Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 20, 2022

When I was working in France, my Indian colleagues rang to tell us they were being sent home after office buildings in Bangalore were damaged: the death of Indian film legend Rajkumar had prompted spontaneous violence amongst mourners on the streets. Another time, I was stuck with other commuters trying to get to work in Paris after strikes about pensions meant that more than 90% of high-speed trains were cancelled.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 8, 2022

Resource management is one of the most important aspects of project management. That’s because projects need resources and those resources must be managed. Project resources are all the raw materials, equipment and human resources necessary to execute project tasks. What Is Resource Management? Resource management is the process of planning, scheduling and allocating resources to complete a project.

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 21, 2022

How often have you found new requirements towards the end of your projects? Or perhaps your team said they had gathered the requirements, but in reality, the team had hastily rushed through the requirement process resulting in rework, missed deadlines, and another blown budget. Let's look at 12 common requirements mistakes. If you want to improve your project success, improve your requirements processes.

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Kiron Bondale

MARCH 20, 2022

One of the clichés about Scrum is that it is “easy to understand but difficult to master” The first part of that is obvious with the Scrum Guide is only eleven pages (if you don’t count the title page, purpose and table of contents). There are three roles, three outputs and four events (five if you include sprints as an event but I prefer not to as the whole idea of events within events makes me nauseous).

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Musings on Project Management

MARCH 27, 2022

In project management school, the lesson on Critical Path includes Rule #2: Apply resources first to the critical path, and subordinate demands of other paths to ensure the critical path is never starved.But, of course, Rule #2 follows from Rule #1Rule #1, if you haven't guessed is: Create a schedule network so that the critical path is revealed. But here's an issue: If you're only working with.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 10, 2022

Do your stakeholders ask you questions like these? Now we’ve approved the budget and the project has started, how much will it really cost? We had a big delay last month. What has that done to the budget? How much will we have spent on this work by the time this project is finished? Given that plenty of studies show cost overruns, some finding that 9 out of 10 projects go over budget (averaging 28% overspent), it’s not surprising that project sponsors want to keep a tight grip on costs.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 9, 2022

Stakeholders are important to every project. They are impacted by the project, be they investor or customer. But what is a stakeholder? There’s more than one answer to that question. Let’s take some time to define what a stakeholder is, examples of stakeholders and free stakeholder templates that can help with stakeholder management. What Is a Stakeholder?

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LiquidPlanner

MARCH 16, 2022

Project management is a lot more complicated than relying on the luck of the Irish to ensure people are working on the right priorities at the right time. As we all know – relying heavily on luck can have serious ramifications to our project plan. Luck comes along suddenly and unexpectedly in managing priorities without a project management tool. But it’s nothing you can try to repeat without the right resources.

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Kiron Bondale

MARCH 27, 2022

In 2003, Barry Boehm and Richard Turner coined the acronym C.R.A.C.K. to remind us of the key characteristics of an effective Product Owner: C ollaborative – Are they able and willing to negotiate with stakeholders about needs, wants and priorities to come up with an optimal product scope? R epresentative – Are they able to “walk a mile in the shoes” of a given stakeholder to help team members and others understand the context behind a particular need?

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Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management

Empower yourself as a project manager with insights that directly influence the financial landscape and strategic direction of your organization! Join us for a deep dive into the world of financial strategy, as we dissect key metrics that drive CFOs and business leaders’ investment decisions. This session will equip you with the necessary tools to craft compelling business cases as well as a comprehensive understanding of the crucial distinction between capital expenditure and operational expend

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Musings on Project Management

MARCH 14, 2022

Number One: It's a bell, unless it's not For nearly all of us when approaching something statistical, we imagine the bell-shape distribution right away. And, we know the average outcome is the value at the peak of the curve. Why is it so useful that it's the default go-to? Because many, if not. most, natural phenomenon with a bit of randomness tend to have a "central tendency" or preferred.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 21, 2022

Scrum’s power is in its simplicity. Rather than containing a set of work instructions, Scrum is a framework offering general principles. That’s what makes it well-suited to complex environments where more is unknown than known. . The simplicity of Scrum means that teams can adopt the complementary practices that work for their environment. For example, Scrum doesn’t tell teams that they need to use points.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 30, 2022

Watch my free webinar training on the 3 critical skills you need to manage multiple projects. Learn the skills you really need to juggle all your work! “There’s another project I’m just waiting to hear about,” said my sponsor. I silently groaned. I was already managing a couple of projects and while I probably could take on the workload of this additional small piece of work, the mental overload of juggling so many things was getting too much.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 7, 2022

Agile principles are the foundations of agile. Agile is a project management methodology that allows development teams to set up a dynamic work management framework. This method is based on 12 guiding principles, known as agile principles. In addition, there are also core values, techniques, ceremonies and tools that make up the agile project management approach.

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You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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LiquidPlanner

MARCH 29, 2022

6 ways to stay in control when your project isn’t. In celebration of National “ I Am In Control Day ” we thought it would be fun to explore the dynamics of “control” that we experience as project managers. National “I Am in Control Day” has a fascinating history. The holiday was commemorated because there was an assassination attempt made on Ronald Reagan, the president of the U.S. on March 30, 1981.

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Proofhub

MARCH 2, 2022

How To Create A Hybrid Work Schedule To Meet Modern Work Requirements Image Source: ProofHub The coronavirus has transformed the way we have been working since times immemorial. What began as a contingency plan to continue working during a pandemic became the way of working for organizations far and wide. When the lockdowns began, it was unsafe to go to work, so almost everyone, from management consultants to general practitioners, took their work home with them.

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Susanne Madsen

MARCH 3, 2022

In recent years there has been much debate on how to characterize management versus leadership. Management is said to be the discipline that specializes on maintaining the status quo, conforming to standards and organizing and directing individuals around the boundaries (time, money, quality criteria etc.) that have been set to achieve the task. If you are a good manager it means that you are good at producing a set of products and services in a predictable way, day after day, on budget and to c

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Scrum.org

MARCH 7, 2022

We all have strengths and weaknesses with the preferred stances of a Scrum Master. Like many of the teams we work with, being ‘key-shaped’ comes to mind – cross-skilled and competent at many things but having a deeper knowledge of certain stances more so than others. Personally, I feel more effective as a teacher and facilitator than when I’m coaching.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 12, 2022

Project governance is an important part of project management processes – even if it’s not the most exciting part of getting work done. As a project manager, part of your role is shepherding the work through the project lifecycle. That means moving it on from idea to done and keeping it all on track as you go. Governance is a key part of that, and gate reviews are part of navigating through the project.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 25, 2022

What Is Agile Project Management? Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project through short planning cycles called sprints. 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. Agile project management allows teams to gather customer feedback as the project progresses.

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LiquidPlanner

MARCH 14, 2022

March Madness – that crazy college basketball time of year when 64 teams play for the national championship. One winner, 63 losers. Everybody and their brother fill out their own “bracket” pre-tournament in office and friend pools all over the US hoping to win the jackpot of $5, $10, or maybe even $1000. The madness emerges as Cinderella teams advance, upsetting highly-ranked and favored teams as they fail to deliver. .

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

Mike Cottmeyer was recently a guest on the Agile to Agility podcast with Miljan Bajic where he discussed Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling. Listen now. Agile to Agility Website. Transcript: Speaker: Miljan Bajic 00:29. Who is Mike Cottmeyer and what’s been your journey? Mike Cottmeyer 00:33. Okay, well, that’s a big question, man, who is Mike Cottmeyer?

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Proofhub

MARCH 17, 2022

How Time Management Can Help Reduce Your Stress at Workplace As a project manager, there are many challenges you face while leading your team. Sometimes it can be exceedingly overwhelming as project managers have to fulfill many demands. Image Source: ProofHub They have to deal with priorities, keep a close eye on what their team needs as well as what the customers and stakeholders want.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 23, 2022

Recently I was asked to answer some questions for a journalist on how to structure IT organizations. The questions were interesting and I wanted to share my responses here. What's the best way to restructure an IT organization for maximum productivity? Of course, the word productivity is an emotive one. Should we strive for productivity or value? Are productivity and value the same?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 26, 2022

When it comes to project management things can move really quickly, and sometimes that means things get out of hand. When you’ve got a lot to do, ensuring that your project is aligned to your organizational goals becomes even more important – it’s too easy to let slip that strategic alignment that we have heard so much about in the project management press over the past year or so.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 2, 2022

Scheduling is all about getting things done on time and within budget. It’s one of the most important aspects of planning for a project. The most popular tool to schedule projects is the Gantt chart , which lets you create a visual timeline for your project. Finding the critical path on a Gantt chart helps you achieve your project goals faster and more efficiently.

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Speaker: Erika R. Bales, Esq.

When we talk about “compliance and security," most companies want to ensure that steps are being taken to protect what they value most – people, data, real or personal property, intellectual property, digital assets, or any other number of other things - and it’s more important than ever that safeguards are in place. Let’s step back and focus on the idea that no matter how complicated the compliance and security regime, it should be able to be distilled down to a checklist.

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