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. Yes, that’s right!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 7, 2022

Whole books (like this one, my favorite) have been written about how to improve productivity. I’d love to say the answer is to introduce a team productivity tool (especially as I literally wrote the book on collaboration tools for project managers ). People are influenced by the people around them.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

Brush up on your virtual leadership skills. Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best Out of Virtual Work and Virtual Teams. Learn the skills needed to lead a virtual team, chair online meetings and manage the work remotely. Integrating change management for project success. What you can do.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In my company the project managers are responsible for everything, yet in reality have little or no control over delivery resources. The buck stops with me but there are very few ways I can influence the direction of travel. Project management is stressful. Do you need some help working out how project management fits?

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Agile Coach

APRIL 19, 2018

Context : it’s important to understand what triggered me to move away from agile, and into org change. It’s also important to understand what influenced thinking about org change differently. peaked at #6444 out of 8,000,000 books on Amazon, #198 in Leadership and Management. What People Want.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

This post is for anyone who wants to inspire, change or influence others through their efforts as professionals, with emphasis on the latter. Should teams be stable over at least several years, or is it a good idea they change at will? How should leadership interact with autonomous teams? Is scaling always a bad idea?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 29, 2019

There are many women globally leading initiatives to shine a spotlight on women, including one of the largest initiatives launched on Twitter in 2017 by Dr Kirstin Ferguson called #CelebratingWomen , which resulted in a book in 2018 called Woman Kind. Related: Advice for Women in Project Management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Whole books (like this one, my favourite) have been written about how to improve productivity. I’d love to say the answer is to introduce a team productivity tool (especially as I literally wrote the book on collaboration tools for project managers). People are influenced by the people around them. Scott Berkun.

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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. Dojos are successful because they create localized clearings and conditions that limit the broader organization’s influence and focus on maximizing learning.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 7, 2019

You can see a list of all their books in one place here. I’m sure you take away tips and ideas for making this your best year yet managing projects at work. Soft skills, interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence – whatever you call it, these are crucial and stakeholder management and communication come out top time and time again.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The relationships part of this principle’s title is all about the project ecosystem and how soft power and networks influence the way work gets done. Manage by exception I love this principle. Organizing This relates to the project organization: roles and responsibilities, the team, and the management set up for the project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 9, 2018

It’s an edited extract from his book Risk Happens ! Risk management will make you a better project manager , so it’s worth spending some time thinking about how to address this issue. A bright cover for Mike’s own book, Risk Happens! Dr Mike Clayton. How To Do Away with Group Think at Work.

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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. We’re going to be talking about change management. Welcome everyone.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 6, 2022

That’s how to become a project manager in a nutshell, but in this article I’ll explain three routes to entering the profession and share the stories from 5 people who chose project management as their career. Below, I share 5 stories from my book, Project Manager. There are some myths about project management.

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Leading Answers

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

This is the first in a multi-post series about emotional intelligence (EI) as the foundation for team leadership. The material comes from my Beyond Agile book and explains why a firm basis of EI is critical to becoming an effective Scrum Master, team lead, or project manager.   Tackling the “Emotional” Elephant.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 13, 2016

Today it’s the turn of Sarah Coleman, who has been inspirational in her work in leadership. Sarah is coauthor of Project Leadership *, a book about…leading projects! Now in its third edition, it’s a practical book covering engagement, communication, vision and strategy.

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The IIL Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In their book The Human Brand: How We Relate to People, Products, and Companies, Fiske and Malone state, “We judge others almost instantly along two categories of social perception, warmth and competence. Leadership sets the stage for both. Leadership holds the keys—leading from the whole, rather than the top. Hierarchy is dead.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

JANUARY 9, 2020

A major part of effective project leadership involves understanding the importance of continuing to learn and develop new skills. In particular, the constantly shifting world of work requires more adaptive leadership skills, so that projects can be successfully managed, even in the most unpredictable environments.

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Paymo App

APRIL 2, 2018

Influence – We considered Moz’s Domain Authority (DA) to predict how a website can rank on Google’s SERP. What to expect: Elizabeth Harrin regularly updates her blog with practical tips, information for women in project management, and honest suggestions on PM best practices and tools. Free Project Management Templates.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 12, 2018

As an organization, it offers training and certification in project management, and it reports regularly on industry trends. The Project Management Institute also sets the standard for ethics in the field. Given its vast influence, it’s important to have a basic understanding of PMI and its history. Quick Facts About PMI.

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International Institute for Learning

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Existing organizational architectures, changes in the environment, emerging opportunities, and economic conditions will influence where AI applications should begin. 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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The Strategic Project Manager

JANUARY 13, 2023

This post examines the predictability of what will happen – at least stages you’ll go through – in times of personal and leadership career transition. Establish Key Relationships – Building a supportive network within and outside the organization is a prerequisite for influence and effectiveness.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In their book, Leading Successful Change: 8 Keys to Making Change Work , Gregory P. Solomon talk about the 8 things that you should be targeting if you want the change management effort on your project to stick. Where employees fit in the process of making decisions can influence their behavior.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 13, 2016

Making sure that my payment gateways for people who buy my books and courses no longer have to pay EU VAT. If the UK stays, then some of the uncertainty goes away, but the political damage may have already been done: what influence on the international stage will the UK have lost with this referendum? Watch this space….

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Agile is an iterative approach to project management and software development that helps teams deliver value to their customers faster without any hassles. . The Agile Manifesto is the holy book of the Agile framework. Flawless change management . Here are the four commandments of Agile- . Goal-oriented . Creativity .

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Leading Answers

JUNE 9, 2017

That’s where the bigger set of skills around change management and emotional intelligence that take a lifetime to learn come into play. It is almost always people focused, and why the skills of empathy and influence are critical. Each are very simple concepts that only take 5 to 10 minutes to explain.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Satya is a management professional, speaker, coach, and author of six books, including, I Want To Be a PMP. Many people confuse stewardship with leadership. Stewardship is different from leadership. Satya: Also, I have seen people saying stewardship is equal to servant leadership. This, in one word is leadership.

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Agile Coach

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

That is, they’re forced to adhere to, or enforce, outdated performance management methods, they need to push change in order to meet objectives, and they suffer from being stuck near the bottom of the hierarchy where influencing leaders across the organization is left to whatever their VP is doing with their peers.

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Wrike

MARCH 16, 2022

Product design influences packaging, brand identity, and customer experience. These are multi-page documents, such as books and magazines, combining text and visual media to tell a story or convey information. Sometimes, the initiation phase means presenting the project’s business case and getting senior leadership buy-in.

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Guerrilla Project Management

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Dan Pink shares the big ideas in his books A Whole New Mind, Drive, and To Sell is Human on the surprising truth about how to move and motivate others. Dan Pink has written three books that have changed the way I think about motivation and influence. First, in A Whole New Mind, Dan shifts.

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Appfluence

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

If one of your goals for 2019 is to progress your career and learn how to be a great manager, check out the list of management training programs and others opportunities for development: Management Training Programs. Dale Carnegie Leadership Training for Managers. PMI Strategic and Business Management Courses.

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MPUG

JANUARY 30, 2020

Today’s session is eligible for one PMI PDU in the leadership category. Carl is the author of seven project management books and co-produced The Audio PMP Prep: Conversations on Passing the PMP Exam. For the price of a used book, I milk so much out of people. My name is Kyle and I’ll be the moderator today.

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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. Integrating Agile and Earned Value Management (#AEVM). Presentations and Briefings.

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