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

JULY 11, 2022

Here’s how to showcase your projects on your CV (as we call a resume here in the UK, and I’ll use both terms interchangeably in this article) to make it clear what you are capable of. I’ve included some examples below so you can see how to phrase your resume sections. Here’s how to do it.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software that helps you create timelines and budgets for your organization’s projects and processes. Your three value propositions would involve how you serve their needs. Get started with ProjectManager today for free. Let’s explain better what that means.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

When you start the planning process for a project, one of the first things you need to think about is: what can go wrong? Issues will inevitably come up, and you need a mitigation strategy in place to know how to manage risks on your project. But how do you work towards resolving the unknown? How to Manage Risk.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 22, 2024

Resolve by setting criteria on how resources are assigned – by the PM, product owner, team leader etc. and define how leaders can secure resources. The PMO can lead on this but everyone will need to follow the process for it to work. Get it right, and stakeholders will soon see how much easier project resourcing can be.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

How can you check what you’ve got and what needs to be done next? Let me guide you through how to assess the state of the project you’ve inherited. Here are the instructions on how to write a project overview statement. 6: Review the budget Is the budget approved? How do you spend it? First, don’t panic.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 8, 2022

Planning is an essential part of what project managers do, so you would expect there to be some mention of how to deal with fixed date projects in the PRINCE2® manuals. Project managers still need some guidance on how to manage projects that have a fixed date. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 29, 2022

Consider the following attributes of a modern transaction processing system, whether located on a server in the corporate data center or delivered as Software-as-a-Service in the Cloud. Work with them to identify relevant security controls, how to implement them as procedures, and how to validate that they work correctly.

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 21, 2022

Or perhaps your team said they had gathered the requirements, but in reality, the team had hastily rushed through the requirement process resulting in rework, missed deadlines, and another blown budget. If you want to improve your project success, improve your requirements processes. Poor requirements change process.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Your project management philosophy is essentially your guiding principles for how you approach your work. It could be aligned to a methodology or a tailored approach that sums up how you like to lead. How to come up with your personal project management philosophy. What is a project management philosophy? Agile projects?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 13, 2020

This is a guest article by author Edoardo Binda Zane. We start with 5 steps for how to put a proposal budget together and then Edoardo shares a worked (fictional) example to show you what the budget would look like once it is completed. A proposal budget is similar to a project budget, but with a very different goal.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

However, the project sponsor is the person responsible for decisions that affect the project budget and the schedule, where making a change would deviate from the agreed plan. So how do you balance your need to make small changes on a regular basis and the sponsor’s role of being the ultimate decision-maker about changes?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

One of the reasons for that is scope creep – and that’s what this article is all about. By the way, the answer to that question is: “Yes, let me analyze what the impact will be and bring you a recommendation for what that means for our current budget and timeline.”). What is scope creep? Basically, anything goes.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Here’s how to make that happen so you can move on to your next project knowing you’ve left this one behind all tidy. It is a record of the project management process. The closure document talks about what you did and how that compared to what you set out to do. It’s a process that you’ll complete over time.

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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. Cost: Estimate the costs involved across the project and formulate a budget. Phases of Project Management. Initiation. This is where all projects begin.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 20, 2023

In this article we’ll look at the types of artifacts in project management, typical documents for each type. Artifacts in the PMBOK Guide – Seventh Edition Artifacts are categorized in the PMBOK® Guide – Seventh edition into 9 different types and that’s what this article is going to look at. What is an artifact?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Note: This article assumes you are working in a predictive environment. Work on what you can manage, and put a process in place for adapting to future changes. Establish where you are now and how you will handle changes when something else changes – because it will! Create (or review) the change control process.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Yes, overall project management is your job, but why not make your life a little easier by helping your team members understand how they can be better at getting the project done? This will give them some facilitation experience and help the team think about how to elicit risk from a group. Read next: How to select risks responses.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 9, 2021

Read next: my book Engaging Stakeholders on Projects: How to harness people power. People don’t complete their tasks on time, to the required level of quality, to the approved budget, or perhaps at all. Read next: How to Deal with Challenging Situations Involving Stakeholders. How to do engagement. So why do we bother?

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Planio

APRIL 22, 2024

The recommendation Executive summary example #1: Project status update Executive summary example #2: Resource decision How to write a great executive summary for your next project 1. The recommendation For a problem-based executive summary, provide a recommendation from the project team on how to solve it and why you recommend this option.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Using project planning templates can help you schedule tasks, estimate budgets and allocate resources. They organize your tasks, help you write a project charter, come up with an accurate budget and so much more. That’s how you deliver on time and within budget. Project Budget Template All projects cost money.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 24, 2020

Let me guide you through how to assess the state of the project you’ve inherited. Get this free printable checklist about how to take over a project from someone else. 6: Review the budget. Is the budget approved? How do you spend it? How much has been spent already? First, don’t panic.

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Wrike

JANUARY 18, 2024

Edwards Deming once said: “ If you can’t describe what you’re doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.” In the same way, school teachers often have a litmus test to determine if you understood what you were taught. “If By and large, they should be purposely understood, planned, and executed using a systematic process.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2024

Everyone wants their projects to be “quality” but I often get asked about how to manage project quality in real life. 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.” What does it mean to “do” project quality?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 6, 2022

This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management. The projects that you read about in the media are often high profile, with budgets in the multimillions or even billions. Further education is generally what people think of first when they consider how to become a project manager.

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Planio

MARCH 25, 2024

Whether you’re a product manager, team leader, or marketer, you should be aware of how customer acquisition happens, what channels your company uses, and how to measure the success of their projects. 12 customer acquisition channels How to create a winning customer acquisition strategy in 2024 1. Why is it so hard to get right?

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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! It’s important to be realistic about what can be accomplished given the time, resources, and budget that are available. Be realistic.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Your thought process is likely to be different, and probably a lot more transparent. Make assumptions and draw conclusions about how the issue will affect the project. Consider the challenges it presents for the project schedule and budget, and don’t overlook anything that could be important. Involve others.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Need to know how to plan an event? For this article, let’s focus on large events. A conference is a common type of large event, so for our purposes, let’s talk about a TEDx conference that we were involved in to illustrate how to plan an event. If you held similar events, use and adjust an old budget for a baseline.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Backfilling can be tricky, but with our guide, you’ll know everything you need to in order to successfully fill the gaps in your team and budget for project resources. Read next: How to take a sideways step in the job market. Why you should budget for backfill resources in your project budgets.

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PM Basics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Therefore, I spent lots of time and effort creating a practical risk management process. Risk management process is a structured approach to identifying, assessing, addressing, and controlling risks. It’s a combination of processes and tools a project manager applies to discover threats and opportunities that may impact a project.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

TL; DR: How to Sabotage A Product Owner — 53 Anti-Patterns from the Trenches to Avoid. One of my favorite exercises from my Professional Scrum Product Owner classes is how to best sabotage a Product Owner as a member of the middle management. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 23, 2022

In this article you will learn: Why enabling Scrum Teams with UX Design capabilities is important. How to use a UX Design maturity level to coach teams to deliver better outcomes. . ?? Many organizations keep a project mindset , they focus on the internal development process and budget, instead on the customer experience.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 17, 2023

Read on and learn more about how a project management tool that is reasonably usable when you use it out of the box without any modifications turns into a bureaucratic nightmare, what the reasons for this might be, and what we can do about it. ?? Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Project-Management.pm

OCTOBER 4, 2017

A stable and sturdy project management is one of the crucial factors to make a project process work. This article will cover the following corporate drivers and project evaluation that can be taken into account for project selection. Some project selection processes don’t apply to some organizations and also not the same as the others.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Yes, overall project management is your job, but why not make your life a little easier by helping your team members understand how they can be better at getting the project done? This will give them some facilitation experience and help the team think about how to elicit risk from a group. Read next: How to select risks responses.

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LiquidPlanner

DECEMBER 7, 2022

As such, most of us are facing resource constriction and forced now to think about how to do more, with less. This article offers several solutions to this challenge, providing prioritization, process and people tips and how technology can be leveraged. The solution is to deploy processes that align and focus daily work.

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