Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 25, 2022

This is a guest article by Dr Mike Clayton, who is the well-known author and trainer behind Online PM Courses.*. I sat opposite the new project manager. I remember sitting down with a new project manager over coffee. Read next: How to manage y our first meeting with a project sponsor.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 13, 2022

It’s not uncommon for people in management positions to feel like they’re always playing catch-up. I want to do my projects to the best of my ability, but there’s so much to do and so little time to do it that it can be difficult to stay on top of everything, let alone have a chance to think about the bigger picture.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 31, 2023

Welcome to project management 101. Project management can seem like a daunting discipline, but once you get a grasp of the fundamentals and combine that with some intuition, you’ll be on your way to leading successful projects, no matter your situation. What Is a Project? What Is Project Management?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A project timeline is a visual representation of the tasks that make up the project, showing the sequence of events and key dates. Let’s be clear: I’m not talking about a detailed project Gantt chart, PERT chart or a flow chart. What do you need to create a project timeline? Longer projects can be split by quarters.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Project management is a people business. Projects get done through people. Did I tell you my story about forgetting to include the post room staff as stakeholders in a project where we massively increased the amount of mail coming into the post room? And everything on the project starts coming together.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

This article, Is the Classic Triple Constraint in Project Management Still Relevant? Projects always have certain constraints – there may be an urgency to complete a project because of external market factors, for example; or there may have to be tightly controlled costs because of a fixed or limited budget.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 10, 2023

If you’ve been on LinkedIn recently, you’ve probably seen someone in your network sharing that they have earned the Generative AI Overview for Project Managers badge by completing a PMI training course. It’s not aimed at any particular job type or role, and you don’t need any project management experience.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In this article we’ll cover what you need to know about the different categories of PDUs and how many you need to get, plus some simple and free ways to earn PDUs in 2020. Leadership and Strategic and Business Management PDUs count for every certification you hold. Do you need to earn PDUs to maintain your PMI certification?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Anything internal or external that covered project management topics could count, so make sure that’s on your record. Did you know that you can claim up to 8 PDUs in the Giving Back category simply for working in a project-related role? Claim for doing your day job. Buy The PDU Podcast. PDUs over a 3 year cycle.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 27, 2022

If you Googled PDU and found a bunch of articles about electronics then you are finally in the right place! Reading a professional journal and making notes on interesting articles is enough to qualify, and there is no ‘contact’ involved in that. Learn from 25 project management experts when it is convenient to you.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 15, 2019

A project manager is a professional. If you hold a qualification from the Project Management Institute (PMI) like PMP (Project Management Professional) or PMI-ACP (PMI Agile Certified Professional), CPD is mandatory. Without it, your project management certification will expire. Blog Articles.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 9, 2022

It’s also something mentioned in the standards for professional project management bodies. Apparently, business acumen is something that project managers should have. In 2022, PMI updated the Talent Triangle to include business acumen. It really is a core skill for project professionals.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 21, 2019

Sub-title: Breaking the Iron Triangle. A discussion is raging at LinkedIn about the Iron Triangle because the co-authors of Scrum say that “Scrum breaks the Iron Triangle”. This, you can imagine, causes ripples through the Project Management community. Yes, so let’s spend more to hire more contractors.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Do you need PDUs for the Certified Associate in Project Management ( CAPM ) ® certificate? In this article I’ll explain what this means for CAPM certification holders and how you can maintain your credential without having to take the exam again. As of 1 October 2020, you do! What’s new about PDUs for CAPM ?

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Online PM Courses

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

The PMI Talent Triangle is a simple tool that reminds us all about the value of a broad range of professional skills. I have project management nailed.’ All of the professional bodies and providers of general project management qualifications recognize that this is far from the truth. ’ Not at all.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So, picture this: you are transitioning from your current position into a project management career. The industry didn’t matter; it was about translating my work experience into specific project management industry-recognized terms and managing projects.

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Project Risk Coach

JANUARY 7, 2019

Individuals, teams, and organizations lack the healthy habits of identifying and managing the uncertainty that surrounds their world. Today, let's look at a step-by-step process to improve your strategic planning, analysis, and alignment with a particular focus on risk management. What is Strategic Risk Management?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 3, 2019

Working out who does what on your project can be a challenge. A RACI chart is a project management tool that helps you do exactly that. At the end of this article there’s a link to download my free roles and responsibilities document template. They clarify the relationships between tasks and people on projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 26, 2016

This is a guest article by Dr Mike Clayton, who is the well-known author and trainer behind Online PM Courses.*. I sat opposite the new project manager. I remember sitting down with a new project manager over coffee. The Project Hierarchy. It was about 17 years ago. What to tell her? The First Meeting.

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MPUG

JULY 29, 2019

in his famous book, The Mythical Man-Month , wrote, “Adding human resources to a late software project makes it later.” Even before the book was published, project managers and other project stakeholders knew that project duration cannot always be shortened by adding more resources. Brooks Jr.,

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Musings on Project Management

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Project management, risk management, and other related disciplines are replete with triangles. Here's one more for the collection, taken from an article on "metacognition" by Marvin Cohen and Jared Freeman.

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Sarah M. Hoban

MAY 16, 2023

For those not in the know, professional development units, or PDUs, are continuing education credits required to maintain Project Management Institute (PMI) certifications. The most common PMI certification is the Project Management Professional, or PMP, with 1 million plus certification holders worldwide. Easy peasy.

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MPUG

JUNE 6, 2022

But, how does all of this fit into Risk Management? Risk Managers don’t toss coins or calculate heads/tails in an experiment. Probability Distribution and Risk Management. With the above basics, let’s consider another example to understand probability distribution from the perspective of risk management.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

The Project Management Professional (PMP®) examination offered by Project Management Institute (PMI) is changing by the end of this year. Project management as a profession is increasing in complexity. PMI understands the shifts taking place in project management. Why the Change?

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Proofhub

JULY 19, 2022

Project management best practices that actually work Project management Have you ever wondered why so many project leaders constantly look for the best practices to achieve triumphant project management results? perfection” doesn’t exist in project management. Don’t fool yourself?—?“perfection”

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Project creates, program guides, portfolio decides. – Quote from the book, “I Want To Be A PfMP – The Plain and Simple Way To Be a PfMP” Project is all about deliverables and it creates a unique product, service, or result. It’s Portfolio that decides which component Projects and Programs should take and which ones to drop.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Introduction In many ways a project manager (PM) is like a Maestro or Conductor of an Orchestra. A good PM needs the ability to lead people who have different skills and roles within the project. For added insight, let’s look at the makeup of projects, Orchestras, and their similarities.

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MPUG

JANUARY 9, 2022

During training workshops, I get all kind of project management related questions, but one of the most frequently asked questions is about PMP certification maintenance. I have written this article to describe what kind of things you can do to garner PDUs and maintain your certification beyond three years.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 23, 2016

Working out who does what on your project can be a challenge. A RACI chart is a project management tool that helps you do exactly that. At the end of this article there’s a link to download my free roles and responsibilities document template. They clarify the relationships between tasks and people on projects.

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Teamweek

JULY 29, 2022

But nailing your project estimates will help you save countless projects from failure, and it’s a non-negotiable if you want to keep your projects profitable. In this guide we’ll cover: What are project estimation techniques? Types of estimations in project management Project estimation techniques.

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NimbleWork

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This year, we participated in the Project Management Institute’s annual PMI Summit, held in Atlanta. While many of them did not have a lot of time to spare, we still managed to connect with at least over a hundred people with whom we had some great conversations. Has it become easier in many ways?

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Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Being a successful project manager is not just about creating good plans and schedules and telling the team members what they should work on. What else should a project manager know to succeed in their duties and guide projects to their successful completion? This article will help you figure it out. .

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Leading Answers

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Project management requires the combination of technical skills, people skills and industry-specific knowledge. Knowledge and experience in project management follows the same pattern. Learning about project management, how to work effectively with people, and our industry domain is never complete.

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Online PM Courses

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Are you a Project Manager or a Project Leader? One way I like to think of the difference between Project Management and Project Leadership is that: Project Management gets things done. Project Leadership makes changes happen. And then there’s the PMI Talent Triangle.

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Leading Answers

JULY 20, 2018

However, long before our jobs as project managers are taken, AI will help us. While writing this article, AI in Microsoft Word and the add-in Grammarly helped protect you, from the bulk of my spelling and grammar mistakes. This is the not too distant future of AI assisted project management.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 25, 2021

It’s important to recognize that Microsoft Project is a powerful tool which helps project managers (PMs) keep their projects moving, but sometimes, we have to reach for more universal applications. There’s a couple reasons why you might want to pull Microsoft Project reporting out Microsoft Project.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 24, 2021

It’s important to recognize that Microsoft Project is a powerful tool which helps project managers (PMs) keep their projects moving, but sometimes, we have to reach for more universal applications. There’s a couple reasons why you might want to pull Microsoft Project reporting out Microsoft Project.

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