Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 15, 2024

Think about: Internal project customers External project customers Senior executives Team leaders Subject matter experts Project support team members Project management office team members Project managers These are all individuals or groups who will have something to say about how well they are equipped to deliver the upcoming work.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 14, 2024

Module 2: Process and planning In this lesson you’ll learn about 6 different change management approaches including Lewin, Kotter and BEE. I’ll break down the essentials for a practical process you can use at work. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management Can I claim PDUs? I don't know!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 7, 2022

Worsley also excludes steering group members from ‘engagement’ saying that the governance process is enough for them. I will often not specifically ‘engage’ senior steering group members because they have already heard the information from me through our governance processes. Categorizing stakeholders.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 12, 2024

You can focus on the process of getting the outcome you want and supporting the attendees instead of trying to get your own personal point of view into the discussion. Here’s the meeting process I use. Think about the different tools you are able to use (and there are far too many to go into in this article).

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nTask

MARCH 2, 2021

Understanding the fundamentals of the Marketing planning process makes it easier for professionals to come up with a robust marketing plan. The success of marketing depends on the development of an efficient marketing plan, created via a strategic marketing planning process. The Steps Involved In Marketing Planning Process.

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Resource Guru

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The problem is that when there’s no agency processes in place, and your team isn’t organized properly, the latter tends to take up a lot of time, and may make up more of your day than is spent on your client-facing projects. Enter the realm of agency processes — an essential way that you can win back your time.

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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. He learned a lot about project management in the process and eventually went on to become a PMO Manager.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 12, 2022

Project governance is an important part of project management processes – even if it’s not the most exciting part of getting work done. Gate reviews, or stage reviews are part of the PRINCE2® process, and also part of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority’s Project Roadmap in the Governance module. The stage gate process explained.

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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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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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nTask

APRIL 28, 2021

To generate a clear business case, organizations need to write business operations with sustainability in mind, which can be done by the following two steps: Document their business processes. Implement effective process improvement techniques for sustainability. At the core of every business are business processes.

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Epicflow Blog

MARCH 2, 2020

If the sales rate decreases, think over all the parties participating in this process. To understand the figures, there’s nothing better than talking to the heroes involved in the process of data production. Written by Art Petty, this article proposes 8 tips for managers to become better decision-makers.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2023

You should expect them to report back to the steering group to share any proposed changes to the standard methods for your organization! Project reports can be reviewed as a group, and the project manager (that’s you and me) get challenged about performance. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

If you aren’t confident leading a group, you might find it harder to put the skills into practice. The idea of ‘making ideas visible’ is great because it ensures the team understands the problem before they move into the design process or coming up with alternative solutions. The resources are beautifully designed. PMI and PwC.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 19, 2023

In this article we’ll look at two things: The different roles you’ll find in an Agile team The team structures you can set up to help make your agile team a success. Therefore they become a close-knit and trusted group of colleagues, finding a working rhythm for deliveries. What is an Agile team?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 3, 2021

This takes a little time but saves eons of time in the actual meeting, because you’ll be able to use the information you have gathered to head off conflict and bring the group to a decision far more quickly. Trust your processes. So set up processes that are repeatable and that work. Use templates. Turn off popups. Say no a lot.

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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. The most common method of engaging them in this process is to hold interviews.

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The Strategic Project Manager

JANUARY 20, 2023

This post explores a change process that can help, regardless of your role. It looks at the various organization situations, how the change process steps can help manage risk, and the strategic and project management impacts for having such a process. Why a Change Process Work Flow? Change is complex and can be messy.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Clayton defines it as 3 things: Processes to make the project more predictable Tools to deal with the real world as it happens Behaviors and attitudes that allow us to cope when change does happen. There is also some background information on how individuals and groups respond to risk. So what exactly is project risk management?

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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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ProProfs Project Management

MARCH 18, 2020

Project Management is the art of coordinating resources and directing working groups to execute components of work so that each group delivers components that can be tied together into a wholesome deliverable (contracted scope of work) within schedule and budget. The processes in this phase are: . Initiating.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

As Project Managers, we’re all familiar with process. In fact, sometimes it can feel as if a project manager’s world is but a never-ending universe of interlocking processes and procedures. But what happens when the need to follow organisational process inevitably conflicts with making project progress? It needs processes.

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Proofhub

MARCH 23, 2023

How to Simplify Your Work Process The world is moving toward automation at a fast pace. Learning how to delegate can help you simplify your work process and get more done in less time. Delegation is the process of assigning responsibility for a task or project to another person. Delegation can be a powerful tool for managers.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

In this article you’ll learn how to manage tasks efficiently and how to improve your own task management skills and those of your team. Task management is the process of identifying, recording, doing and closing a task. You can group lists, or color code them, but ultimately they are words on a page, in a list.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 27, 2023

Understanding the ITTOs with BrainBOK How many PMBOK® Guide processes have Enterprise Environmental Factors as an input? However, if you like the confidence of knowing you have reviewed all the materials and understand the processes, the ITTO Explorer that comes with BrainBOK makes all of that transparent.

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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 5, 2021

I frequently see questions asked in project management discussion groups about hybrid projects. As I wrote in last week’s article, projects themselves can’t be waterfall, agile, traditional or hybrid but how we approach them can be. But what does “hybrid” really mean?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 9, 2023

The highly anticipated shortlist for The Business Book Awards in partnership with Pathway Group 2023 has been announced for top business books published in 2022. Project management processes don’t scale up to allow us to streamline and work smarter,” Elizabeth adds.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Execs love a pretty timeline, and in this article, I’m going to show you what you should be including in yours to wow your stakeholders (and build some credibility at the same time). Also, the critical path might not be super clear anyway as grouped activities are not at a granular level. What do you need to create a project timeline?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 10, 2023

By Lavaneesh Gautam , Professional Scrum Trainer In the previous article (Stakeholder Exploration: Part 1 of 4 Steps of the Stakeholder Engagement) , we discussed: “Stakeholder”- who are they? Stakeholder Analysis The definition we discussed in the previous article. Stakeholder Engagement” What does it mean?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 30, 2022

I was no longer leading groups of related projects. Sometimes my stakeholders were totally different groups too. 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. It was then that I had to start juggling multiple projects in a totally different way.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 7, 2023

While they may appear similar at first glance, there are key differences in how each process should be approached – understanding these differences will help you make more informed decisions! Let’s explore both processes as well as their similarities and differences. What is problem solving? That does make it sound easy.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 7, 2022

You’ve read all the articles, you’ve got ideas about how things could be better. Sharing round a link to one more ’10 ways to be more productive’ article just isn’t making change happen. The rest of this article talks about how to get people to work in the new productive way. Lead by example.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In this article, I’ll look at 5 activities you can try in your daily team standup meeting. In our team, we valued the idea that everyone feels involved and informed, and their contribution is valuable, and the opportunity to re-group as a team once a day. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 12, 2024

An unusual article featured in the latest edition of the Harvard Business Review titled "Case Study: Should I Pitch a New Project-Management System?" The piece created a false dilemma between "Scrum" and a hypothetical "Flow" process, essentially referring to Kanban.

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Planview

JULY 29, 2021

Risk management is one of the core project knowledge areas, an essential and ongoing process which can be described as the methodical process of identification, analysis and response to project risks involving several major phases which are similar to all projects. The Risk Analysis Process in Project Management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 7, 2022

It was a few years ago now, but the experience gave me the vocab, structure, and processes to confidently deliver projects. If you want to learn more about my thought process for validating online training, I have written before about how to choose a PRINCE2 course online , and that explains what I think is important for virtual training.

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