Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Scope creep is the more common term but you might hear both, especially if you are working in software development. Ultimately, it isn’t the project manager coming up with new requirements and asking the team to “just do it”. What’s so bad about scope creep anyway? It takes its toll on team morale.

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 28, 2023

As the project management landscape becomes increasingly complex, effectively identifying, assessing, and managing risks has become critical for project managers. The PMI-RMP certification covers various domains, each with its set of tasks and enablers that project managers can leverage to manage risks effectively. Domains (e.g.,

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Project Risk Coach

AUGUST 24, 2020

In a one-on-one meeting, I asked Mike how he was identifying, analyzing, and managing his risks. His response revealed his belief in risk management but a lack of actual application with his teams. Warren Buffett says, "Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing." Failure to lead by example. Lead by example.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

We challenge leaders, we talk about risk and what might go wrong and we call people out on poor performance through project monitoring and control. Conflict should be a healthy part of any team’s development, and it’ a good way to challenge requirements and ensure that your business case and plans stand up to scrutiny.

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Some project managers make a big fuss over risk management. Each year, our senior management team would meet with a credit rating agency to share our goals, strategies, and progress. Each year, our senior management team would meet with a credit rating agency to share our goals, strategies, and progress.

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Planio

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In this guide, we’ll go deep into what a competitive analysis should include and then provide a step-by-step guide (including examples and templates) to help you create your own. 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!

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Project Risk Coach

JUNE 20, 2022

In this article, let's look at each principle and why each one matters with respect to managing risks. Create a Collaborative Project Team Environment 3. Optimize Risk Responses 11. For example, one of the PMBOK® principles is to optimize risk responses. And if you don't care about the project and team, who will?

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Inloox

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Know the risks in your project! Risk management plays an enormously important role in project management. The task here is to identify, analyze, control and ultimately minimize risks. Although some risks can be eliminated with a suitable solution strategy, certain risks can never be completely avoided in the project context.

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Project Risk Coach

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

A project manager makes decisions based on their risk perspective. Misunderstanding of the stakeholders’ risk appetite. In this article, let's explore the what, why, and how of project risk appetite. What is Risk Appetite? First, risk appetite is the degree of uncertainty. Let’s look at this definition closer.

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PM Basics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Risk identification is not a rigid process that you follow step-by-step. Instead, good risk identification comes from communication and collaboration with all project stakeholders. Moreover, you need to educate others on how to use your risk management process. What is Risk Identification? What is Risk Identification?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 25, 2023

But we’ll also discuss the cost of good quality vs. the cost of poor quality and show you how to measure COQ. It’s also not just forecasting the impact of poor quality but the expense of audits and maintenance that comes with delivering a quality product or service. What Is Cost of Quality (COQ)?

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Let's look at how to develop a project summary. It provides the core components for developing your project charter. When you create your project charter , you can start with the content of your project summary and add elements such as deliverables, assumptions, constraints, high-level risks, stakeholders, and team members.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 5, 2022

It’s easy to find examples of high-profile projects that fail. The international team did not use compatible design software which led to snowballing problems. For example, the Millennium Dome attracted 5.5 The ones that hit the papers are often public sector projects because their audits and budgets are more open to scrutiny.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Without exception, I hear—poor communication. Let’s look at five bad communication habits to avoid and what to do about each. For example, the project sponsor and project manager could review the project charter in the kick-off meeting. We all develop habits, some good and some bad. How can we improve?

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 8, 2023

All technical debt is a risk to the product and to your business. All technical debt is risk to the product and to your business. There is no asset securing that risk, no insurance for it. Technical debt is 100% risk. But, not all debt is bad!” Azure DevOps Team Feature delivery per year!

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Without exception, I hear—poor communication. Let’s look at five bad communication habits to avoid and what to do about each. For example, the project sponsor and project manager could review the project charter in the kick-off meeting. We all develop habits, some good and some bad. How can we improve?

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 10, 2022

Let’s take a closer look at the types of contract manufacturing and some examples of how it works! They are only responsible for the manufacturing of this component, one of the many components that were designed during the product development process. Contract Manufacturing Examples. What Is Contract Manufacturing?

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 5, 2022

When working in an agile environment, teams take sprints, a short period of time in which you complete tasks. Scrum teams choose this work by looking over their backlog. A scrum framework allows teams to execute in agile project management, the backlog is very important and backlog refinement keeps work flowing. Learn More!

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 2, 2024

Jira is project management software designed for agile software development teams. It has tools that allow you to plan sprints, track the completion of tasks, balance your team member’s workload and create product roadmaps. Jira Kanban Board Example This is what a Jira kanban board looks like.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 20, 2022

Managing international project teams requires cultural sensitivity and an awareness of what makes us different — and the same. In this article you’ll learn 7 helpful tips for working with international teams on global projects. Working with global teams is normal. Many of us do manage international teams now.

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Project Risk Coach

AUGUST 9, 2021

Proper planning prevents poor performance. Project managers should work closely with their project sponsor to develop an agenda for the project kickoff meeting.

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Teamweek

APRIL 19, 2024

You’ll learn proven steps, formulas, and examples to calculate and improve project ROI. For example, if you haven’t started working on a project, you can use the anticipated ROI to predict project performance. Negative ROI Negative ROI is as bad as it sounds. Let’s dive in. What is project ROI?

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PM Basics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

It is hard to imagine what you can do with a project risk. What can you, as a project manager, do to mitigate a risk? Adding some risk reserves and removing requirements from the scope are not the only options. I want to share some stories of risk management with you. List of Risk Management Examples in This Article.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 23, 2024

This requires an organization with a well-developed project management process. We’ll help by illustrating examples of different project management maturity models and offering a step-by-step way to assess the project management maturity of an organization. This is done by using a project management maturity model.

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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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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Then, we will explore how to develop a practical quality management plan. The Cost of Poor Quality First, we may not meet customer's needs and expectations. Fifth, your team's morale may suffer. This is often a result of poor quality requirements. Project managers and teams focus on meeting the customer's needs.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 1, 2022

Long has spoonfeeding solutions and off-the-shelf feature descriptions prevailed in many development teams. Although some issues might have been fixed, I rarely see the full potential of a Scrum Team being achieved. Going all-in on predefined features fails to capitalize on hidden ideas in the brains of team members.

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Nine times out of ten, I hear the answer—poor communication. What happens when poor communication exists? Consequently, individuals misunderstand and make bad assumptions. Here's the bottom line -- poor communication drives projects into an abysmal valley. Heck, your team may even abandon ship.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Let’s take a look at Jira, which says it helps teams to track, manage and automate their projects. Jira is software that was developed by Atlassian, an Australian-based company, to track bugs, issues and for general project management. They allow teams to view, manage and report on their work. That’s a tall order. What Is Jira?

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Project Risk Coach

MAY 28, 2016

Ever have this sinking feeling that a bad moon is arising on your project? The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) defines risk as, “An uncertain event or condition that, if occurs, has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.”. One of the most dangerous threats may be the unknown risks.

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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. Project Baselines.

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WorkOtter

MAY 18, 2023

Risks are common in business. These risks carry uncertainties which pose potential threats to the financial health of the organization. Projects help the business reach objectives and goals, and with each project comes its own set of risks. Importance of Risk Analysis in Project Management What is a risk in project management?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Estimation is a complementary practice Scrum Teams use in Product D evelopment. Story points are usually assigned by the team members using a scale such as the Fibonacci sequence (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc.) Some other teams may use animal sizes (Rat, Cat, Dog, Horse, Elephant etc.) or T-shirt sizes (XS, S, M, L, XL, etc.).

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Enterprise environmental factors can be defined as conditions that aren’t under the immediate control of the project team. Both being beyond the control of the project team, and even the organization that initiated the project, enterprise environmental factors can affect the outcome of the project, both negatively and positively.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 23, 2021

3 Is an Opportunity a Risk, Really? Project managers may use qualitative and quantitative risk analysis to evaluate opportunities. Consequently, these project managers and team members fail to take advantage of these upside risks. Therefore, negative risks are considered to be threats and positive risks are opportunities.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Real-life risk-taking is different from theory. For instance, in the coin-flipping example, any sensible individual would think there must be something rigged in the game. We would just adapt our risk-taking strategy accordingly. Long story short, in real-life risk-taking situations “experience trumps theory”. 1.95m each?

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 30, 2017

One reason a project manager may have a bad reputation is bloated project plans. While I’m a fan of planning, let’s use some common sense and right-size our risk management plans. A risk management plan for the Mercedes-Benz Stadium will be much larger than a plan for a Southern Living Idea House. Risk categories.

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