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Managing Money on Projects: Training (June 2024)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is the first time I’ve run this standalone training on budgeting since Project Management in the Real World was published in 2010, as some of the material draws on that book. When will you be running this training again? I don’t know! If it goes well I’ll run it again without waiting another 14 years!

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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

ProjectManager.com

The book laid out the principles of lean manufacturing, which focuses on reducing waste, creating customer value and seeking continuous process improvement, and kanban. Toyota used it to organize its manufacturing operations, such as logistics, supplier management and customer delivery.

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Strategic Project Portfolio Management [Book Review]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It took me a while to get my hands on Simon Moore’s book, Strategic Project Portfolio Management *, but I’m rather glad I did. I read a lot, and I notice fonts, layout, box copy, but in this book, most of all the lovely tables. Praising a book because it is pretty is probably shallow, but it does matter for the reader experience.

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Shine [Book Review]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

As the book is ultimately about being remembered in a positive way, that’s important. There’s also an ‘Ask Gerry’ question and answer section at the end of each section which he uses to get in the answers to points that haven’t come up in the book so far. Book review: So What? “Do They were ordinary 2010. Useful to know!

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Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

Scrum.org

The first, official version of the Scrum Guide was released in February 2010. So, how was Scrum defined before 2010 then? How did its definition evolve before and after 2010 and become the framework that we know today? The book “Agile Software Development with Scrum” by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle (2002).

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Top 10 Lean/ Kanban Books for IT, Software and Knowledge Work!

Digite

Irrespective of where you are in your Kanban journey, here is a comprehensive list of the top Kanban books that will help you with knowledge, insights and experience related to Kanban and ensures an empowered journey towards achieving your business goals. We highly recommend the following 10 books to all Kanban practitioners and students.

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Top PM 10 Articles of All Time

Rebel’s Guide to PM

My project alphabet was a popular post of 2010 and inspired Derek Huether to write a book about zombie project management. That was back in the days before I had brand guidelines for how my blog should look – we’ve updated quite a few things since then! Don’t know what that is?

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