Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 12, 2022

Project governance is an important part of project management processes – even if it’s not the most exciting part of getting work done. As a project manager, part of your role is shepherding the work through the project lifecycle. Governance is a key part of that, and gate reviews are part of navigating through the project.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 31, 2024

A balanced scorecard is a strategic management performance metric. 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.

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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.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 29, 2022

What is the future of project management? Let’s look ahead and see what the next 10 years will bring for project management software, jobs, and the role itself. Does Project Management Have a Future? So will we need ‘professional’ project managers in the future? People who just do managing projects?

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The IIL Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Introduction: Project management, is a dynamic field, continually evolving in response to changing business needs and technological advancements. Stepping into 2024, we believe that the project management trends will reflect a notable shift from traditional methodologies towards more dynamic, business-focused, and people-centric approaches.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 6, 2023

PMO stands for project management office and it’s responsible for the project management standards in an organization. The two others are the program management office and the portfolio management office. Either way, it’s run by a PMO director. There are different types of PMOs, all headed by a PMO director.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 14, 2024

If you’re searching for a project management job, you’ve no doubt come across a range of different job titles. The ‘project manager’ job descriptions have a wide variety of roles and duties, which can make it hard to know what’s right for you. Also known as a Technical Project Manager.)

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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. Some PMOs are finding it difficult to evolve beyond a focus on improving project management practices, which can inhibit agility and growth. Guidance, collaboration, and planning.

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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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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

All of these things and more make them a perfect candidate for business project management. Let’s first explore the definition of business project management. Then, we’ll look at the role of a business project manager and the types of projects that a business will manage. What Is Business Project Management?

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2023

Project management is a growing industry and one that offers great opportunities for people of all skills and experience. It is a discipline that is used across industries as varied as construction, manufacturing and IT to healthcare, professional services and government. Here are some of the more common project management roles.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 11, 2021

Where is artificial intelligence taking project management? AI has turned up in the project management trends articles over the past few years and it’s now most definitely here to stay. The impacts of artificial intelligence in project management. PWC predicts that 80% of project management work will be eliminated by 2030.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

What is the future of project management? Let’s look ahead and see what the next 10 years will bring for project management software, jobs, and the role itself. Does Project Management Have a Future? So will we need ‘professional’ project managers in the future? People who just do managing projects?

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

After the project initiation and the planning processes, the execution of the project begins. Project execution’s key purpose is to complete the work defined in the project management plan and to meet key project objectives. During this phase a project leader will focus on these key processes: Managing people.

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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. The better risk management is handled in your project, the greater the probability of success, all other things being equal.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 10, 2023

If you’re not working from an agenda or you don’t manage those meetings, that can be true. But meetings are critical for project planning and team collaboration. Let’s take a look at 10 different types of project management meetings and define them, and we’ll start with the definition of what a project meeting is.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 17, 2022

The project manager is on the ground, running the team and keeping the daily operations of a project running smoothly. But who looks after the project manager? In project management, that position is called a project director. Project management tends to be a hierarchical methodology that has numerous tiers of command.

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 30, 2021

Dispersed teams tend to invest more effort up front in discovery or planning activities to enable them to work autonomously. They might place greater faith in senior leadership’s ability to overcome significant issues with the project. However, this might increase the likelihood of their being unwilling to write off sunk-costs.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Having many projects to manage in a portfolio can be daunting. You need to strategize and plan your resource allocation to ensure that every project has what it needs when it needs it. There are many ways to do this and one of which is lean portfolio management. What Is Lean Portfolio Management? Learn more.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 24, 2023

When it comes to managing them effectively, understanding the differences between projects and operations is key. Ops managers want (and seek) stability so they can manage process performance. The status quo is good but project managers keep changing things! Projects change the business. Operations run the business.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2022

A business case is a project management document that explains how the benefits of a project overweigh its costs and why it should be executed. The need for a business case is that it collects the financial appraisal, proposal, strategy and marketing plan in one document and offers a full look at how the project will benefit the organization.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 25, 2023

A Project managers can’t do it alone. We’ll also compare and contrast the roles of a project officer with a project manager and help you put together a job description if you’re in the market for one. A project officer assists the project manager. Project officers don’t exclusively work for one project manager on one project.

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The Strategic Project Manager

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Then it focuses on strategy and project management as careers that can lead to CIO – but with a careful strategic approach. This post queries whether a Chief Information Officer (CIO) position might be a good and realistic goal for a project manager. Finally, the post discusses whether and how a CIO role might even lead to CEO.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – ( PMBOK® Guide ) Seventh Edition represents a major shift in the way ‘how to do project management’ is presented by PMI. Instead of the Knowledge Areas , we have the whole body of project management split up into performance domains. Let’s look at each of those domains next.

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WorkOtter

JULY 12, 2023

Project managers are among the most important professionals that operate in all industries today. When you want what’s best for your career as a project manager and the results that you deliver, you need the right tools for the job. The market for project management software is expected to grow at a roughly 11% rate today.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 9, 2023

Imagine standing before a room filled with Project Management professionals at a conference, sharing insights gained from your experience. As you deliver your speech, you realize that Scrum and Project Management, despite their apparent differences, face a myriad of common challenges. More ideas (e.g.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 25, 2022

I sat opposite the new project manager. I remember sitting down with a new project manager over coffee. Don’t get me wrong: she had lots of good experience, but was off to manage her first project for a client the next day…. Read next: How to manage y our first meeting with a project sponsor. It was about 17 years ago.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

There are many things that are needed when managing a project. Front of mind are resources and intangible things like leadership, experience and general know-how. An organizational process asset is a tangible resource that’s used to guide the management of an organization’s projects and operations.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 2, 2023

Are you wondering whether it’s worth getting a degree in project management? Or what you can do with a project management degree for a job once you finish your bachelor’s or master’s studies? Recently someone got in contact with me to ask about how to become a project manager. “Do I need a degree in project management?”

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I have updated my responses in order to better reflect the PRINCE2 and A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge — PMBOK® Guide , as at October 2021 as the PMBOK® Guide has been updated since this interview first took place, and PRINCE2 US was launched in 2020. She first took her PRINCE2 Practitioner exam in 2004.

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The project management plan (Plan) is a powerful tool. A good Plan reduces the likelihood of misunderstanding, conflict, and disappointment. Unfortunately, in the rush to start a project, insufficient time is often devoted to creating the Plan. Enterprise templates and prior Plans can serve as the starting point.

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Wrike

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In the world of project management, uncertainty is an ever-present element that can greatly impact the success or failure of a project. It is essential for project managers to understand the nature of uncertainty and how it manifests in various forms. This uncertainty can impact project timelines and deliverables.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 25, 2022

It has a plan that’s executed by a team with a deadline with the final deliverable being the event. Just like a project, event management is the way you make sure everything seamlessly comes together for your stakeholders. However you chose to stage your event, event management will help make it succeed. Learn more.

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The IIL Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

To bring the analogy to life with ITIL, to deliver effective and valuable services you need all the component parts of the service value system (including the practices like incident management, change enablement) to make it happen. The two Strategic Leader modules are: Direct, Plan and Improve; and Digital and IT Strategy.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 28, 2021

PRINCE2 is a project management method. It’s structured, and experience-based, created from the lived experience of thousands of project managers and successful projects. It’s a customizable way of managing and controlling the work. Manage by stages. What is PRINCE2? And it’s not spelled PRINCE TWO! Who is PRINCE2 for?

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The IIL Blog

MAY 17, 2023

and Cynthia Snyder Dionisio, MBA, PMP We have all attended project management workshops, conferences, and symposiums. We have read books and journal articles on various project management topics. What we ended up learning was about the present state-of-the-art of project management and what the future might look like.

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The IIL Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As Cloud Services revolutionized the creation and management of digital infrastructure, the DVMS-CPD Model will revolutionize how organizations leverage the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and other business systems to manage digital risk, resiliency, and client data privacy. Register here. Step 2: Orient.

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