Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

This article, 7 Ethics Tips For Project Managers , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. It’s probably fairer and less controversial to say that it was “estimated” rather than created totally randomly from scratch. But she was worried that other people were interpreting the estimate as definite fact.

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 23, 2020

Tech teams are comprised of creative individuals, each with their own ideas on how things should work. A good project manager should allow team members to express their creativity, but also keep them focused on the main goal at the same time. The PM is the team member who brings all the creative forces together.

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Project Risk Coach

MAY 21, 2018

Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance. If this is true, why is it that some project managers put so little time in developing a project management plan? I’ve developed this checklist to help you develop your project management plan including baselines, subsidiary plans, and ancillary plans.

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LiquidPlanner

APRIL 5, 2022

It may seem impossible to do both at times, which can quickly lead to burnout and underperformance. And organizations need to foster a healthy working environment for their teams to thrive. Here are some of our best tips for creating and maintaining a balanced workload for yourself and your team: 1. Estimate your time.

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ProProfs Project Management

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Managing creative teams has always been a tricky job because you need to give your team freedom to try new ideas and take risks, while at the same time, pushing them is also important to get the job done on time and within scope. So what’s the solution to creative team management? In short, it’s a constant balancing act.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 24, 2022

Too much bad meeting behavior affects your ability to serve you customers at a high level, and ultimately will cost you a lot of money. Now, let’s imagine the beginning of a new product development meeting at Apple. Read next: 10 tips for great meeting minutes. I think we can agree that you can’t afford unproductive meetings.

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Planio

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

If you’re a founder, product strategist, or team leader looking to beat the competition and deliver for your customers, this article is for you! In the process of developing a competitive analysis, you’ll gather and analyze data on your ideal customer base, competition, distribution channels, and pricing and marketing strategies.

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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

However, it usually becomes challenging due to a great number of factors: underestimation of project costs, uncontrolled changes, poor resource allocation, etc. Poor estimates . Project estimation involves prediction of time, cost, and resources required for completing a project. Poor budget management.

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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. I caught up with Ruth to find out more about how to motivate teams and why it’s something you should be actively doing. Why do you think motivation on project teams is so important? She’s even written the book on it. So how do we do it? Gertman et.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 29, 2022

I have been a bit lax with project management reading recently but one book that I have made time to review again is The Conscious Project Leader: How to Create a Culture of Success for Your Projects, Your Team and Yourself. Colin’s book isn’t going to teach you how to estimate or manage risk – although there are chapters on that.

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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

However, it usually becomes challenging due to a great number of factors: underestimation of project costs, uncontrolled changes, poor resource allocation, etc. Poor estimates . Project estimation involves prediction of time, cost, and resources required for completing a project. Poor budget management.

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Scrum.org

MAY 23, 2021

This article aims to give you a couple of tips to become more aware of your metrics. In summary, some tips: Ensure your metrics are connected to your vision and mission. If we collect metrics that serve as a KPI to teams, we need to be aware we are not supplying the teams goals other than our main goal (delivering customer value).

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 28, 2019

Team productivity is one of the most important ingredients in business, and it’s everyone’s responsibility to keep themselves on track. Without productivity, projects can fall behind deadlines, leaving teams scrambling to deal with the consequences. employers an estimated $544 billion in lost productivity each year.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 19, 2019

Whether you call it backlog refinement or backlog grooming, it’s a crucial task for product managers and their teams. Product managers have to balance the needs of their stakeholders, their team and their project objectives. Update Priorities and Estimates. Estimates will also change. Boosts Team Efficiency.

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LiquidPlanner

MARCH 31, 2022

This ended up being a huge issue because they wouldn’t cooperate with my team and I. Poor planning, lack of visibility and the unknown frequently result in unexpected surprises that negatively impact project progress and outcomes. . Early and detailed planning is the key to ensuring your team can avoid unexpected surprises.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 5, 2022

We define what a technical project manager does, provide an outline for a job description you can post and offer tips for becoming better at your job. They need to have leadership qualities, manage teams, allocate resources and make project plans and schedules. If either applies, read on. What Is a Technical Project Manager?

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 28, 2018

Since then I’ve come across too many project professionals, teams and organizations who stretch Microsoft Excel into a project management tool, and unsuccessfully so. When teams use legacy tools for something like project management, they invite in even more legacy problems. He was a wise man. brings up an excellent point.

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nTask

DECEMBER 8, 2020

So, if you have a team of qualified resource planners working for you, or if you are one yourself and you want to overcome the challenges that are related to resource planning, you need to have two elements embedded in your resource planning process. And it is closely linked to the development of schedules and cost plans.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2021

Your Scrum team is consistently failing to meet commitments, and its velocity is volatile. How would you address this issue with the team? If a Scrum Team is exhibiting a volatile velocity, consistently failing to meet their forecasts, it suggests that velocity is being used as the prevalent metric for measuring that team’s progress.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Consequently, these project managers and team members fail to take advantage of these upside risks. The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines risk as "the possibility that something bad or unpleasant (such as injury or a loss) will happen." Here are some examples: Your software development project is behind schedule.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

From your team to the tools they need, materials, equipment, software, office space and so on. Resource forecasting is a way to estimate the number of necessary resources to deliver your project successfully. That means having the ability to see who is tasked with what assignments and whether the team is sharing that workload fairly.

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Teamweek

JULY 29, 2022

You may have stellar skills and a fantastic team, but neither helps that sinking feeling when you have to ask a client for a deadline extension on a project. Inaccurate time estimation is the cause of 25% of failed projects. Learning how to estimate time for a project is tricky, but critical to its success. You’re not alone.

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MPUG

JULY 17, 2023

No Estimates In the name of pragmatism, we argue for not estimating because management behaves poorly when the estimates are inaccurate. This is not to suggest that we should always estimate; some projects – di minimis projects specifically – are good candidates for skipping estimates.

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 15, 2017

cited that $122 million was wasted for every $1 billion invested due to poor project performance. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, however, if it isn’t bolstered with legitimate study of project management fundamentals, then it can become a bad thing in the right situation. Benefits of Developing Project Management Skills.

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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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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Portfolio managers must be able to prioritize tasks within projects, monitor their team’s performance, and allocate their resources effectively. A project is defined as an activity done by one or many team members over a specific timeframe that ends with a deliverable. This involves different teams. Plan Ahead.

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LiquidPlanner

APRIL 27, 2022

In honor of National Superhero Day on April 28th, this article gives tips on how we can rise to “superhero status” as project managers. Here are some quick tips for positioning yourself to be the superhero project manager: 1. The way to avoid this is to estimate costs upfront before the project starts. Execute with speed.

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ProProfs Project Management

OCTOBER 9, 2020

That being said, it’s time to discuss what project execution is and which tips you should follow to avoid project failure. Call for a Team Meeting When It Is Really Needed. 5 Strategic Tips to Improve Project Execution. Also, explain the reason behind the received changes, so your team executes tasks more precisely this time.

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Traxidy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

For some projects, that set of work may be the tip of the iceberg of work that you will need to manage and control the project. A task should not be so large that it becomes difficult to estimate or manage. A task should not be so large that it becomes difficult to estimate or manage. These are just a few examples.

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Project Risk Coach

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

As you struggle with project estimates, budgets, and risks, you engage with team members that bring their personal and professional issues into your world. Each project has its own unique culture, a world composed of team members’ beliefs, attitudes, values, behavior, and actions. Think of the project manager as a shepherd.

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Teamweek

APRIL 19, 2024

Actual ROI This is the project’s true financial performance compared to initial estimations. Actual ROI has multiple uses as it: Shows how profitable the project is Helps evaluate how accurate initial ROI estimates are Can compare actual ROI with anticipated ROI. Negative ROI Negative ROI is as bad as it sounds.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

For example, a performance report can focus on one project or team member, but it can also go as broad as the whole company. Performance reporting provides a view into the performance of a business and lets you track your activities and outline your strengths and weaknesses. There are different targets for performance reporting.

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Project Risk Coach

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

As you struggle with project estimates, budgets, and risks, you engage with team members that bring their personal and professional issues into your world. Each project has its own unique culture, a world composed of team members’ beliefs, attitudes, values, behavior, and actions. Think of the project manager as a shepherd.

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ProProfs Project Management

MAY 21, 2020

You encounter different types of obstacles during each phase of the project development process. If industry reports are anything to go by, poor management of requirements has led to the failure of 47% of projects. Poor project planning. Wrong estimation of time and budget. Poor Project Planning . Lack of trust.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Still, there are concrete steps you can take to develop a solid project schedule and ensure all aspects of your project are properly planned and accounted for. The best way around this is to involve the team in constructing the list of tasks. Then get the team together to add to it. Step 1: Write Down Your Tasks.

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LiquidPlanner

APRIL 11, 2017

The developers were writing code without a solid vision of what it should do. For projects like hardware product development, where there is a lot of uncertainty and complexity, it’s critical to understand which tasks are most important. Otherwise, your team will find much of their effort is wasted. Removing Uncertainty.

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Proofhub

JULY 19, 2022

There’s one “but” that changes everything: the development potential and opportunities for improvement in PM are endless. 7 Killer Practices for Project Management to Rely on in All Cases Are you ready to arm yourself with seven actionable tips on how to manage projects impeccably? You do strive for the best results, don’t you?

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