Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 22, 2024

Securing the right resource (and enough of it) is a huge headache for PMO leaders and project professionals. Resolve by setting criteria on how resources are assigned – by the PM, product owner, team leader etc. and define how leaders can secure resources. Resource allocation should be done consistently.

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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? Define your goals.

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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. The Project budgeting process: How to structure your project budget Top down budgeting is where the sponsor gives you the total amount available and you work out how you are going to split that.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

If you aren’t using PRINCE2®, or if you want some general guidance as well about project closure documents and so on, read this next: How to close a project. This article has been updated to be fully aligned to PRINCE2 7 (2023 edition). Your next steps Read more on how to close a project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Learn how to help your team manage risk so you can split the work between you. Boost your skills: Make sure everyone on the team knows how to manage risks and what the process is. Boost your skills: Start by understanding how to manage a change as laid out by your Project Management Office. Need a mentor?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 28, 2023

Check with your PMO. Your PMO should define exactly what ‘Red’ means and then you can check your project performance against those measures. Read next: How to create a project budget What should you do if your project is Red? That’s why it is important for the PMO to set up RAG status definitions.

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The Lazy Project Manager

APRIL 6, 2021

Project resource management by PMO has changed significantly in the last 20 years. This article would help you understand how a value-driven resource management can become a major game-changer for the PMO and become a profit centre for the business. How Value-Driven Resource Management can be a Game Changer for the PMO?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 17, 2022

I struggle with how to manage my project-related tasks, beyond dealing with the crisis of the day.”. The question of how to manage multiple projects at the same time comes up a lot. In this article we’ll look at strategies for managing several different projects that are running in parallel. Quick Answers. Get Your Copy.

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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

JANUARY 31, 2023

And this article is a summary of what they replied. He is the author of Reinventing Communication by Routledge, a book on how to design, lead and manage high performing projects. and how to apply it can be extremely beneficial: that’s what I would advise for people wanting to have a year of managing successful projects.

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The IIL Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

The Project Management Office (PMO) is no exception. In this article, we will explore the rise of the AI-powered PMO and provide actionable strategies for project managers to thrive in an AI-augmented environment. Here is a foundational Generative AI PMO Template, along with guidance on how to customize and use it effectively.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 24, 2023

Your PMO might have definitions for each of those to help you define and refine your estimates at the early stages of the project. If your PMO does not have standard categories like this, you can make them up. This gives you some assumptions to work to and a way of explaining how you came up with the estimate.

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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. For other areas of governance such as reporting and approval levels, talk to your PMO and get these in place. How do you spend it? First, don’t panic.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Create a channel for that group, workstream or sub-team # Testing: create a channel for your project testing group, including core project team members and user acceptance or user group participants # Project Managers: create a community for your project delivery professionals and the PMO within Slack. How to Stay Productive Using Slack.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 15, 2021

I struggle with how to manage my project-related tasks, beyond dealing with the crisis of the day.”. The question of how to manage multiple projects at the same time comes up a lot. In this article we’ll look at strategies for managing several different projects that are running in parallel. Quick Answers.

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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. Use the project handover templates from your PMO or make your own. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management And it’s not what project management is supposed to be.

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International Institute for Learning

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In a recent ProjectManagement.com article, a well-known industry practitioner posed the statement: “PMOs struggle to deliver value and are often not clear about what that value should be. And they’d usually get comments on how they were incorrect, or not worded properly, etc. . What does PMO success look like?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Our organizational competencies were in different things, more relevant to the way we operated and how the business served its customers. In this article, we’ll cover the basics: what are organizational competencies, and why should you, as an individual, care about them? What is it good at doing? Communication. Pin for later reading.

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Project-Management.pm

APRIL 18, 2017

Large organizations have their own Project Management Office ( PMO ) that covers this area; organizing the best practices and methodologies of doing tasks and achieving them. These PMO practices and processes are sold to CIO for executive support in order to ensure that such practices are amended. Another PMO failure, another dispute.

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Project-Management.pm

MARCH 5, 2017

It’s sometimes hard for organizations to keep up with these, hence the need for establishing a PMO , a standard structure to help projects have a constant process and operation to help them achieve their objectives or the stakeholders ’ requests. Why is there a need for establishing a PMO ? Establish a PMO : The 5 Steps to Adopt.

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Project-Management.pm

MARCH 25, 2017

It’s safe to say that Project Management Office ( PMO ) has numerous advantages and the results it impacts to the organization have been effective and helpful. Every existing organization around the globe are swearing by PMO. Over the years PMO profitability seems non-existent. However, it has its downsides.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

You’re trying to get clarity on: The reasons for doing the project The benefits of doing the project Any risks that you can foresee now The scope and deliverables The costs and timelines Who should be involved and who should make decisions What quality looks like and how it will be achieved. So how do you actually make all this happen?

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MPUG

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Copilot can also provide the correct formula if you know what you need but don’t know how to write the formula yourself, or even apply conditional formatting rules on tables. And our customers are [describe the customers] For a more detailed overview of what Loop can offer together with Copilot, I’d like to share this article with you.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Being asked to mentor someone means that your experience has been recognized as a project management professional (not necessarily a certificate holder, but someone who knows how to do the job well). Perhaps you’ve been asked to mentor an apprentice , or someone new to the PMO or team. Who are you mentoring? Why do they want a mentor?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 4, 2022

So hopefully, by the end of this session, you will have some strategies that will help you be able to think about how to better manage your work to group your work together and things like that. So in the last session, we ran, I did a session on how to make your corporate slide decks more interesting. Okay, Melissa has a question.

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

How can we find a better balance? This article will provide clear guidance on how to define and assign risk management roles and responsibilities for projects and programs. Information Technology) or in a Project Management Office (PMO). There are different types of PMOs. Where are PMOs placed organizationally?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 6, 2023

Some other less obvious but equally important benefits are: Increasing productivity Adopting a ‘one team’ approach across the organization Delivering in a predictable fashion (every PMO leader wants this!) This book would be great for PMO practitioners. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 26, 2017

This article, How To Start A Project As An Accidental Project Manager , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. How do I get started? Simon Harris was our expert guest for the week, hosting the chat on the theme of ‘The Accidental PM’s Surgery’ and this is what he had to share about how to get started on a project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 27, 2024

In this article we'll look at what project managers need to know about data protection. This will also apply to you if you work within a PMO. You should know that I’m not a lawyer and this article does not in any way constitute legal advice or business advice. But first, let’s cover the basics. What is personal data?

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Let’s look at how to actually define risk categories and how they can help Tom (and you). How to Define Risk Categories. Your PMO may also have a standard risk breakdown structure (RBS) that provides categories and sub-categories of project risks. The post How to Actually Define Risk Categories appeared first on.

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International Institute for Learning

JANUARY 25, 2023

How do we know PMOs are in poor health?  Check out the latest stats from the 2022 Research Report from The PMO Squad: Only 43% of PMOs would rate themselves as successful,  78% don’t have a process in place to measure PMO Value, and  Only 59% measure executive leader satisfaction.  Don’t be a statistic.

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Project-Management.pm

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Implementing PMO is the key to combat such issue. With this, PMO will take over various components of the agency such as strategy , quality of the products, and enhancement of resource management. PMO is crucial and a key instrument in for the success of any existing agency. Implementing PMO Step#1: Evaluation .

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 12, 2022

For simplicity, and because the UK government uses the terminology of gate review, that’s what I’m going with in this article. The PMO will specify the route your project has to follow. If you are new to the idea or thinking about implementing one for your PMO, here is an example so you can see how it works.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In this article, I’m saving you some time by highlighting 15 of my recommended books for PDUs, but first, let’s cover off some details about using reading. That’s pretty much everything from ‘how to do this detailed task’ through to ‘how to run a portfolio office’. How many PDUs can you get for reading?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 18, 2023

How to capture lessons learned So how can you capture and share lessons learned? There are plenty of different ways to spread what you have learned from your project around the PMO, project managers and teams. Wikis/Software If your PMO doesn’t currently have a wiki for lessons learned, suggest that they set one up.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 30, 2022

It was the perfect grounding in how to do my job. As you get more confident at managing projects, and your role morphs into whatever the business needs you to do, you pick up odd bits and pieces like mentoring new starters or delivering training, managing BAU stuff or being the go to person for how to use the PM software.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Again, reuse documents that you have already produced to streamline the effort and ask around to see if your PMO or colleagues have templates that you can use. Engaging Stakeholders on Projects: How to harness people power. An older version of this article first appeared on the 2080 blog in 2016. Your stakeholders are engaged.

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