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. Ready to find out more about this helpful governance technique? Risk management.

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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. Learn how to harness the power of AI to drive innovation, optimize processes, and unlock new possibilities for growth.

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 21, 2022

Thanks to the most recent issue of Tom Geraghty’s weekly Psychological Safety newsletter , I learned about a new model for how we consider safety and risk. 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.

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Proofhub

JUNE 20, 2023

Small Business Risk Management If you’re thinking of starting a new business, learning how to start a t-shirt business or a marketing business is not going to be enough. Internal risk factors are those that are under a company’s control, while external risk variables are those that are beyond its control.

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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. The balanced scorecard measures four aspects of a business or organization: finance, customers, business processes and learning and growth.

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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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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

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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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. Top-down governance – Emphasis on compliance, standards, and processes.

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Kiron Bondale

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Boards play a key governance role in the successful running of companies. A common mandate for a steering committee is to help guide projects in the right direction by providing ongoing support to the sponsor and project manager. Steering committees play a similar role when it comes to projects.

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NimbleWork

MARCH 27, 2024

The Agile project management methodology encourages organizations to empower teams with clear responsibility and authority, so they can work together to autonomously develop ingenious and innovative solutions. Much of the Agile mindset requires change from traditional ways of project management.

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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

During the five process groups of the project life cycle, there are multiple objectives and outcomes for each phase. After the project initiation and the planning processes, the execution of the project begins. During this phase a project leader will focus on these key processes: Managing people. Following processes.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – ( PMBOK® Guide ) 7 th 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 3 performance domains. Let’s look at each of those domains next.

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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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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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The Strategic Project Manager

OCTOBER 15, 2021

They separately require strong execution, which usually takes strong project management. 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.

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PM Basics

DECEMBER 19, 2022

When it comes to project management , you cannot run away from stakeholder management. But what is stakeholder management anyway? 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.

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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 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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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Having many projects to manage in a portfolio can be daunting. There are many ways to do this and one of which is lean portfolio management. Let’s first define lean portfolio management and then delve into how it works. This will give you an idea if it’s the right strategy to execute your portfolio management. Learn more.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 17, 2023

Read on and learn more about how a project management tool that is reasonably usable when you use it out of the box without any modifications turns into a bureaucratic nightmare, what the reasons for this might be, and what we can do about it. ?? A desire for predictability and standardization across the organization can drive this.

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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. 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. But meetings are critical for project planning and team collaboration.

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The IIL Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

Ultimately, you’re probably already measuring the performance of your processes and the services you provide, and you can use those same measures to see if there is any improvement, any increase from the baseline or history of metrics you’re working from. Volume and duration of major incidents Volume of failed changes The list could go on.

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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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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. Discern the risks and issues associated with each solution. Again, you’ll want to have this process also documented in your business case. What Is a Business Case? Executive Summary.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Tera Simon spoke about this at the Digital Project Management Summit a few years ago. She shared examples from her experience on complex projects and gave us tips on how to manage the work when it seems unmanageable. She explained about how her company had to standardize and bring together 12 disparate government websites.

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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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