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Best PMI-ACP Exam Prep Books

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The most successful students also include reading a range of PMI-ACP books in their exam prep, as well as a training course, just as that little bit of extra comfort. It’s also useful to have books to carry around with you for reference when you can’t access your training materials. Alternatively, choose books that fill in your gaps.

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Planning a Budget for a Proposal in 5 Easy Steps (+ Example)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We start with 5 steps for how to put a proposal budget together and then Edoardo shares a worked (fictional) example to show you what the budget would look like once it is completed. A proposal budget is similar to a project budget, but with a very different goal. Example of Proposal Budget.

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Value Innovation Strategy For Strategic Project Managers

The Strategic Project Manager

This post dives into the profitable concept and practice of Value Innovation. It defines it, compares and contrasts it from similar approaches, and then looks at the impact of leveraging Value Innovation in the practice of strategy and project management – developing a Value Innovation Strategy.

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Innovation Project Management

International Institute for Learning

We are excited to bring you this blog post on Innovation Project Management, which is adapted from Dr. Harold Kerzner’s new book of the same title. Below, he explains why this topic is so important, the types of challenges that innovation project managers face, and much more. Get your copy today! Order on the IIL website.

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12 Ways to Manage Project Quality Without Drama

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Book quality checks Now you know what project quality measures you are trying to hit, book some quality checks in. Also, if you have internal auditors or a Quality Assurance function, or someone in the PMO who can do an informal (or formal) project review, book that in as well. The options are: Once (i.e. Tip: Avoid scope creep!

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An interesting thought experiment: open-book IT Project Management

Project Accelerator News

My PM friend Stu thinks you can – with OPEN-BOOK IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT. OPEN-BOOK IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT The term open-book management (let’s call it OBM) is not a new thing, I think you can trace its origins back to the mid-1980s and it is pretty self-explanatory, ‘does what it says on the tin’ stuff.

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Book Review: The Power of Project Leadership

LiquidPlanner

I closed her exceptional book completely inspired and itching to get a copy in the hands of both LiquidPlanner employees and our customers. In Susanne’s book, 2018 PMI research shows that only 52% of projects finish on time, only 69% meet their business objectives, and, for every $1 billion spent, organizations are losing $97 million.