Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 19, 2021

How do you list the project management skills required without it turning into a giant list of buzzwords? Here’s how. How to include project management skills on your CV. Ethics, diversity and inclusion and managing workplace stress all fall into this category as well. Hard skills.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Scope management is the way to deal with that, so let’s talk about how we can use change control protocol to help with it all. What is change control and why is it important? Change control or change management is the process of managing unplanned but desired influences on the project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 7, 2022

In these projects, stakeholders are identified and communicated with in the ‘normal’ way, but their power and influence is relatively low. It’s important to spend time with the people involved as they’ll help you work out how best to deliver the outcomes. How to do engagement. Stakeholder-neutral. Stakeholder-led.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 6, 2022

But all those high-profile leaders got started in the same way that you can: managing smaller initiatives, practicing their core skills and learning through training and on the job. There are lots of undergraduate degrees and postgraduate certificates and degrees with a project management concentration.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

This post is for anyone who wants to inspire, change or influence others through their efforts as professionals, with emphasis on the latter. Should teams be stable over at least several years, or is it a good idea they change at will? How should leadership interact with autonomous teams? Is scaling always a bad idea?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 22, 2020

In these projects, stakeholders are identified and communicated with in the ‘normal’ way, but their power and influence is relatively low. It’s important to spend time with the people involved as they’ll help you work out how best to deliver the outcomes. How To Do Engagement. Stakeholder-neutral. Stakeholder-led.

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The Strategic Project Manager

APRIL 30, 2022

Kurt Lewin’s Change Management Model is known for its simplicity. It breaks an organizational change process down into three basic steps. What Is the Kurt Lewin Change Management Model? Lewin was considered to be a pioneer in the field of change management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

They don’t tell you how to do something. And the tools are getting better and better at helping – if we know how to use them. I wrote a book all about this: Collaboration Tools for Project Managers (published by PMI), which talks about how to choose, set up and use the right tools for your workplace. Stakeholders.

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 25, 2018

Further Reading: How to Make Your Team Active Participants in Organizational Change]. I’ve observed quite a few change management initiatives fail, and some of them have failed spectacularly. Here are five ways to lead a successful change management initiative: 1. Companies wink in and out of existence.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 7, 2019

You can scroll down and get the highlights, and then read all the advice in the How To Make 2019 A Successful Year for Your Projects ebook. He is the author of Reinventing Communication by Routledge, a book on how to design, lead and manage high performing projects. Agile project management is on the rise. Get the ebook!

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 22, 2019

If your project is failing, how do you know whether to end it or push on? In Review – How to Know When to Kill a Project & Cut Losses. When determining whether a project is worth continuing or if it’s a lost cause, Jennifer said project managers need to focus on losses. Technology change. Management change.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – ( PMBOK® Guide ) 7 th Edition represents a major shift in the way ‘how to do project management’ is presented by PMI. Instead of the Knowledge Areas , we have the whole body of project management split up into 3 performance domains. Domain III: Business Environment.

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Agile Coach

APRIL 19, 2018

How this Post is Constructed. Context : it’s important to understand what triggered me to move away from agile, and into org change. It’s also important to understand what influenced thinking about org change differently. Some stats : how LCM came to be what it is today. Next, Some Stats.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – ( PMBOK® Guide ) Seventh Edition represents a major shift in the way ‘how to do project management’ is presented by PMI. Instead of the Knowledge Areas , we have the whole body of project management split up into performance domains. Yes, that’s right!

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

During the Q&A part on humble planning, Maarten answered the following questions, among others: What about other common iterative change management strategies? Do you identify impacts or the symptoms/dysfunctions or do anything else to understand how to prioritize which to address? Is it a typical root cause analysis?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 7, 2022

But no one is telling you HOW to get your team to adopt new ways of working. Sharing round a link to one more ’10 ways to be more productive’ article just isn’t making change happen. First, let’s look at what we are talking about when we’re thinking about how to increase team productivity.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2022

Being able to influence and get results, even when you aren’t in charge, is so important if you want to collaborate effectively with the team. Many books talk about how important collaboration is but Collaboration Explained is a pragmatic and practical book about collaboration that actually shows you how to do it.

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Online PM Courses

MARCH 5, 2018

They either leave it to a ‘change manager’, or worse: they ignore it. So, in this feature article, we’re offering a primer in Change Management. We’ll tell you what it is, how people respond to change, and the main pointers you’ll need to manage change effectively.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 3, 2018

This article, How To Make 2018 A Successful Year for Your Projects , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. I asked people two questions: What should people managing projects be aware of as we go into 2018 to make 2018 their most successful year ever? Agile project management is on the rise.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In my company the project managers are responsible for everything, yet in reality have little or no control over delivery resources. The buck stops with me but there are very few ways I can influence the direction of travel. When I first started work as a PM my colleagues and I joked about how no one understood what we did.

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Project Risk Coach

JUNE 10, 2016

In the program example, stakeholders might include the project sponsor, the project team, the project manager, the board, program vendors, information technology, and human resources, to name a few. Who can influence the change in a positive or negative manner? Change can be deliberate (planned) or emergent (unplanned).

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2021

At a high level, project communication management ensures that key information flows efficiently and in a predetermined way between the various people working on (or impacted by) a project. However, having a plan for how to share information throughout a project’s lifecycle is critical to project success.

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Project Pulse Journal

MAY 3, 2024

Change - Effective change management is essential for adapting to evolving stakeholder needs and external conditions, ensuring the program remains aligned with its goals. It requires an understanding of several considerations that can influence the outcomes of project and program management efforts.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 28, 2022

People may try for a little bit, but they’ll end up going back to their old ways once they see their environment hasn’t changed around them. So how do we influence change while supporting the people making the changes? There’s no one size fits all approach to change management. So, what is PSTIR?

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Walter Stinnett’s Project Managers are Change Managers webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Project Managers are Change Managers. We’re going to be talking about change management. Welcome everyone.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The promise of project delivery improvements is another strong selling point for Agile project management. In How to Sell Project Management to Senior Executives Who Don’t Want It , Pcubed’s Adam Balfour advises that you find the project manager who’s leading the team that’s stretched to its limits.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

10 Project management trends you need to know. Leaders need to know how the world around them affects the work they are doing today, and how to plan to capitalize on those trends in the future. Here are the top project management trends for 2022 that are already shaping the world of project delivery. Buy Now from Amazon.

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LiquidPlanner

OCTOBER 16, 2018

You can use the same types of dependencies on your schedule to record things that might influence the project from the outside. These are things that are not in your control and that you are unable to fully influence yourself. The post Ask a PM: How to Manage Dependencies and Assess Risks appeared first on LiquidPlanner.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The relationships part of this principle’s title is all about the project ecosystem and how soft power and networks influence the way work gets done. Manage by exception I love this principle. What’s missing from PRINCE2® (thankfully) is the detailed guidance on ‘how’. Quality PRINCE2® talks a lot about quality.

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Planview

MAY 26, 2023

In this post, you’ll jump back into the story of a large biotech company undergoing transformation the intelligent way – by leveraging the principles of organizational change management. Put another way, it means they attended, with clear intention, to “the people side of change.”

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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? How is it implemented? So, how can we do this?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

But no one is telling you HOW to get your team to adopt new ways of working. Sharing round a link to one more ’10 ways to be more productive’ article just isn’t making change happen. First, let’s look at what we are talking about when we’re thinking about how to increase team productivity.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 22, 2024

A clear, actionable framework that simplifies stakeholder prioritization and analysis and enhances your ability to engage effectively with each stakeholder according to their influence and interest would help address this dilemma. This initial step sets the stage for effective stakeholder management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

If you want to move into program management, these 5 skills will help you prove you are capable of doing the role: Resource management Stakeholder engagement Data analysis and synthesis Data-driven decision making Change management. Practical experience as a project manager or operational (line) manager will also help.

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Expectations defined at the start of the project may change as the project progresses. Have backup plans and change management processes in place to tackle unexpected changes. . Due to the difference in technical expertise between project managers, engineers, and users, these stakeholders may not always see eye to eye.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 2, 2023

You’ll learn: What job titles to look for once you graduate What industries you can work in What you can expect to earn How to transition from another industry via a degree Lots more! Recently someone got in contact with me to ask about how to become a project manager. Let’s dive in!

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PM Basics

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

When I joined my first international project, I had a chance to speak with some other professionals, showing off my self-confidence, enthusiasm and my ideas about how to manage it, and how I would have worked with offshore resources. Context: Directly managing resources in software development and delivery.

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