Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 26, 2024

Others have been a breeze to close down because I've learned from the experience and set up a decent handover process! Of all the project management processes, closeout is probably my favorite because it's the final box to tick and it's so satisfying to know that you've finished. Done a process improvement?

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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 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. For example: A Digital Project Manager will oversee projects to do with online initiatives, digital marketing, software, apps and so on.

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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. It’s crashing.

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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

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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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We’ll go through some of the most popular project management methodologies, which are applied in many sectors such as software development, R&D and product development. The name is apt, as the waterfall methodology is a process in which the phases of the project flow downward. Top 10 Project Management Methodologies.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

There are so many great management, leadership, and productivity books out there but there is never enough time to read them all. They condense books and podcasts into a synopsis that you can read or listen to in 15 minutes. They offer lifetime memberships to various software platforms at a low cost.

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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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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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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

MARCH 29, 2024

Granted, if the budget you build in the proposal phase is carefully put together and everything goes according to plan, you will end up using that directly as your project budget, but for the purposes of this article, let’s just stick to the proposal phase. For more on how to create a project budget, this article has all the info you need.)

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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

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. The Directing manual does acknowledge that there are factors that can upset the agreement process. There isn’t.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 6, 2024

From plotting Gantt charts by hand to the modern day explosion of project management software solutions, everything is different – including the nature of work itself. The manufacturing line is a linear process, that follows a simple, repeating, input-to-output plan. Media bookings are needed in key markets.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 6, 2022

In this article, I’ll share a step-by-step way to prioritizing your projects so all stakeholders understand what projects can move ahead and which ones aren’t going to start now (or ever). Deal with this by having a specific process in place for project selection. Tip: Many project management software tools will help you with this.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 24, 2022

We discussed IT project management, the challenges for project managers working on Software as a Service projects and the cartoon laws of physics. Tell me about the book you are working on…. Dave Gordon: It’s about implementing Software as a Service. Elizabeth]. Data also assumes the shape of its container.

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Project Bliss

MAY 10, 2017

Everybody’s talking about agile software development these days: project managers, software developers, IT directors, small startups and big corporations. What is Agile Software Development? Agile software development is an approach that promotes delivering value quickly to the customer.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 17, 2022

In this article we’ll look at strategies for managing several different projects that are running in parallel. Let’s say that you have three projects on the go that have the overall aim of streamlining processes and getting rid of paper. “Book meetings with yourself to get work done.” Manage expectations.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

For example: Program: Digitize all our processes — this is a large scale goal that would involve many teams and many projects to achieve. It starts with having decent project scheduling software because then at least you can see what each individual project is doing and when. Book Recommendations for Program Management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2022

The next step in the planning process is to create a project schedule for the first wave, in conjunction with the team. As the project manager, it’s good practice to book out time to spend elaborating the next iteration of the plan as you get closer to the relevant time frame because people’s calendars get booked up.

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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). For example, the Sales Director would sponsor a project to install new customer management software, providing the sales team with more opportunities to cross-sell to the existing customer base. Got questions?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In this article we’ll look at how to segment costs, how to find out the cost of things, and then how to structure your budget. If you are planning a budget for a project proposal i.e. pitching to someone else for them to secure your services to deliver a piece of work, then read this article about preparing a budget for a proposal.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The questions are designed to test your knowledge of PRINCE2 terminology, processes, themes, and principles. The software includes: 865 root questions. The Foundation simulator is not a standalone software tool. Many other simulators are ‘separate’ software that you log into and use, but that isn’t the case here.

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PM Basics

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Scope management is a combination of processes and tools that help to identify tangible and intangible project outcomes. After that, these integrated processes help to describe, control, and validate the work to be done by the project team in order to create those outcomes. Then, you can dive deeper into each process and tool.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 30, 2022

We were juggling several installations at any one time but it didn’t feel overwhelming as there was one overarching goal: get this software in everywhere. You don’t want to have to keep looking stuff up or wondering what process or form to use for the next part of your work. Sometimes my stakeholders were totally different groups too.

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Proofhub

JANUARY 25, 2023

Team Building Process You’ve got the best resources on the team. However, team building can be challenging, especially when everyone has a different personality and prefers following their own process to make things happen at work. Team building is a process where you bring together a group of people working with each other.

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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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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Plus we’ve added handy links to help you dive deeper into different topics with videos, articles and even our round-up of all resources so you can put these important terms into practice with your projects. Read Peter Landau’s article How to Write a Business Case to learn more about its structure.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 28, 2024

TL; DR: Agile Laws in Software Development On many occasions, working with agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. Your single best investment to improve your professional standing; order the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now! ? edition ! ?

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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! The project process has flexibility baked in, which is great. Very handy for when there is a lot of software testing to do. Be complete.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 4, 2024

This article outlines actionable strategies for thriving in challenging times, emphasizing that growth and success are achievable by leveraging community strength and readily accessible resources. Your single best investment to improve your professional standing ; order the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now! ?

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 5, 2024

This article reviews and explains the 10 project management Knowledge Areas from the PMBOK® Guide -- Sixth Edition. Basically, each Knowledge Area (which you might see abbreviated to KA) is a category of concepts and processes with a common goal. If you want more detailed guidance, there are plenty of books on the subject.

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Proofhub

MARCH 7, 2022

Source: [link] When you choose business software for your company, you need to pick one that meets the most important needs of your company. Why Business Management Software? Business management software gives you a single system for managing the most important parts of your business. Employee scheduling software?—?streamlining

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