Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2021

Did you know that 56% of your project budget might be at risk due to poor communications? Perhaps that number (from research by PMI ) surprises you, but I’m sure you aren’t surprised by the fact that good communication management on projects leads to higher success rates. What is project communication management? who support it.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2023

PI Planning serves as the cornerstone of the Agile Release Train within SAFe, establishing a synchronized cadence for multiple teams to work together towards a common goal. SAFe is a separate framework designed for scaling Agile practices to larger organizations.

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LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Think your project management clients are your business’ bread and butter? Without a harmonious project team, your project could be at risk of unhappy stakeholders and clients, delayed timelines, and every PM’s greatest nightmare … scope creep. Think again. Most importantly, practice what you preach. Lead by example.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Artifacts that have low transparency can lead to decisions that diminish value and increase risk.”. To help with inspection, Scrum provides cadence in the form of its five events.”. Adaptation becomes more difficult when the people involved are not empowered or self-managing. Transparency enables inspection.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

They let you know whether you can go overspent or what risk mitigation actions are the right ones for this point in the project. Often an internal senior department manager, client account manager or supplier project manager/representative. Project manager: the person leading the project (you).

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Leading Answers

JANUARY 16, 2021

This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. What is a Risk-Adjusted Backlog? A risk-adjusted backlog is a backlog that contains activities relating to managing risk in addition to the usual features associated with delivering value.

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The project management plan (Plan) is a powerful tool. The team’s size, maturity, tenure, and proximity influence the ease of coordinating their efforts. Domain Management Plans describe how the project domains (PMI knowledge areas) will be planned, executed, and monitored. It describes how the project will be executed.

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Planning Technical Review Governance Government 52

International Institute for Learning

JANUARY 18, 2023

For this project there are two main deliverables, the bulletin boards and the software that manages and displays the information. Product variables include innovation, scope stability, requirements certainty, ease of change, and delivery cadence. Now we’ll evaluate some of the project variables that influence the development approach.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Introduction: First, I am not writing this to be highbrow; besides technical and project management topics, I have enjoyed history and mythology for years. I recently watched an old Greek mythology movie from the early 80’s, and I had a revelation: the muses and project management.

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Leading Agile

MAY 12, 2020

Professions such as Medicine, Law, Beauty, Teaching, Transportation, Security, Accounting, Engineering, and Project Management all have one thing in common; certifications and internal governance. Teams delivering on a predictable cadence earn the trust of the business. It involves more than just IT. Delivery-level to Leadership).

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Transportation Cadence Engineering Lean 71

Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

How do you go up into Portfolio Management? How do you go up into investment management, that kind of a thing? What do you do with planning cadences? And you know, the manifesto had just been written and I was working as a project manager in a company called CheckFree here in Atlanta and squarely like in the PMO.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

As the world of business increases in complexity, it will take more than user stories, estimation, and OKRs to build a trustworthy system that management can delegate into. But if managers want a trustworthy system, it’ll be up to them to create it. Why is it hard for managers to empower teams they want control? Fear, fear.

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Leading Agile

MAY 17, 2021

Velocity, while seemingly a simple measure of team output, is quite often one of the most misconstrued metrics by organizations new to Agile ways of working – by both managers and the teams themselves. I shared the above outline with the team and discouraged any practice that results in the “gaming” of metrics. Be vulnerable.

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Teamweek

OCTOBER 4, 2022

But there was a noticeable difference in how projects were managed when we started creating reports for the more complex projects. A project progress report can be created solely for your manager, your entire team, or your client. The issue with spreadsheets is that they aren’t designed for project management.

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Planio

MARCH 20, 2020

What’s the number one factor that influences whether your project is a success or a dud? While we’d love to say it’s the project management tool you use the truth is it’s something else: Communication. A great project manager knows the true risks of miscommunication and plans accordingly. But why leave it up to chance?

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Planio

AUGUST 9, 2021

Move onto task management and list out milestones and steps. But like everything in project management, a project schedule needs to find the sweet spot between simple and complicated to be helpful. The schedule will also help you see if you’re overloading your team or putting people at risk of burnout. Stakeholder management.

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Resource Guru

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Your agency utilization rate is typically tracked in your resource management software , where you also get a breakdown of billable hours. Reduce risks before they escalate: A sub-optimal utilization rate can be an early warning sign of projects derailing further down the road.

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Wrike

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Project management will undergo significant changes this coming year. Worldwide physical and cultural events are shaping every new project management trend happening in the industry. They may even be transforming the entire project management discipline. What are the current trends in project management?

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2022 Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Cadence 41

Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In this article, he outlines the similarities of the two as WIP Limiting, Pull-based systems – with cadences and a focus on learning – while also explaining their differences. They are attempting to advance the state of the art in work management predominately (but not only) in the area of knowledge work. Increments.

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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Benefits management, like project risk management, is practiced poorly by most organizations. This is especially true with discretionary investments as the benefits from mandatory projects are usually related to risk reduction and are usually immune to changes in strategic objectives or external environmental influences.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2023

Managers are evil. But is it possible that there may be reasonable and rational behaviors behind the actions of those executives, managers, and people who obstruct what we’re trying to do? In fact, at conferences, we often talk about how managers are bad and executives are foolish people who want to derail the company.

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Agile Technical Review Executing Influencer 76

Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Lastly, there is an overlap with the product manager role. Process-wise, the Product Owner is accountable for effectively managing the Product Backlog, thus “owning” the product on behalf of the organization. The Product Owner owns the “why” and influences the “what” and “who,” but never the “how.”

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Technical Review SCRUM 2020 Cadence 208

Herding Cats

AUGUST 5, 2017

Managing Cost, Schedule, & Technical Performance Risk Is The Basis Of Good Project Management. Risk management is essential to the success of any significant project. The emerging risks that can be identified early in the project that impact the project later are often termed “known unknowns.”

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

Creative features, successful product ideas, wild marketing stunts, full rebrands, or massive IT projects — none of them work without the project managers that tirelessly make sure everyone’s on the same page and making progress towards a shared goal. Assessing and mitigating project risks 7. But there’s a problem.

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Development Team Review 2030 Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 78

Planio

MARCH 13, 2023

For many project managers, the process of communicating progress has become an annoying weekly task. The honest truth is that many project managers hate creating status updates as they’re either requested too often or asked to supply too much detail - taking away time from the “real” work. Rate and summarize each key project control 9.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review Risk Management 78

Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

In this week’s episode, LeadingAgile Chief Methodologist, Dennis Stevens, sits down with Mike Cottmeyer to discuss Capability-based organizations, Systems of Delivery vs Systems of Transformation, managing dependencies, and more. – Talk about project management and things like that. – That’s right. – Yeah.

Agile 71

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Scrum.org

APRIL 25, 2022

Irregular Sprint lengths: The Scrum team has variable Sprint cadences. Or it is not free from outside influence. Otherwise, transparency will suffer and flawed decisions might be made, reducing value creation and increasing risk.). Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns of the Scrum Team. Laissez-faire does not help either.).

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Management Processes (#MP). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Agile Project Management (#APM). Risk Management (#RM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Management Processes.

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MPUG

JANUARY 30, 2020

Carl is the author of seven project management books and co-produced The Audio PMP Prep: Conversations on Passing the PMP Exam. He is the US correspondent for the British project management magazine, Project Manager Today, and serves on the board of directors for projectconnections.com. Carl Pritchard: Yeah. It was a conference.

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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

SAFe is designed to give teams flexibility and help manage some of the challenges larger organizations have when practicing agile. These challenges make it difficult in: Managing inter-team dependencies to deliver an Increment. The framework is built for four pillars: Team, Program, Solution, and Portfolio.

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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

SAFe is designed to give teams flexibility and help manage some of the challenges larger organizations have when practicing agile. These challenges make it difficult in: Managing inter-team dependencies to deliver an Increment. The framework is built for four pillars: Team, Program, Solution, and Portfolio.

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Agile Lean SCRUM Development Team Review 84

Teamweek

AUGUST 29, 2023

Smart hiring managers get everyone involved in social recruiting, such as current employees sharing their experiences. If you miss the mark, you risk putting off the potential employees you are actually looking for. For instance, to target experienced candidates, use clear, professional language rather than slang.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Cadence Influencer 52

MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Melanie: Jeff is currently the Training and Development Manager for Edwards Performance Solutions. As such, he oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cyber security.

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