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What to do when your project closes early: A guide

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Closing down a project early is very different to carrying out a controlled close when a project has reached its natural conclusion and delivered everything that stakeholders were expecting. When a project is unexpectedly closed early, it can be difficult to know what steps to take next. Why do projects close early?

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4 Easy tips for effective virtual meetings

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article, I’ll share 4 quick and easy tips — each one requires just a minute or two, or even less. The simple tips below take hardly any time to do, and each one can reduce common sources of aggravation. If there’s any chance that you’ll be sharing your screen during the meeting, this tip is for you.

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7 Health tips for remote workers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

(I’m not saying I have but…) Below, we’ll look at some essential health tips for remote workers to keep their health in top shape. Although I’m guilty of that too, pressing it up close to my face as without my glasses I can’t read the screen.) What other tips do you have for staying healthy as a remote employee?

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12 Tips for PRINCE2® Practitioner Exam Success

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article, I’ll share my 12 top tips for exam success. I recommend using an exam simulator for that because the style of the question and the formatting of the answers more closely matches your experience in the test. Foundation is a closed book exam so you have to work from memory only. Use an exam simulator.

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Sauce & Spoon: Tips for Your Google Capstone course

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s hard to know what they are looking for in the Sauce & Spoon case study, so if you’re working through the course, here are some tips as you prepare to submit your capstone assignments. For more general tips on how to earn the Google project management certificate quickly, read the story of how I passed the certificate in a week.

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10 Simple Tips for Better Meeting Minutes

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article we’ll look at why minutes are worth doing and then dive into the 10 simple tips for taking effective meeting minutes. 10 Tips for writing meeting minutes Here are 10 tips for meeting minutes that will ensure your documents are a good record of what actually happened, without taking up too much of your time.

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15 Task Management Tips for Teams (Stay on track!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Task management is the process of identifying, recording, doing and closing a task. Here are 15 task management tips for effectively doing your work. 15 Tips to improve your task management skills 1. Thanks to our sponsor, Toggl Track , for making it possible to bring you this article on task management tips.