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

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Beyond training in how to define and execute a project and how to form a team, there are a number of other skills that contribute to success as a project manager. It’s a way of defining and achieving goals by tightly controlled structure and delivery. A version of this article first appeared on this site in 2012.

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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. When you’re talking about building a software system to accomplish some business need that may or may not closely defined that may have a lot of constraints that are external to the organization for compliance or any number of other things.

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Which estimation methods are favored for adaptive delivery?

Kiron Bondale

For every person who adamantly insists that estimates are needed to support proper governance, someone else will argue that the inherent wrongness of an estimate and how estimates are abused will wipe out any benefits of defining them.

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Top PM 10 Articles of All Time

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It touched on the classic reasons for project failures – poor sponsorship and so on – but also focused on how we define failure on projects. I hadn’t realized it, but What Makes A Good Project Manager was actually the top post of 2012. In September 2007 I published a guide to why projects fail. I didn’t write it, by the way.).

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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). In many respects, it doesn’t really matter how you define customer, or how many customers your project has. The customer relationship could be defined in a number of different ways.

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How To Deal With Gossip At Work

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Beverly, how do you define gossip? There are 4 steps: Define what you want. She is the author of four business and financial books including Make Your SHIFT: The Five Most Powerful Moves You Can Make to Get Where YOU Want to Go (ATA Press, 2012). Identify the obstacles (i.e. what they are gossiping about).

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How to manage team conflict (& 5 strategies for conflict resolution)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is how I like to define conflict: Conflict happens when two or more people disagree and one of them (at least) decides to make an issue of it. Hopefully, if the project is well-defined, with a clear goal and a set of stakeholders who are supportive of the mission, then the chances for conflict are lesser. What is team conflict?