Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 5, 2018

This is a guest post by Laura Brandenburg, describing how to get the best out of the project manager and business analyst relationship. Before I forget, I want to be sure you know about Laura’s Quick Start to Success as a Business Analyst training (it’s free) that’s designed to help you business analysts achieve more success on their projects. . We all want more successful projects – projects that deliver their intended business value and are delivered on time and on budget.

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Inloox

AUGUST 5, 2018

PMI’s most recent Pulse of the Profession is about how to succeed in a disruptive world, with challenges being, among others, new technologies (like autonomous vehicles), artificial and data intelligence and big data. Also, it stresses the importance of investing in skilled and experienced project managers to meet these challenges and become one of the champions in project management – meaning that at least 80% of your projects are completed on time, on budget, meting business intent, and having

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Teamweek

AUGUST 5, 2018

If anyone tells you that being a project manager is an easy job, don’t believe them. The truth is that project management is a lot of difficult jobs rolled into one. You have to plan, execute, oversee, and close important projects. You have to keep the stakeholders and your team happy, and you have to stick to a specified budget. You have to manage and motivate a team consisting of different personalities in equally different roles.

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 5, 2018

(If the title of my article for this week has you confused gentle reader, fret not – I’m just merging two distinct topics into a single post). In 2003, Barry Boehm and Richard Turner coined the acronym C.R.A.C.K. (Collaborative, Representative, Accountable, Committed, Knowledgeable) to cover key characteristics of an effective Product Owner (PO).

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Ganttic

AUGUST 5, 2018

As a manager or an employee that cares, there are times when you feel like things aren’t going the way they should be going. Whether it’s something big or small things, you know that the only solution that there is, is to be proactive. But… There’s a but. Let’s say you are a project manager. You feel like a lot of your energy is going on resolving conflicts that start from resource constraints.

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