Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 9, 2021

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. It minimizes or removes negative interest.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 5, 2019

They are often active, and they can have a positive or negative influence depending on their actions. Stakeholders can influence everything and everyone in a project or organization, including senior management, project leaders, team members, customers, users and many others. Also, who will wield the most influence?

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 5, 2018

The challenge with the PO role is that not only do you need someone who has deep business process knowledge regarding the product they are supporting, but they also need to have well established relationships with key stakeholders who will influence product direction.

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Planio

JULY 22, 2020

A good project management book. the truth is that project management books are a more in-depth way to get inside the minds of the best managers out there. We combed through best-seller lists, spoke with veteran PMs, and read a ton to put together this list of the best project management books for upgrading your career in 2020.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2024

The scrum methodology has been around since the mid-1980s and has been a core sub-methodology of agile since 2001 when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book on it: Agile Software Development with Scrum. This means this methodology greatly influences how your team operates and might even require you to make hiring decisions based on it.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 22, 2023

In this article we’ll look at: 7 reasons why people don’t take responsibility for tasks How to deal with people who are lazy How you can influence the culture of the office so that taking responsibility becomes the norm. 6 Ways to influence your team to take more responsibility Make it easier to work together than work separately.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The PMI Continuing Certification Requirements handbook defines Leadership like this: Knowledge, skills and behaviors specific to leadership-oriented, cross-cutting activities that help an organization achieve its business goals. Certification Leadership PDUs Required PMP 8 PgMP 8 PfMP 8 PMI-PBA 8 PMI-ACP 4 PMI-RMP 4 PMI-SP 4 CAPM 2.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Projects should have objectives that result in clearly defined outputs and benefits. Action if they aren’t clear: Ask the project sponsor to hold a workshop on defining this and providing ultimate clarity for everyone. The company culture has a lot of influence over what is done and what is ignored not followed up.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Your single best investment to improve your professional standing ; order the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now! ? Curious why the mapping moves from Right to Left (+2) A system diagram of influencing factors often contains reinforcing loops – how do we make that work with dysfunction trees that do not allow for loops?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

PMI defines a domain like this: The high-level knowledge area that is essential to the practice of project management. It’s worth noting that the APM Body of Knowledge also covers interpersonal and softer skills, and people like me have been writing books about how important the people stuff is to project management for years.

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Kiron Bondale

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

This is quite likely when the people we work with are at different levels of seniority, experience or influence than us. We could take some time before we start to work with a new partner to define a few ground rules for how we will work together including how we will provide feedback.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

He is the author of Reinventing Communication by Routledge, a book on how to design, lead and manage high performing projects. You can see Mark’s book, and all the other experts’ books on Amazon here. He is author of 13 best-selling books, including four about project management. Also, aim to have fewer goals.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

What is an Influencer? These gentlemen are in all the top-10 lists of being the ‘the best’ Politician, Influencer, world changer, etc. So before diving into the Product Owner taking an Influencer stance, let’s first inspect what an Influencer is. The Influencer is also referred to as the Politician.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 3, 2023

PMI defines a domain like this in the exam content outline: The high-level knowledge area that is essential to the practice of project management. It’s the difference between doing a reasonable job and being seen as a strategic influencer at work. What are the 3 performance domains you need for the PMP exam? Yes, that’s right!

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Kiron Bondale

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The industry we are in will influence and constrain our approach. The context of both the performing and receiving organizations will influence project approaches. If you liked this article, why not read my book Easy in Theory, Difficult in Practice which contains 100 other lessons on project leadership? Organizational.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The incremental decision making approach is often used in government settings, such as defining public policy. Suitable decisions Not suitable decisions How do I affect change by influencing policy? What actions are we going to take to influence organizational change? I learned about this in the book Yes!

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Leadership is a quality that’s important for success and yet so difficult to define. Leadership Defined. Jennifer defined it as a process whereby a person influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal. The origins of how we have come to define leadership have historic roots. What is leadership?

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Leadership Influencer Software Review Defining 329

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 23, 2022

The Workplace Bullying and Institute (WBI) defines workplace bullying as “ repeated, health-harming mistreatment, verbal abuse, or conduct which is threatening, humiliating, intimidating, or sabotage that interferes with work, or some combination of the three” It is a laser-focused, systematic campaign of interpersonal destruction.

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Scrum.org

JULY 14, 2021

Most of the books, podcasts, blog posts, and material that we find online have to do with this question. The case studies allowed us to define important variables in the terminology of Scrum teams, rather than the other way around. I will define the core variables below. How can you make a Scrum team more effective?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

They are: Ensure continued business justification Learn from experience Define roles, responsibilities and relationships Manage by exception Manage by stages Focus on products Tailor to suit the project. Define roles, responsibilities and relationships There are defined roles and responsibilities in PRINCE2® projects.

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Prince2 Technical Review Governance Government 358

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 24, 2020

Projects should have objectives that result in clearly defined outputs and benefits. Action if they aren’t clear: Ask the project sponsor to hold a workshop on defining this and providing ultimate clarity for everyone. The company culture has a lot of influence over what is done and what is ignored not followed up.

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PMO Governance Government Budget 505

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Your single best investment to improve your professional standing ; order the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now! ? Join me as I explore the potential of a custom GPT based on my Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book in cutting through the maze of Scrum challenges. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 17, 2022

“The successful project communicator is a good networker and builds effective working relationships within the project, across the wider organization of which the project is a part and sometimes externally,” writes Ann Pilkington in her book, Communicating Projects.

Technical Review 264

Technical Review Construction Influencer Defining 264

ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2018

Hence, it’s important to know all possible constraints, their influences on each other and the project management tools that address those constraints. Most project management books will tell you this: If you make sure that the triple constraint is covered, you won’t have any problems. Scope defines the exact desired outcome.

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Teamweek

JUNE 5, 2019

We’ve compiled a list that includes ten of the best management books you can find. Take note of each book and add them to your reading list as a way to boost your own management skills and also share with others on your team. As the author of his most popular bestselling book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People , Stephen R.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

My approach to designing a workshop is heavily influenced by the book Game Storming written by Dave Gray. Here's how I go about it: Define the Objective : Determine what you aim to achieve by the end of the workshop. Product Goal Setting Workshop : Define measurable product goals, ensuring alignment with the overall vision.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

In this article we’ll look at why people don’t take responsibility for tasks and also how you can influence the culture of the office so that taking responsibility becomes the norm. They need help defining their priorities so they aren’t spending time on low priority work when they should be doing high priority project tasks.

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Influencer Risk Management Leadership Defining 265

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

My approach to designing a workshop is heavily influenced by the book Game Storming written by Dave Gray. Here's how I go about it: Define the Objective : Determine what you aim to achieve by the end of the workshop. Product Goal Setting Workshop : Define measurable product goals, ensuring alignment with the overall vision.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

I define engagement like this. Understanding plus action plus influence gives you engagement. If you put those aspects into a formula, you get this understanding plus action plus influence equals engagement. Here’s how APM defines Gamification in their guide. Definition of engagement. What is a Gamification?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 25, 2022

And, of course, your relationship with your client is key to starting the process of defining your project’s goals. So engage with them positively so you can learn from them, keep them informed and, when necessary, influence them gently. The Triple Constraint. Shift Happens! You can read my review of OnlinePMCourses here.

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Kiron Bondale

JANUARY 6, 2019

I finally completed reading Nassim Taleb ‘s book Skin in the Game which I had written about in a recent article. In small companies, how a product gets developed and delivered is usually defined by a “Big Brain” (e.g.

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Controlling PMO Performance Measurement Influencer 180

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

My approach to designing a workshop is heavily influenced by the book game storming written by Dave Gray. Here’s how I go about it: Define the Objective : Determine what you aim to achieve by the end of the workshop. Product Goal Setting Workshop : Define measurable product goals, ensuring alignment with the overall vision.

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SCRUM Closing Influencer Defining 147

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 3, 2019

RACI (say: racy) is a way of categorising stakeholders to define their roles and responsibilities on a project. Knowing what people do and the influence they have is an important of part of how to manage a project. The book makes the point that you can produce multiple responsibility assignment matrices at different levels.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

A program manager is responsible for: Defining, facilitating and completing programs, including setting the approach. You’ve got to use business acumen and deal with the bigger picture on a much larger scale and the influences that puts on your stakeholder community. This is an edited extract from my book, Project Manager (BCS Books).

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Gunther Verheyen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In the summer of 2019 I got in touch with O’Reilly Media about their ambition to add a book about Scrum to their “97 Things” series. As the title of the series suggests, the idea was to collect 97 essays in the book, to be provided by people from around the world. 8 People contributed 3 Things.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 5, 2022

The Scrum framework is purposefully incomplete, it only defines the parts required to implement Scrum theory. Another example of this is what we’ve come to call “Happy-Clappy Scrum”, in our book the “ Zombie Scrum Survival Guide ”. In addition to the experiments we describe in our book, we also created 65+ do-it-yourself workshops.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

PMI defines ethics like this: Ethics is about making the best possible decisions concerning people, resources and the environment. The PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct defines a set of standards for how project managers should behave. He is also the author of The Project Management Answer Book.

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