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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

These are all functions of a project board (or steering group). 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. In other words, this is the group that takes the tough decisions. What is a project steering group?

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The Stakeholder Salience Model and How to Use It

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project management relies on people: you need the project team to get things done, and that team might include members of different stakeholder groups. This group has high power and also high legitimacy to influence the project. This group has high power and also expects their needs to be met with a high degree of urgency.

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5 Insider Tips and Tricks for Working Well as a Remote Team

Rebel’s Guide to PM

With Slack, our team can create group channels, communicate across time-zones, share links, images, and files, and interact asynchronously. Group map: This one is especially fun for global teams. Have everyone explain where they are from in the team, and map out the individual’s location on a group map.

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Terms of Reference [Free Template]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I use it mainly for two things: Putting down in writing what my Steering Group are actually supposed to do to set the ‘ground rules’ for that group and their meetings. This is likely to be either the remit of a single group i.e. your Steering Group or a workstream of work. This is a really versatile document.

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ABCs of Data Normalization for B2B Marketers

At its core, data normalization is the process of creating context within your marketing database by grouping similar values into one common value. Well, marketers rely on this grouping to reach their goals. Why is this so essential?

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The Stakeholder Salience Model and How to Use It

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project stakeholder management and saliency Project management relies on people: you need the project team to get things done, and that team might include members of different stakeholder groups. Dominant stakeholders This group has high power and also high legitimacy to influence the project. For example, your sponsor.

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5 Facilitation Techniques for Project Managers and How to Use Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s a fun way of engaging with a group and helping them achieve something that they wouldn’t be able to do as individuals. You are often the common thread that keeps a group of individuals hanging together until a ‘real’ project team is formed. Facilitation is one of the things I enjoy most about my work.

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Connecting Analytics to Strategy - Keeping Your Corporate Objective In Sight

Speaker: Tom Evans, Senior Principal Consultant and Trainer, 280 Group

In this webinar, Tom Evans of 280 Group will share insights and lessons learned to better help you understand how to integrate strategy into your analytics discussion. This situation is exacerbated even more when product managers are faced with the immediate pressures and urgencies of rapid and iterative product development methodologies.

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Use Discovery and Delivery to Experiment Our Way to a New Normal

Speaker: Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

Why you should not create a different “discovery” group, but use collaborative teams to discover and deliver together. How short feedback loops, managing WIP (Work in Progress) and creating small bets creates an organization-wide approach to discovery and delivery. How to see and optimize for different planning cycles.