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The Best PRINCE2® course for beginners

Rebel’s Guide to PM

PRINCE2 was the first project management certification that I got. Choosing the right PRINCE2 course as a beginner is vitally important. In this article, I’ll share my top tips for choosing the best PRINCE2 course for beginners – whether that’s you or someone in your team whom you are advising. You’ve already chosen PRINCE2.

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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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Gate Reviews: What Project Managers Need To Know

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Gate reviews, or stage reviews are part of the PRINCE2® process, and also part of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority’s Project Roadmap in the Governance module. PRINCE2® requires at least two management stages: one to initiate the project and then however many you need after that to do the rest of the work.

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Project management degrees: Do you need one and what you can do with it

Rebel’s Guide to PM

She wrote: I have been advised that you have to do a degree in a particular subject e.g. engineering, do project management training e.g. PMI®, PRINCE2® etc and work your way up in order to become a project manager. I thought I’d repeat here what I said to her, in case anyone else finds it useful. Is this true?

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Free and Low Cost Project Management Resources

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There was a question in our Facebook group recently: where can I get project management templates? Personally, I’d like to think that your PMO will purchase the templates that you need to use, or that your manager will let you buy templates on their corporate credit card. And training to choose from. Looking for something else?

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Top 10 Must-Read Books on Collaboration on Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This would be a good book for people new to the workforce or taking a team leadership job for the very first time. Collaboration isn’t just about small meetings: you also need to be able to eloquently express yourself in front of big groups, and I know from my mentoring work that so many project managers struggle with that.

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Project Manager Job Description (with free copy+paste examples!)

ProjectManager.com

Anything that has a start and a finish, resulting in a product, is a project and its life cycle requires the oversight and leadership of a project manager. There are two major certifying bodies, PRINCE2 and the Project Management Institute (PMI). Leadership skills. Try Our Award-Winning Project Management Software Free!