Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 8, 2024

It would be nice to think that every company has a formal mentoring scheme , and that as a new project manager you can tap into the experience of more experienced people. As a result, people managing projects for the first time often find themselves making mistakes. Learn the vocab Project management has a lot of jargon.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

If I remember rightly, we did phone interviews before bringing people in, because it was a quick way of screening out job candidates that would not be a good fit for the next step in the process and ultimately the role itself. The preliminary interview step is basically that: a quick screening. What is a preliminary interview?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 7, 2023

My switch from full-time to part-time hours (eventually) I wanted to be part-time for many years, and back when I was a Six Sigma Black Belt at my old employer I put in my first request for part-time working. I would have been the only part-time person on the team, and I didn’t have children back then. My request was refused.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 6, 2023

What is business resilience? book 5 domains for business resilience Principles: The 7 principles that should be in place to ensure ownership for this approach (more on these below) Roles: The core responsibilities for ownership, implementation and action. This is my copy, gifted to me by the authors.

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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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ProjectManager.com

MAY 21, 2021

If you’ve ever worked on a large-scale project—especially a construction project—you’re familiar with the concept of contract administration. The two parties come to an agreement on what the work will be, how long it will take and how much it is worth. But what exactly goes into creating these documents?

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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. Register here.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 19, 2023

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 2023. What is a PDU ? Do you need to earn PDUs to maintain your PMI certification? You’re in the right place! Ready to get started? Let’s dive in!

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2023 PMI Certification Software Review 429

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 5, 2024

PMBOK 7 talks about the 8 project performance domains. This article reviews and explains the 10 project management Knowledge Areas from the PMBOK® Guide -- Sixth Edition. This article reviews and explains the 10 project management Knowledge Areas from the PMBOK® Guide -- Sixth Edition.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 13, 2024

Digital marketing is a core skill for many people in lots of roles today, not just marketing jobs. I took the course, passed the tests and earned the certificate, just so you know that I know what I’m talking about! How long you’ll need to spend going through the course materials before you pass, and what that process looks like.

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Software Review Technical Review Certification Engineering 300

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. What Are Organizational Resources? To start, resources can include labor, management, expertise, equipment, finances, energy, land and time.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 22, 2023

Are you ready to dive into my Google Project Management: Professional Certificate review? I’ve done a lot of project management training in my 20+ years as a project manager, and those courses helped me understand the skills, tools and techniques required to succeed leading projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Change management is so important for making sure that the change you deliver is embedded in the organization. In other words, if you want people to use what you create — or to shift their ways of working to the new standards and processes you implement — then you have to help them through the transition. Short on time?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

Would you like to make 2023 a successful year for your projects? But what does it take to get there? 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? And this article is a summary of what they replied.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 13, 2019

It’s widely known that the Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam is changing in July 2020, but what exactly is going to be different? Every so often PMI carry out an assessment of what a project manager does all day. In the past these have been Role Delineation Studies (RDS). What is changing?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 15, 2022

The big risk as a project manager is that you hit all the project management success criteria: being on time and on budget, but what you deliver doesn’t meet the customer’s requirements. A project quality management plan can help with that. The basics: What is a quality management plan?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 29, 2022

Projects like anything that involves a lot of people working together need governance. The government runs a nation and project governance in the same fashion runs the project. Consider this your civics lessons in project management. What Is Project Governance? The Three Pillars of Project Governance.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 25, 2022

Every project needs a sponsor. In this article, we’ll look at why that is and how you can work with a project sponsor as a project manager. You’ll learn tips and techniques for engaging senior leaders in the role so you can build effective working relationships and act as a team. What is a project sponsor?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Now everyone knows what the meeting is for and what their role in it is. What to include in the meeting ToR You’re creating a terms of reference that sets out everything attendees need to know about the meeting, so your ToR should be comprehensive. Ready to get started? However, if it’s too long, no one will read 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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Closing PMO Budget Finance 419

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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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. Ready to see what we uncovered? Sixty percent of project managers are using hybrid methods to deliver their projects.

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2021 Underperforming Technical Team 2020 Certification 456

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 24, 2023

Projects and operations are both necessary for businesses to succeed, but they require different approaches. When it comes to managing them effectively, understanding the differences between projects and operations is key. Projects change the business. The status quo is good but project managers keep changing things!

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Retail Governance Government Healthcare 407

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 16, 2022

Sign up for the Facebook Project Management Cafe and join in the discussion. We discussed creating a project team culture. What I wanted to – ah, maybe there is somebody watching. I recently did a Live Q&A with Colin Ellis in my Facebook group. Are you a member yet? Colin Ellis. Elizabeth: And welcome to Colin.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Project managers put a lot of time and effort into researching the viability of their project. But all that work is pointless if they don’t communicate the purpose of the project to their team and clients. The team and client know the mission statement, the vision statement and the project plan.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Risk Management Risk 377

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? Quality management is the overarching approach, concept, principle, technique – whatever you want to call it. To be honest, that’s the wrong question to be asking.

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Controlling Prince2 Software Review PMO 304

ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Your team uses resources to execute a variety of projects such as making products or providing services. That’s what procurement management is all about. What Is Procurement Management? ProjectManager helps you manage all aspects of your project, including procurement. Get started for free today.

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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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Software Review Technical Review Logistics Healthcare 298

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 8, 2021

IT departments can be great places to get experience as a project manager. Much business change involves an element of technology and that’s why I’ve written in the past about there being no such thing as an IT project. Projects with an IT element are wide-ranging. Business leadership for IT projects is a critical skill.

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Project Life Cycle Technical Support 2021 PMO 400

ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Proper schedule management helps you deliver a project on time. The process starts before the schedule is even made, and continues throughout the project. An ideal plan includes setting expectations, including how to develop, manage, execute and control the project schedule. Roles & Responsibilities.

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Planning Software Review Executing Monitoring 403

ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The better team members know their roles and responsibilities, the better a project is going to run. Therefore, communicating role distinctions early on in the project is crucial. But how can a project manager make those definitions clear and obvious to the team? What Is a RACI Chart? Responsible.

Software Review 351

Software Review Consulting Defining Construction 351

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. Here’s an overview of what we’re going to look at today. What we’ll cover.

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PMO Influencer Process Project Life Cycle 420

The Lazy Project Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

The VUCA world challenges an organisation by: Presenting boundaries for planning and policy management. These are the basic foundations of a Business Agile world. These are also the basic foundations of a Business Agile world. What can businesses do today to prepare for challenges in the future.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Are you looking for an all-in-one platform to manage projects, To Do lists, timesheets, costs, and documents? Twproject (say: T W Project) could be the perfect fit for you. Twproject is project management software that’s not only for the project managers but also for the rest of the team.

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Software Review 2021 Estimate PMO 382

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. As a project manager, part of your role is shepherding the work through the project lifecycle. What is a gate review? Benefits of gate reviews.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 3, 2021

There are no shortcuts in project management really, but wouldn’t it be nice if we had a few ways to speed things up? If there are any decisions to be made, talk to them about the options and informally canvass their opinion on what they think is the right way forward. I never write a project document from scratch.

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Energy Risk Management Risk Process 405

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 7, 2020

Change management is so important for making sure that the change you deliver is embedded in the organisation. In other words, if you want people to use what you create — or to shift their ways of working to the new standards and processes you implement — then you have to help them through the transition. Professor John P.

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Change Management 2020 2012 Sustainability 392