Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 6, 2023

Business Resilience: A practical guide to sustained progress delivered at pace is a book by an impressive authoring team. The tone is set immediately with the powerful introduction: this is not a book for the faint-hearted! There are 5 domains in the business resilience framework laid out in the book. Who is this book for?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a project manager, you are expected to have all-round skills encompassing the technical fields of project management like planning and scheduling, through to the interpersonal skills like communicating up and influencing others. Boost your skills: Make sure everyone on the team knows how to manage risks and what the process is.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 22, 2020

I’m probably the ideal audience for this book: I don’t need convincing. I wrote a book about stakeholder engagement too. This book sets out a way to manage stakeholders that many project managers will recognize: Identify and document. Worsley in Stakeholder-led Project Management: Changing the Way We Manage Projects. “I

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Scrum.org

APRIL 10, 2023

By Lavaneesh Gautam , Professional Scrum Trainer In the previous article (Stakeholder Exploration: Part 1 of 4 Steps of the Stakeholder Engagement) , we discussed: “Stakeholder”- who are they? Stakeholder Analysis The definition we discussed in the previous article. Stakeholder Engagement” What does it mean?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 7, 2022

You’ve read all the articles, you’ve got ideas about how things could be better. Sharing round a link to one more ’10 ways to be more productive’ article just isn’t making change happen. Whole books (like this one, my favorite) have been written about how to improve productivity. Lead by example.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 21, 2023

In this article I’ll explain the top three reasons why people aren’t as productive as they would like to be: procrastination, disorganization and poor planning. Procrastination Procrastination is the biggest productivity killer for over a third of project managers, according to research I did for my book, Managing Multiple Projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 3, 2023

If you are studying for the Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam, this is the article you need to help you break down and understand the contents of the exam. In this article, we’ll explain what the performance domains are in the exam content outline and give you some examples of what you need to know about each one for the test.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

I’m probably the ideal audience for this book: I don’t need convincing. I wrote a book about stakeholder engagement too. This book sets out a way to manage stakeholders that many project managers will recognize: Identify and document. Worsley in Stakeholder-led Project Management: Changing the Way We Manage Projects. “I

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In this article, we’ll explain what the performance domains are and give you some examples of what you need to know about each one. The 3 performance domains in project management are: People Process Business Environment. I’ll update the article when more information is available. Domain II: Process. Domain I: People.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 25, 2022

She’s even written the book on it. We do it as children, we do it as teenagers (often terrifying our parents in the process) and we do it as adults. Modelling is the reason we don’t want our children to hang out with “the wrong sort of influence” and it is the reason we want them to hang out with “the right sort of people”.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 9, 2021

We define it like this: The systematic identification, analysis, planning and implementation of actions designed to influence stakeholders. Read next: my book Engaging Stakeholders on Projects: How to harness people power. Beyond the interest and influence grid. Helping people take part in the project. So why do we bother?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 5, 2019

They are often active, and they can have a positive or negative influence depending on their actions. Stakeholders can influence everything and everyone in a project or organization, including senior management, project leaders, team members, customers, users and many others. But that doesn’t mean they just sit idly by and watch.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In this article, I’ll outline what’s currently announced about the changes and how you can prepare. Normally, PMI provides enough notice to candidates so they can finish up studying with their existing training materials and get their exam booked before it changes. So what do you need to know? I didn't know. How did that happen?

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PM Basics

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Stakeholder management is a set of processes and tools where you identify, understand, and engage with your stakeholders, to manage their expectations, needs and feelings. The goal is to ensure that the stakeholders influence your project positively. This article explores what stakeholder management is. Who must be involved?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 14, 2022

I have a process to follow for straightforward project decisions. The incremental model of decision making is a process used to make decisions in a step-by-step manner. As decision making models go, it’s a good choice for complex decisions that require a lot of information to be processed. When it’s most appropriate.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 23, 2022

This is an edited extract from my book Customer-Centric Project Management , co-authored with Phil Peplow (Routledge, 2012). Project teams are made up of wide groups of diverse professionals, and ensuring that stakeholders are engaged in the project process is essential to the success of the project. Project customer vs sponsor.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

So much of what you might have read about online or in project management books, or even be taught on training courses, is simply not aligned the skills we need to use every day. So what processes and techniques will catapult your career and what are the areas that you can… overlook? The way we do project management has evolved.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 15, 2024

TL; DR: Sunsetting Scrum Masters In this article, I uncover indicators that a Scrum Master’s or Agile Coach’s journey is coming to a close; they are sunsetting Scrum Masters. Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ? Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

And this article is a summary of what they replied. He is the author of Reinventing Communication by Routledge, a book on how to design, lead and manage high performing projects. You can see Mark’s book, and all the other experts’ books on Amazon here. But what does it take to get there?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The company culture has a lot of influence over what is done and what is ignored not followed up. Further sources of help If your work so far has uncovered things that concern you, then consider investing some time in a formal healthcheck process. Is it that they don’t have time? Or the skills, experience, interest?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

Peter Taylor, Ron Rosenhead and Vicki James have just written a book called Strategies for Project Sponsorship , about (surprise, surprise) project sponsors. Project managers must take an active role in influencing and educating project sponsors in these best practices to get the leadership support the project requires.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 31, 2024

This is a key skill that helps us influence change and create greater impact that is in alignment with our intentions. How frequently do you feel pressure to learn about the new trendy [fill in the blank] agile practice, read the books everyone is talking about, and keep getting more certifications? Where do we go from here?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 18, 2022

By the end of this article, hopefully, you will have a better understanding of how to approach requirements gathering (which we should really call eliciting requirements) for your next project! Stick with what you can influence: you know broadly what the objectives and goals are. Stakeholder requirements drop out of the process maps.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

You’ve read all the articles, you’ve got ideas about how things could be better. Sharing round a link to one more ’10 ways to be more productive’ article just isn’t making change happen. Whole books (like this one, my favourite) have been written about how to improve productivity. Lead by example.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2022

There’s no denying that stakeholder management processes, documents and analysis are a great tool for project communication. In this article, I’ll share some simple things you can do to boost stakeholder engagement through good project communication at all levels. Check out my list of the top books on stakeholder management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It can be a very illogical process that they may not even be aware of. But as a result of those thought processes, however chaotic and unconscious, they will decide whether or not to contribute and if they will contribute, how much they will contribute. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 23, 2022

This is a guest article by Paul Pelletier, LL.B., The best short answer is to appreciate what is within your realm of control and influence in order to create an action plan. That may give you an opportunity of influence outside the unit. What is the complaints process? Neutrality isn’t an option. Is it fair, safe?

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Kiron Bondale

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The industry we are in will influence and constrain our approach. The context of both the performing and receiving organizations will influence project approaches. If you liked this article, why not read my book Easy in Theory, Difficult in Practice which contains 100 other lessons on project leadership? Organizational.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Because PRINCE2® is a broad-brush approach, it doesn’t cover technical processes or specific techniques, but it will fit alongside them. 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. Manage by exception I love this principle.

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Kiron Bondale

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

It is one thing to not know how your car engine works when you take it to a mechanic to be fixed but your car is not part of complex adaptive system the way your business processes and supporting applications are. And they must know how they can best use their power and influence to get their projects to succeed.

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Scrum.org

MAY 4, 2023

This article is part 3 of the Effective Stakeholder Engagement series. The success of building effective stakeholder communication strategy depends upon the outputs of the first two steps of the stakeholder engagement process i.e. Stakeholder Exploration and Stakeholder Analysis & Mapping. However, his interest may change over time.

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Leading Answers

DECEMBER 21, 2017

I was given a book called “ How to Manage Change Effectively: Approaches, Methods, and Case Examples ” by Donald Kirkpatrick that changed my career. Something I was not aware of at the time is how the career development process works within the government. Opportunities to influence the change initiative.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 8, 2023

This overwhelming majority demonstrates that service excellence transcends other considerations and has a big influence on brand views. Build in a mechanism for feedback, try a beta launch with ‘friendly’ customers and make sure helpdesk staff have a process for resolving complaints.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 25, 2022

This is a guest article by Dr Mike Clayton, who is the well-known author and trainer behind Online PM Courses.*. And, of course, your relationship with your client is key to starting the process of defining your project’s goals. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management. What to tell her?

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 10, 2023

TL; DR: How To Spot Successful Scrum Masters In this article, I unravel the secrets of what makes a Scrum Master not just good but amazingly outstanding. Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ?️ Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2020

You know the drill – map influence and interest , then work to try to move any negative stakeholders into the quadrant where they should be through interesting communication approaches and stressing the project benefits for them. Richard Newton, in his book, The Project Management Book, sets out another 4 benefits of stakeholder management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 27, 2022

When I read Susanne Madsen’s book, The Power of Project Leadership. That’s what Susanne’s book basically does: it shows you how to ‘do’ leadership. Having said that, on any project it is people – and not the processes – that make projects happen. In the book you talk about authentic leadership.

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