Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. Here’s an introduction to these important groups as part of the governance framework so you can get yours set up and working on your project. What is a project board?

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Kiron Bondale

APRIL 3, 2022

For every person who adamantly insists that estimates are needed to support proper governance, someone else will argue that the inherent wrongness of an estimate and how estimates are abused will wipe out any benefits of defining them. The low volume for #NoEstimates is not surprising.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 26, 2024

Effective leadership and management lies in the ability to adapt and evolve. MINDSPACE was created by the Institute for Government and the Cabinet Office’s Behavioural Insights Team in the United Kingdom. The UK government has utilised the MINDSPACE framework to encourage beneficial social behaviours and enhance policy compliance.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 18, 2024

They are also great for people who haven’t had the opportunity for much formal training – like accidental PMs or those who did their formal training in another discipline and have moved to project leadership as a second career. Different industries will influence that and there is a minimum salary set by the government.

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The IIL Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This isn’t just another online conference; it’s an energizing expedition into the forefront of leadership and innovation across all levels. Strategic Leadership Effective leadership strategies are essential when guiding teams through times of volatility and uncertainty.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 26, 2024

Effective leadership and management lies in the ability to adapt and evolve. MINDSPACE was created by the Institute for Government and the Cabinet Office’s Behavioural Insights Team in the United Kingdom. The UK government has utilised the MINDSPACE framework to encourage beneficial social behaviours and enhance policy compliance.

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LiquidPlanner

MARCH 20, 2018

Managing a distributed project team takes real skill and a definite commitment to putting a governance structure in place that enables success. Delivering Project Success via Good Governance. Governance is nothing more than how a project will be controlled to deliver intended outcomes.

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The IIL Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Emphasis on Sustainability and ESG Practices: The year 2024 underscores an amplified emphasis on sustainability and the integration of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices into project management. Dr Farrow is known for her compassionate leadership and engagement approach.

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Planview

APRIL 12, 2018

Meeting the demands of ever-changing priorities within a government can lead to inconsistent processes, departments with limited visibility into what is being worked on, and no ability to monitor investments. The New Zealand Government Case Study. The New Zealand government serves approximately 4.7 million people.

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Planview

JUNE 5, 2020

PMO leadership today is about more than being a purveyor of governance and delivering projects on time and on budget. The PMO leadership journey to becoming a Savvy PMO builds on a collaborative approach to adapt processes, support multiple work methodologies, and relook at their toolset. Guidance, collaboration, and planning.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 1, 2019

Amongst her other consulting commitments, she is one of a handful of Project Academy coaches working with Cranfield University and PA Consulting to support the UK Government’s drive to increase senior project and programme management capability across government. What’s the difference between project management and project leadership?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 29, 2022

The role of the project manager has long been shifting away from someone who can tick off tasks as complete on a Gantt chart and towards a strategic leadership position for effecting change in an organization. Project managers still provide an irreplaceably human combination of leadership, integration of specialists, and ethical behaviour.

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 21, 2022

It supports practices such as increased governance oversight and reduced autonomy and flexibility for staff. If you liked this article, why not pick up my book Easy in Theory, Difficult in Practice which contains 100 other lessons on project leadership? On the other hand, a Safety-II perspective is optimistic.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 31, 2024

It’s a common management tool worldwide, used across industries, including government and nonprofit organizations. This was originally used for nonprofit organizations but later expanded to for-profit businesses and government agencies. Norton is a founder and director of the Palladium Group.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 20, 2019

Leadership can be customized to the individual. This might sound backwards, even counter to what leadership is, but the definition of leadership is broad enough to hold a multitude of approaches. So today, let’s take a look at one of the foundational types of leadership—transactional leadership.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The History of PRINCE2® PRINCE2® is part of the best practice guidance that came out of the UK Office of Government Commerce. A British government agency, the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency, licensed it for use in government IT projects back in 1979. It was renamed PRINCE. Directing gets a process of its own.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

PRINCE2 has its roots in the UK public sector and government but is now used and loved around the world. They all help you learn how to manage a project lifecycle through controllable stages and implement appropriate governance, including a project board. There are 4 PRINCE2 certificates: PRINCE2 Foundation (6 th Edition).

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 6, 2023

They lead the strategic planning and project governance for the organization and define the project management methodologies that are used to manage those projects. They’re responsible for making sure that the related projects are completed on time and within budget. The responsibilities of a PMO director are varied.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 14, 2024

He managed all the logistics for the project including booking rooms for testing and training, making sure the right delegates showed up to the training, supporting them with claiming expenses, organizing project boards, steering groups and other governance milestones, and generally making everyone’s lives easier.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 9, 2023

During a dinner conversation after the conference, you further discover that PMO (Project Management Office) can support you in leading an Agile transformation and successful Scrum adoption, by covering governance and ensuring alignment across the enterprise. More ideas (e.g. Cross-Team Refinement) can also be found in the Nexus Guide.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 6, 2024

Executives & Senior Leadership In many organisations executives and senior leadership serve as catalysts for creativity. Under Nadella’s leadership, Microsoft invested heavily in cloud computing and AI, areas that were rapidly evolving but not yet fully capitalized upon.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Underneath, I list skills grouped together by: Interpersonal skills Leadership Each of those headings has a list of bullet points underneath that give examples of how I have demonstrated those skills. Mine is called ‘Skills Profile’. Ethics, diversity and inclusion and managing workplace stress all fall into this category as well.

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Leading Answers

DECEMBER 21, 2017

I was working for IBM at the time and was able to persuade my account manager to pitch the approach on one of our government projects. We were all set for a big client success and who better than the British Government for good publicity! As it turns out, plenty due to my ill-advised approach. My enthusiasm was about to be tested.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

I am reminded of the zombie movie each time I have a discussion about project management versus project leadership. Leadership is that branch of management concerning the development, nurturing and utilization of influence as way of motivating others to some end or objective. Death to project management, long live project leadership!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The role of the project manager has long been shifting away from someone who can tick off tasks as complete on a Gantt chart and towards a strategic leadership position for effecting change in an organization. Project managers still provide an irreplaceably human combination of leadership, integration of specialists, and ethical behaviour.

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Wrike

APRIL 28, 2021

Perhaps you’ve heard of governance, risk, and compliance, also known as GRC, before, but you aren’t sure how important it is to you or your business. What is governance risk and compliance (GRC)? What exactly is governance, risk, and compliance, or GRC for short? Governance. How will GRC benefit your company?

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The IIL Blog

MAY 17, 2023

Public Sector Project Manager Selection In most government agencies, PMs were seen more so as project monitors rather than project managers. The assignment as a government project monitor was seen as an add-on to one’s normal job. Executive sponsorship was merely eyewash for government agencies.

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Kiron Bondale

MARCH 27, 2023

So long as the scope of projects is delivered by human beings, I find it unlikely that we will abdicate leadership responsibilities to a machine. will help to keep teams safe by providing guidance, evidence gathering and documentation capabilities for compliance and governance purposes. My opinion hasn’t changed. Similarly, A.I.

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NimbleWork

MARCH 27, 2024

Interpersonal factors include the tools for managing operational workflows and communications, trust and leadership support, and dynamic cross-functional team contributions, among others. Leadership should also support open and collaborative culture , instead of breeding competition and office politics, as means to career progression.

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 30, 2021

They might place greater faith in senior leadership’s ability to overcome significant issues with the project. While I’m in favor of the first two suggestions, there is always a risk with the third of micro-management or overly heavy governance.

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The Strategic Project Manager

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

These roles involve more responsibility and leadership in managing IT systems, projects, and teams. Leadership Development – Seek opportunities to develop leadership skills and gain experience in managing people, projects, and budgets. They are responsible for managing IT staff, infrastructure, projects, and budgets.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 19, 2021

Underneath, I list skills grouped together by: Interpersonal skills Leadership. They include: Communication (written and verbal) Listening Stakeholder engagement Conflict management Negotiation Influencing Leadership Team building Change management. Mine is called ‘Skills Profile’. Hard skills. Pin for later reading.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 4, 2021

First came PRINCE in 1989 as the UK government standard for IT project management. There are other differences: the PMBOK® Guide usefully covers procurement, whereas PRINCE2 assumes you are operating in an environment constrained by a contract, because of its roots in government IT projects. No, not that I’m aware of.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Lean portfolio management is a process by which strategy is aligned with execution using a lean approach and agile portfolio operations and governance. The senior leadership team will apply lean principles to manage the portfolio. Execute Lean Governance.

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 6, 2020

At other times, it’s external, in the form of new market preferences, competitor landscape, or government regulations. . More than anything, your organization needs adept leadership. A huge part of strategic leadership is changing the culture. Perhaps there’s no other entity that can genuinely attest to this than a business.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 18, 2023

A portfolio is a bunch of projects and the project portfolio manager has to allocate resources across all the projects in the portfolio efficiently and deliver on the strategic agenda of the organization that has governance over the portfolio. This requires project management software.

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Project Pulse Journal

MAY 3, 2024

These principles, including stakeholder engagement and benefits realization, form the strong leadership and backbone of successful program management. Leadership - Strong leadership provides vision and direction, inspiring and motivating the team to achieve program objectives while navigating complexities and driving performance.

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