Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 13, 2022

After the worst of the impact of the pandemic, remote and hybrid work environments have become the modern standard for most office-based roles. More people than ever are working from home. Below, we’ll go over three of the most important areas to focus on when managing a remote team successfully.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2024

Assign work to your team members, manage resources, estimate costs, automate workflows and much more. It outlines practically exactly how kanban can work for your team. The scrum master is the team expert on the process, and they are instrumental in guiding the team to optimize the use of scrum in the project. What Is Scrum?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

Trends come and go, or they stay with us and evolve into new ways of working that stick around and become “the way we do things around here.”. How many of our parent’s generation found themselves less desirable at work because they were seen as anachronistic? Use tools designed to help keep your remote and hybrid team on the same page.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

When I started working for White October we followed the conventional “scrum” format, where the team get together, share what’s new, what’s challenging and what’s happening, and everyone gives feedback and makes suggestions to unblock each other. How does a standup meeting work?

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

At the beginning of project management, everyone was physically working together. But work management is no longer under one roof. People are now working remotely more than ever. Remote teams are hybrid teams, and they work in different locations with different tools and skills. Learn More! Task Management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 12, 2021

According to the PM Radar 2021, the top current trend spot is shared by two entries – Agile project management and remote work. While some of us have embraced remote work and virtual teams for some time, for others it’s another recent change. These are mostly reflected in the current and future trends section.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 12, 2024

Using the project teams to mine their knowledge of the work and historical data can also play a role in estimating the project scope. More time-consuming, but accurate, is a work breakdown structure, or a hierarchical tree diagram that helps you to identify the project deliverables and tasks.

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Workzone

APRIL 21, 2020

What’s the difference between a remote worker and an office worker? Hint: it’s more than just the fact that the remote worker is probably wearing PJs and chilling with her cats all day.). says it’s lots of things, like greater levels of productivity, engagement, and morale for remote workers. We’ve got work to do.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 29, 2022

There’s a trend towards more and more knowledge work being run in a projectized way, which means more and more people doing project management as part of their day job. The way we run projects has been evolving since we started out formalizing how work gets done in a project setting. Remote access. The Future is Flexible.

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Inloox

JANUARY 5, 2022

Remote work & leadership. Remote work & leadership The Corona pandemic has achieved something that no one previously thought possible: A widespread rollout of working from home - and within a matter of weeks or even days. The work landscape has changed dramatically since March 2020.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 21, 2022

It wasn’t until I worked in IT as a project manager that I had a lot of contact with the release management process. They work with development teams to track progress and identify potential risks, as well as liaise with other departments such as QA, ops teams, service management, and support. That work has to be scheduled.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 29, 2024

Then I’ll show you a worked example (from a fictional proposal but you will be able to see how to apply this to your project). A project budget is meant to guide you step-by-step throughout the project phases, and is meant to be changed and adapted (within limits, of course) to what happens during the project itself.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

If you don’t personally have a smartwatch, I bet you know someone who wears one to work. We’ve recently put together a round up slide deck of achievements from our team in the past 12 months and realized we hardly have any photos of any of the work we’ve done – that’s going to change next year!)

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 25, 2024

Managers can use kanban as a window into the team’s work, which provides transparency that allows them to identify and remove potential roadblocks before they become issues. Kanban for manufacturing is a visual system used to control the flow of work within a process. The following are some examples of kanban and manufacturing.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 9, 2024

While project management software offers the most advanced kanban project management features from these options, Google Sheets is still a decent and free alternative, which can be especially helpful when working with a remote team that needs to collaborate online. Why Make a Kanban Board in Google Sheets?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 31, 2023

We know instinctively that it’s worth working together to get projects done. But when you have to convince others of the benefits of working together… well, it’s not always easy. Teamwork makes the dream work isn’t just a corny saying! What is teamwork? A successful team doesn’t avoid conflict.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2024

The project strategy works to meet the organization’s mission, but its goals are specific to the individual project it’s directing. It also streamlines project planning, which increases efficiency as you work on new projects and don’t have to start at square one. That’s the project scope.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 4, 2021

The trend that is here to stay is remote work and digital teams. Also, millennial PMs are more driven by equality, so working with millennial teams will require a different type of soft skills, like building EQ and leadership. Recently I spoke with Lela Machaidze on Clubhouse about future trends in project management.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

It’s a matter of improving your internal processes that support fostering growth through innovation and new-market expansion; enhancing customer value by improving relationships with existing customers; working towards operational excellence; and creating productive relationships with external stakeholders.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 18, 2024

A real salary for a real job, working in or with project teams. You can find providers who offer all the training remotely (or you can go into a college if you prefer to study that way). Project work can be busy and full on so safeguarding that time can be hard unless you are physically not in the office.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 7, 2024

Learn more Use our roadmap to tie your strategy to the work that must be completed to achieve your goals. Stability: When the company is doing well, it seeks incremental growth by working with clients in its industry. Marketing: Works toward improving brand identification through both paid and unpaid efforts.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

I’m sure you take away tips and ideas for making this your best year yet managing projects at work. Leadership : ethical, authentic leadership is what helps get work done and set you apart from your peers. Work with your stakeholders to craft a clear and powerful vision for your project or your particular phase of the project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 25, 2020

We’re living in extraordinary times, and many people will be working from home for the first time. Trust me, working from home is great. They are limiting people joining Zoom calls by phone though, so this is a free option that will work best if everyone on the team has speakers and a microphone built into their computer.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 3, 2020

Longer than I’ve been working in the field! If you think about it, getting work done to complete projects is a skill that has been needed since Stonehenge or the Pyramids. The Gantt chart has been around since Henry Gantt used it for his work in the 1910’s. Learn more about making collaboration tools work in my book.

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Proofhub

JANUARY 23, 2024

Employees are quitting their jobs rapidly — not just those in conventional workplaces, but remote workers as well. Remote work was designed to give employees more opportunities to maintain a healthy work-life relationship. Quiet quitters withdraw from participating in meetings or work activities.

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Project Bliss

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

With remote work here to stay, virtual leadership skills are critical for productive teams. The trend towards remote work is rising. This means a huge transformation to the way businesses work in distributed workplaces where every member works from a separate location.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 11, 2022

I would recommend quarterly review sessions, with a longer goal-setting session once a year, but do whatever works for you. For that reason, it’s often better to do them in-person instead of remote, but these days do what works best for you and the team. Discuss ways of working e.g. no using mobile phones. Define success.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 28, 2022

After this quick guide, you’ll be able to better manage any project. ProjectManager is work and project management software that has one-click reports that capture project data in real time. When files are online, they’re instantly accessible from wherever you have an internet connection, which is useful for remote work.

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Scrum.org

MAY 4, 2020

TL; DR: A Remote Daily Scrum with a Distributed Team. We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools; we explored virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. This eighth article now looks into supporting a distributed Development Team organizing a remote Daily Scrum.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

In September 2007 I published a guide to why projects fail. In 2008 I was living and working in Paris, France, which involved several office moves. I wrote about what every project manager needs as her office survival kit – things that travelled with me from office to office (and not work-related paperwork, either).

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

The report helps project professionals understand the world’s rapid transformation and the global context in which they work so they can use projects to solve complex problems. Purpose, innovation, and an eye on the future will continue to guide companies in a post-pandemic world.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Kanban boards visualize workflow so teams can work anywhere, at any time, manage their backlog and collaborate on sprints across departments or timezones. Managers get visibility into their process and can reallocate resources to avoid bottlenecks and keep the work moving forward without blocking teams.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 27, 2020

TL; DR: A Remote Sprint Review with a Distributed Team. We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools; we explored virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. The Sprint Review is Empiricism at work: inspect the Product Increment and adapt the Product Backlog. Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 2, 2020

Watch the Replay of the Remote Agile Practices & Tools Live Virtual Class. At the end of March, we ran a Remote Agile Practices & Tools class with about 30 participants from all over Europe, the Eastern Seaboard, and Canada. The Learning Path of the Remote Agile Class. Remote Agile (Part 2): Virtual Liberating Structures.

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Function Point

JUNE 15, 2023

If you’re wondering, “Can project managers work remotely?” The recent pandemic has propelled millions of people, including project managers, into the realm of remote work. Even after the pandemic, PWC reveals that 55% of employees would prefer to work away from the office for at least three days per week.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 17, 2020

TL; DR: Remote Agile, Part 1: Practices & Tools for Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and Product Owners. So, let’s dive into the particularities of practicing remote Agile with distributed teams. . We start with basic techniques and tools and follow up with how to apply Liberating Structures in the remote realm. General Tips.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The purpose of the Daily Scrum straight from the Scrum Guide is “to inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal and adapt the Sprint Backlog as necessary”. Some simple solutions might be sticky notes on a wall in a shared space, or a free online tool like Mural or Trello for remote teams. Daily Scrum Tactics 1. This is normal and natural.

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