Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Morgan, Levitt, and Malek discuss this in their book, Executing Your Strategy: How to Break It Down and Get it Done. This is how it works. Executing Your Strategy: How to Break It Down and Get It Done. Read next: How to decide what projects to do. An older version of this article first appeared on the 2080 blog in 2017.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2024

We’ll go over that and link to free project management templates that can help you in this process. The creation process for an organization’s project strategy is in the hands of leadership and management. Here are a handful of links that will take you to more articles, templates and guides on business strategy.

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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

APRIL 22, 2024

Resolve by setting criteria on how resources are assigned – by the PM, product owner, team leader etc. and define how leaders can secure resources. The PMO can lead on this but everyone will need to follow the process for it to work. Get it right, and stakeholders will soon see how much easier project resourcing can be.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In this article, we will cover strategies to usher in this adoption and certain tasks that can be augmented with AI. Learn more The AI spectrum for tools Using these two dimensions as guidance, project professionals can decide how to use AI tools on a spectrum that ranges from automation to assistance and, finally, augmentation.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

When you start the planning process for a project, one of the first things you need to think about is: what can go wrong? Issues will inevitably come up, and you need a mitigation strategy in place to know how to manage risks on your project. But how do you work towards resolving the unknown? How to Manage Risk.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

A work handover email to your manager is one of the steps to make the transition out of a job happen smoothly, and here’s how to write one. How to write your handover notes In my experience, it’s difficult to sit down and write all handover notes in one go. Read next: How to Add Projects in LinkedIn. Because you never know.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In this article, I’ll share 5 practical tips to find time to study while working a full-time as a project manager. You could also split the study plan between topics or jargon terms like organizational process assets , because these are tricky to understand! If it’s important to you, you need to make the time.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 2, 2022

In this article, I’ll share a secret weapon for improving problem solving in project management. I find that this is particularly the case with complex processes or projects with lots of moving parts and many stakeholders. There is only one sensible solution to fixing an issue. And the project can carry on.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 25, 2022

I caught up with Ruth to find out more about how to motivate teams and why it’s something you should be actively doing. We do it as children, we do it as teenagers (often terrifying our parents in the process) and we do it as adults. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management. Tell us about that.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2023

The five-step project recovery plan Here’s the five-step ESI process for getting out of trouble. You establish a road map and process to achieve the goals, and continue to build confidence and morale. It gives you a breakdown of how to define success which might help you avoid a failing project in the first place.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software that helps you create timelines and budgets for your organization’s projects and processes. Your three value propositions would involve how you serve their needs. This will then lead to improving your financial position. Let’s explain better what that means.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 11, 2022

Here’s how to showcase your projects on your CV (as we call a resume here in the UK, and I’ll use both terms interchangeably in this article) to make it clear what you are capable of. I’ve included some examples below so you can see how to phrase your resume sections. Here’s how to do it.

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The Digital Project Manager

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

That could be this entire article, summed up in that one sentence. The post How To Be A Leader During The Project Kickoff: Expert Tips & Process appeared first on The Digital Project Manager. If you don’t get started on the right foot, your project team and project success are already at risk.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 3, 2023

This time next year there will be new standards, processes, tools and with that new opportunities for people wanting to pursue a career in project management As you can see, the options are vast, so if you’re feeling overwhelmed, start with doing some research. A version of this article first appeared in 2015.

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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? Agile projects?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 8, 2022

Planning is an essential part of what project managers do, so you would expect there to be some mention of how to deal with fixed date projects in the PRINCE2® manuals. Project managers still need some guidance on how to manage projects that have a fixed date. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2022

How to create a rolling wave plan. The next step in the planning process is to create a project schedule for the first wave, in conjunction with the team. Pin for later reading: This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management. These become your wave points: the boundaries of each wave of planning.

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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

JULY 14, 2022

In this article, we’ll look at some simple triggers to use to see if you really can carry out all the work that’s on your To Do list. How does it feel at work? Step 1: Review your current process. Take a look at your current process. Learn how to prioritize projects and leave the least important for last.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 29, 2022

Consider the following attributes of a modern transaction processing system, whether located on a server in the corporate data center or delivered as Software-as-a-Service in the Cloud. Work with them to identify relevant security controls, how to implement them as procedures, and how to validate that they work correctly.

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Wrike

JANUARY 30, 2024

For ambitious companies, the solution lies in process improvement, a method of bettering your processes and aligning them with your business growth strategy. In this article, we will delve into the art of process improvement, which, if done correctly, can take your organization to unprecedented heights.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2018

If so, it might be time to start implementing proven project management processes and phases at your organization in order to bring your company’s workflow under control. Communications: Decide how information will be disseminated, to whom and with what frequency. If not, evaluate how to improve the quality. Initiation.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

How can you check what you’ve got and what needs to be done next? Let me guide you through how to assess the state of the project you’ve inherited. Here are the instructions on how to write a project overview statement. Here’s a guide on how to write a project communications plan. First, don’t panic.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 10, 2023

TL; DR: How To Spot Successful Scrum Masters In this article, I unravel the secrets of what makes a Scrum Master not just good but amazingly outstanding. Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Continuous improvement is a core Agile principle, and effective Retrospectives are crucial for this process.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Reassure the project board that project delivery is happening as it should Once the project is running, the assurance function continues to check in and make sure the project is running in the right way, compliant with any policies and processes. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 9, 2022

This article was inspired by Ben Snyder’s book, Everything’s a Project: 70 Lessons from Successful Project-Driven Organizations. How can I deal with a team member with a bad attitude? How can I deal with a project team member whose attitude sucks?”. That was what a reader got in touch to ask recently.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Note: This article assumes you are working in a predictive environment. Work on what you can manage, and put a process in place for adapting to future changes. Establish where you are now and how you will handle changes when something else changes – because it will! Create (or review) the change control process.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 16, 2022

You may not know how to distinguish it from plain criticism, or you may not know how to deliver it in a way that your team members do not receive negatively. Learning how to give criticism to inspire positive change is a skill that must be learned. The process will encourage learning that will facilitate long-term change.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

How to create the perfect business requirements. Business analysts are excellent facilitators with a good working knowledge of business processes. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management. So where do you start with creating that perfect requirements document? Plan for change.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Yes, overall project management is your job, but why not make your life a little easier by helping your team members understand how they can be better at getting the project done? This will give them some facilitation experience and help the team think about how to elicit risk from a group. Read next: How to select risks responses.

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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. It is a record of the project management process. The closure document talks about what you did and how that compared to what you set out to do. It’s a process that you’ll complete over time.

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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

AUGUST 9, 2021

Read next: my book Engaging Stakeholders on Projects: How to harness people power. Read next: How to Deal with Challenging Situations Involving Stakeholders. There was a process to do: filling in a stakeholder register and plotting someone’s interest and influence over the project on a matrix. How to do engagement.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2022

There’s no denying that stakeholder management processes, documents and analysis are a great tool for project communication. In this article, I’ll share some simple things you can do to boost stakeholder engagement through good project communication at all levels. You need actions. Your next steps.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 3, 2021

An example would be the future process owner who will be responsible for running the activities resulting from the project’s deliverables. The reality of managing projects is that you simply don’t have the time to go through a consultation process and do the analysis for everyone. How to use the salience model. Mitchell, R.

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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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