Rebel’s Guide to PM
AUGUST 28, 2017
This article, How Change Management Fits Into Projects , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. Way back when I started managing projects, change management was a specific role in large organisations. Big projects – and lucky project managers – had their own Business Change Manager. This person’s role was to integrate the change delivered by a project into the operations of the company.
Green Project Management
AUGUST 4, 2017
Context This post was modified from one I developed several years ago for the Mercure AACE 2013 program I took, called W15_PM_EVM-Agile-Considerations. My primary focus is split between sustainable organizational project, programme, portfolio and risk management improvement and organizational sustainable change delivery assessments. My project experience has been 30+ years in combining a series of […].
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Project Risk Coach
AUGUST 21, 2017
Project Stakeholder Management Project stakeholders–individuals, groups, and organizations– may be impacted by or may have an impact on your projects. It’s critical to understand how people inside and outside your organization may affect your projects. Let’s explore stakeholder management power tools that can help you quickly identify which stakeholders matter.
Project Bliss
AUGUST 8, 2017
Having a great project sponsor can contribute to the success of your project. But what should you expect from the person serving in the project sponsor role? What can he do for you and your project? And how can the person in the project sponsor role help support your project’s success? You know the Project Manager role and responsibilities. But what about the Project Sponsor?
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The Lazy Project Manager
AUGUST 1, 2017
The following is an extract from my new book ‘How to get Fired at the C-Level: Why mismanaging change is the biggest risk of all’ in association with my friends at Tailwind Project Solutions – the extracts follow a series of 5 Challenges that I think every organisation should consider, and consider very carefully – this is the final of the five challenges: Invest in great project management skills – not just project managers.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
AUGUST 30, 2017
This article, How to Create A Checklist to Speed Up Tasks in 3 Easy Steps , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. Before I had children I travelled a lot. My job took me all round Europe. My husband travelled for work as well, and we’d often meet in odd places just to guarantee seeing each other – Majorca, Malta, Antigua. I enjoyed it, but I didn’t like the stress of packing at short notice because my boss wanted me in Barcelona tomorrow.
Green Project Management
AUGUST 4, 2017
Context This post was modified from one I developed several years ago for the Mercure AACE 2013 program I took, called W17_PM_EVM-KPI-Reporting. It is a follow on to a recent post “EVM and Agile – Can they work together?“ Once again, this post is not specifically about sustainable change delivery. It does provide useful considerations, […].
Project Risk Coach
AUGUST 14, 2017
Project Stakeholder Management Last week, we looked at 15 awesome ways to manage your project stakeholders. Today, let’s explore the development and use of the stakeholder register. If you can’t see this video in your RSS reader or email, then click here. Stakeholder Register Benefits. Projects are dynamic and stakeholders make things interesting.
Musings on Project Management
AUGUST 14, 2017
We all make estimates; and we all make estimates all the time. When I make the 20 mile trip each Tuesday to a client site, I estimate adjustments to a baseline based on weather and road construction and if I know about an accident. Really, no one sets out to do anything meaningful without some estimate in mind re time, or cost, or risk; usually we can also notionally estimate the scope.
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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
Inloox
AUGUST 8, 2017
Digital transformation is on everyone’s radar right now and a majority of industries and companies are working towards digitizing their organization. But what does it take to digitally transform an organization successfully? Hint: It’s not just about implementing fancy new tools. A company is not automatically “digital” just because they have digital tools at their disposal.
Ron Rosenhead
AUGUST 23, 2017
The project started with a real bang. It was like watching the rush hour at a major London railway station. There was a massive amount of activity, people asking for data (sometime twice of the same person), people in the team doing the same work, lots of meetings and lots of ‘activity.’ To the outsider it looked as though this was a project going far.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
AUGUST 9, 2017
This article, Book Review: Project Management for Humans , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. Sometimes I pick up a project management book and it’s like: “I have to read this, book reviews are part of my job, but at least with this one I’m going to get a nice nap at the end.”. Project Management for Humans isn’t like that. Brett Harned is a lovely guy – I met him at the Digital PM Summit in 2016 – and he’s a confident presenter, easily conveying his passion for the subject to a crowd.
Kiron Bondale
AUGUST 27, 2017
Scott Adams continues to hit the mark when it comes to the dysfunctions plaguing the corporate world. His latest Dilbert comic strip inspired me to write about a common challenge facing those organizations who are moving from a project-centric to a product-centric delivery approach, namely developing effective product owners. The funny thing is that this is not a new role – go back a couple of decades and it was common to have senior managers responsible for making the majority of decision
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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.
Project Risk Coach
AUGUST 28, 2017
Project Stakeholder Management There are many ways to engage stakeholders. You can facilitate discussions in your project meetings. A business analyst may elicit requirements. The lead tester may develop a team for testing. Let’s look at a different form of engagement–the use of an internal blog. Engage: occupy, attract, or involve (someone’s interest or attention).
LiquidPlanner
AUGUST 15, 2017
Here’s a lesson I’m thankful I learned early in my career: successful engineering projects rely more on non-technical skills than technical skills. It’s not that the technical skills aren’t important – they are. One can’t design a building without knowledgeable, skilled structural, MEP, and fire engineers. An airplane isn’t safe unless there are skilled aeronautical engineers involved.
Project Bliss
AUGUST 24, 2017
The next time – or anytime – you’re planning a meeting, there’s one thing you must do to get the most out of it. Even after planning meetings for years I didn’t know this simple step – and wound up in a very uncomfortable situation. I had a project meeting that involved a director who was known for being intimidating. He had high expectations of his team, and his reputation was well-known.
Ron Rosenhead
AUGUST 14, 2017
This blog was first published in 2008! Over the last 12 months I have had many conversations with project managers and personal awareness does not seem to be as high as it could be. I have therefore slightly amended the original blog below. I hope you find it useful. . . ‘The bad news is that time flies. The good news is – you’re the pilot’. Michael Altshuler.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
AUGUST 2, 2017
This article, Entrepreneurship & Project Management [Interview] , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. I used to work for someone who said, “We’ve all got the choice to buy a bucket and a brush.” He meant that if you weren’t happy at work for whatever reason, you could go and set up as a window cleaner and run your own business. Chris Cook.
Kiron Bondale
AUGUST 13, 2017
Teams leading agile transformations can encounter multiple challenges along their journey including changing the mindsets of senior and mid-level managers, transitioning from a focus on specialists to developing generalizing specialists, educating and effectively engaging delivery or control partners and reducing the time and effort required to deploy deliverables once they’ve been deemed production ready.
Project Risk Coach
AUGUST 7, 2017
Practical Tips for Identifying, Analyzing, and Influencing Your Stakeholders Projects can be engaging and even enjoyable, or it can be a source of aggravation and stress. If you put some care and time into identifying, analyzing, and managing your project stakeholders, you’ll have a better project experience and improve your chance of success. Remember what Charles Schulz said through the character of Linus: “I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand!!
LiquidPlanner
AUGUST 10, 2017
“Dear Elizabeth: My boss wants a lot of work done, and he’s put me in the project management role. But I don’t think he really understands what a project manager does. I have previous project management experience in my old job, and I’d love to be able to run this project properly. But it’s hard to get time with him. On top of that, there isn’t the executive interest in good practice, software tools, etc. even though I know these would make it easier for the team to do what we need to do success
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Entry
AUGUST 2, 2017
The post The Triple Constraints of Project Management appeared first on Entry Software Corporation.
The Digital Project Manager
AUGUST 28, 2017
Forecast takes a radically new approach to project management with a tool that’s tailored for project managers working in professional services, and powered by artificial. The post The Future Of Professional Services Is Powered By AI Technology appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
AUGUST 23, 2017
This article, Communicating Change: A New Book From Elizabeth , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. Have you ever wondered why some people’s projects just seem to gain traction in the business? Everyone’s heard of them. Everyone supports them – and not only the mandatory, top priority ones, either. I think that has a lot to do with how we get the message out about the work we do.
Kiron Bondale
AUGUST 20, 2017
What’s the appropriate frequency for conducting retrospectives? If you follow the Scrum methodology or a hybrid of it, you’ll likely say at the end of every sprint, once the sprint review, showcase or demo has taken place. For teams which are learning to be agile, that is the right answer. It takes a few sprints for a new team to develop the mutual trust and psychological safety required to have a productive retrospective.
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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