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Project Management Apprenticeships: A UK Guide

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The project management apprenticeship standard has been around since 2017 and individual apprenticeships have evolved a lot since then, which is a good thing. Different industries will influence that and there is a minimum salary set by the government. There are more options, and more organizations offering them. So that’s a ballpark.

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The Essential Project Management Competencies: A 2017 Perspective

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Influencing and negotiating. As a line manager or a Project Office manager, the best thing to look for is projects that skip between green and red, projects with a lot of ‘surprises’ and a long list of risks and issues that don’t seem to be managed. Soft skills include: Communication. Leadership. Self-awareness. Confidence. Resilience.

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PRINCE2: The Project Management Method Explained

Rebel’s Guide to PM

PRINCE2® was released in 1996 and had major updates in 2009 and 2017. You should look at what happened on past projects because that helps mitigate risk on your current project. The relationships part of this principle’s title is all about the project ecosystem and how soft power and networks influence the way work gets done.

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Monte Carlo Risk Analysis in Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

By: Dr. Michael Shick, MSPM, PMP, CSM Are you a project manager struggling to predict the risks in your projects accurately during planning? This is where Monte Carlo Simulation transforms the art of project risk management into a more precise science, as part of quantitative risk analysis.

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5 Considerations for Managing a Project Portfolio

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Of course, the specific composition is strictly idiosyncratic to each organization and strongly influenced by the coordinates of each industry and the skill level of the project managers. Consideration #2: Managing complex risk is all about balance. Portfolio management has a strong relationship with risk.

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What is Large Scale Scrum (LeSS)?

Scrum.org

I isolated the differences between the 2017 guide and the 2020 guide. LeSS supports the 2017 version of Scrum. The people in the Large Scale Scrum community have mostly aligned around the 2017 guide and officially, LeSS supports the 2017 version of Scrum. The teams need help to resolve some of these things.

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10 Strategies for Successful Project Execution

ProjectManager.com

Some might want to save the celebrations until the final delivery, but having milestones , acknowledging them and rewarding the team throughout the execution phase is how you keep morale up, which influences productivity. You should have developed a risk management plan during the planning phase. Meet Regularly.

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