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Wicked Problem Solving Course Review (PMI)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Welcome to my PMI Wicked Problem Solving review! Project management has so many challenges to solve every day, so having a toolbox of techniques (and the right attitude) will help you deliver projects successfully. You get 18 PDUs credited to your PMI account , so it’s worth a lot.

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Change management helps when implementing risk responses

Kiron Bondale

A student in a project management class I taught shared the concern that it was very hard for her to get risk responses implemented. This is a fairly common problem and is likely one of the reasons that the volunteers who updated the PMBOK Guide, Sixth Edition added Implement Risk Responses as a new process within the Project Risk Management knowledge area. Risk management requires investment from stakeholders outside of the project team to really make a difference.

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What’s Needed in an Organizational Change Management Model?

The Strategic Project Manager

This post looks at how you can leverage what you need from 10 different organizational change management models to effect change. The Change Life Cycle Framework is covered for the first time among of these frameworks in this blog. Build on the change, and 8.

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PMI-PgMP® Certification

Techno-PM

The Project Management Institute's Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PgMP) certification is one of the most sought-after certifications for professionals who want to enter the project management field. The benefits of PMI-PgMP® Certification?

PMI 62
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PMI-RMP® Certification

Techno-PM

Overview: The Project Management Institute's Registered Risk Manager Program (PMI-RMP®) is a risk management certification for project managers. It focuses on project management for IT professionals. What will you learn in PMI-RMP® Certification?

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A History of PMI & Its Role in Project Management

ProjectManager.com

Project management is no different. The Project Management Institute (PMI) is a nonprofit organization for those working in project management across the globe. If you have even a passing interest in the field, then you’ve bumped up against PMI. As an organization, it offers training and certification in project management, and it reports regularly on industry trends. The Project Management Institute also sets the standard for ethics in the field.

PMI 295
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Support Organizational Change: A Complete Guide to What You Need to Know

Online PM Courses

One of the primary roles of Project Management is to support organizational change. The post Support Organizational Change: A Complete Guide to What You Need to Know appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

2021 130
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Webinar Recap: PMI PMBOK Guide 7th Edition Standard – What’s New?

MPUG

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Satya Narayan Dash’s PMI PMBOK Guide 7th Edition Standard – What’s New? Kyle: Hello everyone, and welcome to today’s MPUG webinar, What’s New With PMI PMBOK Guide’s 7th Edition Standard. It doesn’t change.

2020 98
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Success in Disruptive Times: PMI’s 2018 Pulse of the Profession

Online PM Courses

The PMI has titled its 2018 Pulse of the Profession report: Success in Disruptive Times. You can download your copy of Success in Disruptive Times from the PMI’s website. The PMI’s Annual Project Management Survey: The Pulse of the Profession. Our regular readers will know that, for the last two years, we have extracted the marrow from the bones of the PMI’s Pulse of the Profession survey. PMI: Success in Disruptive Times – 2018.

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What You Need to Know about How People Respond to Change

Online PM Courses

Projects create change for people. And the success of projects often depends on how well you manage that change. Here's a primer in Change Management. The post What You Need to Know about How People Respond to Change appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

2020 97
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How open are YOU to changing your launch plans?

Kiron Bondale

During the last week PMI announced that, based on the feedback they had received from stakeholders, they would be delaying the significant changes to the Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification exam which had originally planned to be launched in mid-December 2019 to July 1, 2020. I have no doubt that this was the right decision for PMI to take. The proposed changes to the exam are likely to be more significant than others made over the past decade.

2019 219
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Why is it a project manager’s job to fix companies?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Projects are the future, a good portfolio office can influence and shape strategy and project management is the only way to holistically deliver improvements. Honestly, people are still talking about that as the role of a project manager. After all, we are great at implementing change.

2022 283
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Jon Clay: PMI UK’s New President Explains What’s Next For The Chapter

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This article, Jon Clay: PMI UK’s New President Explains What’s Next For The Chapter , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. Professional organisations often rely on volunteers, and the PMI UK Chapter is no different. Jonathan Clay, PMI UK President. Being President of PMI UK requires you to travel a lot. I’d been on the PMI UK Board for three years and when the opportunity arose I knew I had to apply. What’s new for PMI at the moment?

2017 76
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How To Fill The Work Experience Details In PMP®Application Form? (PMP Sample application included )

iZenBridge

Project Management Institute (PMI)® offers the world’s most sought-after professional certification, Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification. Change management is the most important activity of this domain. How does PMI treat Gap?

2019 116
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In Anticipation of PMI Global Congress North America 2012

Wrike

With the ongoing expansion of the distributed workforce, this topic seems to be gaining even more importance among fellow project managers. Later, the presentation will focus on efficiency tips for managers of virtual teams, based on my own experience of working with globally dispersed employees. Speaking of the event agenda: this is one of the things that we recently discussed with Paula Jayne White, PMI’s Director, Professional Development.

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Divergent-Convergent Paths Process For Conflict Management

International Institute for Learning

By Luigi Morsa – Aerospace Engineer and Project Manager, SII Engineering & IT. Managing a team is complex and challenging at the same time. Managing Conflicts in Projects. All this leads to the well-known Conflict Management Techniques laid out in the PMBOK® Guide.

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Women in Project Management

nTask

This is also true in the area of project management. It can be difficult to pinpoint why this is, but one common argument is that project managers are essentially found in the industries of construction and engineering. The Situation of Female Project Managers.

2020 78
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The ESP connection

The Lazy Project Manager

The following is an extract from my new book ‘How to get Fired at the C-Level: Why mismanaging change is the biggest risk of all’ in association with my friends at Tailwind Project Solutions – previous extracts followed a series of 5 Challenges that I think every organisation should consider, and consider very carefully – and now we will look at the 5 tests of control: Another quick test of control is the ‘Executive board to Sponsor to Project Manager’ relationship or the ‘ESP’ connection test.

2017 186
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2021 Online & On-Site Events for Project Managers

Epicflow Blog

2021 is going to be full of both online and offline events for project managers engaged in different areas of business: construction and engineering, IT, healthcare, and many others. Biggest Online Project Management Conferences in 2021. 2020 Offline Project Management Conferences .

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Why I Stopped Going to Agile Events

Agile Coach

The third piece of data that sparked this post was a recent Linked In discussion where a project manager asked a simple question: This prompted a response you could probably guess without reading any further: So I chimed in: To which one of the guilty parties replied: Hopefully the irony of preaching respect for people while clearly disrespecting the original poster was not lost on this person, and this is someone I know. Then the industry changed. agile Change Management movement

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The PMP® Exam is Changing: Here’s What You Need to Know

International Institute for Learning

In June 2019, the Project Management Institute (PMI) ® announced that significant changes are coming to the Project Management Professional (PMP) ® Exam. In this post, I will provide important information about the new PMP ® Exam and answer the following questions: When is the PMP Exam changing? Why is the PMP Exam changing? What is changing in the new PMP Exam? When is the PMP Exam changing? Why is the PMP Exam changing?

2019 71
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How to avoid a Project

The Lazy Project Manager

It goes something along these lines: Corporate change initiative approved and announced, everyone cheers loudly. A department or team are asked to pick up the project and implement the change in relation to their day to day work. Fast – Then immediately ask a) what is the fastest way to get this done and dusted and b) can you just copy another team/department and make the change – even if it doesn’t really fit your real needs. Change’ comes the loud reply from all.

2017 186
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Sustain Your PMO: Nine Easy Lessons

The Lazy Project Manager

As has been already discussed the reality out there in ‘PMO land’ is that there is not a plethora of wise and experienced PMO managers, directors, leaders, heads, etc., And there are communities you can connect to – on LinkedIn, through the project management bodies such as PMI and APM, etc. They must be enthusiastic about leading change and critically must have the strength of belief in their own uniqueness and that of the PMO they lead.

2016 170
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Why Projects Fail – Five more reasons

Online PM Courses

As a project manager, your ablity to negotiate for what you need is part of your route to success. – 7 – Project Management. It would be easy to conclude that projects fail because of poor Project Management. But if we start to break down the discipline of Project Management , we can identify numerous points of project failure. Projects fail under an absentee project manager, who thinks they can do other things, and so neglects what’s going on.

2018 70
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Quick and Easy: This is New in the PMBOK Guide Edition 7

Inloox

Founded in 1969 in the USA, the Project Management Institute is a global non-profit project management association. The PMBOK guide is a project management guide developed by PMI. Along with PRINCE2 and IPMA , it is one of the world's leading project management approaches.

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ITIL for Project Managers – Should you?

Online PM Courses

The ITIL framework is the most widely-used framework of best practices for IT Service Management (ITSM). Many project managers deliver IT components to our projects. Because of that, Project Managers need to be mindful of this in designing our products, delivery, and handover. And, whether you are an IT Project Manager or not, you may find yourself delivering IT in the form of hardware, infrastructure, software, or service processes as a part of your projects.

2018 75
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Business Analyst vs Project Manager: The Differences To Know

Rebel’s Guide to PM

What does a business analyst do on a project, and how is that different to the role of the project manager? First, let’s look at the different responsibilities for the roles of business analyst vs project manager on a project. What does a project manager do? Change management.

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Future Trends in Project Management: The Debate

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Recently I spoke with Lela Machaidze on Clubhouse about future trends in project management. Lela: For the last decade, there have been a lot of changes in the PM profession. That’s echoed in the PMI Pulse of the Profession 2021 report. Read next: Project Management Trends.

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LEAD: Your Four Project Leadership Priorities

Online PM Courses

As well as managing your project day-to-day, you’re responsible for the people. Fundamentally, a project manager is paid to deliver your project. Three Ways that Listening will Make You a Better Project Manager. In conflict management , speaking can easily escalate things, but listening almost never does. We have video courses that will help you with different aspects of this: Dealing with Resistance to Change: Managing and Leading Change.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

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). Earned Value Management (#EVM). Integrating Agile and Earned Value Management (#AEVM). Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management.

2019 42
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3 Performance Domains in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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. This change has been a long time coming, and I welcome the shift. Support organizational change.

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The 12 Principles of Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

PMBOK 7 is the short name given to The Standard for Project Management and A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – ( PMBOK® Guide ) 7 th Edition , which are bundled together. The 12 Principles of Project Management. Read next: Managing in a VUCA world.

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Top Project Management Conferences of 2019

ProjectManager.com

New year, new opportunities to advance your project management career. There’s always room to better oneself, make connections and get a picture of the industry: all good reasons to take time to visit one of the many project management conferences held in 2019. Project management training is the glue that holds your career together. So, as you start to plan your calendar for the year, we’ve offered a rundown of the best project management conferences in 2019.

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Project Management Trends [2022]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There’s no denying that project management today looks different to how it did even 5 years ago. Project management trends shape our profession. Change is inevitable – we all know that. How project management is evolving. 10 Project management trends you need to know.

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Dr. Harold Kerzner’s Project Management Predictions for 2020

International Institute for Learning

The landscape for project management changes almost every year. Some changes are relatively small or incremental, whereas other changes can be significant. Strategic projects were assigned to functional managers whom executives trusted more than project managers.

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How To Make 2023 A Successful Year for Your Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

A while back, I asked project management experts w hat we should be aware of as we go into the new year to achieve their most successful year ever? I’m sure you take away tips and ideas for making this your best year yet managing projects at work.

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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Project Management

International Institute for Learning

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Project Management [1]. Executive Director for Project Management. The impact of the crisis affected project management leadership practices as well, especially the way that leadership should be applied and how decisions should be made.

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Is Hybrid Really a Popular Project Approach?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

What is hybrid project management? Hybrid project management is a trending topic at the moment. It refers to the tailoring of the project management approach in use to deliver work. Am I a hybrid project manager? I was just trying to be the best project manager I could be.

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Project Manager Job Description (with free copy+paste examples!)

ProjectManager.com

Project managers are the point person in charge of a specific project or projects within an organization. We regularly feature project management resources to help train PMs to land jobs in the industry or develop better skills in their current role. What Does a Project Manager Do?

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How to Actually Develop a Project Management Plan

Project Risk Coach

If this is true, why is it that some project managers put so little time in developing a project management plan? One of the reasons is that project managers may not know what to include. I’ve developed this checklist to help you develop your project management plan including baselines, subsidiary plans, and ancillary plans. For example, a project manager can compare actual completion dates of activities to an approved schedule baseline.

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