Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 9, 2021

We define it like this: The systematic identification, analysis, planning and implementation of actions designed to influence stakeholders. Read next: my book Engaging Stakeholders on Projects: How to harness people power. Read next: How to Deal with Challenging Situations Involving Stakeholders. How to do engagement.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software that helps you create timelines and budgets for your organization’s projects and processes. Your three value propositions would involve how you serve their needs. Through this Southwest Airlines is able to communicate its strategy and how it’s implemented.

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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. We do it as children, we do it as teenagers (often terrifying our parents in the process) and we do it as adults. Ruth Pearce knows everything there is to know about motivating your project team. Tell us about that.

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Planio

MARCH 25, 2024

Whether you’re a product manager, team leader, or marketer, you should be aware of how customer acquisition happens, what channels your company uses, and how to measure the success of their projects. 12 customer acquisition channels How to create a winning customer acquisition strategy in 2024 1. Influencer marketing.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

He is the author of Reinventing Communication by Routledge, a book on how to design, lead and manage high performing projects. Whatever your level of commitment to this vital task, please review how you can do even better. Rather, as with most years, your ability to thrive has much more to do with your ability to lead and influence.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

How can you check what you’ve got and what needs to be done next? Let me guide you through how to assess the state of the project you’ve inherited. Here are the instructions on how to write a project overview statement. Here’s a guide on how to write a project communications plan. First, don’t panic.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 14, 2021

You need to be aware of the project environment and prepare for its influence on your project throughout the project management life cycle. The project manager must understand the project environment and proactively plan to manage the factors that might influence the project. All of these things make up the project environment.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Plus, we’ll give you tips on how to write a better one before showing how project management software can make the process even more efficient. The project team is involved in this process to help determine how to implement the delivery of the project and fulfill what the business needs. They are as followed.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

How to Create an Event Budget. The latter is also a fixed cost, but the utility bill can be influenced by your event, which is why it lives in both categories. Our software gives you tools to facilitate that process while letting everyone use the tools they’re comfortable with. Create an Event Budget.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Scope management is the way to deal with that, so let’s talk about how we can use change control protocol to help with it all. Change control or change management is the process of managing unplanned but desired influences on the project. How to avoid scope creep. How do you do that? Basically, anything goes.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 10, 2023

TL; DR: How To Spot Successful Scrum Masters In this article, I unravel the secrets of what makes a Scrum Master not just good but amazingly outstanding. Impediment Resolution and Innovation : Evaluating a Scrum Master’s effectiveness in resolving impediments and fostering innovation and process improvements is also crucial.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 19, 2020

People matter more than technology and processes. Let's talk about how to deal with pre-assigned project resources. If so, influence the people you know and make your case. Ask your connections to influence the decision makers. Looking for ways to improve your project success? Third, recommend resources for the team.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2022

It serves the task management plan, which is a process to monitor your team’s tasks from start to finish. Knowing how much the team has done at any given time in the project helps project managers see if the work is on schedule. Knowing if the team is behind or ahead of their deadline influences how you allocate your resources.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2022

There’s no denying that stakeholder management processes, documents and analysis are a great tool for project communication. In this article you learned how to use stakeholder communication on your project to support engagement. But you don’t create engagement or change behaviour by filling in a power and impact grid. You need actions.

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Teamweek

APRIL 10, 2024

That’s similarity bias — the effect of a shared background, interests, looks, or experiences positively influencing your perception of a person when it might not be entirely justified. A hiring process riddled with similarity bias leads to companies with very low diversity. How does similarity bias affect the hiring process?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

Last time I interviewed Peter about how to manage when your sponsor is rubbish. We spoke about how to get the best from your sponsor and tips for first-time sponsors. Project managers must take an active role in influencing and educating project sponsors in these best practices to get the leadership support the project requires.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

How to Create a Performance Measurement Baseline. The importance of a performance measurement baseline to track your project and keep stakeholders updated is clear, but we haven’t explored how to make one. The process should be part of every project manager’s planning phase as the project plan develops.

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Leading Agile

MAY 11, 2021

In today’s blog, a continuation of the first in this two-part series, we’ll talk about building trust and influence, and initiating the trust-influence loop. But before we get to that process, let’s talk about common failure modes that get in the way. . Without trust, you are not going to get permission to influence.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

They are typically involved in the approval process and can either make a project difficult or extremely easy—depending on how well they’re managed via a stakeholder management plan. Given their influence, it’d be unwise to neglect your stakeholder management plan. How to Make a Stakeholder Management Plan.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Perhaps the best solution would be to develop hybrid work processes that allow for a variety of work styles. Your work style is more than just how you prefer to work. There are certain personality types that influence your work style. You might not even know that about yourself, but who we are has a lot to do with how we work.

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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. The goal is to ensure that the stakeholders influence your project positively. They also play a part in influencing the direction and outcome of it in some way.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I caught up with Ruth to find out more about how to motivate teams and why it’s something you should be actively doing. We do it as children, we do it as teenagers (often terrifying our parents in the process) and we do it as adults. How can you use that information to build a more motivated and rounded team? Tell us about that.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 24, 2020

Let me guide you through how to assess the state of the project you’ve inherited. Get this free printable checklist about how to take over a project from someone else. The company culture has a lot of influence over what is done and what is ignored not followed up. First, don’t panic. We’ve got a lot to get through!

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Project Risk Coach

AUGUST 14, 2017

At any given time, an individual may exert their influence and cause disruption to your project. As we see all the stakeholders in once place, we can determine how to best use our limited time. How and when should we use our interpersonal skills to engage and influence stakeholders ? Is their influence low or high?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 7, 2022

In these projects, stakeholders are identified and communicated with in the ‘normal’ way, but their power and influence is relatively low. The final type of project at the other end of the continuum is where stakeholders have a lot of power and influence over the project. How to do engagement. Stakeholder-neutral.

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

JUNE 27, 2022

Influence without authority. Project managers, however, need to be able to influence their project teams without having formal authority. So, how do you get a project team member to play nice on your team and get their work done? Influence is the ability to have an effect on the behavior of someone or something.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 7, 2020

They need direction, but if you’re too hands on then you can often stifle their process. For a long time the agile framework influenced teams outside of the software development sector from which it originated. Agile is about flexibility, bringing together teams and processes in order to create a more effective way to work.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Few leave the cradle with organizational skills and an understanding of how to manage teams and monitor their performance with the appropriate tools. That’s because the process supports and incorporates the team members, giving them a sense of power in directing the work. Idealized Influence. How to Empower Teams.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 19, 2023

Be transparent with management about the level of uncertainty involved in estimation, and ensure that they understand that Agile development is an iterative process that requires ongoing refinement and adjustment. These consultants can bring in their experience and expertise and provide an objective perspective on the estimation process.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 9, 2024

Not only is it important to recognize the presence of these biases but it’s also critical to know how to handle them. Takeaways Recognizing these biases not only makes you a better decision maker but also a better influencer. Check out our process guide here. Biases also impact your ability to interpret a message.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Under pressure to perform, we resort to acting without processing and rushing to criticize others. This behaviorbehaviour can significantly affect team dynamics and chips away at our ability to influence others positively. . From knowing and controlling to influence and impact. 1 How am I living whole-heartedly?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 18, 2022

This part of the framework teaches you how to engage and work with the most influential stakeholders – the people who are interested in and impacted by your projects, and those who have to contribute to the work. You’ll learn how to keep track of all the people you work with and how to prioritize your time with them.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 6, 2022

That’s how to become a project manager in a nutshell, but in this article I’ll explain three routes to entering the profession and share the stories from 5 people who chose project management as their career. Further education is generally what people think of first when they consider how to become a project manager.

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LiquidPlanner

DECEMBER 7, 2022

As such, most of us are facing resource constriction and forced now to think about how to do more, with less. This article offers several solutions to this challenge, providing prioritization, process and people tips and how technology can be leveraged. How it will benefit new customer prospects. Your People.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It was an early attempt to merge the science of engineering processes with management. Related: How to Create a Gantt in Excel Career After leaving teaching, Henry Gantt worked as a draftsman at Poole & Hunt, a Baltimore-based iron foundry and machine shop. That changed with the move to Gantt chart software.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 14, 2018

They know that there are formulas that must be used to solve certain business and process problems. We’ll show you how to use this formula in concert with your project management tools and processes when managing initiatives and outcomes. So, how does each word that makes up the acronym DMAIC work towards Y=f(x)?

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The product launch is one of the most crucial processes in any successful project. You can do all the research and have stacks of market studies in hand that state how in demand your product would be once available, but if you don’t have a path forward to exploit that market opportunity, then you’ve failed. How to Reach Your Audience.

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