Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 5, 2023

Are you looking for tips on how to pass the Google Project Management Certificate ? I completed the 6 courses in a week (what a week that was!). My experience with the Google Project Management Professional Certificate I completed the course requirements in a week. Recommended Google Project Management Certificate 5.0

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2023

His ‘Managing and Saving Programs in a Changing World’ webinar covers 5 steps for project recovery. There are several things that can go wrong in program management: Business case deterioration: the program started off with a good business case but it no longer stacks up. Ward started off by explaining what a ‘troubled program’ is.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 20, 2024

Many people work on them, from general contractors overseeing subcontractors to architects and, of course, the project owner. To help you once you break ground on your construction project, we’ll throw in some free construction project management templates on estimating, scheduling and budgeting.

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Epicflow Blog

JUNE 10, 2022

Accordingly, they are more vulnerable to the consequences of risk-bearing events. When unmanaged, these risks can impact people’s safety and, to make matters worse, come down to considerable financial losses. . What are the most typical risks associated with aerospace engineering projects, and how to manage them effectively?

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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

MARCH 18, 2021

In this article we’ll look at the types of artifacts in project management, typical documents for each type. In project management, artifacts relate to documents: the project documentation you produce that defines and supports the work you are doing. For example: a project management artifact is the project closure document.

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MPUG

JANUARY 8, 2024

The Project Management Institute defines a project as “a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result.” The solution, of course, is estimating. There is a whole science to estimation, and it would be possible to go very deeply into this. We need simple techniques that get us close enough.

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Parametric estimation is a crucial estimation technique in project management. That’s because parametric estimations are highly accurate and take some guesswork from your estimation process. What is parametric estimating? The more granular the parameter, the more accurate the estimate.

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Kiron Bondale

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Project managers need to be comfortable with different estimation techniques. Foundational project management courses will teach you about analogous, bottom-up, parametric and three-point estimating. Estimate the size or effort of that story or work package. But have you heard of RBS?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 11, 2021

Where is artificial intelligence taking project management? AI has turned up in the project management trends articles over the past few years and it’s now most definitely here to stay. The impacts of artificial intelligence in project management. The applications of artificial intelligence in project management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 12, 2022

In this article, we’ll dive into the statistics and you’ll learn: The top challenges facing people managing several projects at once The key skills required for managing multiple projects The top tools for prioritizing work day-to-day. This wasn’t a survey about project portfolio management at the PMO level.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

A project budget contains the financial details of your project, including the estimates of all the money you need to layout to lead a successful project, from resources to materials. That means your estimates have to be accurate, or as much so as you can make them. Monitor project expenses with this Excel budget template.

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MPUG

JULY 8, 2019

That is why duration estimation is one of the most important aspects of project management. Your client or manager might direct you to finish a given task by a certain date. The Estimation Problem. You might hear from the client that the estimates look high. Can there be “exact estimates”? Exact Estimates.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 25, 2020

Are you biased as a project manager? In this article we’ll talk about the different types of bias in project management. A project manager is the linchpin of a successful project. Let’s look at what heuristics and biases exist in management and what we can do to reduce their impact on our projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 29, 2021

Risks matter. That’s the point of risk management: thinking about what might go wrong before it does, so you can put a plan together to deal with it if it does. However, at the beginning of your project when your risk log is empty, it can be a bit of a challenge to think of all the stuff that might need to go on there.

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Inloox

MAY 30, 2022

Incompetence in project management. Lack of risk management. The costs, initially estimated at 190 million euros, have now risen to 332 million euros and are expected to keep increasing. The bidding companies know that of course and calculate their offers as tightly as possible for a better chance of winning the contract.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

A project manager approached me recently with a problem. It’s probably fairer and less controversial to say that it was ‘estimated’ rather than created totally randomly from scratch. But she was worried that other people were interpreting the estimate as definite fact. What is Ethics in Project Management?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 26, 2022

I attended ‘Managing and Saving Programs in a Changing World’, an audio/Webex conference with Ward recently. Last week I wrote about the first half of the presentation, managing change program. He warns that if you make large changes you push the project off course and it can take a while before you see what you have done. .

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This is a guest article by Brantlee Underhill, Managing Director, PMI, North America. We needed a schedule we could both follow to help manage these new expectations of living, working, and schooling in the same location: balancing the needs of work and family. Read next: How 6 project managers manage their work/life balance.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 17, 2022

In this article, I’ll give you some tips about how to be aware of the impact of culture on communication at work and how to create an environment that is inclusive. The more nationalities on your project team, the greater the risk of challenges. Read next: Overcoming bias in project management. The basics. Key takeaways.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 18, 2023

In this article, we’ll dive deep into both approaches by looking at how they compare against each other as well as their associated costs. Crashing is a project management technique used to reduce the total duration of a project by adding additional resources or making other changes. First up: crashing. That shaves off time.

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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. You probably already know that you need a quality management plan , and that management, assurance and control are the pillars of doing it right. What does it mean to “do” project quality?

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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. Scope creep in project management is where additional requirements are added to the project, beyond what was originally agreed and these additions are not formally authorized. (By Scope creep is caused by lack of requirements management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Teamhood is a Kanban project management system for teams. It’s a visual, flexible tool that is perfect for small and medium businesses who want to improve how they manage projects. Managing items. Everything is real time which means you can manage work with seamless collaboration including assigning users and tasks.

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Epicflow Blog

JULY 5, 2022

Estimation of project cost is one of the core practices of the project initiation stage, which becomes the basis for the approved project budget. Therefore, a proper cost estimation is about finding a fine line in this complex process. What helps make cost estimation simple and efficient? How to estimate project cost .

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In this article, we’ll dive into the statistics and you’ll learn: The top challenges facing people managing several projects at once The key skills required for managing multiple projects The top tools for prioritizing work day-to-day. This wasn’t a survey about project portfolio management at the PMO level.

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

Nielsen, PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, CSM I have visited many companies over my 20 plus years of project and program management training and consulting. Time and time again, I see organizations are not dealing with risk appropriately. In this article, let’s look at a few ways we can change from risk managing us to us managing the risk.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 5, 2021

At the heart of these reporting systems, stuck in the industrial age when the management believed it needed to protect the organization from slacking workers, there is typically a performance metric: velocity. But, when combined with some managers’ wrong interpretation of commitment, it becomes a tool of oppression.

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Scrum.org

MAY 8, 2023

Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Rant: Scrum Masters are no Project Managers ! ? ? ?? Product Backlog refinement : The Product Owner and Developers collaborate to refine, estimate, and order the Product Backlog items based on value, risk, and dependencies.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 30, 2021

estimating the work in size and value. Refinement is simply the ongoing activity of having these conversations and thus an essential product management activity. This gives the Product Backlog a level of transparency that reduces the risk. Estimating Product Backlog items. Estimating Product Backlog items.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Monitor project progress with our free project management dashboard template. A dashboard is an essential project management software tool that provides you with an at-a-glance overview of your project. Download the Free Project Management Dashboard Template: Why You Need a Project Dashboard Template. Task Lengths.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 31, 2023

Welcome to project management 101. Project management can seem like a daunting discipline, but once you get a grasp of the fundamentals and combine that with some intuition, you’ll be on your way to leading successful projects, no matter your situation. What Is Project Management? Get started for free today.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 12, 2023

By Cynthia Snyder Dionisio July 12, 2023 Even though the PMBOK ® Guide – Seventh Edition was released two years ago, there are still many project managers who are wondering how it is structured, and how they can use it. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge is what we call the PMBOK ® Guide.

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The IIL Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

technological, environmental, societal), project managers need to develop new skills. Among them are four skills essential for every project manager to have. In this article, we describe, and comment based on our experience in the project management context. This skill compliments resilience perfectly.

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The IIL Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

By Alan Zucker November 8, 2023 Artificial Intelligence (AI) will transform project management. Gartner estimated that AI may replace 80% of project management activities by 2030. A recent article in Harvard Business Review described “How AI Will Transform Project Management”. I say, “Bring it on!”

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MPUG

APRIL 29, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Oliver Gildersleeve’s Analogous and Parametric Estimating Schedule Template webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. The new schedule template covers both analogous and parametric estimating features. Estimating, let me get back to slides.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 29, 2017

What is an estimate? An estimate as a noun is an approximate calculation or judgment of the value, number, quantity, or extent of something. An estimate as a verb is to roughly calculate or judge the value, number, quantity, or extent of. But those estimates, nouns, and verbs themselves's have other attributes.

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