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

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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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 21, 2022

Thanks to the most recent issue of Tom Geraghty’s weekly Psychological Safety newsletter , I learned about a new model for how we consider safety and risk. A Safety-I perspective is a glass is half-full one – things go wrong and we can find assignable causes in people, process and tools.

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LiquidPlanner

MAY 24, 2022

This notion of contingency analysis shows that when planning or budgeting, we must account for foreseeable risk and factor in the optimal route required with the minimum number of possible detours. Risk is not solved with a calculation. Project leaders need to ask: are some foreseen risks not occurring?

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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 11, 2024

However, the risk of getting the change aspects wrong can be huge. There are also plenty of good quality change management books if a training course is not for you. She is the author of Build, Excite, Equip which is the book that this class is based on. Who’s behind the BEE Methodology?

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MPUG

APRIL 26, 2021

Risks were identified, then qualified, and risk responses planned. For implementation of these risk responses, a number of actions were needed. Some were taken, but most ignored or overlooked because of other projects and lack of understanding of risk management at an organizational level.

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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

AUGUST 8, 2022

Fixed date projects only get a passing mention in the Managing Successful Projects book , and you’d have to look really hard to find a mention of managing time constraints in the Directing Successful Projects book. PRINCE2® advises that the fixed date time constraint is managed as a planning risk. There isn’t.

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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. As experienced project managers know, when things change on a project, all your carefully planned deadlines switch around too.

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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. . There are so many considerations there that introduce complexity and risk. In this book, Dave explains how to handle complex data migrations (or even simple ones). Clear Guidance.

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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

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. You should look at what happened on past projects because that helps mitigate risk on your current project. It’s a predictive methodology, although PRINCE2 Agile ® allows for agile frameworks.

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 8, 2023

I read a number of project leadership books each year but usually I find only one or two which really make an impact. Professor Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner ‘s book “ How Big Things Get Done ” is one of the latter. In the book, the authors provide many case studies supporting eleven heuristics derived from Prof.

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Project Risk Coach

DECEMBER 14, 2020

LAST UPDATED ON DECEMBER 14, 2020, BY HARRY HALL THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS AFFILIATE LINKS. In this article: 1 What is the PMI-RMP? 7 PMI-RMP® Courses 8 What books do you recommend? The PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)® is one of the eight PMI certifications. IT DOES NOT COST YOU EXTRA. THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 18, 2021

In this article we’ll look at the types of artifacts in project management, typical documents for each type. Artifacts are categorized in the PMBOK® Guide – 7 th edition into 9 different types and that’s what this article is going to look at. The article will be updated in due course. What is an artifact? Logs and registers.

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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. It helps reduce risk.

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Kiron Bondale

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Project management standards such as the PMBOK® Guide, Sixth Edition state that contingency reserves, which are established to offset the cost or schedule impacts of realized identified risks, are considered part of the project budget and cost baseline.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 22, 2022

The book includes a list of 50 secrets in Appendix D which is a summary of The Standish Group’s Chaos Manifesto 2012: The Year of the Executive Sponsor. Read my guide on the process for decision-making. Understand risk and reward. Risks are things that could happen. Sometimes taking a risk means a bigger reward.

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Project Risk Coach

JUNE 9, 2023

THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS AFFILIATE LINKS. In this article, we will explore ten practical and effective ways to save time and get more done. Utilize productivity tools like calendars, to-do lists, or digital apps to streamline your planning process. Seek out resources like books, podcasts, or online courses to expand your knowledge.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 24, 2023

From examples of project activities in a business versus operational activities to strategies for balancing projects and operations simultaneously — this article will help you understand the differences and consider the similarities. Ops managers want (and seek) stability so they can manage process performance.

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The IIL Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

To start with, this article will provide you with some key definitions in the world of AI. While there are more ways to work with AI than can possibly be described in a simple article, we want to provide you with some ideas on how Chatbots, like ChatGPT and Bard, can help you with project origination and planning.

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 30, 2021

In a recent HBR article , the authors wrote about research they had conducted over a year on the relationships between how dispersed teams were and the speed at which their projects either succeeded or failed. It’s available on Amazon.com and on Amazon.ca as well as a number of other online book stores).

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 29, 2023

TL; DR: Scrum Team Failure This post on Scrum team failure addresses three categories from the Scrum anti-patterns taxonomy that are closely aligned: Planning and process breakdown, conflict avoidance and miscommunication, and inattention to quality and commitment, often resulting in a Scrum team performing significantly below its potential.

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PM Basics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Qualitative risk analysis boosts the chances for project success dramatically. I honestly believe that this risk analysis in more than enough for small and medium projects. Qualitative Risk Analysis is the process of prioritizing risks for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact.

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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

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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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. This article explores what stakeholder management is. PMI’s PMBOK Guide Processes Real World Activities 13.1 Are there any mandatory processes?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

You won’t know if the risk log is sound and the resource planning sensible until you investigate. In particular, look for: Risks log Actions log Dependency log Issues log Changes log and any information about changes approved The last status report. By ‘health’ I mean what kind of a state the project is in.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The project tolerance definition I use in my book, Project Manager , is this: Tolerances are how much you can flex within your project without having to go back for approval. For example, let’s say the financial value of all the project risks should not exceed 5% of the project budget. What is a project tolerance?

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 3, 2024

To start with, this article will provide you with some key definitions in the world of AI. While there are more ways to work with AI than can possibly be described in a simple article, we want to provide you with some ideas on how Chatbots, like ChatGPT and Bard, can help you with project origination and planning.

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 15, 2021

In the first two articles in this series, I covered the context and planning work which has gone into our move. This article is being written three days after we moved into the new home. While the move itself tended to involve a number of negative risks, the post-move stages have also introduced some positive ones.

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Management Yogi

AUGUST 29, 2023

Portfolio Risk Management differs significantly from project and/or program risk management. While there are similarities among the processes, procedures, actions in risk management, risk management in portfolio differs in many areas.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2023

Technical failure: this creates a program integration risk as what you are building might not sit in the organization’s architecture any longer. This conflicts with the advice Scott Berkun gives in his book, Making Things Happen. The five-step project recovery plan Here’s the five-step ESI process for getting out of trouble.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

Six videos covering tools and techniques, the process and more. Read Anthony Mersino’s excellent book: Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers. RPA is Robotic Process Automation. Recommended Training. Change Management Workshop. $79. Learn how to do change management on projects and prepare for successful delivery.

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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. Projects are inherently uncertain, and uncertainty creates risk. It was about 17 years ago.

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Epicflow Blog

MARCH 2, 2020

If the sales rate decreases, think over all the parties participating in this process. To understand the figures, there’s nothing better than talking to the heroes involved in the process of data production. Written by Art Petty, this article proposes 8 tips for managers to become better decision-makers.

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