Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Because you never know. Handovers are useful if you will be out of the office for some time or forever if you are leaving your role. But you might need to write one after you have resigned or if you’re going on vacation and your manager is covering for you. Surely they know what you do all day already?

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Hub Planner

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Merry Christmas & Thank You ! Greetings from Hub Planner, As you know, we always welcome new suggestions and ideas to evolve Hub Planner into a bigger and better experience. We’ve had a super year designing and developing these new and exciting concepts and wish to thank you for being a part of our journey.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 24, 2022

Here is a checklist of 12 things that you should do during project closure to make sure the work is wrapped up efficiently. Basically, it’s a document that compares what you planned to do with what was actually done and explains the variances if there are any (there will be – trust me). Finish the handover. Update project status.

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Closing PMO Budget Finance 419

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 15, 2023

ProjectManager’s task lists let you track the performance of each team member in real-time. By giving employees a sense of their skills and strengths and listening to their suggestions, which are often very helpful as they’re on the front lines of the company, you give them a sense of value and pride in the work.

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Construction Software Review Budget Process 355

Online PM Courses

DECEMBER 20, 2021

It is so important to say thank you to your team and individual team members. It boosts morale; and shows you have noticed and that you care. The post 10 Ways to Say Thank You to Your Team | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Leadership 126

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 17, 2023

With the right approach and strategy, you can assess the situation, develop an action plan and implement it effectively so that your team learns from this experience for future projects. Even if there was nothing you could have done differently. You might think this is obvious: the CEO has told you to stop work.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 25, 2020

When was the last time you hit a significant milestone at work and did something to celebrate? I don’t think we do that enough, so here are 15 ways that you can celebrate success at work with your team. The host doesn’t get round to chat to everyone and it kind of defeats the object of a personalized thank you.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 11, 2022

When was the last time you hit a significant milestone at work and did something to celebrate? I don’t think we do that enough, so here are 20 ways that you can celebrate success at work with your team, including a range of virtual ways to celebrate success. You work together. In-person team celebration ideas. Drinks out.

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Project Risk Coach

MAY 17, 2021

If you are like most project managers, you are managing several projects. And when you finish one, you are anxious to start your next assignment. However, I encourage you to actually close each project before moving to the next one. If you were doing the project again, what would you do differently?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 9, 2024

Still, Google Sheets kanban boards aren’t the best kanban tool you can use. With ProjectManager’s kanban boards, you can track costs, monitor their percentage of completion, automate kanban workflows and recurring tasks, share files and much more. Once you create a copy, follow these simple steps. Here are some of them.

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The Digital Project Manager

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Can you all help? The post QA Please and Thank you! Big picture I think they are loosing insight into trends: what mistakes are we making every project, how many client issues are getting logged, etc. Am I wrong? I'm looking to get an understanding of the expectations of the DPM. appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Process 137

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 31, 2023

We’ll show you have to create one to better manage your project. How to Create a Project Backlog Creating a project backlog ensures that the work you need to get done is completed on time. You should have a list of conditions or capabilities that must be met by the project’s final delivery. Learn how a project backlog can help.

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Transportation Agile Defining Closing 308

Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Do you have a stakeholder engagement plan? Have you stopped to think about the diverse needs of your stakeholders? When and how will you engage these people? Let’s look at some practical ways that you can better engage and influence your project stakeholders at the right times in your project lifecycle.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

The market has been primed thanks to years of good offerings from the smartwatch department, and with the proliferation of augmented reality (AR), smart glasses are poised to be next to take the world by storm. If you don’t personally have a smartwatch, I bet you know someone who wears one to work. Read these next.

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Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Generative AI Logistics 343

Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Good communication on projects is so important, and I hear this from you guys all the time. There’s a feeling that it’s not possible to do all the communications that you’d like, and I get that. Did you send any of these to your team during the year? You should have done. I saw this and thought of you….

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 14, 2022

And to make it easy for you to show some gratitude to your colleagues and suppliers, I have made you a set of digital holiday cards for business purposes. And yet, I had project suppliers and all kinds of people to thank for their efforts throughout the year. ‘Tis the season for holiday planning! I wanted cards.

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Energy Budget Planning 337

Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 12, 2022

For those of you who are Do It Yourself (DIY) pros, you may not consider this a significant accomplishment, but not usually being a DIY’er, I am quite pleased with having installed ceramic wall tiles for the first time ever. With projects, it can be tempting to work with what you can get with minimal effort and cost.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 21, 2022

Thanks for watching! Project baselines, like a scope or schedule baseline, allow you to set a comparative performance standard for your project to measure planned versus actual dates. Pro tip: By using advanced project scheduling software like ProjectManager , you can create baselines to keep your projects on track.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 22, 2022

If you are leading a project in a sponsorship capacity, or want to sense-check that your sponsor is stepping up to meet their responsibilities, then I have something for you that will help. Below you’ll find 10 tips for being a good sponsor, drawn from Strategies for Project Sponsorship by James, Taylor and Rosenhead.

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 24, 2020

Sabina Nawaz’s article “ In Times of Crisis, a Little Thanks Goes a Long Way “, which was published this week on HBR.org, is a great reminder of the need we all have to be appreciated. Beyond that, you might have no budget for tangible rewards. It doesn’t need to be formal. It should not feel forced.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 3, 2020

Second, find a coach/mentor/sponsor/role model to help you identify and start to demonstrate good leadership capabilities and behaviors. Third, get out of your comfort zone and volunteer for the roles/experiences/secondments which will expose you to different ways of doing things and provide different insights. What do you think?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 4, 2021

If you’re up for it, you can read the interview in Portuguese , but Diego has also sent me the interview in English and let me reproduce it here. Hello Elizabeth, thanks for coming, how are you? Well, thank you! There is also PRINCE2 Agile as a specific, different qualification you can get.

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Prince2 Underperforming Technical Team Certification PMI 422

Project Risk Coach

AUGUST 2, 2021

On the other hand, Susan is supercharged by public recognition or a simple thank-you card. Predetermine how and when you will recognize your team members. Aubrey Daniels, a leading authoring on performance management, explains the difference between recognition and rewards: “You reinforce behaviors and reward results.”

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 25, 2021

How do you manage to communicate about your project with virtually no marketing budget? Oh, good for you. Go and read this about the collaboration software you can use on your projects. Go and read this about the collaboration software you can use on your projects. You are in the majority. You might be different.

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Budget PMI Leadership Software 429

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. I have done a bit of analysis on the results and I wanted to share what I know so far with you. Especially if you are pressed for time or don’t know exactly where to start.

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2023 Energy Planning Process 376

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 6, 2022

Do you think about what you say at work? “Many times your words can have more power than you imagine. . “Many times your words can have more power than you imagine. ” He explained that people pick up on negative phrases and that this impacts how they feel about you and your project.

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Underperforming Technical Team PMI Planning 264

Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 21, 2022

Thanks to the most recent issue of Tom Geraghty’s weekly Psychological Safety newsletter , I learned about a new model for how we consider safety and risk. If you liked this article, why not pick up my book Easy in Theory, Difficult in Practice which contains 100 other lessons on project leadership?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 7, 2023

Be the bridge to success for others) The good news is you will find recall much easier. The bad news is you might try and thank a snake instead of avoiding it. There are also badges to earn and collect to track your progress, with points and optional leaderboards if you want to gamify your studies.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 5, 2020

The trouble with command and control is that you get project information that is untrustworthy, and you create an overly structured work environment that people don’t like. If you want them to do their best work, that is. Here are 4 things that drive engagement in your team and should give you much better results.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

The original intent is that if you make an MVP, you are making something valuable that your customers can use, albeit without many bells and whistles. It’s challenging to know when you have the right product increment to deliver to a customer. How can you get the most valuable results from an experiment?

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 15, 2021

Thankfully most can be addressed online, but some require phone calls and if someone was to offer a service to handle it for you, that might be worth funding! If you liked this article, why not pick up my book Easy in Theory, Difficult in Practice which contains 100 other lessons on project leadership?

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The IIL Blog

JULY 19, 2023

Hence, the majority of the time you spend on emails will bring you little to no reward. You do not often hear of somebody being promoted thanks to the emails she/he drafted or a great discovery resulting from a reply to an email. You may not notice it, but the time we spend on emails accumulates very swiftly.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 31, 2019

If someone told my 10-year-old self that I would fall in love, get married, have a great career, have a tribe that loves me… I would have thought you were crazy. My work with SafeHaven will help these young people have lives they did not think would be possible. I can totally relate. The good, bad, and ugly.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 21, 2023

With hypotheses, it is important that you decide how you are going to measure whether the hypothesis is valid or invalid. That is kind of like what we call “whack-a-mole” where you are whacking the moles in the funfair and just reacting. In that context, you are not thinking systemically. Thank you.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 12, 2023

In the previous video we have seen a map you can use to start the journey towards agility at your company. In this video, I will share with you some guidance that you can use to select the right person to be the Product Owner and also some negative consequences that may happen when the appointed individual is not a Product Owner.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 12, 2023

Here are three things I do (and encourage others on my team to do) to help motivate our team during challenging times: 1) Say “Thank You” I truly believe this is the most important – yet most overlooked – gesture. Just say, “thank you!” You don’t need big budgets and board-level approval for this one, either.

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Healthcare Leadership 2023 Budget 145

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Why giving 4 hrs weekly may not work… I hear so often about these programs where you give people 4 hours a week to do learning. You then you give them 44 hours of work to do in a 40-hour week. They never get time to do that learning, and that’s why you are responsible for the personal development of your people.

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