Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 31, 2020

Countless gurus have advocated for the benefits of reducing the time spent in meetings, of the number of meeting attendees, and even of meetings in general. The truth is, some meetings are necessary and if done right they are simply the best way to exchange ideas, form plans and make decisions. Here’s what that entails.

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The IIL Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

The ITIL certification scheme provides a defined learning path benefiting the individual at each designation. The framework also supports digital change helping businesses deliver services that directly meet the changing requirements of their customers, ensuring digital projects are in line with customer satisfaction.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 11, 2022

Have you been asked to pull together a strategy planning meeting agenda? In this article, I’ll explain what a strategic planning meeting can cover and share a sample agenda you can customize for your strategy sessions. The conversations need a structure to help keep the pace and ensure the meeting runs smoothly.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Meetings must be deliberate and intentional—your organizational rhythm should value purpose over habit and effectiveness over efficiency.”- In the past eight months of my life directing a large infrastructure program, I spend on average 70% of my time in meetings. Productive Project Meetings Require Effective Planning.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 23, 2020

In Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders there’s a whole section on different types of meetings, what they are for and how they work. I read it and thought, ‘Everyone knows how to run a meeting, surely?’ The meeting that shouldn’t have happened is ironically the most relevant to project management.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 25, 2022

By using incremental steps towards completing a project, agile teams can easily adjust their project plan or product development plan to better meet their customer requirements. Teams work on the tasks that they decided on in a sprint planning meeting. Daily Standup Meetings. But things change when executing a project.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 15, 2020

Meetings—there can be too many. Meetings are sometimes held to discuss when to meet: it can feel absurd. However, meetings are not some useless artifact from business past. That’s why a planning meeting in project management is key to kicking off a successful project. What Is the Purpose of a Planning Meeting?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 14, 2023

The purpose of every Sprint is to deliver a done increment that meets the Sprint goal. For this reason, defining requirements up front is not compatible with Scrum, because Scrum teams don’t deliver value in one “big bang”. Scrum teams deliver value incrementally.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 27, 2019

Defines the criteria for project success and how it fits with the overall business. Defines project roles and reporting structure. Also, during the project initiation, the project sponsor makes sure the project is appropriate for the organization, offering input on the project charter and participates in the kick-off meeting.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 5, 2017

We all know that defining your project well is the foundation of good project management. Quality – they may set you specific quality standards to meet. Once you have defined that, the secondary step is to work out the activities you’ll need, to deliver them. Without it, you’re managing a mess. No related posts.

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 3, 2020

Culture is defined by all of the individuals who make up the team but what you do as their leader will heavily influence how team development goes. And this starts with an effective kick-off meeting. If you had run kick-off meetings as a mere formality before, their importance is much greater now.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

What is a kick off meeting? A kick off meeting is the first meeting you have as a project team. In reality, you might have an internal kick off meeting for just your in-house team resources, and then another one with the client, when you are ready to share project information with them (and if you have a client).

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Scrum.org

JULY 1, 2019

Many Scrum teams have a regular meeting scheduled on everyone’s calendar, even though it is not an official Scrum event. In this webinar, we will explore why so many teams struggle with this meeting and why the boundaries between spec-writing, sprint planning and problem solving are often getting so blurry in Backlog Refinement.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 8, 2019

As I’ve got older and more experienced I’ve also got lazier when it comes to preparing for meetings. That afternoon I had four external people coming in for a meeting that I had forgotten about! It was an informal pre-kick off meeting for something that might turn into a project. The Project Initiation Meeting.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 7, 2024

We’ll first define the term and then go into the organizational strategy levels, as well as explain its importance in business. ProjectManager’s roadmaps keep you aligned with targets to meet long-term goals. Leadership creates this multi-tiered company plan to define, outline and achieve specific goals.

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NimbleWork

DECEMBER 10, 2023

A retrospective meeting, often associated with agile methodologies like scrum and kanban , is a crucial opportunity for a team to reflect on their recent work and identify areas for improvement. To help make sure that your team looks forward to it, here are five tips to make a retrospective meeting more productive: 1.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 15, 2018

In this article we will use system diagrams to analyze the reasons why it happens and why DoD defines agility. . DoD defines frequency of releases. Perhaps I was out of luck but in big organizations like banks, I did not meet a lot of Scrum Teams that could ship end-2-end features to the market every Sprint.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2024

Scrum is a project management framework with well-defined roles, guidelines and procedures that ensure this methodology is implemented consistently. This can be through scrum meetings, which are held daily in scrum, but they act almost as a teacher throughout the project to support the team and give them direction.

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Resource Guru

JANUARY 17, 2023

As project managers, defining and planning projects is what we do. Simply put, a project scope defines all the work and considerations required to deliver a specific outcome. If you don’t have a well-defined project scope, you’ll soon run into issues with timelines, scheduling , and resource allocation. . Project delays anyone?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2024

Project strategy is the plan that defines a project, which is why project management strategy is so important. The project strategy works to meet the organization’s mission, but its goals are specific to the individual project it’s directing. Every project is different.

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Techno-PM

JUNE 20, 2023

To ensure clarity and alignment throughout the project lifecycle, defining project success criteria becomes paramount. In this article, we will explore examples of project success criteria and outline the steps involved in effectively defining them. Defining project success criteria – Why is it important?

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Proofhub

DECEMBER 15, 2020

As more people are working from home nowadays, online meetings have started to become the norm. But conducting online meetings is very different from in-person meetings. Fortunately for you, we have gathered here some great tips to help you succeed and make a great impact on your next online meeting. Start using ProofHub.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Some things program governance defines are roles and responsibilities, chain of command and other aspects of program management to help the program succeed. Defines the Success Criteria for Programs One of the main objectives of program management is to prioritize which projects will be part of a program.

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Techno-PM

JUNE 13, 2023

Introduction Project management meetings play a crucial role in ensuring effective communication and coordination among team members. An agenda is an essential tool for conducting productive meetings. It outlines the topics to be discussed, provides structure, and helps participants prepare for the meeting.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 31, 2024

If you’re not familiar with a balanced scorecard, we’ll define the term and show the four perspectives it tracks as well as explain what should be included in a balanced scorecard. Let’s define the four balanced scorecard perspectives. You have to define where you want to be over one year, two years, etc.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 23, 2024

The more mature an organization’s management, the more likely they’re going to meet its strategic goals. On the other hand, if an organization has underdeveloped management, the more likely that its projects will have trouble meeting deadlines and staying on budget. This includes the project’s objectives , tasks, outputs and deadlines.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

When the leadership team defines an organization’s vision, they look toward the future and identify the goals and objectives they want to achieve. Once the vision is defined, then the practical work begins, and strategic planning templates can facilitate that work. This is the start of strategic planning.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

This article, How To Communicate Effectively When You’ve Got No Time For Meetings , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. How can I manage my stakeholders when there isn’t enough time for meetings?” If you don’t have time for dedicated stakeholder meetings, don’t have meetings. Phone the Difficult Stakeholders.

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Inloox

JANUARY 18, 2019

Although a kick-off meeting is not absolutely necessary for this, it is a good means to provide the necessary motivational boost for everyone involved. In this article we will give you a detailed insight into the topic of kick-off meetings in project management. Why is a kick-off meeting useful for project management?

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

Successful CEOs Ram Charan and Larry Bossidy define execution in their book Executive: The Discipline of Getting Things Done : “Execution is a specific set of behaviors and techniques that companies need to master in order to have a competitive advantage. Meet Regularly. Following processes. Execute Project Scope.

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International Institute for Learning

JULY 27, 2022

With a well-designed and organized kick-off meeting, we can accomplish all these important goals, and gain that necessary momentum to set us on the right path. First, let’s start with some level-setting and ask the question: What is a kick-off meeting? These can include seven key elements: Defining your meeting purpose.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 24, 2023

IT service management (ITSM) is the process of how those services meet the needs of the end users who employ them. Before we get into framework processes and phases, let’s more fully define the meaning of ITSM and why it’s important. But first, let’s quickly define other ITSM frameworks.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

To make sure you understand what organizational process assets are, first, we’ll define the terms and explain their importance. Let’s define each of these types. This allows organizations to better manage their activities by defining what forms to use, and having a definite set of steps for processes, reporting, payment and so forth.

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nTask

APRIL 1, 2022

Agile Retrospective meetings are all about “reflection” and finding “new agile retro ideas” to overcome the mistakes and lead the whole team towards success. However, most Agile retro meetings tend to become so monotonous. There is nothing out of those meetings that screams solution provider.

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Moira Alexander

MAY 18, 2016

Whether internal or external, successfully meeting client deliverables is a primary goal behind projects. Inaccurately defined deliverables is one of the biggest risk factors when it comes to project success or failure. Here are just a few.

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nTask

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Scrum meetings are an integral component of a work environment which adopts the Scrum methodology. It may sound dramatic, but trust us, at the end of this blog, you’ll know everything you need to know about Scrum meetings, the different types, and how to effectively run them. Types of Scrum Meetings. Sprint Planning Meeting.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 6, 2024

Additionally, some 20% of respondents defined themselves as ‘accidental’ project managers. It defines what they do. Roger Martin, in the same HBR article, describes how the future of the business world is going to be defined by knowledge and the project-based approach. Picture your kickoff meeting. Who is present?

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