Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

I ran a survey about stakeholder management (thanks, by the way, if you were one of the people who filled it out) and the results surprised me. The biggest reason we do stakeholder engagement activities on projects is because they help us get the resources we need for the project. The chart below shows how these results break down.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This position on the construction job site is similar to the construction manager as both are managing the construction project packages, supervising staff and providing technical support. Site engineers are educated and hold a degree in civil, geotechnical, structural, building, electrical or mechanical engineering.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Being asked to mentor someone means that your experience has been recognized as a project management professional (not necessarily a certificate holder, but someone who knows how to do the job well). Have you been asked to mentor another project manager ? Who are you mentoring? Why do they want a mentor?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 9, 2022

Stakeholders are important to every project. But what is a stakeholder? Let’s take some time to define what a stakeholder is, examples of stakeholders and free stakeholder templates that can help with stakeholder management. What Is a Stakeholder? What Is a Stakeholder? Learn More!

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

There are likely a wide variety of stakeholders that you interact with when managing your projects. Do you find that these stakeholders often have to take a place on the sidelines as you concentrate on the daily maintenance of your various projects and work challenges?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

How can you make sure that there is a positive work culture on your projects and everyone feels like working on your team? Let’s look at what those points mean in practice and how we can create a positive working environment and effective culture on our project teams. Build Relationships.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 10, 2021

Lydiah @lkimberly1 also shared her experience of taking the course and was positive about it too. Lydiah @lkimberly1 also shared her experience of taking the course and was positive about it too. How can you secure a job in the tech industry? How did you get into helping people find their dream careers?

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

A strategy map is a simple graphic that illustrates the logical, cause-and-effect relationships between an organization’s strategic objectives. That is, they all develop strategic plans to achieve long-term goals to create value. To communicate this, organizations will usually employ what is called a strategy map. What Is a Strategy Map?

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 11, 2019

When you’re leading a project, part of what you’re doing is working with stakeholders who hired you to get that work done they way they want it. This can often be a handful, so we’ve provided you some practical tips on how to deal with difficult stakeholders. 7 Tips for Managing Difficult Stakeholders.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 17, 2020

Most project managers will have experienced a situation where they have found a stakeholder to be really difficult. A recent study by Dr Clara Cheung and colleagues found that project managers experience particularly high stress levels in regard to their working relationships. There is no such thing as a ‘difficult stakeholder’.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A project charter is a project planning document that sells the project to stakeholders and sponsors. The charter also identifies the main stakeholders and defines the authority of the project manager. How are you planning to reach and achieve these goals and objectives? How to Create a Project Charter.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 24, 2022

This is a document that summarizes how the project went. Your project closure document won’t be of interest to all stakeholders but for those who do want to see it, sending it out on your project’s last day draws a line under your project work and helps reinforce the fact that the project is over. You’re at the end of your project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 25, 2022

Number 1: First of All, Build a Relationship with Your Client. Without a relationship, you won’t be able to find out what that is. Read next: How to manage y our first meeting with a project sponsor. And, of course, your relationship with your client is key to starting the process of defining your project’s goals.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

There’s no denying that project management today looks different to how it did even 5 years ago. So what are the emerging trends in project management that are going to shape how you do your job in the future? And how can you benefit from them? How project management is evolving. Change is inevitable – we all know that.

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

By Helen Platt January 17, 2024 What is Business Relationship Management? To answer what a Business Relationship Manager does, we first need to discuss what Business Relationship Management (BRM) is. What Does a Business Relationship Manager Do?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 1, 2024

This short-sighted approach might need more attention to building a sustainable and scalable product foundation, investing in core technologies, or nurturing a loyal user base. The capacity to manage expectations, negotiate priorities, and ensure everyone is heard and valued is crucial for harmonious and productive stakeholder interactions.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

In this video Elizabeth Harrin discusses how merging engagement and gamification creates engagification, a methodology to help people take action on projects. And welcome to this presentation on stakeholder engagification. We’ll be talking about how to get people to take action on projects. Transcript. Hello, everybody.

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The Strategic Project Manager

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Next it looks in more depth at the typical roles that can help build the skills and background that lead to becoming a CIO. Finally, the post discusses whether and how a CIO role might even lead to CEO. Finally, the post discusses whether and how a CIO role might even lead to CEO. Is There a Typical Career Path to CIO?

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Let’s unpack what defines trust and how, although it does not sit among them, the Scrum values help build trust among team members. Let’s unpack what defines trust and how, although it does not sit among them, the Scrum values help build trust among team members. How living the Scrum values fosters trust.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 5, 2022

A technical project manager is a position that straddles two disciples. Our multiple project views allow technical project managers to work how they want, with robust Gantt charts or more agile kanban boards. Are you interested in becoming a technical project manager or are you in the market to hire one? If either applies, read on.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Understanding the Product Goal, aligning with stakeholders, and keeping a pristine Product Backlog is akin to having a completed picture of your project. In Agile Product Management, the triad (often compared to a 3-legged stool)refers to the integral relationship between the Product Goal, stakeholders, and the Product Backlog.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 25, 2022

I caught up with Ruth to find out more about how to motivate teams and why it’s something you should be actively doing. So how do we do it? So how do we do it? How do you get engagement? Ruth Pearce knows everything there is to know about motivating your project team. She’s even written the book on it. Ruth Pearce.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 5, 2019

A stakeholder is anyone who has an interest in a project, business or organization. In project management terms, a stakeholder is an individual or group that will be impacted by the outcome of the project. In short, stakeholders are important. In short, stakeholders are important. Origins of Stakeholder Theory.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 22, 2021

Stakeholders are people or organizations that are internal or external to the project who have a vested interest in its success. That interest can have a positive or negative impact on the project execution. Therefore, it’s crucial to know your stakeholders. What Is a Stakeholder Map? It’s a big task.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 17, 2022

“The successful project communicator is a good networker and builds effective working relationships within the project, across the wider organization of which the project is a part and sometimes externally,” writes Ann Pilkington in her book, Communicating Projects. Here’s my take on her conclusions. Strategic skills. Technical skills.

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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 13, 2020

The final stage in the three-step model for building psychological safety within your team is to champion it. There may be some stakeholders outside of your team such as the project customer, sponsor or a functional manager who behave in a manner which reduces the team’s safety.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It’s less about long-term relationship building, though that’s always a secondary concern, and more about triggering an impulse buy. There are several ways you might find yourself buying a product or service. As you shop around, you might be enticed to purchase something. Push vs. pull marketing isn’t a competition.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 19, 2022

It requires building relationships with outside vendors and suppliers through contractual obligations. It involves a company or individual delivering a design for the contractor to build. Design and Build. With design and build, the weight of the project is on the contractor’s shoulders. General Contracting.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 14, 2023

But building on our previous blogs, What is a Scrum Master and Giving Back: considerations for a new Scrum Master , let's delve into some questions that may aid your decision-making process. Leading by example fosters a positive team culture, promoting trust and collaboration, which are essential for building healthy team relationships.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 5, 2021

To fully understand the relationship between contractors and subcontractors, we must define what a contractor is. Contractors are people or organizations hired by owners to “build” a project, or at least some part of it. The ideal relationship between contractors and subcontractors is a symbiotic one. Try it for yourself today!

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Susanne Madsen

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Your ability to build trusting and lasting relationships with your stakeholders is one of the key ingredients to becoming a successful project manager and leader. Read through the six principles below and ask yourself how you score on a scale from 1 to 10. Make eye contact and ask into their feelings and opinions.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 27, 2022

Find out what the stakeholders are expecting and which of them are being a bit difficult right now. Cialdini talks about how having someone else introduce you is a more powerful way of making a first impression. Put in place anything that you feel needs doing and stop anything that doesn’t work with how you want to run the project.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2023

By doing so, you’ll discover the components of authentic leadership and how, by being genuine, you can be the catalyst for positive cultural transformation in your organization. Project team members in a collaborative environment, benefiting from a positive ethical climate established by authentic leadership.

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TechEmpower - Project Management

JULY 24, 2023

The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation. The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation. How are you funding this? Who are the other stakeholders involved? How will you be taking this to market? How do you make your money? How do you measure success?

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 30, 2021

The construction project manager role is a unique position, though it shares many of the attributes associated with any kind of project manager. The better you understand the position, the more qualified your candidates, and the better the construction project will be. What Does a Construction Project Manager Do? Balancing the budget.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 18, 2021

In this video Elizabeth Harrin discusses how merging engagement and gamification creates engagification, a methodology to help people take action on projects. And welcome to this presentation on stakeholder engagification. We’ll be talking about how to get people to take action on projects. Transcript. Hello, everybody.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

From the difficult stakeholder who wants to undermine the project’s success to a disagreement about a feature of a deliverable, project work lends itself to workplace conflict situations. This is how I like to define conflict: Conflict happens when two or more people disagree and one of them (at least) decides to make an issue of it.

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