The IIL Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

There are several ways in which AI is likely to influence project risk management. AI is expected to have a significant impact in risk management by enhancing the ability to identify, assess, and mitigate risks more effectively. AI can analyze large volumes of project data to identify patterns and trends that may indicate potential risks.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 9, 2024

Three biases that impact a project manager’s decision making are: Regret Regression to mean Illusion of control. Illusion of Control Like regression to the mean, illusion of control is a current bias affecting the project in real time. When reflecting on the outcomes, you may see how little control you have on the project.

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Leading Agile

MAY 11, 2021

In today’s blog, a continuation of the first in this two-part series, we’ll talk about building trust and influence, and initiating the trust-influence loop. On one level, you really don’t have any control as to whether or not someone trusts you. But you do have control over whether you are worthy of that trust.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 9, 2021

We define it like this: The systematic identification, analysis, planning and implementation of actions designed to influence stakeholders. Where stakeholders feel negatively about projects and changes, engagement helps understand their position and influence their perception. Beyond the interest and influence grid.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 9, 2024

It depends on their influence and impact on the project. Use this free change management communication plan template, which is fully customizable, to begin the process of controlling change and delivering it successfully within an organization. Again, some stakeholders must be communicated with daily, others weekly or monthly.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 16, 2024

When you can’t control the extravagant changes I know you have a strong change control process , and you’re great at communicating upwards and ensuring the team doesn’t engage with scope creep. Changes are fine, as long as they are managed in a reasonable and controlled way.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 25, 2024

Lesson 1: Work with What You Have In business, just like in surfing, conditions are often beyond our control. Lesson 4: Influence the Influenceable While the ocean’s conditions were beyond my influence, in business, we do have some ability to shape our environment. So, what waves will you choose to ride today?

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 25, 2024

The level of control and influence a PMO has over projects depends on the type of PMO. Another issue with hiring a PMO as a service is that control is taken out of the hands of the organization. When the PMO is in-house, it has greater control over the priority and resourcing of its projects.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Learners who register for a Flipped Learning experience: Are committed to take control of their learning and are willing to put in the effort for self-study. The below characteristics of learners are generalized and intended to help guide you towards the learning method you think might suit you best.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 7, 2023

They might be influenced by market conditions (risk appetite statements might change, for example, if the market suddenly gets a lot more competitive). They serve the same purpose – to influence the context and environment for the project – except they are external influences instead of internal influences.

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Project Risk Coach

APRIL 5, 2021

Project Scope Management Plan Define how you will plan, execute, and control scope. Project Time Management Plan Define how you will plan, execute, and control the schedule. Project Cost Management Plan Define how you will plan, execute, and control the budget.

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TimeCamp

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Introduction Project management, which deals with various aspects of projects, such as techniques, and tools used to plan, control, monitor, and review such enterprises, is a crucial part of the business world. The following list consists of the top influencers according to TimeCamp: 1. The list of such inspiring personages is long.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 18, 2024

The formulation of business cases, risk and problem management, cost control, project scope, budgeting, and schedule management are among the fundamental skills that your apprentices will master in this environment.” Level 3: Project Controls Technician There is also a Level 3 qualification. So that’s a ballpark.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 30, 2023

And you can control and influence how you say something by understanding paraverbal communication. Paraverbal communication involves the use of nonverbal cues such as tone and volume to influence how your message is received. You probably already know that how you say something is just as important as what you say.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 14, 2021

There are forces outside your control that can sidetrack your work. You need to be aware of the project environment and prepare for its influence on your project throughout the project management life cycle. It could also be less dramatic, such as the demographic of the area that might influence the project management plan in some way.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 19, 2024

Program board The program manager and program board control the program i.e. by deciding on risk management measures, holding projects accountable and tracking progress. It will also help you spot potential risks because at program level, the risks tend to come (in my experience) from external influences.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 31, 2024

Projects always have certain constraints – there may be an urgency to complete a project because of external market factors, for example; or there may have to be tightly controlled costs because of a fixed or limited budget. The project will also be expected to deliver on certain expectations including quality levels.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 4, 2021

The tool is known as the circle of influence, or the circles of control influence and concern. Hopefully, this will start a conversation that reveals the varying degrees of control and influence that the individual team members can leverage for the benefit of the team. This comes from the book by Stephen R.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 25, 2021

In short, marketing management is when you plan, organize, control and implement the marketing programs of an organization. If you’re honest with yourself, though, you’ll realize how it has influenced what you buy. If you follow them, you combine the soft science of psychology with hard physical factors to influence customers.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 30, 2024

Your RAID log is one of the crucial project planning documents that helps you plan and control the work throughout the project lifecycle. A RAID log is a way of tracking the things that affect and influence your project. It is part of the governance and control mechanisms around your project.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 11, 2024

Many factors influence the jobs that are beyond the control of field service managers, such as traffic, availability of parts and jobs that take longer than expected. These tools help managers control costs. This is especially true as service networks grow in scale and field service management increases in complexity.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 20, 2022

One of the best training courses I attended for Project Management was on influencing strategies with Learning Tree. The course model stated that without trust, influence is almost impossible. In short, try to get to know them and establish trust.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 15, 2023

This involves identifying stakeholders and defining the level of power and influence they have on the project. Typically all organizations that are impacted by the project have stakeholders who are represented on the project and members of the change control board.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Officially defined by the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMI’s PMBOK) as “the plans, processes, policies, procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization,” operational process assets influence the management of a project.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Later he published Work, Wages and Profits: Their Influence on the Cost of Living (1910), Industrial Leadership (1916) and Organizing for Work (1919). Major Accomplishments Henry Gantt’s major accomplishment, one still influencing work today, is the Gantt chart.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Potential dangers for project managers, just picking out two from my experiences Equating Leadership with Authority: Project Managers may associate leadership with command and control. In Scrum, however, leadership is about influence and facilitation, goal setting and decentralized decision making, not authority.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 15, 2024

A gradual decline in their effectiveness can be a subtle, insidious process heavily influenced by the size and culture of an organization. Command and Control Resurgence: Observation: The team’s reversion to traditional command-and-control methods indicates a move away from the collaborative and empowered approach central to agile practices.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

PRINCE2® stands for Projects IN a Controlled Environment (Version 2). It’s a customizable way of managing and controlling the work. 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. And it’s not spelled PRINCE TWO!

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Project Risk Coach

JANUARY 18, 2021

Not implementing the right type of PMO/degree of control. Although you may wish to implement a directive/high control PMO, your organization may not be ready for significant change. Perhaps start with a supportive/low control structure. How to manage: Make sure you have done your homework concerning the organization's culture.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 16, 2021

Soft skills include: Communication Leadership Self-awareness Confidence Resilience Teamwork Business acumen Influencing and negotiating Networking Stakeholder engagement. Having confidence is key, not only to ensure good outcomes, but to give others the general assurance that a project is under control. Influencing and negotiating.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 18, 2022

How do you start to get your work under control when you are juggling several projects at once? Many people managing projects are not the top leaders in their organizations and can’t influence strategy, what tools are in use, or how many projects the business promises to clients.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Excessive Planning and Control : The illusion of control among managers results in a tendency to over-plan and control every aspect of the development process. Exercise Empirical Process Control : In your Retrospectives, identify instances where the feature factory mindset prevailed.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Who are the key influencers for Y? Understanding the workplace culture and the dynamics of soft power within the organization can hugely increase your influence, so use your mentor for the insider information! Where can I find the organizational/hierarchy charts for Y? I’m having trouble getting a response from X.

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iZenBridge

JUNE 18, 2019

Integrated Change Control and Sequence of Change Request. A formal integrated change control starts with a change request. And, then we process it with the Perform Integrated Change Control. External Events: All environment related reasons which are outside control of the project team, also trigger changes.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Risk management is the most important of your project controls. This can lead us to set up risk management activities that are less than effective, or influence our approaches to managing project risk. Mike Clayton defines risk as “uncertain events that can affect outcomes,” in his book, Risk Happens!:

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 7, 2023

No See the course Recommended Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management University of Virginia Project managers wanting to improve planning and control 5.0 No See the course Recommended Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management University of Virginia Project managers wanting to improve planning and control 5.0

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Scrum.org

APRIL 30, 2024

And even if you did, you cannot control other people or the variables in your environment. And we need to get more comfortable with not having control , and the fact that others will judge our success by things we cannot control or predict. Really, it comes back to servant leadership. That’s the job we signed up for.

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