Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Domain I: People The People domain covers the soft(er) skills required to be a good project manager. It’s all the stuff you know to do anyway, because it’s part of what it means to operate in a leadership role in a modern organization, whether you are working on iterative, predictive or hybrid projects.

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Technical Review Software Review PMI 2023 298

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Let’s look at what a program manager does all day. You’ll receive broad direction from your leadership team. These could be project managers or PMO colleagues. You’ll see these skills on a program manager job description – and if you don’t you should be asking why! Change Management. Stakeholder Engagement.

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PMO Technical Review Leadership Risk Management 331

Kiron Bondale

MAY 16, 2021

In one of my earlier articles , I had proposed the use of behavioral nudges to help improve project governance. If you liked this article, why not pick up my book Easy in Theory, Difficult in Practice which contains 100 other lessons on project leadership?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Project management is stressful. There are peaks and troughs — Peter Taylor, AKA The Lazy Project Manager , talks about this in his book of the same name. However much you tailor and go light on governance, there is still some prioritizing, organizing and compromise with which projects are done and how they get done.

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Underperforming Technical Team Influencer Risk Management Finance 437

Digite

JANUARY 7, 2018

Irrespective of where you are in your Kanban journey, here is a comprehensive list of the top Kanban books that will help you with knowledge, insights and experience related to Kanban and ensures an empowered journey towards achieving your business goals. We highly recommend the following 10 books to all Kanban practitioners and students.

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Agile Coach

APRIL 19, 2018

Then I created one of the first Live Lessons for Safari Books and InformIT (which is now Front Row Agile) about Agile Transformation. Then I worked for the organization that the book is based on, wrote the first version in 2012 chapter by chapter on LeanPub and then re-wrote it for Happy Melly Express in 2014. on Amazon.ca

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 14, 2018

The first part of my book sets out the four essentials of team leadership, and a great project leader must constantly address each of these and keep them in balance: focus on individuals, build and share a clear plan, foster a true sense of team spirit, and communicate relentlessly – and well. What kind of leadership is this?

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Leadership 2018 Risk Management Governance 241

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 28, 2021

PRINCE2 is part of the best practice guidance that came out of the UK Office of Government Commerce. A British government agency, the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency, licensed it for use in government IT projects back in 1979. Change management : another big thing in project management.

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2021

This title probably attracted two types of people – people who are wondering what the role of the ancient practice of martial arts has in organizational change management. Consequently, this model of Dojos provides hope but does not create long-lasting change. Want to Change Culture? Have a Plan.

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Software Review Influencer Leadership Governance 135

MPUG

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Walter Stinnett’s Project Managers are Change Managers webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Project Managers are Change Managers. Walter serves as a program manager for Edwards Performance Solutions.

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Change Management Certification Software Review 2004 52

The IIL Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Need for Government Intervention Organizations in both the public and private sectors, as well as the general public, have already recognized the immense risks of improper use of AI and are asking for federal regulatory agencies to take the lead in establishing laws that clearly define the correct and incorrect use of AI.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review 2023 Technical Review 138

International Institute for Learning

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Let’s get the PMs to even just do risk management on a regular basis , and then, let’s work on improving the process. It has reinforced my perception that PMOs are more about procedures, rules and correctness than about assistance or good governance. For most PMOs, there are two: management and projects. .

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 3, 2018

Leadership – ethical, authentic leadership is what helps get work done and set you apart from your peers. He is the author of Reinventing Communication by Routledge, a book on how to design, lead and manage high performing projects. Successful project managers are those that embrace the mantle of leadership.

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Henny Portman

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

Not all books are published yet. The first book I reviewed in 2020 will be published in the coming months. The book PMO Services and Capabilities is written by Stuart Dixon and Dr Robert Joslin. There are over 200 PMO services described in this book. Change control monitoring. Change management.

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PMO Certification Monitoring Consulting 88

Henny Portman

APRIL 3, 2020

The 10X Growth Machine – How companies can innovate, scale and win , written by Misha de Sterke, is a book to build your own growth machine by using innovation as a means. Growth governance : Lean innovation process and venture boards, growth policy playbook, and growth accounting. Creative destruction is accelerating.

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Innovation Lean Governance Government 76

International Institute for Learning

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The need for strong collaboration between project stakeholders means a key success criterion for a project which guaranteed the quality of the project leadership and sponsorship. In addition to technical project success, we are now including an “effective leadership component” for project success as shown in Exhibit 4.

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Artificial Inteligence Prince2 Underperforming Technical Team 2030 59

International Institute for Learning

JUNE 2, 2022

Public sector, private sector and government leaders across all businesses had to respond quickly to the effects of the crisis, often with very little time to prepare. The impact of the crisis affected project management leadership practices as well, especially the way that leadership should be applied and how decisions should be made.

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PMI Leadership Engineering Governance 59

Leading Agile

JULY 19, 2021

You may recall that Covey introduces the P/PC Balance concept early in the book using the goose and the golden egg metaphor, where the golden egg is the Production (P) of desired results and the goose is the Production Capability (PC). Effective Interpersonal Leadership. Every company all over the world has one thing in common, people.

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Here is a brief overview of its evolution: Before Agile, Waterfall was the dominant project management approach. The Waterfall model follows a sequential process, where each phase of the project is completed in a linear fashion, with limited room for changes or feedback. There is clear structure and governance in agile projects.

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Development Team Review 89

International Institute for Learning

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

There was also a library with books by Amos Oz, Oscar Wilde, Kurt Tucholsky, and Thomas Bernhard. That is the playground of one of the most underestimated business roles in history, the Change Manager. Innovation, Investor Patience, and Change Management. meters, and five booths for simultaneous interpreters.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Filling Execution Gaps , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. Today I have a fantastic book to share with you, Filling Execution Gaps: How Executives and Project Managers Turn Corporate Strategy into Successful Projects , by Todd C. The book looks at these problems: Creating a common understanding.

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Executing Governance Government Leadership 31

The IIL Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Would it be better to follow the waterfall traditional project management approach or the Agile/Scrum method? This is a tough question to answer because it depends on the type of project, size, nature of the project, how many people, whether it will involve change management, etc…. It is a John Wiley publication and a good book.

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SCRUM Agile Executing Software Review 96

Online PM Courses

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Generic representation of the components of IT Service Management (ITSM). Configuration and release management. Managing incidents. Change management. Project management. Asset management and the financial control of the service. There are a number of frameworks for IT Service Management.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

So leading Agile brings this idea of business capability, architecture, teaming strategies, flow-based governance, ultimately starting with business capabilities, but ultimately organizing around value streams, incremental and iterative transformation. Not a lot of people that deeply understand. So we have a number of those.

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Technical Review Infrastructure Agile Governance 62

Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

So leading Agile brings this idea of business capability, architecture, teaming strategies, flow-based governance, ultimately starting with business capabilities, but ultimately organizing around value streams, incremental and iterative transformation. Not a lot of people that deeply understand. So we have a number of those.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Infrastructure Agile Governance 62

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Governance (#Governance). Earned Value Management (#EVM). Strategy (#Strategy).

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Let’s explore the typical project management life cycle and how you and your team can maximize each phase for a killer project. . Project management life cycle phases. It’s this exact level of flexibility that makes change management processes during the project life cycle that much easier to manage. .

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Leading Agile

MARCH 15, 2023

How you form teams, how you build backlogs, how you produce working tested software, what the structure of governance, the metrics say, what practices enable Agility. One of the challenges that you think about from a cultural perspective at scale is the idea of command and control leadership. We really look at the systems, right?

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Agile Development Team Review Software Risk Management 62

Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

And so like in some of the early I think it was maybe it was Merrifield book rework or maybe it came from your HBR article I can’t remember. – But then it has to coordinate, there’s some governance layer, something that coordinates backlogs across multiple teams, is that right? – It’s not a capability.

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