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2017 Project Management Trends To Watch

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This year I’m looking forward into 2017 to highlight some of the project management trends I think it is worth watching out for. Will 2017 be the year we get our first Chartered Project Professionals? Be brave, find your people and have a wonderful 2017. A Focus on Professionalism. That’s collaboration too.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

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It became a part of agile when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book “Agile Software Development with Scrum” in 2001. This organization produces a book called the “project management body of knowledge” or PMBOK. It was first published in 1996 and is about to publish its sixth edition in the fall of 2017.

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PRINCE2: The Project Management Method Explained

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The History of PRINCE2® PRINCE2® is part of the best practice guidance that came out of the UK Office of Government Commerce. A British government agency, the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency, licensed it for use in government IT projects back in 1979. It was renamed PRINCE. Directing gets a process of its own.

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10 Strategies for Successful Project Execution

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Successful CEOs Ram Charan and Larry Bossidy define execution in their book Executive: The Discipline of Getting Things Done : “Execution is a specific set of behaviors and techniques that companies need to master in order to have a competitive advantage. Ineffective corporate governance. Execution Gaps. Disengaged executive sponsors.

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5 Simple Reasons Why Processes Don’t Work

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If they don’t realise they have to use the room booking process for sorting out meeting rooms, they will continue to circumnavigate the process and go directly to the office manager: causing problems on both sides, I expect. An older version of this article first appeared on the 2080 blog in 2017. People need training on processes.

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PRINCE2: An Introduction to the Project Management Methodology

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Project managers who aren’t based in the United Kingdom might not be intimate with the PRINCE2 method of managing a project, which is primarily used by the British government. There are four levels of certification in PRINCE2: PRINCE2 2017 Foundation. PRINCE2 2017 Practitioner. What Is PRINCE2? PRINCE2 Agile Foundation.

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PRINCE2: The Project Management Method Explained

Rebel’s Guide to PM

PRINCE2 is part of the best practice guidance that came out of the UK Office of Government Commerce. A British government agency, the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency, licensed it for use in government IT projects back in 1979. PRINCE2 was released in 1996 and had major updates in 2009 and 2017.

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