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 is the more common term but you might hear both, especially if you are working in software development. Changes could be approved, rejected or put on hold to review later. Examples of scope creep. What is scope creep?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2024

Also, if you have internal auditors or a Quality Assurance function, or someone in the PMO who can do an informal (or formal) project review, book that in as well. Quality assurance reviews, peer reviews, health checks and quality audits might sound scary for project managers – they’re not.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Microsoft Project Gantt chart is typically seen as the centerpiece of that project management software. ProjectManager is award-winning project management software that has Gantt charts that link all four types of task dependencies to avoid costly delays. Microsoft Project is not known for its collaboration or ease of use.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 8, 2022

And then I log into my PM software and suddenly that simplicity that exists elsewhere disappears… Here are my wishes for the PM software industry for 2022. For example, imagine reviewing estimates from the project team. Would you like to add 20% to this estimate? Give us more data. Yes, I would.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 22, 2024

Resource management is difficult because work is unpredictable and people aren’t very good at estimating! Organizational culture, management expectations and lack of the right software to provide visibility into the problem all contribute to the headache. I’m sure you can think of some poor resource management examples.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 26, 2023

Let’s take an example. Claire reviews the resource allocation reports in her project management software. But when resources are planned properly, you should have fewer delays due to lack of materials or personnel. Both are made easier by having software tools that can do the heavy lifting or modeling for you.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 27, 2016

I last reviewed ProjectManager.com in 2013. Time to revisit the software and see what has changed. The company have also made huge improvements with software integration and as well as being compatible with the Microsoft suite and Google Apps they have also introduced integrations via Zapier. General information.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 13, 2022

It can be helpful to compare estimates back to actuals to review how accurate the estimates were and inform future task planning. Tools are a useful support here too — rely on your project management software to help keep people on the same page. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management.

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PM Basics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Here’s the most important thing you need to take from this article. For example, when you collect requirements and write specifications , you and your team should always be on the lookout for risks: Track all the assumptions you make. When you’ve reviewed risk categories for the first time. Risk Identification Examples.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 3, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn about 20 things to include in a project plan. I use Vizzlo ( read my review of Vizzlo here ). Example project schedule. Example of a RACI Chart. Document how often you will review risks, what can be dealt with by the team and what should be escalated. That’s a comprehensive list!

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Top-down estimating is a form of estimation where existing knowledge of similar projects is used in the estimation process to produce a ballpark figure for the total cost. Like other methods to estimate a new project’s cost , top-down estimation has advantages and disadvantages. What is top-down estimating?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This article, AlchemyWorks: Software Review [2018] , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. This article was sponsored by AlchemyWorks but all opinions are my own. You have full flexibility to define status codes which drive other behaviours, if you wish. General information. Name: AlchemyWorks.

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Wrike

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Accurate construction cost estimates are crucial for successful project planning and execution. Understanding the Basics of Construction Budgeting Accurate cost estimation is the cornerstone of construction budgeting. Moreover, accurate cost estimates play a crucial role in financial planning and control.

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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. There are also risks associated with rushing through tasks, such as increased chances for errors or mistakes due to inadequate planning and execution.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 1, 2021

Shall I notify you about articles like this one? The following interview questions are neither suited nor intended to turn an inexperienced interviewer into an agile software development expert. Your Scrum Team, at least that is your impression, regularly estimates work items at the upper end of the possible range.

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TrustRadius Project Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

If you want to ensure that your team can manage their complex projects and operations, ERP software may be the solution. What is ERP Software? Enterprise resource planning ( ERP ) software is like a virtual task master for any complex business needs. The most popular ERP software vendors include Thryv , SAP , and Oracle.

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TrustRadius Project Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

If you want to ensure that your team can manage their complex projects and operations, ERP software may be the solution. What is ERP Software? Enterprise resource planning ( ERP ) software is like a virtual task master for any complex business needs. The most popular ERP software vendors include Thryv , SAP , and Oracle.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 18, 2023

Here are some examples of lessons learned on my projects: We should engage Finance earlier so leasing arrangements can be made in a timely fashion. Post-project reviews Your project does have a scheduled post-project review, doesn’t it? The post-project review is a formal opportunity to review what went well and what didn’t.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 7, 2023

I’ve reviewed the Google Project Management course overall, and generally the content is a good representation of your average, straightforward project. The second Week 1 peer-reviewed activity is to create an email coalition for the Sauce & Spoon team, writing “influential emails” so you can sway decision-making.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 31, 2023

ProjectManager is powerful project management software that can be used by both experienced and beginner project managers and team members to manage projects. Each task and phase of the project has a due date, which means your project has a schedule. Get started for free today. Projects are made up of deadlines.

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Binfire

OCTOBER 18, 2018

With the advent of online task management software , managing work just got easier. This article is not about how to use an online task management software. You can learn to use any software by trying it. The project management software helps you to manage your life and work better and faster. How many rooms?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

It is a team-based estimating approach to work out the efforts involved for achieving business goals. The organization consists of several software dev teams that develop different parts of our product. You can’t export the list of stories for the estimation. Planning poker® is a great technique for scrum teams. What we needed.

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Teamweek

AUGUST 1, 2022

Project cost estimation can be challenging, especially when the project is complicated and has many moving parts. In this guide, you’ll learn: What a project cost estimate is Why most project cost estimates are terrible How to create an accurate project estimate What to do after creating your project cost estimate.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 3, 2023

They lead by example and they serve the Scrum team, the organization and the Product Owner. This article explores the challenges faced by Scrum Masters in their balancing act and how they navigate through it to ensure effective team performance and continuous improvement. It’s a lot to manage and a lot to balance.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 26, 2023

Learn more about useless agile metrics, from individual velocity to estimation accuracy to utilization rates. ? Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Comparing velocities may lead to unhealthy competition and encourage teams to inflate estimates, also known as cooking the agile books.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

And then I log into my PM software and suddenly that simplicity that exists elsewhere disappears… Here are my wishes for the PM software industry for 2020. For example, imagine reviewing estimates from the project team. Would you like to add 20% to this estimate? Give us more data. Yes, I would.

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PM Basics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Below, I want to give an example of what you need to do to get from stakeholder requirements to actual tasks that your team will have to perform. Scope Decomposition Example. Just google “popup on website” and review the first three search results. Additional Scope Identification Example. com website.

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Inloox

MAY 30, 2022

The costs, initially estimated at 190 million euros, have now risen to 332 million euros and are expected to keep increasing. Large-scale construction projects in particular are subject to numerous uncertainties due to their complexity and the time involved. However, inflation can be taken into account to a certain extent.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 4, 2019

In this article, I’ll show you what project resource management is, set out a simple process to do it, describe the tools to help and give you tips to overcome some of the common issues. Step 2: Estimate Resource Requirements. In this step, you estimate what their commitment needs to be. Resource Management Definition.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2022

As the team undergoes the work, the project manager can constantly review the schedule and add more detail to the next waves as this is known. The exact project tasks required might depend on the outcome of the design phase, or may change once you’ve carried out customer focus groups, for example. Then review the next wave.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 24, 2022

For example, take a look at this Key Strategic Objective for Apple: To ask less of the planet, we ask more of ourselves. Here are some cost-per-meeting examples: #1 : A company with 25,000 employees in which each employee attends 100 meetings per year (2 meetings per week) at an estimated cost of $500 per meeting.

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Binfire

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

Good task management software is a great tool to plan a project from the high-level concept ideas to the small tasks needed to complete the project. In fact, the most basic and yet the most important element of a project management software is its task management features. Task management software should enforce the dependency rules.

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Teamweek

JULY 29, 2022

“ I’ve done this a million times–let’s skip estimating just this once.”. You rush through the beginning estimates only to miss deadlines, blow budgets, and draw raised eyebrows from clients. In this guide we’ll cover: What are project estimation techniques? What are project estimation techniques? Cost estimations.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

For example, if you’ve got loads of experience with Kanban, it’s not worth spending time on Kanban in Action (Marcuse Hammarberg and Joakin Sunden). Instead, you would probably get more use out of investing your reading time in User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (Mike Cohn). Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn.

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MPUG

MARCH 8, 2021

In this article, we will explore some of the practical problems faced by Lean-Agile practitioners during development of a new product or service and/or the building of a solution. Earlier, in one of my articles, I had mentioned that Agile is both iterative and incremental in nature. An example of this type can be the Scrum framework.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

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. In this article, I will show you exactly how to do that. Step 3: Estimate Labour Costs.

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