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How to Fix 5 Project Management Skills Gaps

Rebel’s Guide to PM

As a project manager, you are expected to have all-round skills encompassing the technical fields of project management like planning and scheduling, through to the interpersonal skills like communicating up and influencing others. And I don’t have them all – I’m aware of that.

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4 Unusual Reasons Why Stakeholder Management Is Important

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You know the drill – map influence and interest , then work to try to move any negative stakeholders into the quadrant where they should be through interesting communication approaches and stressing the project benefits for them. Richard Newton, in his book, The Project Management Book , sets out another 4 benefits of stakeholder management.

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How Leadership Affects Projects (And How You Can Lead Yours)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Sarah Coleman is co-author of Project Leadership, a book in its third edition exploring how leadership and project management intertwine. How is that reflected in your book? We all know that when budgets are under pressure, training and development budgets are seen as discretionary and “nice to have” so are among the first to be cut.

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Why you need to engage stakeholders (and how to do it well)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We define it like this: The systematic identification, analysis, planning and implementation of actions designed to influence stakeholders. Read next: my book Engaging Stakeholders on Projects: How to harness people power. Beyond the interest and influence grid. Helping people take part in the project. So why do we bother?

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How to take over an existing project [Free checklist]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

6: Review the budget Is the budget approved? Action if there is no budget plan or information: Back to the PMO or your Finance team. The company culture has a lot of influence over what is done and what is ignored not followed up. How do you spend it? How much has been spent already? Is it that they don’t have time?

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

Learn more One value of using this method is that it’s easier to identify bottlenecks and other issues that could delay the completion of tasks and address them before they affect your project budget or schedule. Scrum allows you to create flexible project plans that can be adjusted at any point without impacting your project or budget.

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Your Next Scrum Master Should Be Your Manager

Scrum.org

Their decision-making power means that Scrum Teams benefit from quick decisions around team members, budget, and organizational impediments, expediting their progress toward their goals. Thanks to a manager's influence and authority in an organization, teams do not have to wait for decisions or impediments to be removed.

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