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Organizational Process Assets: What does that even mean?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One key tool to success is understanding how to use organizational process assets effectively. But what is an organizational process asset (OPA)? OPAs and the PMP exam Let’s face it: I first came across the term OPA while reviewing PMP exam training material. What are Organizational Process Assets? What is not an OPA?

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IBM Project Manager Certificate: My Student Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Summary review The IBM Project Manager Professional Certificate is a good CAPM® alternative or course to use towards your CAPM prep. If you are planning on a career in tech, do the IBM IT Project Manager Certificate instead. You’re in the right place. This course is new (it launched in June 2023).

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Xebrio Software Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s a project management ecosystem that is perfect for technology-led teams, with workflows and an easy interface with a low learning curve. Summary review of Xebrio: If you find managing requirements a headache because you can’t trace them through a project to release, then check out what Xebrio software can do. Website: Xebrio.com.

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Document version control made easy (with examples)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

A reader got in touch recently and asked for more info on document version control and how to do it. It’s not that hard to do for Word documents, or you can rely on software like SharePoint to make it a whole lot easier. Version control is used for lots of project management documents as well as other assets.

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5 Golden Rules for Writing Good Project Documentation

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Whether it’s a statement of work, a business case, or project requirements, there are lots of documents produced by projects. Documents are mainly used for communicating: upwards to senior managers, sideways to project stakeholders, and down to project team members who are responsible for delivering the work. Use version control.

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Everything You Need to Know About Release Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It wasn’t until I worked in IT as a project manager that I had a lot of contact with the release management process. My software projects needed releasing, so we had to follow the formal process and engage with the release manager to make sure that the bug fixes and new features got pushed to the production environment in a controlled way.

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5 Steps to Create Technical Documentation That’s (Actually) Helpful

Planio

For as long as we’ve had tools we need help using (and language to talk to each other), we’ve had technical documentation. The first example of technical writing in English dates back to the Middle Ages when Chaucer wrote a guide to the astrolabe—a device used for measuring the distance of stars). Don’t believe me?