Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 23, 2022

Actually, this book isn’t about coping with changes to the natural laws of Planet Earth, but rather how to manage people who are scattered all over it. A key theme throughout the book is fostering trust. The book is divided into two parts. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I bet you have plenty of project management processes, don’t you? The bottom line is this: having processes doesn’t guarantee that your project will be any better than if you didn’t have them. But I’m a big believer in making sure everything is fit for purpose and processes are included in that. Processes are too informal. “Oh,

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 19, 2020

It’s a shame the title of the book is so uninspiring. Critical chain is a way to streamline processes so that you avoid bottlenecks and increase throughput. A book for generating ideas. This book does contain diagrams, but it isn’t a textbook that will help you implement critical chain in your organization.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 14, 2021

If you have, this book from Maura Nevel Thomas will give you the tools to evaluate how you organize and track tasks efficiently. It’s a short, colorful, nicely laid out and giftable book, designed to be impactful in just an hour. It’s a short, colorful, nicely laid out and giftable book, designed to be impactful in just an hour.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The most successful students also include reading a range of PMI-ACP books in their exam prep, as well as a training course, just as that little bit of extra comfort. It’s also useful to have books to carry around with you for reference when you can’t access your training materials. Alternatively, choose books that fill in your gaps.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 7, 2020

In other words, if you want people to use what you create — or to shift their ways of working to the new standards and processes you implement — then you have to help them through the transition. Here’s my list of top change management books for leaders. See this list (and some extras) on Amazon. Professor John P.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 31, 2022

They stress the importance of problem solving and reflection as part of the continuous learning process: being participative. There are lots of techniques for this discussed in the second half of the book. This book is expensive, and I’m grateful to Gower Publishing for sending me a copy for review. In Summary….

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 28, 2022

Normally I take lots of notes when I’m reading books for review. I’m seeing this more and more in project management books (I like to think I started a trend !) There is a logical flow to the book. The bottom line is that if you work with projects you need this book on your shelf. It’s the book I wish I had written.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2018

If so, it might be time to start implementing proven project management processes and phases at your organization in order to bring your company’s workflow under control. The five phases of a project constitute the project management life cycle , which coincidentally is the title of a book by ProjectManager.com CEO Jason Westland.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 27, 2022

How to Create Leadership at Every Level is a leadership book by David Marquet. The book explains how Marquet got his sub to this level. One of the things I took from this book that is particularly appropriate to project environments is delegating down. I found this a very enlightening book. Turn the Ship Around!:

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 13, 2023

TL; DR: Adherence to Legacy Systems, Processes, and Practices Administrative overreach and micromanagement in Scrum mainly arise from clinging to legacy systems and traditional (management) practices, leading to rigidity and misapplication of Agile principles. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 30, 2018

I might at some point in the future, especially if I can hang on to Jack Risos’ book Ace the PMP Exam (3rd ed, updated for PMBOK ® – Sixth Edition). I hadn’t read a book created in iBooks Author before but I would certainly read more. The book is ordered in the same way as you would typically manage a project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

This article, The Project Manager’s Little Book of Cheats [Book Review] , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. There’s no such thing as cheating in project management,” writes Beth Spriggs , “but if there were it would be this book.”. I love books that are practical and applicable, and this is both.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

“Time management is dead,” writes Graham Allcott in his book, How To Be A Productivity Ninja. It is a wide-ranging book looking at loads of different ways to squeeze more out of the day without having to work longer hours. One of the things I enjoyed about this book was the tips. Managing your attention.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 7, 2022

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 Analyze Develop strategies Plan approach Engage Watch, listen, react and review.

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Henny Portman

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In 2023 I reviewed many books and created several corresponding quick reference cards. In 2023 the English version of the book Agile Portfolio Management I wrote together with Rini van Solingen was published (order at Amazon: [link] ). The counter till so far: 309 book reviews, 139 QRCs. van Solingen, R.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In this article, I’ll share my 12 top tips for exam success. Tab your book. Foundation is a closed book exam so you have to work from memory only. The PRINCE2 Practitioner exam is open book, which means you can take the (print) manual into the exam with you. But it’s a big book. Write in your book.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 23, 2017

This article, Communicating Change: A New Book From Elizabeth , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. It’s the book I would have found really useful on the major enterprise-wide change programmes I’ve led, but I couldn’t find anything to tell me what to do. “ I loved the book! Everyone’s heard of them.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 27, 2023

Recognized by organizations around the world, it involves a relatively lengthy application process and a 3-hour exam. In this article, we’ll look at the best exam prep courses for CAPM , plus exam simulators to help you prepare for the test and study books. Haner and Cate McCoy A book in the simulator section?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2024

The APM BOK defines project quality as: “The fitness for purpose of the degree of conformance of the outputs of a process, or the process itself to requirements.” Good” could be: The buttons are green The process takes less than 3 seconds Latency is 0.1 Good” then becomes your success criteria or quality measures.

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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

MARCH 14, 2024

In this article, we’ll go through what they mean and what you can expect to do in one of those roles. However, in this article, we’re focusing on people who predominately manage projects. He learned a lot about project management in the process and eventually went on to become a PMO Manager.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 11, 2024

I haven’t taken that one either because the syllabus looks to me like it focuses on strategic organizational change, and for most project managers, we might be delivering projects as part of a wider transformation, while still needing the customer service team to use the new process. Who’s behind the BEE Methodology?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In this article, we’ll look at how to plan and execute a handover to a colleague. I have a full article on that too, with templates, so be sure to check it out! The process is pretty much the same. This book has some tips to help support your team and manage your own workload.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Or book a power hour with me and get started on your mentoring journey straight away! Having read the policy/process document/standard operating procedure on Y, I have a few questions. Do you have any book recommendations on X topic? What might my blind spots be in this process? Book a power hour with me.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Richard Newton, in his book, The Project Management Book , sets out another 4 benefits of stakeholder management. Free Resources One of my favourite project management books “Proactive stakeholders effectively provide an extended team of additional resources (for free!) Read my full review of Richard Newton’s book.

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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. This is personal preference and not particularly a disadvantage to the book.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Boost your skills: Make sure everyone on the team knows how to manage risks and what the process is. Skill #3: Managing scope Understanding the change management process and being able to navigate your way through the changes as they hit the project – that’s a great skill to have. Book a power hour with me. Need a mentor?

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Project Bliss

APRIL 18, 2017

For full disclosure, this article contains affiliate links. However, I have purchased this book myself and can honestly highly recommend it. . Gordon has you covered with his book The Data Conversion Cycle: A guide to migrating transactions and other records, for system implementation teams. Clear Guidance. He graciously agreed.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In this article, you’ll learn how to approach mentoring a project manager and some practical tips to help you be a fantastic mentor to your new mentee (yes, that’s a word!) One of the top recommended books on my course is The Mentoring Manual by Julie Starr, and it’s got hardly any specific theory in at all. Need a mentor?

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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. Strengths-based project management is an approach to project management that focuses on the people rather than the process. Your book covers all of this. Tell us about that.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 15, 2016

It took me a while to get my hands on Simon Moore’s book, Strategic Project Portfolio Management *, but I’m rather glad I did. I read a lot, and I notice fonts, layout, box copy, but in this book, most of all the lovely tables. Praising a book because it is pretty is probably shallow, but it does matter for the reader experience.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 18, 2022

That’s the question I answer in my book, Managing Multiple Projects. The best processes in the world won’t help if you feel personally disorganized and struggling with productivity. If you want more information on how to make this happen for you, the step-by-step approach is covered in my book. Productivity. Get Your Copy.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

In his book, Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down , Vineet Nayar talks about 5 ways that transparency helps build trust among the stakeholder community. Again, there is more to this than I think he brings out in the book, especially since the world has moved on a bit since this book was written.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In this article, I’ll share 5 practical tips to find time to study while working a full-time as a project manager. You could also split the study plan between topics or jargon terms like organizational process assets , because these are tricky to understand! If it’s important to you, you need to make the time.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 7, 2023

Too often, training materials are text-based, process-focused, and dry. In the book “Made to Stick“, authors Chip and Dan Heath explain we remember things that are simple, unexpected, and emotional. There are word games (crosswords, word search), sorting games (process steps, hierarchies), and quiz show games.

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