Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 6, 2023

Business resilience is the ability for an organization to benefit from disruption and deliver at pace even in times of instability. There are a lot of parts to the resilience framework laid out in the book, and on my first skim through, I was confused by the different acronyms and how it all fits together.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Managing a program or portfolio of projects involves many things, but utmost importance should be given to resource management, especially organizational resources. Organizational resources are concrete materials and tangible assets that support the program or portfolio of projects, including practice improvements and service delivery.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 21, 2021

I’m running a webinar on the skills you need to manage multiple projects on 4 February. There’s another project I’m just waiting to hear about,” said my sponsor. But let’s go back in time. As far as I can recall – it was quite a while ago now – I basically had that one thing to do. But that’s a different story.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2023

You’ve probably heard project managers talk about project assurance, but what exactly is it? And how do you make it work to your advantage, without it taking up all your time or being very bureaucratic? I’ve worked on project teams for over 20 years and project assurance is just part of the job.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

First, we need to understand what an IT budget is, how often they’re made and what is the best size for one. That spending can come from a range of sources. Planning and managing these resource costs in an IT budget can be facilitated by project management software. Get started for free How Often Are IT Budgets Created?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 24, 2024

Project management software can make order processing more efficient and achieve those advantages. ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software with powerful kanban boards that can manage order fulfillment activities. Ordering a product and getting it delivered has become commonplace.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Projects can be a hotbed of conflict. From the difficult stakeholder who wants to undermine the project’s success to a disagreement about a feature of a deliverable, project work lends itself to workplace conflict situations. And project managers contribute hugely to that because we go out and look for it.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 24, 2022

It’s project completion time. That’s the last step of the ‘traditional’ predictive (waterfall) project lifecycle, but even agile projects close. This is the time that project managers wrap up the work. You’re at the end of your project. Create and circulate the project closure document.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2023

One of the questions I’m asked often when I’m mentoring project managers, is what is the difference between quality assurance and quality management? Let’s start with quality planning, because that’s where we start on a real project: planning how we are going to get a quality result.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Developing software, like any project, is complicated and littered with roadblocks. Before we dive into how to make a bug report, let’s go deeper into the definition of a bug report and why it’s so important to software development. Project management software can help manage the process of identifying and fixing bugs.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2024

Everyone wants their projects to be “quality” but I often get asked about how to manage project quality in real life. What does it mean to “do” project quality? The basics: defining quality Knowing how you are going to manage quality feeds into your quality plan (obviously). That’s where you start.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 4, 2023

I get asked about project success criteria a lot – in fact, it’s one of the most searched terms on this site. So I thought it was about time that I pooled all my resources into one definitive guide to project success criteria. Let’s start with a definition of project success criteria. OK, I’m glad we got that sorted.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Projects are made up of tasks. Staying on top of your tasks as a team is so important if you want to hit your project deadlines. 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. For example, my project is to clean my office.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

In this video Elizabeth Harrin discusses how merging engagement and gamification creates engagification, a methodology to help people take action on projects. We’ll be talking about how to get people to take action on projects. And I will come back to that term, engagification in a moment. Transcript.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 25, 2023

Whether you’re running a company or a project, you’re going to have to deal with a budget. To ensure you’re keeping to that ever-important operating budget, you’ll be making a regular budget report as well as referencing financial statements. A budget report is a financial picture of a business or project over a specific time period.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 18, 2022

Regarding project management, an audit trail is a way to deliver projects on time and within budget. An audit trail isn’t only used in project management and it serves many industries. That can be brokerage transactions in finance, medical records in healthcare and process documentation in project management. Learn more.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 30, 2021

I get asked about project success criteria a lot – in fact, it’s one of the most searched terms on this site. So I thought it was about time that I pooled all my resources into one definitive guide to project success criteria. Let’s start with a definition of project success criteria. How to define success criteria.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Teamhood is a Kanban project management system for teams. It’s a visual, flexible tool that is perfect for small and medium businesses who want to improve how they manage projects. Let me show you how! Let me show you how! Then from $9.50 Table of Contents Summary What is Teamhood? Product: Teamhood.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

PRINCE2® is a project management method. It’s structured, and experience-based, created from the lived experience of thousands of project managers and successful projects. PRINCE2® stands for Projects IN a Controlled Environment (Version 2). It’s tailorable and suitable for projects of all sizes, large and small.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 26, 2021

In reality, the job can be done using common project planning methods and tools. A business plan for a small business is a living document that should be made up of seven sections, with the goal to outline different aspects of the small business within each section. This is where a small business plan comes in. Click to learn more!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 4, 2021

We were talking about PRINCE2®, what it means to get qualified and how it compares to the PMBOK Guide. — Today, on our Project Management Methodologies Series, we’re going to interview Elizabeth Harrin, from the award-winning blog A Girl’s Guide to Project Management. In brief, how does PRINCE2 work?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

Would you like to make 2023 a successful year for your projects? A while back, I asked project management experts w hat we should be aware of as we go into the new year to achieve their most successful year ever? I’m sure you take away tips and ideas for making this your best year yet managing projects at work.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Are your meetings a bit long and unstructured, regardless of how much effort you put into making a good agenda ? Responsibilities Responsibilities are different from the purpose. We used to have meetings like that until we implemented a terms of reference for the meeting series. Ready to get started?

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The need for a business case is that it collects the proposal, outline, strategy and marketing plan in one document and offers a full look at how the project will benefit the organization. Operations overview. Projects fail without having a solid business case to rest on. This will lead to your project deliverables.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Having an event is a like executing a project. Just like a project, event management is the way you make sure everything seamlessly comes together for your stakeholders. Event management can be anything from a birthday party for your kid to a business convention and everything in between. What Is Event Management?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 20, 2022

The concept of how management should interact with personnel was first codified by Henri Fayol, a French mining engineer. ProjectManager is cloud-based work management software that helps hybrid teams work better by giving them a collaborative platform with multiple project views. What Are the Four Functions of Management? Learn More!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 2, 2022

A project portfolio is all about prioritizing. The mission of a project portfolio manager is clear enough: maximize the business benefits of projects. The mission of a project portfolio manager is clear enough: maximize the business benefits of projects. How to execute the approach, that’s where the devil lies.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 18, 2021

In this video Elizabeth Harrin discusses how merging engagement and gamification creates engagification, a methodology to help people take action on projects. We’ll be talking about how to get people to take action on projects. And I will come back to that term, engagification in a moment. Transcript.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 25, 2023

A Project managers can’t do it alone. When the project is larger and more complex, the organization often employs someone called a project officer. This person is tasked with helping ensure the project is delivered successfully. What Is a Project Officer? A project officer assists the project manager.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 28, 2022

Design development (DD) in architecture is critical to the success of any construction project management plan. To see how it fits into the larger picture, let’s look at architecture design and the specifics of design development. Each phase is important to the smooth delivery of your construction project.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

In project management, a flow chart is a visual aid to understand the methodology you’re using to manage the project. The diagram shows the interdependent and parallel processes over the course of the project’s life cycle. With the right project management software, your management can be even more productive and efficient.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 20, 2021

Knowing how to manage a meeting is one of the core skills for project managers. Meeting management skills are no longer part of the Exam Content Outline (ECO), which you can download from the PMI website. In short, you need to have a general understanding of how to make meetings work for you. You’re all caught up.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 3, 2020

We aren’t managing projects now in the same way that people managed projects years ago. The approaches taken by many companies and professional bodies to managing projects are different now to when I first started out in the field in 2000ish. How long has project management been around? Technology.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 11, 2020

We surveyed 220 project managers to better understand what it’s like to work in project delivery. In this original research, we share some brand new project management statistics. Sixty percent of project managers are using hybrid methods to deliver their projects. Ready to see what we uncovered?

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 20, 2023

To-do lists are essentially a repository of tasks, but they can be much more than that, especially if you’re using a to-do list for project management. Using a to-do list app to manage projects keeps you focused and limits distractions so you and your team can complete work in a timely manner. Productivity begins with a to-do list.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 26, 2021

In this article, I’ll share 10 expert tips from a range of people about their experiences to help you choose the right higher education goals for you, so you can make the right choice for your career. What’s the difference between a Master’s in Project Management and an MBA? So, which one should you choose? Think long term.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 29, 2022

Project managers know the importance of having project documentation. Project documents must be accurate and constantly updated to keep current with the project. Creating and managing project documentation throughout the project life cycle is critical for project success, but where to start?

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