Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 18, 2023

Have you ever been asked to ‘just get the project done’? Research from nPlan of 500,000 project schedules points to nine out of every 10 projects are delivered late. It’s likely that the issue is reflected in non-major construction projects too. What does it mean to crash your schedule? Benefits of schedule crashing.

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Henny Portman

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Project Management Maturity Model Fourth Edition, written by J. E.g., resource management is broken down into the key components resource management planning, resource estimation, resource acquisition, team development and team management. Each knowledge area is broken down the into specific key components.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Ruth Pearce knows everything there is to know about motivating your project team. She’s even written the book on it. Why do you think motivation on project teams is so important? When we connect the goals of a project to those intrinsic motivators, we see amazing results. Ruth, let’s start at the beginning. Ruth Pearce.

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Online PM Courses

JULY 30, 2018

No one wants their project to fail. Despite this, project failure is all too common. So is it Possible to Prevent Project Failure? It certainly is, and all you need to do is follow all the principles of good Project Management, including foreseeing and acting on all threats. Giant Guide to Project Failure.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

What are the key skills for working on multiple projects simultaneously? In this article, we’ll dive into the statistics and you’ll learn: The top challenges facing people managing several projects at once The key skills required for managing multiple projects The top tools for prioritizing work day-to-day.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 16, 2016

This time last year I reviewed the trends in social and collaborative technology in the project management space: some of my predictions had come to nothing and it was interesting to look backward and hold myself accountable for what I said would happen. We need this because project work is huge and complicated. Big Data.

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Henny Portman

DECEMBER 10, 2022

The book starts with a warning that agile is more than a mindset, it is a philosophy, followed by 22 chapters, in which the authors show that it is easy to understand, but very difficult to apply at first. Management teams and agile’ answers the question what will change for management teams if they themselves switch to agile working too.

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Planio

JANUARY 2, 2023

For most project managers, it’s not the beginning or end of a project that’s difficult to plan for - it’s the “messy middle.” Even with the best scope of work and an actionable project plan , it’s impossible to know what might happen once you start working towards your goals. Estimate your task durations.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 20, 2018

Estimating Software-Intensive Systems: Project, Products, and Processes , Richard D. Stutzke is a starting point for estimating software projects. From tradition projects to agile projects, this text provides practical examples based on principles. All projects contain uncertainty.

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

ways to make decisions with No Estimates. is not founded on any principle of business management, microeconomics of decision making, or principles of probability and statistics. can we make a decision in the presence of Uncertainty without making an estimate of the impact or outcome of that decision? An estimate is.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The project management plan (Plan) is a powerful tool. It describes how the project will be executed. It should be tailored based on the project’s context and needs. Unfortunately, in the rush to start a project, insufficient time is often devoted to creating the Plan. Projects can solve simple to chaotic problems.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Here are my collected works, presentations, briefings, journal papers, articles, white papers, and essays, used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've developed and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems domain. Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 2, 2019

Others are always instrumental in any major project. Related: Teamwork Quotes: The 25 Best Quotes About Working Together. Mission planners worked for two years prior to launch, studying the moon’s surface using satellite photographs in order to discern the best site for a lunar landing.

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International Institute for Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

All companies desire to remain competitive and continuously improve their project management performance by becoming more efficient and more effective in the execution of their project management processes. Continuous improvement efforts are most often based upon the capturing of best practices.

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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 14, 2021

It’s applicable to any sphere of human life, and the field of project management is no exception. But is there any chance to save your projects from failure, bearing Murphy’s law in mind? First off, let’s figure out what can go wrong when the project has been initiated. . What Can Go Wrong in a Project.

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Velociteach

MARCH 4, 2024

The podcast by project managers for project managers. Are your projects truly delivering the promised benefits? He explains why so many projects miss the mark on delivering measurable benefits and shares strategies to implement to maximize value. Table of Contents 02:37 … Why Benefits Management?

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The Strategic Project Manager

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Rather than explaining the canvas, I will ‘take a wag’ at filling it – for the Project Management Institute (PMI) – noting that this is my perspective only for the example. Customer Relationships – Project Managers. Project management – Is this a project-centric business?

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

It was Rudyard Kipling who popularized the idiom “law of the jungle” back in 1894, and ever since I was a kid falling asleep to passages of Jungle Book , I’ve been fascinated by everything jungle. At Tiger Tops, do you have any have efforts that you would classify as a project? That would be me, as well as each lodge manager.

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TrustRadius Project Management

JANUARY 28, 2022

The software caters to legal companies, government agencies, and corporations. Government commercial enterprises often have legal teams that conduct internal investigations, and will also find themselves needing an eDiscovery solution. This tends to be per matter/case/project, per user, by storage volume, or a flat rate subscription.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Everything you need to know about project management terms is here in one list! Plus we’ve added handy links to help you dive deeper into different topics with videos, articles and even our round-up of all resources so you can put these important terms into practice with your projects.

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Online PM Courses

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Are you a Project Manager or a Project Leader? One way I like to think of the difference between Project Management and Project Leadership is that: Project Management gets things done. Project Leadership makes changes happen. Strategic and Business Management: business-oriented skill.

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Velociteach

JULY 3, 2023

The podcast by project managers for project managers. Will your project’s documentation pass the test of time once the project is done and the people are gone? Documentation is at the intersection of information management, organizational design, and personal productivity.

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Velociteach

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The podcast by project managers for project managers. Projects are instrumental in defining an organization’s vision for a more sustainable future. So when we look at green projects, it’s are you taking a total asset lifecycle focus? We’re talking about Green Project Management.

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Epicflow Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Project management involves creating lots of documentation. If you look into project management standards, you will find at least a dozen of various plans, multiple types of reports, and numerous other documents. A Business Case: Presenting the Idea of a Project . A Project Charter: From the Idea to Actual Work.

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Risk Management Risk Initiating Monitoring 52

International Institute for Learning

APRIL 5, 2023

The world-wide project management community of practices is slowly recognizing how AI will be able to improve the practice of project management. Some of the risks facing project management organizations are presented in the sections that follow. However, there can still exist employee misuse.

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Resource Guru

JUNE 13, 2023

We want to encourage our team members to, for example, if they have downtime between projects and there’s really nothing for them to do, just go and use your downtime. Because you need full energy to use your full potential for the next project, right?” Take that time to rest and recharge. Farhadi explains.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

What is a method in project management? We have a ton of project management methods – some you probably don’t spend much time thinking about at all. Types of project management methods. Project management uses lots of methods. But there are some specific project management methods.

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Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Balancing the team’s work schedule is one of the trickiest parts of a project manager’s role. So you can get the best results from their hard work. Since 82% of employees say they aren’t at their best when stressed, creating a balanced work schedule benefits your team members and your business.

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Software Review Sustainability Consulting Planning 52

Online PM Courses

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

I have project management nailed.’ All of the professional bodies and providers of general project management qualifications recognize that this is far from the truth. If you don’t know who or what the Project Management Institute (PMI) is, take a look at this video before reading on. Leadership.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 2, 2017

For the most part, the briefing follows Tony Magennis' approach from his book. So the first part is following standard estimating principles. Aleatory uncertainty produces an irreducible risk to the project. It's rarely possible to have that much insight into any development project. This is a false equivalency.

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Appfluence

MARCH 23, 2021

What Is Operations Management? Operations management is a business field that manages the processes of producing and distributing products and services. The Importance Of Operations Management. If you want to know more, watch this short video from an Operations Manager: Principles Of Operations Management.

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Fletcher Hearn’s session, Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello, and welcome to part one of MPUGs Project Performance Measurement course.

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Wrike

MARCH 19, 2015

Two Wrikers helped host a #PMChat discussion on Twitter last Friday, where a community of project managers comes together once a week to discuss and share knowledge on various topics related to project management. Implement their advice and improve stakeholder management for your next project.

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Herding Cats

JULY 23, 2017

There is always some post about leadership, innovation, and personnel development around agile project management, Having deployed one of the early agile development programs (eXtreme Programming) in a mission critical IT organization, I was part of an approach that is known to work for building leadership and teams.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

We have these small teams working on troubled projects. They hypothesized that estimating the cards and doing burn-down charts would increase throughput. Things really take off with the advent of the CSM certification and PMI finally recognizing Agile as a legitimate way to do software project management. Same for XP.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 15, 2023

But again, the main mechanism is being able to take really large projects and then to put them into market in smaller chunks and then to not only get feedback, but also to learn when you’ve built enough and there’s a diminishing return on going through the rest of the backlog. We really look at the systems, right?

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