Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2023

There’s only one thing worse than being told bad news, and that is being told about bad news late. His ‘Managing and Saving Programs in a Changing World’ webinar covers 5 steps for project recovery. This conflicts with the advice Scott Berkun gives in his book, Making Things Happen.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 1, 2022

Long has spoonfeeding solutions and off-the-shelf feature descriptions prevailed in many development teams. Although some issues might have been fixed, I rarely see the full potential of a Scrum Team being achieved. Going all-in on predefined features fails to capitalize on hidden ideas in the brains of team members.

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PM Basics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

It is hard to imagine what you can do with a project risk. What can you, as a project manager, do to mitigate a risk? Adding some risk reserves and removing requirements from the scope are not the only options. I want to share some stories of risk management with you. Risk of Losing an Important Team Member.

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In my project management workshops, I ask this question, "What are the top causes of project failure?" Nine times out of ten, I hear the answer—poor communication. What happens when poor communication exists? Consequently, individuals misunderstand and make bad assumptions. Heck, your team may even abandon ship.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Nearly 1 in 5 project managers have considered leaving their job: 37% of professionals have thought about quitting project management in the past year. So why are people leaving project management? Let’s start with this story from one project manager. Anonymous project manager. Why do project managers quit?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Estimation is a complementary practice Scrum Teams use in Product D evelopment. Story points are usually assigned by the team members using a scale such as the Fibonacci sequence (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc.) Some other teams may use animal sizes (Rat, Cat, Dog, Horse, Elephant etc.) or T-shirt sizes (XS, S, M, L, XL, etc.).

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

Successful CEOs Ram Charan and Larry Bossidy define execution in their book Executive: The Discipline of Getting Things Done : “Execution is a specific set of behaviors and techniques that companies need to master in order to have a competitive advantage. During this phase a project leader will focus on these key processes: Managing people.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Long has spoon-feeding solutions and off-the-shelf feature descriptions prevailed in many development teams. Although some issues might have been fixed, I rarely see the full potential of a Scrum Team being achieved. Going all-in on predefined features fails to capitalize on hidden ideas in the brains of team members.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In this article, we’ll dive into the statistics and you’ll learn: The top challenges facing people managing several projects at once The key skills required for managing multiple projects The top tools for prioritizing work day-to-day. This wasn’t a survey about project portfolio management at the PMO level.

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Kiron Bondale

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

wrote The Mythical Man Month, he provided project managers with the valuable caution which later was named Brooks’ Law: “ Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later “ While there are always exceptions, this statement is generally true. as well as a number of other online book stores).

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2023

Why do we deliver poor quality? From a bigger perspective these are all different risks. Technical risks or business risks or risks in general. What I’ve found interesting is how we deal with risks. More things to think about come from Marty Cagan's “Inspired” book. Why are we most often too late?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

I have been a bit lax with project management reading recently but one book that I have made time for is The Conscious Project Leader: How to Create a Culture of Success for Your Projects, Your Team and Yourself. It didn’t take much browsing on his website to realise that it was going to be my kind of book.

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Leading Answers

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Telephone Game and Tree Swing cartoon are classic examples of how even well-meaning interpretations can be distorted, leading to bad outcomes. This is why I created PMillustrated.com to explain project management to visual learners, and I am a fan of the PMI product Wicked Problem Solving (WPS).

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Kiron Bondale

MARCH 14, 2021

The happy path for a project manager is shepherding their project’s delivery from start to finish. This happens more often than you might think resulting from personal absences such as sickness or jury duty or a business need such as the current project manager having to put out some fires with a client they had worked with before.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

A project manager approached me recently with a problem. That didn’t sit quite right with her (and she didn’t know she was a perfect example of a project management ethics case study when she was telling me the story!). What is Ethics in Project Management? What are ethical issues in management?

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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 16, 2018

I’m midway through Nassim Taleb ‘s latest book, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life. The premise of this book is that without skin in the game, asymmetries emerge which encourage unfairness, poor decision making and can contribute to a lack of understanding of realities.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I have updated my responses in order to better reflect the PRINCE2 and A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge — PMBOK® Guide , as at October 2021 as the PMBOK® Guide has been updated since this interview first took place, and PRINCE2 US was launched in 2020. She first took her PRINCE2 Practitioner exam in 2004.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Today I’m interviewing Mark Woeppel, author of Visual Project Management. But what is visual project management? I caught up with Mark so that he could explain that interesting title and talk more about the book. Mark, what is visual project management? Rather than look at the project plan, look at what the team is doing.

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Inloox

MAY 27, 2021

A good project manager knows that some developments are out of their control. In this article, we present 8 project management guidelines that help you deal with failures. self-help author who focuses on personal time management. Entire books have been devoted to explaining this law.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 23, 2022

Bullying can be as harmful in the workplace as it is in schools and other areas of society, causing the well understood personal emotional impacts plus a long list of challenges for project manager and their organizations where it is taking place. The most obvious are impacts on project success, team performance, budgets and timelines.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 30, 2020

I’ve seen project managers and other colleagues crash and burn. Lots of senior managers. There is a reason that project management has a code of ethics. I could write my book without his case study. As I talk about in my course on how to write awesome project status reports , surprises are bad.

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Leading Agile

MAY 25, 2023

I invited them here to have a conversation with me because I was out with clients doing presale stuff and working with executives on the teams and the conversation around full stack teams, software craftsmanship, clean coding, different strategies for how to get developers engaged and involved was coming up. Thank you very much.

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LiquidPlanner

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Now there were certainly many risks, and it could have all gone wrong. You will note that 1 and 2 are within my control – only myself to blame if this was the situation – whilst 3 and 4 are outside my control but where, wise project manager that I try to be, I added in contingency to cover the unexpected. Managing Miss ing Deadlines.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 5, 2020

Angela always excelled at playing leader or manager at group projects growing up. Then she was made project manager. College didn’t train her for this, neither did her company and she wasn’t a good manager for quite a while after. She believed that she was destined to lead. This story isn’t unique to Angela.

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The IIL Blog

APRIL 24, 2024

It traces its roots to Lean, which is also foundational to other modern management theories. It developed the just-in-time delivery model, which freed up working capital. Companies innovate and develop new products. They quickly abandon “bad” ideas and pursue valuable ones. How we manage and lead defines the organization.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 5, 2022

As a community, we excel at putting our fingers on the sore spots of what teams and organizations do wrong. Some examples of good Scrum versus bad Scrum we all seem to agree on…. But how useful is it for members of a Scrum team or an organization that actually wants to succeed with Scrum? Why does it matter?

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Project Risk Coach

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

10 Things Successful Project Managers Never Tolerate This is a great time for you to be an intentional project manager. If you are like most project managers today, you are overwhelmed with several projects and you have too little time to get it all done. The Intentional Project Manager. Tolerance can be a great trait.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Stick with me, and we’ll explore what project requirements are, why they’re important, and some tips for developing good ones. Being able to manage non-functional requirements is something you’re probably going to have to help users with, as in my experience, they tend to default to thinking only about features.

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Teamweek

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Project risk management is the process of identifying and planning for potential risks, which are factors with the potential to affect the schedule, budget, or performance of your project. So how can you address your project’s risks? Identify Risks That Apply. Get their advice on what risks you should plan for.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2019

Part 1 intends to focus on the Scrum Team, Part 2 will be released shortly after our Webinar on April 29th and will focus on the “Epic” challenges agile leaders are facing. For example, it is recommended that members of the development teams do not spend more than 10% of their capacity on Product Backlog refinement.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Project management is everywhere—the term is experiencing a moment. People have come to realize that much of the work they do is a project with a beginning, middle and end, and that the discipline of project management offers proven methodologies and tools to get their jobs done more productively and efficiently. Fundamentals.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Risk Management is Project Management for Adults - Tim Lister.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 21, 2019

Sub-title #2: Jeff Sutherland’s book could have been called: “Scrum: Twice the decision-making in half the time leading to half the work and twice the output.”. This, you can imagine, causes ripples through the Project Management community. In Product Development, the end state cannot be known in advance of starting. Yes, weird.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Its purpose was to use all our personal experiences and creativity, to identify quick tips around team autonomy, and its components self-management, and cross-functionality. This article is focused on quick tips to make your Scrum team more self-managing. What we mean with self-management. And that makes sense.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 29, 2019

For the last four years, I’ve published my annual women in project management blog for ProjectManager.com. Even after all that time, women in project management are still a hidden key to our global and economic sustainability. Related: Advice for Women in Project Management. It’s Time to Change the Ratio.

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 15, 2017

The project a skilled engineer might be working on, however, won’t be successful unless there is an equally skilled project manager involved leading and managing the engineering project. Project Management Institute’s (PMI) 2016 report The High Cost of Low Performance: How will you improve business results? Think I’m wrong?

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MPUG

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Projects and Risk A significant role of the project manager is to identify and manage the risks associated with project objectives. This does not suggest that this is only the project manager’s responsibility. However, it is their responsibility to get the team effectively engaged.

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