Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 12, 2022

“New work is being assigned without being reviewed for priority or as part of the long term strategy/plan,” wrote one project manager, and many others added similar comments about the lack of organizational portfolio management, like these: Poor strategy planning hence poor implementation in order to realize benefits sought.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

“New work is being assigned without being reviewed for priority or as part of the long term strategy/plan,” wrote one project manager, and many others added similar comments about the lack of organizational portfolio management, like these: Poor strategy planning hence poor implementation in order to realize benefits sought.

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Scrum.org

JULY 21, 2021

More examples of poorly aligned incentives that contributed to the boom then bust financial crisis of 2008-2009: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac using their implicit government backing to take on significant mortgage risk with little capital backing. Suppose our teams don't have autonomy and are not aligned with our vision or strategic goal.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Whether you are just starting out, developing your project manager resume, or a seasoned professional, mastering the Project Management Buzzwords is non-negotiable. Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g., Business case An organization will develop a document to justify the investment in a project (i.e.,

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Planio

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

An implementation plan guides your entire team through the who , what , when , and how of your project — providing clarity, alignment, and accountability for everyone involved. Identify tasks, estimate timings, and map a timeline Step 4. Define team roles and assign team members to tasks Step 5. Team accountability.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2021

Creating an ecosystem where teams with the appropriate skills and resources are able to organize around a well-prioritized backlog to build working, tested product sounds simple but can quickly become mired in the nuances and details that manifest as all sorts of complexities in product development organizations.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 18, 2022

It helps you manage your resources effectively and even supports the sales team as they know when products will be delivered and available for sale. When you use our free resource plan template for Excel you can set up your resources by your team instead of their rate and the cost you’ve budgeted for their work.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

In many cases it’s easier to work at a surface level, dealing with immediate issues and reacting to requests from the team and from executives. Similarly, the project charter and the project plan have little value if they haven’t been produced in collaboration with the team and if the stakeholders aren’t fully bought into them.

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Velociteach

APRIL 11, 2023

Developing the charter often requires negotiating with stakeholders to align their support for the project. These issues would have been uncovered sooner had I been involved in developing the charter. The team can return to the charter throughout the project to reorient themselves and guide future decisions.

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Planview

JANUARY 19, 2023

However, many digital transformation initiatives struggle to deliver the expected financial value, with more than half lagging behind original estimates, according to a Gartner survey of CIOs. VSM builds connections between siloed teams within an organization. Value stream management (VSM) changes that.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2018

In this stage of the project, the decisions about how to manage and govern are made. The project design also estimates the budget and outlines how to monitor and evaluate progress. There are steps to take for defining projects and developing an implementation strategy. What Is Project Design? It’s difficult!

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Proofhub

JANUARY 4, 2021

As you start your project, you need to take the initiative on the preparatory work, from preparing the scope, estimating the costs, assigning resources, and creating a project timeline, to getting sign-off on the key performance indicators. Manage your projects, teams and tasks smartly. Stop relying on emails and switch to ProofHub.”

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

ways to make decisions with No Estimates. Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. 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. It's a fallacy.

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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 14, 2021

Delivery delay, Bad weather conditions due to which the accomplishment of a task is hindered or becomes impossible, Etc. You can’t predict all bad things that can happen, because reality isn’t flawless. It happens due to both: bad management and bad luck caused by Murphy’s law in operation. This list is just endless.

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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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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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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The Project Manager is typically concerned with day-to-day progress of the Development Team. They rarely (or never) miss a Daily Scrum, they’re involved during the Daily Scrum and it might just be that they’re asking individual team members what they’ve done, what they’re going to do and if there’s anything blocking them.

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Planview

JUNE 28, 2019

Adopting Lean-Agile budgeting practices helps to decrease funding overhead and friction while maintaining financial governance, helping to align budgeting practices with Lean-Agile goals. IT provides cost and time estimates and executives prioritize funding based on perceived value delivery in 12-18 months or longer.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Next, he talks about how Agile Transformation is an ongoing process and the importance of teaming strategies. Transformation also isn’t telling your leadership they are bad, and they need to trust the team. You have to make changes in most organizations to do small team Agile well. Valuable, just not Transformation.

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Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

Once the risks have been identified and assessed, organizations must develop and implement strategies to manage and mitigate them. Regular audits and assessments can help identify any gaps or weaknesses in the risk management framework and allow organizations to take corrective actions.

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Planio

APRIL 22, 2024

According to some estimates , PMs spend 90% of their time communicating with team members, sponsors, and stakeholders. Easier to share information with teams and stakeholders. This will enable the sales team to maximize efficiency and drive a forecasted monthly increase in sales of 23% (c.$60,000)

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 15, 2024

These strategies enhance team dynamics and facilitate time and budget management as the project progresses, whether for leading small teams or managing large-scale projects. Among these resources are models, methods, and artifacts that each play a unique role in aiding project managers and their teams to achieve project goals.

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International Institute for Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This knowledge must include an understanding of the current strengths and especially weaknesses needing improvement. Improvement in estimating accuracy by a certain percentage or dollar value. This time, the results showed that they were poor in project management. Cost savings of a certain percentage or dollar value.

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International Institute for Learning

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Perhaps the most significant reason for the slow growth of many needed project management changes was due to senior management’s desire for standardization of governance and execution for the multitude of traditional projects managed for external clients. Traditional projects were most often based upon well-defined customer requirements.

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ProProfs Project Management

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Ineffective corporate governance. Call for a Team Meeting When It Is Really Needed. Another benefit is that your team gains confidence when they accomplish one milestone, which, in turn, helps them perform better in the remaining phase of the project. Call for a Team Meeting When It Is Really Needed. Set Milestones.

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Online PM Courses

MAY 7, 2018

If your team has a common purpose and approaches risk in a consistent way, which reflects that purpose, that will protect your project and make it more secure. Team members need to be constantly aware of risk, and share a common attitude to it. You and your team need to do as well as think about risk. What is Risk Culture?

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

B – Project Management Terms Backlog Backlog is a term from the Agile methodology Scrum, but is also used across industries to track every single thing that is needed to complete a product in development. Baseline A baseline is an estimate of the project’s scope, schedule and costs that is created during the planning stage.

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Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

All projects are governed by hard rules like scope, deadlines, and budget. When you’re wondering whether you’re on track and within budget, the good or bad news can be found in the baseline. Is that a good or a bad thing? Develop the Scope Baseline. Develop the Schedule and Cost Baselines.

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Velociteach

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

in sustainable development and environment, and he has over 25 years of experience in various areas of project management including government, finance, consulting, manufacturing, and education. And he’s a contributor to the development of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Our guest is Dr. Joel Carboni.

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ProProfs Project Management

MARCH 6, 2020

As project managers and even as team members of a project, we all know that leadership and management is a field on its own, even referred to as a scientific field. . Right from smaller investments to multi-million dollar projects, it requires specific and strict plans that everyone in the team should stick to. . Initiation Phase.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 5, 2023

Experts in AI estimate that the implementation cost in some organizations could conceivably be in the millions of dollars. Some companies may believe that it is too costly to develop their own AI software and prefer to purchase a third-party package.

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Velociteach

JULY 3, 2023

Accurate documentation makes teams more efficient and effective. She’s also an expert on productivity, documentation, governance, risk, and compliance; and has delivered 15 years’ experience as an auditor, accountant, analyst, problem solver, and independent consultant. She’s based in Calgary, Alberta. What are some of those signs?

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Herding Cats

APRIL 15, 2017

Why estimates don't work - Carmen is assigned a project that will make or break the company. This is a classic example used in the book of making seriously bad management decisions. . Then comes one of three quotes that are the basis of the argument for NOT estimating. I have a break this week and would like to sum up Chapter 1.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

MAY 28, 2020

And of course, for our projects and our organisations, we don’t have Governments to bail us out. Benefits are much harder to estimate but it can still be done, and experienced companies are able to map projected benefits, albeit within wider ranges than for project costs, whilst avoiding the natural tendency to over-estimate those benefits.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Next, he talks about how Agile Transformation is an ongoing process and the importance of teaming strategies. Transformation also isn’t telling your leadership they are bad, and they need to trust the team. You have to make changes in most organizations to do small team Agile well. Valuable, just not Transformation.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

If, for example, a project manager believes a member of his or her team is a fast and effective worker, each time that team member works fast and effectively or is told by a colleague about the work that has been done fast and effectively, the project manager will consider his or her belief to be well-founded.

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Techno-PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Mitigation strategies are now successfully developed that range from personnel to software assistance. While prevention tactics depend solely on accidental occurrences of risk factors, preparedness and recovery depend on building contingency plans, robust budget estimation , and management skills. How to Mitigate Them?

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