Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 18, 2022

That’s the question I answer in my book, Managing Multiple Projects. The best processes in the world won’t help if you feel personally disorganized and struggling with productivity. If you want more information on how to make this happen for you, the step-by-step approach is covered in my book. Productivity. Get Your Copy.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

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. Boost your skills: Make sure everyone on the team knows how to manage risks and what the process is.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 6, 2023

Business Resilience: A practical guide to sustained progress delivered at pace is a book by an impressive authoring team. The tone is set immediately with the powerful introduction: this is not a book for the faint-hearted! There are 5 domains in the business resilience framework laid out in the book. Who is this book for?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

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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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

But in Scrum, I've come to appreciate a different approach, one that's more about influence and less about traditional authority. This type of leadership demands a deep insight into the processes, practices, and tools the team uses, as well as the agility to adapt to changing circumstances.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 10, 2023

Stakeholder Persona Canvas Sometimes, I have found that Empathy Mapping can be a time-consuming and resource-intensive process. Matrix of Influence Source: Book Product Mastery by Geoff Watts Image Created By Lavaneesh Gautam. Low Influence Low Interest: Many people are just interested in knowing what is happening.

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PM Basics

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Stakeholder management is a set of processes and tools where you identify, understand, and engage with your stakeholders, to manage their expectations, needs and feelings. The goal is to ensure that the stakeholders influence your project positively. They also play a part in influencing the direction and outcome of it in some way.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 25, 2022

She’s even written the book on it. We do it as children, we do it as teenagers (often terrifying our parents in the process) and we do it as adults. Modelling is the reason we don’t want our children to hang out with “the wrong sort of influence” and it is the reason we want them to hang out with “the right sort of people”.

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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. Helping people take part in the project. So why do we bother?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2024

The name kanban means billboard in Japanese, and you can see why, as the process involves placing tasks represented by cards on physical or digital kanban boards. The scrum master is the team expert on the process, and they are instrumental in guiding the team to optimize the use of scrum in the project. What Is Scrum?

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The 3 performance domains in project management are: People Process Business Environment. You still need to engage people, create effective processes and operate within your business environment: it’s all project management at the end of the day. Domain II: Process. Let’s look at each of those domains next.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 21, 2023

Procrastination Procrastination is the biggest productivity killer for over a third of project managers, according to research I did for my book, Managing Multiple Projects. Try to influence your environment to bring more stability to the work.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 7, 2022

They don’t waste time looking for stuff or trying to work out how to get things done because there are systems, tools and processes that support them. Whole books (like this one, my favorite) have been written about how to improve productivity. People are influenced by the people around them. Work is done efficiently.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 3, 2023

PMP Exam Content Outline, PMI, 2021 The 3 performance domains that are examined during the test are: People Process Business Environment Within each domain, you’ll carry out a range of tasks as a project manager that fall into your responsibilities. Let’s look at each of those domains next. This study guide will help you master them!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 14, 2022

I have a process to follow for straightforward project decisions. The incremental model of decision making is a process used to make decisions in a step-by-step manner. As decision making models go, it’s a good choice for complex decisions that require a lot of information to be processed. When it’s most appropriate.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 31, 2024

The complexity of this decision-making process is often underestimated, yet it's crucial for the success of any initiative. ? One must avoid the sunk cost fallacy, where previous investments unduly influence continued commitment to a project despite evidence suggesting otherwise.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 23, 2022

This is an edited extract from my book Customer-Centric Project Management , co-authored with Phil Peplow (Routledge, 2012). Project teams are made up of wide groups of diverse professionals, and ensuring that stakeholders are engaged in the project process is essential to the success of the project. Project customer vs sponsor.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

During the five process groups of the project life cycle, there are multiple objectives and outcomes for each phase. After the project initiation and the planning processes, the execution of the project begins. During this phase a project leader will focus on these key processes: Managing people. Following processes.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

So much of what you might have read about online or in project management books, or even be taught on training courses, is simply not aligned the skills we need to use every day. So what processes and techniques will catapult your career and what are the areas that you can… overlook? The way we do project management has evolved.

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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

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.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Normally, PMI provides enough notice to candidates so they can finish up studying with their existing training materials and get their exam booked before it changes. If you knew the contents of the book, and could manage your time in the exam, you’d be OK. That also gives training providers time to update their courses.

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The Lazy Project Manager

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Book your VIP option place here [link]. More information and booking here [link]. Based on the Amazon #1 Bestselling Project Management Book by Peter Taylor. PMO Influencer of the Year 2020 (PMO Global Alliance). Or there is a Self-Study option [link]. Peter Taylor. Grab your place today here [link]. Peter Taylor.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

Peter Taylor, Ron Rosenhead and Vicki James have just written a book called Strategies for Project Sponsorship , about (surprise, surprise) project sponsors. Project managers must take an active role in influencing and educating project sponsors in these best practices to get the leadership support the project requires.

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Leading Answers

DECEMBER 21, 2017

I was given a book called “ How to Manage Change Effectively: Approaches, Methods, and Case Examples ” by Donald Kirkpatrick that changed my career. Something I was not aware of at the time is how the career development process works within the government. Opportunities to influence the change initiative.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 31, 2024

This is a key skill that helps us influence change and create greater impact that is in alignment with our intentions. How frequently do you feel pressure to learn about the new trendy [fill in the blank] agile practice, read the books everyone is talking about, and keep getting more certifications? Where do we go from here?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 15, 2024

Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ? A gradual decline in their effectiveness can be a subtle, insidious process heavily influenced by the size and culture of an organization. Consequently, recognizing and addressing these signs is critical to maintaining integrity and effectiveness.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2020

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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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Todd and Ryan shed light on how these dependencies significantly influence the ordering process, challenging the traditional belief that backlogs should be arranged solely based on value or financial returns. This revelation serves as a myth-buster, encouraging Scrum practitioners to adopt a more comprehensive approach to backlog management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The company culture has a lot of influence over what is done and what is ignored not followed up. Further sources of help If your work so far has uncovered things that concern you, then consider investing some time in a formal healthcheck process. Is it that they don’t have time? Or the skills, experience, interest?

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Scrum.org

MAY 4, 2023

The success of building effective stakeholder communication strategy depends upon the outputs of the first two steps of the stakeholder engagement process i.e. Stakeholder Exploration and Stakeholder Analysis & Mapping. What stakeholders’ influence is’ can be really important in what channels you want to use.

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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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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 24, 2017

To compile this list, we dug through Amazon listings, forums, blogs, and review websites to identify the best project management books specifically for those in the manufacturing and engineering industries. Who said business books have to be a bore? Goldratt turned the traditional how-to book on its head with this “business novel.”

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Scrum.org

JUNE 4, 2021

The tool is known as the circle of influence, or the circles of control influence and concern. This comes from the book by Stephen R. Hopefully, this will start a conversation that reveals the varying degrees of control and influence that the individual team members can leverage for the benefit of the team.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Understanding plus action plus influence gives you engagement. The core aspects of engagement, are understanding, your stakeholder perspectives and building, trusting relationships, taking some kind of action and then influencing stakeholder perspectives to shape the work in the direction of the intended outcomes.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The buck stops with me but there are very few ways I can influence the direction of travel. There are peaks and troughs — Peter Taylor, AKA The Lazy Project Manager , talks about this in his book of the same name. Book a call. Let’s look at those. The work is stressful. Project management is stressful.

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