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Why is it a project manager’s job to fix companies?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Projects are the future, a good portfolio office can influence and shape strategy and project management is the only way to holistically deliver improvements. At the roundtable discussion about project management in the collaborative age way back in 2012, the talk turned to how project managers could shape strategy. All good stuff.

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Grateful Leadership™, Increasing Organizational Effectiveness in an Evolving Globally Connected World

The IIL Blog

This executive article presents a high-level overview of the results gleaned from the doctoral research study that focused on the relationship between Grateful Leadership training and organizational effectiveness. Dr. Serrano has been an Army Civilian Since 2012; her previous assignments have all been in the Strategic Plans Career Field.

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How to get the best from your sponsor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project managers must take an active role in influencing and educating project sponsors in these best practices to get the leadership support the project requires. Our book is a step in reducing these factors by providing the best practices for sponsors and arming the project manager with strategies to influence.

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The project customer role

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is an edited extract from my book Customer-Centric Project Management , co-authored with Phil Peplow (Routledge, 2012). They are ultimately the person who gets to use the final deliverable, so they have major influence. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management. Want to learn more?

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The 6 Principles of Stakeholder Engagement [Infographic]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This article, The 6 Principles of Stakeholder Engagement [Infographic] , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. Stakeholder participation includes the promise that their contributions will influence decisions… and they are told how. This article contains affiliate links. Click To Tweet. It isn’t enough to talk to people.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article we’ll look at what is a project board, and other names they are known by, who should be there, when to schedule meetings, what to talk about, how to report to this group and lots more so you can make sure it’s working effectively and efficiently. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management.

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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. Then, in 2012 I presented a collection of Collaborative Games for Risk Management  at the Agile 2012 Conference in Dallas and PMI Global Congress in Vancouver. After

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