Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 22, 2024

I mentor project managers, and the types of problems that people come up with on calls are not technical issues for the most part. Or “resources” as we unkindly call people in project management. Securing the right resource (and enough of it) is a huge headache for PMO leaders and project professionals.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 31, 2024

Coming up with long-term goals for a business or organization is just the beginning of a five-year project. Making sure your daily operations are working towards achieving those strategic goals and that they’re clearly communicated throughout the business or organization greatly improves by using a balanced scorecard.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Creating a schedule of values is important for the project owner, contractor and subcontractors alike. It can be used to communicate what’s needed in the project, the costs associated with the activities and the management of payments. The schedule of values is an itemized list of all the project activities.

Construction 362

Construction Estimate Budget Monitoring 362

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 14, 2024

As project managers, most of us know how important it is to make sure that what we deliver is actually useful and used by the people we deliver it for. That’s where change management comes in. It’s more a collection of best practices, real-world advice and tried-and-tested strategies for speedy and stress-free change management.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 18, 2023

While there are similarities between a project manager and a project portfolio manager, they’re different positions with different responsibilities. What Is a Project Portfolio Manager? A project portfolio manager is a professional who develops and implements portfolio management processes.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

To communicate this, organizations will usually employ what is called a strategy map. The strategy map is part of the larger balanced scorecard methodology and is used as a way to quickly and effectively communicate strategic objectives and how they will create value for the organization. The strategy map will help to communicate that.

Software Review 356

Software Review Defining Budget Performance Measurement 356

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 22, 2023

What qualifications do you need to land a project management job? What Are Project Management Qualifications? Being qualified for a position as a project manager means you have the skills, experience and temperament for the job. Qualified project managers need the right tools for the job.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

So our best course of action is to prepare a risk mitigation plan so that we can manage those risks that are the most dangerous to our organization effectively before they have the opportunity to negatively impact us. ProjectManager has risk management features to mitigate risk in projects. What Is Risk Mitigation? Learn more.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 16, 2024

Projects have a beginning, middle and end. That’s called the project life cycle. When you’re a project management office (PMO) or program or portfolio manager, you’re going to have to deal with multiple projects in various stages of the project pipeline. What is a project pipeline?

Software Review 343

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Then, subcontractors build it and vendors are responsible for the resources. A construction superintendent is a professional who helps to manage projects and makes sure that they’re running as planned. Construction superintendents need timelines to schedule and manage work. What Is a Construction Superintendent?

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Construction Monitoring Certification Engineering 365

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 2, 2024

Jira is project management software designed for agile software development teams. However, a Jira kanban board can also be used for managing simple workflows, tracking project progress and improving team collaboration by organizations in other industries. Does Jira Have a Kanban Board?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 23, 2024

When you’re a PMP, program manager or portfolio manager, you need to deliver all those multiple projects on time and within budget. This requires an organization with a well-developed project management process. It’s essential to keep projects successful for any organization to thrive.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Monday is a matchup made for project management professionals. Asana vs. Monday are both similar project management tools. They have features, such as project tracking, workflow automation and other standard project management software features. Which one to choose? It’s difficult. Fair enough.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Gantt charts have been a fundamental project management tool for over a century, and it’s easy to understand why. They provide a visual overview of project tasks and the timeframe in which they need to be completed. The only difference from a Gantt chart used in any other industry is that it manages construction tasks.

Construction 353

Construction Software Review Planning Estimate 353

ProjectManager.com

MAY 1, 2024

Warehouse management ensures that stock matches customer demand. To understand effective warehouse operations, you must first be clear on the warehouse operations process and how it plays into the larger warehouse operations management. ProjectManager’s kanban boards help manage warehouse operations.

Software Review 352

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 24, 2023

IT service management (ITSM) is the process of how those services meet the needs of the end users who employ them. Over the course of this blog, we’ll discuss how ITSM is implemented, managed and delivered to meet the needs of an organization and how project management software can help facilitate those processes.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 6, 2023

PMO stands for project management office and it’s responsible for the project management standards in an organization. The two others are the program management office and the portfolio management office. Filter the view by project, client or customer and add as many columns as you need.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 27, 2023

Resource management is planning, getting and using the resources that you need to do your project efficiently. Often, organizations use ‘resources’ as an unfriendly shorthand for ‘people’. When you manage multiple projects , the biggest resource challenge is normally people.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 4, 2024

Bottom-up budgeting is, as its name suggests, budgeting that starts from the departments in an organization and then moves up to senior management. Therefore, the company allows each of its departments to set its budgets, including a list of expenses and cost projections, which are then submitted to senior management for review.

Budget 323

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Table of Contents Why is stakeholder management important to project success? What is stakeholder management? Free Resources 2. Easier Project Closure Why is stakeholder management important to project success? Because we need people to get the project work done. What is stakeholder management?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 8, 2024

An army of subcontractors each with their own specific discipline complete construction projects. We’ll also note the difference between an RFI in construction and other construction project management documents before going into the construction RFI process, the different types of RFIs and more. What Is an RFI in Construction?

Construction 314

Construction Software Review Engineering Budget 314

ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Construction project management relies on good planning, experienced contractors and powerful construction project management software. While Procore is a known name in construction project management, many construction managers are looking for a Procore alternative. Procore falls short in many ways.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 14, 2024

We gathered 57 of the top AI in project management statistics to help understand this key development in technology. Recent advancements in tech have changed how project managers work in 2024. It covers everything from the impact of AI replacing jobs to how AI is used to support the delivery of projects.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 28, 2024

Notion is work management software that helps teams from across industries such as product development, engineering or marketing to facilitate team communication, manage tasks and create simple project timelines. While Notion has project management features, is there a Notion Gantt chart?

Software Review 338

Software Review Estimate Monitoring Project Cost 338

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

There are many things that are needed when managing a project. Front of mind are resources and intangible things like leadership, experience and general know-how. These organizational process assets are critical to a project’s success and its operations. But there are also tangible items that are just as important.

Process 360

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 24, 2023

Projects and operations are both necessary for businesses to succeed, but they require different approaches. When it comes to managing them effectively, understanding the differences between projects and operations is key. Projects change the business. The status quo is good but project managers keep changing things!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

You’ve recently been asked to take over an existing project. The previous project manager might have moved on to do something else and you’ve got the project as part of an internal reshuffle of resources. And you’re staring at a system full of project documents and some emails that have been forwarded on.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 17, 2022

As project managers, it’s important that we know how to best support our development teams (and vice versa), especially in Agile environments. A lot of the points below relate to teams in Agile environments , but can apply to any type of project team. Tasks are continually added during the project. Elisa Cepale.

Technical Review 394

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 16, 2023

Teams are assembled to execute projects based on their skills and experience. Project management software gives the team the tools they need to funnel that energy into productive activity. ProjectManager is cloud-based project management software that connects teams in the office, on the job site and everyone in between.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A project timeline is a visual representation of the tasks that make up the project, showing the sequence of events and key dates. Let’s be clear: I’m not talking about a detailed project Gantt chart, PERT chart or a flow chart. What do you need to create a project timeline? Longer projects can be split by quarters.

Software Review 314

Software Review Governance Government Risk Management 314

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 31, 2023

Welcome to project management 101. Project management can seem like a daunting discipline, but once you get a grasp of the fundamentals and combine that with some intuition, you’ll be on your way to leading successful projects, no matter your situation. What Is a Project? What Is Project Management?

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

ProjectManager is not only powerful project and portfolio management software but also has over 100 free project and portfolio management templates for Excel and Word, including these strategic planning templates. Portfolio management software goes where strategic planning templates cannot.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 18, 2023

Most projects are hierarchical. There’s someone at the top of the project management team who answers to the stakeholders and directs the project manager and project team. That position is called a project executive. What Is a Project Executive? What Does a Project Executive Do?

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Project Risk Coach

JUNE 4, 2023

In the world of project management, troubled projects can be a source of frustration, stress, and disappointment for both teams and stakeholders. These projects often fail to meet their objectives, experience delays, exceed budgets, or even result in complete failure.

Risk Management 243

Risk Management Technical Review Estimate Risk 243

ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Manufacturers have to do more than produce a product, they also have to manage their operations. That’s why manufacturing operations management is so important—it keeps the lights on. Of course, there’s more to manufacturing operations management than that. What Is Manufacturing Operations Management?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 12, 2023

Despite your efforts to clearly define the scope, time and resources necessary to successfully complete the projects, things simply don’t always go according to plan. Maja Mrsic Here are 3 examples of projects that didn’t go to plan. So why do some projects crash to their doom? The merger was not a successful one.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Keeping tabs on the performance of your project is an essential part of project management. Tracking project performance gives project managers the data they need to keep the actual effort of the project aligned with the planned effort and deliver the project on time and within its budget.

Performance Measurement 346

Performance Measurement Risk Management Budget Monitoring 346