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10 Secrets To Being a Good Sponsor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The book includes a list of 50 secrets in Appendix D which is a summary of The Standish Group’s Chaos Manifesto 2012: The Year of the Executive Sponsor. Read my guide on the process for decision-making. A version of this article first appeared in 2013. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management.

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Project Management and Leadership – can you have one without the other?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s now widely recognized that having employees with great project management skills leads to more efficient processes, better uses of time, and less wastage than without. It’s been said that managers work with processes and leaders work with people (The 360 Degree Leader, Maxwell, 2005). Leadership and Project Management together.

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The challenges of IT Project Management, with Dave Gordon

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In 2012, I went to Las Vegas for the Pink Elephant ITSM conference. The basic idea behind the book is that the reality is of the SaaS implementation is it’s less about information technology and far more about re-engineering business processes, really looking at how you represent data in a complex system.

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Agile Project Management for Marketing

Rebel’s Guide to PM

However, beyond the bad news we’ve had to deal with since the beginning of this year, these changing circumstances have ushered in a different kind of enthusiasm for making process improvements in how we work together as well. Which Agile process techniques are most popular among marketers? It’s certainly not a new idea.

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Which estimation methods are favored for adaptive delivery?

Kiron Bondale

Throughput and Monte Carlo – this refers to the process of forecasting based on an understanding of how many work items of a certain size can be completed within a fixed amount of time as well as using simulations to get a confidence level on how many work items might be completed by a given date.

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5 ways to increase trust through transparency

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It saved both the company and the supplier a lot of time in the tendering process. The more transparent the process, the more trust that the outsiders felt in the organization, the more we could reduce the amount of learning time, which would give us an advantage over our competitors.”. If not, why not?

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PMI-RMP: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FOR 2021

Project Risk Coach

LAST UPDATED ON DECEMBER 14, 2020, BY HARRY HALL THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS AFFILIATE LINKS. In this article: 1 What is the PMI-RMP? The PMI-RMP Exam Content Outline (2012) specifies the domains, knowledge, and skills needed by a Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)®. IT DOES NOT COST YOU EXTRA. THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

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