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Storytelling – a key competence for project managers?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I applaud the way she plays down becoming a model as winning a genetic lottery and receiving the legacy of how beauty has been defined in the modern world. A version of this article first appeared in 2015. She discloses, apparently for the first time on camera, that she is insecure. What story are you telling about your project?

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Project Budgeting: An Interview with Sol Benady

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In 2015 he moved into banking and spent time working on, amongst other things, Brexit plans for the bank. Define the project scope. Defining a project scope is the first step to creating a project budget. In summary: Ensure that the scope is clearly defined and you’ve communicated exactly what the project brief is.

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How to do Rolling Wave Planning

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The APM Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control Guide (2015) defines rolling wave planning as ‘the planning density that is achieved at different moments in time. Rolling wave planning, also known as progressive elaboration, is an iterative planning technique to use when it’s difficult (or pointless) to schedule too far ahead.

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Why There’s No Such Thing as an IT Project

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Business transformation should be led by strategy because it’s the vision for the future of the organization that defines what you should be working on. This article first appeared in Project Manager Today, September 2015. Portfolio managers don’t need to be told that all projects and programs should align to strategy.

2015 264
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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. In September 2007 I published a guide to why projects fail. It’s still something that I don’t think we spend enough time doing. It’s been reprinted elsewhere and still gets read today.

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Bridging the PM Competency Gap [Book Review]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s a practical book that lays out addressing your issues in 5 simple steps: Define what you are trying to achieve with this learning programme. The book won’t tell you what competencies your team needs, but it does lay out a roadmap for helping you work that out for yourself. And then it guides you on the steps required to deliver it.

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IT Governance: Definitions, Frameworks and Planning

ProjectManager.com

Here are some of those complicated IT terms defined. To put it simply, an IT governance framework is a roadmap that defines the methods used by an organization to implement, manage and report on IT governance within said organization. Start with one of the templates we defined above. Here are some tips to get you started.