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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. Companies tend to adopt a project management method such as PRINCE2® to ensure that everyone works to the same framework. Managers organize, leaders inspire.

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Prince2 Certification Guide for Misguided #ProjectManagers

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So, here I am, once again, writing the dreaded guide about Prince2 methodology and certification. Believe me, getting the Prince2 Foundation level certificate is not as hard as having to write the entire post again…. Prince2 Certification from Experts’ Point of View: Let’s start with Colin Bentley this time.

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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). Project teams are made up of wide groups of diverse professionals, and ensuring that stakeholders are engaged in the project process is essential to the success of the project.

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9 Steps to Managing Risk for Your Projects

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When teams have a good project risk management process in place, then you can identify and deal with all the project’s risks in an appropriate and thorough manner. When you have a proven process to lean on, it will undoubtedly lead to projects running more smoothly and successfully. But there are ways you can mitigate and manage risk.

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The Must-Read Reading List for Project Communication and Collaboration

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here’s my Must-Read Reading List for some great pointers on the skills, process and experience of engaging people and working together, whether your job is to lead or to follow. Communicating Projects is a process driven book that fully explains the processes of communicating formally on projects. Tom Kendrick, Amacom 2012.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

That’s the minimum (and the approach advocated by PRINCE2). A survey by the Centre for Complexity and Change at The Open University found that a third of project managers are involved in the decision making process but are not the sole decision maker themselves*. Project manager: the person leading the project (you). and Fortune, J.

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What Is a PMO? (Infographic)

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Project management is a discipline loaded with acronyms: PMP, PRINCE2, CPM, WBS, PMBOK, PMI… and about 150 others. You do not have a standardized process for initiating and executing projects. The percentage of project managers who report to the PMO increased from 42% in 2012 to 52% in 2016. What is PMO?” you might ask.

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