Scrum.org

AUGUST 13, 2023

TL; DR: Adherence to Legacy Systems, Processes, and Practices Administrative overreach and micromanagement in Scrum mainly arise from clinging to legacy systems and traditional (management) practices, leading to rigidity and misapplication of Agile principles. Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available !

Process 156

Process Sustainability Technical Review SCRUM 156

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

This article, The Project Manager’s Little Book of Cheats [Book Review] , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. There’s no such thing as cheating in project management,” writes Beth Spriggs , “but if there were it would be this book.”. I love books that are practical and applicable, and this is both.

PMI 178

PMI Risk Management Leadership Risk 178

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Reduce and Uncover Risk 3. Richard Newton, in his book, The Project Management Book , sets out another 4 benefits of stakeholder management. Free Resources One of my favourite project management books “Proactive stakeholders effectively provide an extended team of additional resources (for free!) Free Resources 2.

Risk Management 438

Risk Management Finance Software Review Risk 438

Musings on Project Management

JUNE 25, 2019

To be open Every text and paper I've read describes risk management like many other project processes: open, transparent, available to any on the project team. Risks are identified, evaluated, ranked, made subject to some form of risk reduction paradigm; and everyone is made aware. Oh, but if it only were!

Risk Management 170

Risk Management Risk Process 170

LiquidPlanner

MAY 24, 2022

This notion of contingency analysis shows that when planning or budgeting, we must account for foreseeable risk and factor in the optimal route required with the minimum number of possible detours. Risk is not solved with a calculation. Project leaders need to ask: are some foreseen risks not occurring?

Risk Management 158

Risk Management Risk 2003 2007 158

Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 21, 2022

Thanks to the most recent issue of Tom Geraghty’s weekly Psychological Safety newsletter , I learned about a new model for how we consider safety and risk. A Safety-I perspective is a glass is half-full one – things go wrong and we can find assignable causes in people, process and tools.

Governance 326

Governance Government Risk Management Risk 326

MPUG

APRIL 26, 2021

Risks were identified, then qualified, and risk responses planned. For implementation of these risk responses, a number of actions were needed. Some were taken, but most ignored or overlooked because of other projects and lack of understanding of risk management at an organizational level.

Governance 122

Governance Government Risk Management Risk 122

Project Bliss

APRIL 18, 2017

However, I have purchased this book myself and can honestly highly recommend it. . There are so many considerations there that introduce complexity and risk. Gordon has you covered with his book The Data Conversion Cycle: A guide to migrating transactions and other records, for system implementation teams. It’s Complicated.

Software Review 202

Software Review 2013 Risk Management Risk 202

Project Risk Coach

APRIL 27, 2016

Looking to buy a great project management book to help you to mature as a project manager? Here are the 10 best sellers when it comes to what project management books are being purchased on Amazon: The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future. Some books were listed more than once on the Amazon rankings (e.g.,

2016 150

2016 Risk Management SCRUM Risk 150

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2024

The APM BOK defines project quality as: “The fitness for purpose of the degree of conformance of the outputs of a process, or the process itself to requirements.” Good” could be: The buttons are green The process takes less than 3 seconds Latency is 0.1 Good” then becomes your success criteria or quality measures.

Software Review 332

Software Review Technical Review Budget Defining 332

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 11, 2024

However, the risk of getting the change aspects wrong can be huge. There are also plenty of good quality change management books if a training course is not for you. She is the author of Build, Excite, Equip which is the book that this class is based on. Who’s behind the BEE Methodology?

Software Review 318

Software Review Technical Review Certification Change Management 318

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Or book a power hour with me and get started on your mentoring journey straight away! Having read the policy/process document/standard operating procedure on Y, I have a few questions. Do you have any book recommendations on X topic? What might my blind spots be in this process? Book a power hour with me.

Cadence 313

Cadence Logistics Certification Influencer 313

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.

Executing 500

Executing Project Life Cycle Software Review Technical Review 500

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Because PRINCE2® is a broad-brush approach, it doesn’t cover technical processes or specific techniques, but it will fit alongside them. You should look at what happened on past projects because that helps mitigate risk on your current project. It’s a predictive methodology, although PRINCE2 Agile ® allows for agile frameworks.

Prince2 358

Prince2 Technical Review Governance Government 358

PM Basics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Qualitative risk analysis boosts the chances for project success dramatically. I honestly believe that this risk analysis in more than enough for small and medium projects. Qualitative Risk Analysis is the process of prioritizing risks for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact.

Risk 59

Risk Risk Management Software Review Technical Review 59

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 14, 2024

A Legal Project Manager supports legal teams to deliver either process improvements and internally-facing work, or legal projects for clients. He learned a lot about project management in the process and eventually went on to become a PMO Manager. This role tends to require a legal background and training.

PMO 385

PMO Construction Engineering Logistics 385

Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 8, 2022

Fixed date projects only get a passing mention in the Managing Successful Projects book , and you’d have to look really hard to find a mention of managing time constraints in the Directing Successful Projects book. PRINCE2® advises that the fixed date time constraint is managed as a planning risk. There isn’t.

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Prince2 Software Review Risk Management Risk 399

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. Stakeholder management refers to a series of ongoing processes where you organize, engage and improve the relationships with your project’s stakeholders.

Process 111

Process Software Review Energy Influencer 111

MPUG

JANUARY 17, 2021

Portfolio Decides.” – from the book, I Want To be A RMP. As I interact with various project, program, and portfolio (PPP) management professionals who use my courses, read my books, and/or attend my webinars, I get many queries on the risk management life cycle approach. Monitor Risks. “Project Creates. Program Guides.

Risk Management 103

Risk Management Risk Monitoring Closing 103

Teamweek

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

We often plan a project with this overly optimistic mindset — never considering the myriad of project risks out there. So we’ll explore the most common project risks (and how to prevent them) in this guide. 11 common types of project risks It’s important to remember that risks don’t always appear as a dark, foreboding catastrophes.

Risk 95

Risk Estimate Risk Management ChatGPT 95

LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 14, 2018

Are you managing the kind of large projects that demand that you put professional processes and documentation into action? Related: 6 Top PM Books for Engineers and Manufacturers. Remember to factor in the cost of the training, the exam fee, travel to the exam center, and any books or study materials you need.

Certification 910

Certification Estimate Infrastructure Manufacturing 910

Project Risk Coach

DECEMBER 14, 2020

7 PMI-RMP® Courses 8 What books do you recommend? The PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)® is one of the eight PMI certifications. The PMI-RMP Exam Content Outline (2012) specifies the domains, knowledge, and skills needed by a Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)®. What books do you recommend?

PMI 259

PMI 2021 2009 2012 259

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. It helps reduce risk.

Governance 337

Governance Government Risk Management Influencer 337

PM Basics

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In this article, you’ll find the real-life project risk management plan example. Below the example, you’ll find all the required information and resources to create your Risk Management Plan quickly and for free. Risk Management Plan Definition. Risk Register, WBS). Risk Management Plan Template.

Risk Management 105

Risk Management Risk Planning Technical Review 105

Kiron Bondale

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Project management standards such as the PMBOK® Guide, Sixth Edition state that contingency reserves, which are established to offset the cost or schedule impacts of realized identified risks, are considered part of the project budget and cost baseline.

Risk Management 328

Risk Management PMI Construction Budget 328

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?

SCRUM 412

SCRUM Manufacturing 2001 Agile 412

Management Yogi

AUGUST 29, 2023

Portfolio Risk Management differs significantly from project and/or program risk management. While there are similarities among the processes, procedures, actions in risk management, risk management in portfolio differs in many areas.

Risk Management 90

Risk Management Risk PMI Process 90

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The project tolerance definition I use in my book, Project Manager , is this: Tolerances are how much you can flex within your project without having to go back for approval. For example, let’s say the financial value of all the project risks should not exceed 5% of the project budget. What is a project tolerance?

Prince2 331

Prince2 Sustainability Risk Management Budget 331

PM Basics

JANUARY 20, 2023

A document you use to capture all known risks is called: A. Risk Register. Risk List. Risk Diary Next Question On a Friday evening John (your best engineer in the team) comes to you and says he quits. Qualitative Risk Analysis B. Risk Brainstorming C. Quantitative Risk Analysis D. More responsibility.

Risk Management 52

Risk Management Risk Technical Review Technical Support 52

PM Basics

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Scope management is a combination of processes and tools that help to identify tangible and intangible project outcomes. After that, these integrated processes help to describe, control, and validate the work to be done by the project team in order to create those outcomes. Then, you can dive deeper into each process and tool.

Process 108

Process Underperforming Technical Team Estimate Software Review 108

Ron Rosenhead

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

In our book “Strategies for Project Sponsorship” (published by Management Concepts) we made the suggestion the company should be making every effort to interview for project sponsors. Now as we suggested in the book, “if your company has a strong project management culture this idea is entirely plausible.

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Process 2017 PMI 2020 145

Kiron Bondale

MAY 8, 2023

I read a number of project leadership books each year but usually I find only one or two which really make an impact. Professor Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner ‘s book “ How Big Things Get Done ” is one of the latter. In the book, the authors provide many case studies supporting eleven heuristics derived from Prof.

Aerospace 177

Aerospace Construction Leadership Risk Management 177

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The process is pretty much the same. If you are preparing handover information as part of the recruitment process – to give to a new starter because your own responsibilities have changed or you are leaving – then you will want to include a comprehensive handover report. Mostly, projects can cope without you for a fortnight.

Planning 354

Planning Risk Management Process Closing 354

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2020

Richard Newton, in his book, The Project Management Book, sets out another 4 benefits of stakeholder management. One of my favourite project management books. Reduce and Uncover Risk. Good stakeholder management reduces some risks and makes other risks, which may otherwise by unnoticed, transparent,” Newton says.

Finance 346

Finance Risk Management Software Review Influencer 346

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Mentoring is not coaching Mentoring is not coaching , but to be honest, I’m taking a mentoring certification at the moment and we are learning many of the same models and theories that are covered in the coaching books I’ve read. Book a power hour with me. Project managers want a mentor for lots of professional development reasons.

PMO 318

PMO Technical Review Certification Risk Management 318

Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Imagine a business analyst who is mapping a business process. Read Books on Communications Want to get inside the head of some of the world’s greatest communication experts? The post How to Become a Better Project Communicator appeared first on Project Risk Coach. Imagine a developer who is creating a website.

Cadence 397

Cadence Risk Management Risk Process 397

Project Risk Coach

MARCH 2, 2016

How well did John use risk management to accomplish his goal? He and his team completed a project plan and identified project risks. He captured the risks in his risk register and periodically conducted risk reviews. He skipped capturing his risks and conducting the risk reviews.

Risk Management 170

Risk Management Risk Technical Review Software Review 170