implemented, managed and delivered to meet the needs of an organization and how project management software can help facilitate those processes. Naturally, these processes can be executed with greater efficiency when project management software is used.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 6, 2024

Project management has wrought much change. From plotting Gantt charts by hand to the modern day explosion of project management software solutions, everything is different – including the nature of work itself. Then all is quiet until the boss approaches her desk with yet another project. To illustrate, Roger L.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Finally, we show how project management software can help with manufacturing. Cycle time includes processing, moving, inspection and queue time for the item. Cycle time includes processing, moving, inspection and queue time for the item. Project management software can help manufacturers plan, track and monitor their cycle time.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2023

His ‘Managing and Saving Programs in a Changing World’ webinar covers 5 steps for project recovery. The right issue is how do you finish at all and gain something realistic benefit without ending up with a failed project. So be careful about making big changes on a project that isn’t going that far wrong.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Requirements are the tasks that must be done in order to deliver a final project. If you’ve never heard of a requirements traceability matrix and you’re managing a project, you’ll need a crash course. Not only that, but each decision made over the course of the project will impact the project’s requirements.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

There’s a lot of money involved in these capital projects and that means getting the funding and allocating the finances wisely. Let’s take a look at capital projects, explore the idea of a capital asset and delve into the process of capital planning. What Is a Capital Project? Capital projects involve capital assets.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Keeping tabs on the performance of your project is an essential part of project management. Tracking project performance gives project managers the data they need to keep the actual effort of the project aligned with the planned effort and deliver the project on time and within its budget.

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Project Bliss

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

By moving from forming, storming, norming, and performing, your team will perform well and produce great work. Learn how to identify and help your team move through these stages of development to get the best from your team and your projects. Don’t rush into executing your project or solution. Click To Tweet.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 19, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of Agile methodologies, the Scrum Guide has served as a beacon for countless teams striving for excellence in project management and product development. Looking Forward As we move beyond the remnants of the 2017 Scrum Guide, it's imperative that we carry forward the lessons learned into our current practices.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 9, 2023

Time management is also critical to project management. It’s usually laid out in a data table that records the time an employee has spent on tasks, projects or clients. You can add tasks directly from different projects, copy the timesheet from the previous week or auto-fill timesheets. Timesheets serve several purposes.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 24, 2022

Here’s what will happen when you clearly state your most important strategic objective at the beginning of a meeting: It will set the tone for the meeting, and focus everyone’s attention on why you’re all there If anyone says something unrelated you can ask “Is what you’re saying right now moving our strategic objective forward?”

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

A project milestone is a management tool that is used to delineate a point in a project schedule. These points can note the start and finish of a project, and mark the completion of a major phase of work. If a milestone focuses on major progress points in a project, you can see how it is useful in scheduling.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 29, 2021

Projects, whether they’re large or small, are journeys. Setting project milestones prevents this. Setting project milestones prevents this. Break up your big projects with milestones on ProjectManager.com’s Gantt charts. All projects have start dates and end dates. The answer: project milestones.

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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. Securing the right resource (and enough of it) is a huge headache for PMO leaders and project professionals.

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Technical Review PMO Risk Management Software Review 280

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 12, 2022

Project governance is an important part of project management processes – even if it’s not the most exciting part of getting work done. As a project manager, part of your role is shepherding the work through the project lifecycle. That means moving it on from idea to done and keeping it all on track as you go.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 29, 2022

What is the future of project management? Let’s look ahead and see what the next 10 years will bring for project management software, jobs, and the role itself. Does Project Management Have a Future? So will we need ‘professional’ project managers in the future? People who just do managing projects?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 9, 2021

Are you looking for a robust, scalable PPM solution that can manage the whole project life cycle and show you what’s being worked on at any one time? In this review of Sciforma, I’ll share the pros and cons of this enterprise-centric project and portfolio management tool. Product: Sciforma. Pricing: Licenced per user, per month.

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Software Review 2021 PMO Project Life Cycle 392

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 26, 2023

What advantages or disadvantages come with each of them, and which should you choose for your project? Resource leveling Resource leveling is a project management technique used to adjust the start and end dates of tasks in order to better manage limited resources. Let’s take an example. Something has to give.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

There’s no denying that project management today looks different to how it did even 5 years ago. Project management trends shape our profession. So what are the emerging trends in project management that are going to shape how you do your job in the future? How project management is evolving. Ready to find out more?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 17, 2023

Closing down a project early is very different to carrying out a controlled close when a project has reached its natural conclusion and delivered everything that stakeholders were expecting. You’ve invested time in this work, and now it’s being moved to the scrap heap. Move on and forget it ever happened?

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Construction project management has five phases, the same as any project. Then we’ll explain the difference between the construction phases and the project life cycle. To help you manage your construction projects better, we’ll even add a few free templates. Construction projects are carefully planned.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Some teams that don’t use Agile still do standups because they are a good way to catch up with everyone, especially on fast-moving projects. This is only one of the different types of project meetings you’ll be involved with, but it’s an important one. How does a standup meeting work?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 25, 2020

I decided it would be OK to share some free and paid resources that you might find useful to help you keep your projects and teams moving forward, wherever you find yourself based over the coming weeks. Mike Clayton has drafted a 7 step response plan for project managers* to prepare your projects and teams.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 8, 2021

What’s it like being a project manager in healthcare? I spoke to Nada Abandah , a project manager in the PMO for the Dubai Health Authority, about what it’s like to work in healthcare during a discussion for the Project Management Club on Clubhouse. However, I still do some project-related work for clients.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Sometimes the whole picture isn’t clear when you’re planning a project. But with a traditional project management methodology, such as waterfall, you set everything up first and then you’re stuck with it. But the waterfall methodology is only one way to manage a project. That doesn’t mean the project starts without a plan.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 26, 2020

What is a fixed date project? A fixed date project is one that has a defined — and often unmovable — end date for delivery. Hitting the date is compulsory, which means we can’t plan the project as we would normally do using best practice scheduling techniques. ” The challenge with fixed date projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Once upon a time I used to try to plan my projects around dates when I knew I was going to be in the office. My colleagues joked that I planned the birth date of my first child around a major transformation project go live date (I didn’t). If your project is closing, read my guide to how to handover a project at closure instead.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

You’ve delivered a great project – or at least made it to the end, exhausted! Now it’s time to handover the work because the project is closing. I had one memorable project where I couldn’t get rid of it. It was fine, but it did pull me away from other projects. And it’s not what project management is supposed to be.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 21, 2023

There are plenty of things at work that make it hard for you to progress your projects – the skill is in being able to identify and tackle them so you can keep moving forward. However, there are probably going to be substantive consequences for you and for your project if the work doesn’t get done. Here are some tips.

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The IIL Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

One significant shift I’ve been contemplating is the transformation of leadership models and approaches – moving away from transactional models to embrace a more dynamic and empowering style. Fast forward to today, where many organisations are immersed in processes of ‘continuous improvement’ or ‘incremental change’.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 2, 2023

There are strategies you can use to help you streamline your projects and combine work across stakeholders and teams. I talk about those in detail in my book, Managing Multiple Projects , which sets out a 5-part framework for leading projects in parallel and still leaving the office on time.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2022

Primarily more detailed planning in the immediate future and less detailed planning towards the end of the project.’. This could represent the next month or 90 days or any other time period that makes sense for the overall duration of the project. On many projects, you won’t know exactly what the work is going to look like later on.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 7, 2023

When I moved to a 4-day working week, I did technically work five days a week. I wanted to go part-time because I wanted more time for writing project management books and doing the fun stuff. On one project, the team meetings were set up for Fridays at 11am every week before I joined the team. “Can I work part-time?”

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Project Bliss

AUGUST 17, 2020

You need to be able to communicate successfully with all team members across various channels, such as email, phone, and video and have productive conversations that drive goals forward and provide the support they need. Managers have had to adapt to new methods of leading projects remotely.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Projects can be viewed as a series of decisions. From planning to execution, project managers and their teams are constantly choosing between one option and another or even many different options. Either way, project managers and their teams can make decisions on their gut, guided by emotion or even unconscious bias.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

You’ve recently been asked to take over an existing project. The previous project manager might have moved on to do something else and you’ve got the project as part of an internal reshuffle of resources. And you’re staring at a system full of project documents and some emails that have been forwarded on.

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