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5 Tips To Re-Energize Your Daily Standup Meetings

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here are 5 activities we tried to re-energize our project standup meetings, with tips for you to try them with your project teams too. Tip: It does help to have someone facilitating these activities so that they actually get done. Add some fun into your daily scrum or standup meetings with these easy tips.

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5 Tips To Re-Energize Your Daily Standup Meetings

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here are 5 activities we tried to re-energize our project standup meetings, with tips for you to try them with your project teams too. Tip: It does help to have someone facilitating these activities so that they actually get done. This is an edited and updated version of an article that first appeared on this website in 2016.

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What I’m Reading [April 2016]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It had some tips on planning for the journey, which is really the bit I am most nervous about. The book tells his story in more detail as well as including plenty of practical tips for personal motivation, staying focused, setting meaningful goals and working with others. How will I keep two toddlers in their seats for the flight?

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5 Tips (+ Bonus Tip) For Getting The Most Out Of Conferences

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Today I’ve got 5 tips (and a personal favourite bonus one at the end) about how to get the most out of attending a conference. That’s a tip for short people like me. The next tip has saved me many times and helped me deliver on my promises! Bonus Tip: Bail Out of Dull Presentations. Edit Your Badge.

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15 Non-Academic Project Management Books to Earn PDUs

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Full of stories and tips, this is one you’ll want to return to again and again. Making Risk Management Work is a slim read but it’s full of tips for how to run effective risk management workshops. Plus it comes with downloadable templates and loads of tips and tricks – not just from my experience but also from your peers.

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Virtual Leadership [Book Review]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Since reading the first edition back in 2016 there is now an updated second edition that includes a completely new chapter on hybrid working. There are plenty of tips. One of my favorite tips from the book is for easy retrospectives. The new version is also packed with updated, relevant case studies. Author Dr Penny Pullan.

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How Options Give You Confidence At Work

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I spoke at an event for women in construction management and I was a bit put on the spot when they asked me to share a tip that had helped me most in my career. On the way home I realized that is not the tip that has helped me most in my career. The best tip I have for your career is to plan how to leave your job gracefully.