The Strategic Project Manager

APRIL 26, 2022

John Kotter’s 8 step Change Management Model is a strong framework that has been used to implement change in many organizations. This post examines the model, its advantages and disadvantages, and its value to strategists and project managers. What Is the John Kotter Change Management Model?

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Techno-PM

JUNE 18, 2023

Understanding the need for change management: Change management is the process of planning, implementing, and guiding individuals, teams, and organizations through a period of transition to achieve a desired future state. Stakeholders include individuals or groups who are directly or indirectly impacted by the change.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 15, 2024

Think about: Internal project customers External project customers Senior executives Team leaders Subject matter experts Project support team members Project management office team members Project managers These are all individuals or groups who will have something to say about how well they are equipped to deliver the upcoming work.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 11, 2024

Change management is often part of a project manager’s role, but we don’t get a lot of formal training in how to make it happen. However, the risk of getting the change aspects wrong can be huge. A cost-effective and comprehensive self-paced training.

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Traxidy

JULY 13, 2022

Your Project Change Management Should Never be a Surprise. You’re on a tight project schedule and you’ve been managing multiple unplanned work activities to keep your project on track as planned. Ultimately, the situation leaves you with no alternative but to request a change. By: Steve McBroom, CEO, Traxidy. Conclusion.

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Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

Change management is a critical aspect of any successful project. By effectively managing change, organizations can minimize disruption, build stakeholder support, and achieve project objectives. One of the key factors in successful change management is clear and consistent communication.

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Techno-PM

MARCH 9, 2021

In fact, change is more relevant than ever since the world does not stop while we are planning the year ahead – being political changes, a pandemic that puts the economy on hold, or evolving technical developments and business model innovations – we are always subject to external forces at play. Download Change Management Kit Now!

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Scrum.org

APRIL 30, 2024

An inability for the organization to swiftly adapt to external market changes as work is stuck in progress. Consider a traditional organisation design where individuals are grouped based on their skills into specific functions, such as Sales, Marketing, Product, and R&D. Managing this transition requires strong change management.

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Techno-PM

AUGUST 4, 2021

Lewin's Change Management Model Regardless of the company size, age, and niche, how organisational teams accept, employ and execute change is the key part of today’s change management. And that is Kurt Lewin’s 3 Stage Change Model. Download Project Management Templates!

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Agile Coach

APRIL 19, 2018

What started with the intent of telling a great story, spawned a global movement: ~10,000 copies of Lean Change Management have been sold factoring in all distribution channels. peaked at #6444 out of 8,000,000 books on Amazon, #198 in Leadership and Management. A bunch of LCM dedicated Meetup.com groups. on Amazon.ca

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In this independent review, I’ll share: Whether the course is really worth it (I think so) Why it’s good for experienced project and change management practitioners Who shouldn’t do the course? If you aren’t confident leading a group, you might find it harder to put the skills into practice. It turns out you do.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 6, 2023

PMO stands for project management office and it’s responsible for the project management standards in an organization. It can be a department in that organization or a group of professionals, either inside or outside the organization. The two others are the program management office and the portfolio management office.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 7, 2022

There is a lot of change management involved in this kind of project and people can create problems to the point that they can push the project into the ‘failed’ zone. Team management happens as well, but there’s no reason not to engage your team. Stakeholder-led. I am more aligned to agree with that. Categorizing stakeholders.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 20, 2023

I use it mainly for two things: First , putting down in writing what my Steering Group are actually supposed to do to set the ‘ground rules’ for that group and their meetings. This is likely to be either the remit of a single group i.e. your Steering Group or a workstream of work. Explain what this involves.

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Techno-PM

JANUARY 12, 2021

Change Management Process Let us not trick ourselves: change management can be complex. There is plenty to consider and forgetting just one of these can ruin your change management effort. Not just planning change but ensuring that it sticks!

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Scrum.org

MARCH 4, 2024

Use platforms like LinkedIn groups or Meetup to find or create such groups. Check out my LinkedIn group, the Agile Clinic.) Participate in community discussions : Join forums or social media groups. Study organizational change management : Apply for a short course or prepare for a challenging certification.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2023

They might also advise the project manager on how best to do particular project management techniques like communication management , risk management , quality management and change management. To be honest, most of my projects have had pretty reasonable and friendly steering groups.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Underneath, I list skills grouped together by: Interpersonal skills Leadership Each of those headings has a list of bullet points underneath that give examples of how I have demonstrated those skills. And you don’t have to work as a project manager for very long before you realize they are truly not easy.

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Techno-PM

AUGUST 4, 2021

Lewin's Change Management Model Regardless of the company size, age, and niche, how organizational teams accept, employ and execute change is the key part of today’s change management. And that is Kurt Lewin’s 3 Stage Change Model. Download Project Management Templates!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 4, 2021

The project management models most likely to come up in your Project Management Professional ( PMP ®) studies and in your work as a project manager are: Situational leadership Communication Motivation Change management Complexity Conflict Negotiation Planning Process groups Team development Stakeholder salience.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Change management is one of the most challenging components of a project’s success, but having acceptance for the changes a project brings will help realise the benefits of the project. Resistance to Change. Keeping People Informed. This post first appeared on PMO Perspectives Blog.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Although we can organize events along a time-line, we also tend to group events according to association, where the association is sometimes lost from the conscious mind. As a background to the project, it was an assignment on performance management through behavioral change. The project. Why do you think that would happen?

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Appfluence

MARCH 23, 2021

We bring you a full guide and the top 10 key points to master Change Management in your organization. We live in an age where change is constant. Change Management is the way organizations best adapt to this reality. What is change management? Information travels faster than ever.

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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 5, 2021

I frequently see questions asked in project management discussion groups about hybrid projects. For example, we might use a work breakdown structure to help define project scope to a manageable level of detail, but then use work boards and hold daily coordination events to support the delivery of that scope.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 1, 2022

The importance of a change control board to a successful, high-quality project cannot be overstated. What Is a Change Control Board? A change control board is sometimes referred to as a change review board. It’s a group of people from the project team that meets regularly to consider changes to the project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

Learn the skills needed to lead a virtual team, chair online meetings and manage the work remotely. Integrating change management for project success. Too much of project management focuses on building and completing something. Change management is the forgotten discipline of project success.

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Techno-PM

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Download This Template However, bringing in change without accounting for all the implications in the organization and without understanding the readiness and capacity of the organization for that change can lead to disaster. Projects need effective change management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 14, 2024

He managed all the logistics for the project including booking rooms for testing and training, making sure the right delegates showed up to the training, supporting them with claiming expenses, organizing project boards, steering groups and other governance milestones, and generally making everyone’s lives easier.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 5, 2024

For me, this is the most interesting part of project management and can also see you at the table with the most senior managers in the company. This is also the domain where you are likely to be planning change management activities, if you don't have a dedicated business change manager on the team.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 22, 2020

There is a lot of change management involved in this kind of project and people can create problems to the point that they can push the project into the ‘failed’ zone. Team management happens as well, but there’s no reason not to engage your team. Stakeholder-led. I am more aligned to agree with that.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 12, 2022

For example, this step could be that your project board or steering group formally confirms that the work has been completed as documented in the gate review papers. This group will probably meet regularly to discuss several projects at once. Step 3: Second document approval. Next, your internal authorization process kicks in.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

The process is designed to increase project efficiency and minimize scope creep by controlling every change and ensuring that changes are made according to set requirements for approving change. Change management The method for managing project change requests and application of the change control process as defined above.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 26, 2021

On the other hand, you could end up with a project with lots of approved, considered changes, that never ends because every time you think you have finished, a new project requirement arrives in your inbox and you have to make more changes. Scope Management Plan. Change Management Plan. Scope Creep Example.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

You can also join groups – great for supporting you through professional training or for networking online with peers. The social side of LinkedIn LinkedIn offers more than simply a place to store your CV. You can publish articles, which is another good way to showcase your skills and create a credible profile.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Project management knowledge areas coincide with the process groups, which are project initiation, project planning , project execution, monitoring and controlling, and project closing. The knowledge areas take place during anyone of these process groups. These are the chronological phases that every project goes through.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

However, in my personal experience, it has always worked better when the project manager and business analyst are partners in delivery. Much as you might work with a business change manager, the better the BA and PM work together, the easier it is to truly understand what the project is supposed to deliver and ensure that result is achieved.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2021

If that’s you, be on the look out for these kinds of job titles, as you can probably enter project management higher up the ranks: Project manager Senior project manager Program manager Business change manager Organizational change manager Delivery manager PMO manager. Networking.

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