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How To Manage Your First Meeting With A Project Sponsor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One of the best training courses I attended for Project Management was on influencing strategies with Learning Tree. The course model stated that without trust, influence is almost impossible. A version of this article first appeared in 2016. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management.

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15 Non-Academic Project Management Books to Earn PDUs

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article, I’m saving you some time by highlighting 15 of my recommended books for PDUs, but first, let’s cover off some details about using reading. It will teach you how to influence others, even when you are not directly managing them. It’s about influence and negotiation and how to get things done. PDU claim: 2 hours.

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How to Engage Project Stakeholders With Good Communication

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article, I’ll share some simple things you can do to boost stakeholder engagement through good project communication at all levels. In this article you learned how to use stakeholder communication on your project to support engagement. Save This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management.

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Are You Ready For The Social Tech Revolution?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article, Jerry Giltenane explains why. The value of these social-media inspired tools is well known and this article does not intend to review those benefits in detail. Some key traits that have been proven to influence enterprise social media tools are: Ease of adoption Performance expectancy Social influence Team trust.

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What Makes Agile Transformations Successful? Results From A Scientific Study

Scrum.org

Kim Dikert and his colleagues reviewed 52 prior scientific studies in 2016 to identify common challenges and success factors for Agile transformations. He observed a successful Agile transformation at a complex and highly regulated military agency that took place between 2014 and 2016. 30, 4, Article 52 (July 2021), 46 pages.

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How to Deal with Challenging Situations Involving Stakeholders

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest article by Christine Unterhitzenberger. In this article, I’ll share some of our key findings. We found that the project environment plays a crucial role in creating challenging situations involving stakeholders for project managers and that project managers can often take active measures to influence and improve this.

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Project Management and Artificial Intelligence: Bring It On!

The IIL Blog

A recent article in Harvard Business Review described “How AI Will Transform Project Management”. In this article, I consider how emerging trends may impact the profession. As an experiment, I asked ChatGPT to create a 500-word article on the impact of AI on project management. I say, “Bring it on!” Imagine this future.