Scrum.org

APRIL 26, 2024

Effective leadership and management lies in the ability to adapt and evolve. For heads of delivery, engineering or product aiming to enhance their teams' performance and efficiency through Scrum or other agile frameworks, integrating behavioural insights into the adoption process can be transformative. What is MINDSPACE?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 31, 2024

It’s a common management tool worldwide, used across industries, including government and nonprofit organizations. The balanced scorecard measures four aspects of a business or organization: finance, customers, business processes and learning and growth. Balanced Scorecard Example Let’s look at a real-life example.

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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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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.

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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. Governance is a key part of that, and gate reviews are part of navigating through the project. Governance is a key part of that, and gate reviews are part of navigating through the project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 18, 2024

The application process requires you to show that you have 5 GCSEs at C or above and A Levels or equivalent. 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.

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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

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. Throughput and Monte Carlo received 11% of the votes and #NoEstimates only received 5%.

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The IIL Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

These innovative tools are poised to revolutionize project processes, augment decision-making capabilities, and optimize resource utilization. Project managers and sponsors will need to adopt leadership approaches that foster engagement, adaptability, empowerment, and active involvement among team members.

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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. Business leaders see this as their number one challenge.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Because PRINCE2® is a broad-brush approach, it doesn’t cover technical processes or specific techniques, but it will fit alongside them. The History of PRINCE2® PRINCE2® is part of the best practice guidance that came out of the UK Office of Government Commerce. It was renamed PRINCE. The most recent major update came in 2023.

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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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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. PRINCE2 is a process-based methodology. PRINCE2 Agile Foundation.

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 21, 2022

A Safety-I perspective is a glass is half-full one – things go wrong and we can find assignable causes in people, process and tools. It supports practices such as increased governance oversight and reduced autonomy and flexibility for staff. On the other hand, a Safety-II perspective is optimistic.

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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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Henny Portman

JULY 26, 2020

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. The classic formulation of agile in the Agile Manifesto has no role for leadership. See the Quick Reference Card leadership for agilty. The book is divided into four sections.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 14, 2024

A Legal Project Manager supports legal teams to deliver either process improvements and internally-facing work, or legal projects for clients. He learned a lot about project management in the process and eventually went on to become a PMO Manager. This role tends to require a legal background and training.

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NimbleWork

MARCH 27, 2024

This change has to cover factors relating to individuals ; interpersonal factors between team members as well as executives affected by changing engineering processes and tools; and organizational factors that deal with the decision-making process, business operations, partnerships and investment decisions, among others.

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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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Scrum.org

MARCH 6, 2024

It’s not just limited to inventing something entirely new; innovation can also involve improving or significantly contributing to existing products, services, processes, or ways of thinking. Executives & Senior Leadership In many organisations executives and senior leadership serve as catalysts for creativity.

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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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The Strategic Project Manager

OCTOBER 15, 2021

One of the ways that Blue Ocean Strategy incorporates execution is through its approach to leadership. Blue Ocean Leadership is pretty simple in concept, and requires commitment and effort with a few basic principles to succeed. The Blue Ocean Approach to Leadership. The Leadership Canvas (or Profile).

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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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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2024

We’ll go over that and link to free project management templates that can help you in this process. The creation process for an organization’s project strategy is in the hands of leadership and management. What Is Project Strategy? Project strategy is made up of your plan and the tools that are used to complete the project.

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PM Basics

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Stakeholder management is a set of processes and tools where you identify, understand, and engage with your stakeholders, to manage their expectations, needs and feelings. Stakeholder management refers to a series of ongoing processes where you organize, engage and improve the relationships with your project’s stakeholders.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 24, 2023

Ops managers want (and seek) stability so they can manage process performance. For example, in the UK, the Infrastructure and Projects Authority manages projects and shares best practices for UK government projects. In the United States, the Government Accountability Office publishes regular reports into major projects.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 18, 2023

A project portfolio manager is a professional who develops and implements portfolio management processes. They should be decisive, work independently and understand project portfolio management methodologies and processes. This requires project management software.

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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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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. tools are able to proactively harvest relevant data sets, process those in real time, and provide probability-based forecasts on the relative merits of different options. Similarly, A.I.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The 3 performance domains in project management are: People Process Business Environment. You still need to engage people, create effective processes and operate within your business environment: it’s all project management at the end of the day. Domain II: Process. Let’s look at each of those domains next. Domain I: People.

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Kiron Bondale

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Boards play a key governance role in the successful running of companies. Boards are often actively involved in the succession planning process for leadership positions, helping to cue up the best candidates for key leadership roles. Steering committees play a similar role when it comes to projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 3, 2023

PMP Exam Content Outline, PMI, 2021 The 3 performance domains that are examined during the test are: People Process Business Environment Within each domain, you’ll carry out a range of tasks as a project manager that fall into your responsibilities. Let’s look at each of those domains next. This study guide will help you master them!

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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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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

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. In brief, how does PRINCE2 work?

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

It researches and develops tools, processes, machines and equipment with systems that are integrated into the manufacturing facility. At a high level, manufacturing engineering is the process of turning raw materials into finished products in the most effective and efficient manner possible.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2023

It is a discipline that is used across industries as varied as construction, manufacturing and IT to healthcare, professional services and government. Whatever path you choose, learning to use project management software is going to facilitate that process. You never know who might be involved in the hiring process.

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