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How to manage project tolerances (with PRINCE2® 7 guide)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Tolerances are an important part of being able to work autonomously as a project manager. The project tolerance definition I use in my book, Project Manager , is this: Tolerances are how much you can flex within your project without having to go back for approval. Which level of management sets the project tolerances?

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Is the triple constraint in project management still relevant? (Spoiler: No!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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?

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Agility for a Sustainable World: Why We Need to Redefine The Meaning of Agility

Scrum.org

This year was the 20th anniversary of the Agile Manifesto for Software Development, and in many sectors, agile ways of working have long since become the standard. Our own explanation of agility so far has been "the skill to turn customer needs into value flexibly, creatively and quickly while managing risk in complex environments.". .

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How to Conduct a Change Readiness Assessment (Template Included)

ProjectManager.com

When managing projects, change management helps to avoid its negative effects, and a change readiness assessment is one of the ways how it does this. Being prepared for change helps to mitigate the risks associated with those changes. It might be a cliche, but those who ignore it are doomed to learn a lesson the hard way.

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How has project management changed?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We aren't managing projects now in the same way that people managed projects years ago. The approaches taken by many companies and professional bodies to managing projects are different now to when I first started out in the field in 2000ish. How long has project management been around?

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All technical debt is a risk to the product and to your business

Scrum.org

All technical debt is a risk to the product and to your business. So why is so much of software opaque to the business? All technical debt is risk to the product and to your business. There is no asset securing that risk, no insurance for it. Technical debt is 100% risk. Technical debt is like an unhedged fund!

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Episode 185 – Redefining Project Success through Sustainable Project Management

Velociteach

The podcast by project managers for project managers. Projects are instrumental in defining an organization’s vision for a more sustainable future. WENDY GROUNDS: Welcome to Manage This, the podcast by project managers for project managers. We’re talking about Green Project Management.