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Project Management Trends [2020]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here are the top project management trends for 2020/21 I think you should be watching out for. There are some things that are coming that will have a fundamental impact on project management, if I am right. I’ll get to those later. So where are we going as a profession? Soft Skills over Credentials.

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Risk Register Template

ProjectManager.com

Plan for project risks with this risk register template for Excel. Define risk priority and the potential impact for each. Risk is going to happen, but with this free risk tracking template handy, you can prepare for it and have a response already thought out and in place. Every project has risk.

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14 Common Project Risks (+ more)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Risks matter. That’s the point of risk management: thinking about what might go wrong before it does, so you can put a plan together to deal with it if it does. However, at the beginning of your project when your risk log is empty, it can be a bit of a challenge to think of all the stuff that might need to go on there.

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New Presentations for 2020

The Lazy Project Manager

It has been 10 years since The Lazy Project Manager was published and I have had the pleasure of presenting on this topic in 25 countries so far, but now, at the start of a new year, 2020 no less, I have decided that this will be the last year that I deliver ‘The Lazy Project Manager’ keynote. Based on a new book for 2020).

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What’s The Future of Project Management? (2020)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

AI is already a feature in some project management tools and robotic processing will help automate routine PMO tasks. While I still remain positive about the role of the project manager, I think other jobs you routinely interact with, like system testers, could be more at risk of being automated. Could that be you?

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What You Need to Know about the 2020 Scrum Guide

Scrum.org

On November 18, 2020, Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland released an updated version of the Scrum Guide. In this blog post, I will share what you need to know about the 2020 Scrum Guide. What is important about Scrum is that it is a framework, and Scrum Teams need to define their process, practices, and tools within the framework.

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A 2020 Guide to the Importance of Project Design in Project Management

nTask

Every project that graduates from the project development process is unique with many different qualities and problems attached to it, but one thing that all of them have is a Project Design. Resources are not just tools and people; they can be any number of things relevant to the project development process. Harsh words?

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