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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Then we’ll offer a few free IT incident management templates to help you control issues in your IT and how project management software can do what templates can’t. Where an incident is somewhat neutral in natural speech, it’s a different matter when you’re talking about IT. What Is an IT Incident?

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JANUARY 16, 2024

The project pipeline can be thought of as a roadmap on which all your projects are represented. It provides an overview of all those projects and thus allows the PMO, program or portfolio manager to make more informed decisions in terms of managing the various projects. Learn more What Is Project Pipeline Management?

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AUGUST 7, 2023

Whether it’s what desk to put in our new conservatory space (and I’ll tell you what we ended up deciding later), or who to invite to meetings, or managing to order everyone else’s food and then getting so overwhelmed with having made decisions all day for all the people that I couldn’t choose anything for myself. Ready to get into it?

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APRIL 5, 2024

Learn how to create a maintenance schedule and download a free maintenance schedule template to get started. Read about the benefits of an effective maintenance schedule and see how a maintenance plan can help a diverse group of industries. A maintenance schedule ensures those tasks are done regularly.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 2, 2022

It’s on the issue log. There is only one sensible solution to fixing an issue. I’ve been involved on many projects where seemingly simple problems turned out to be vast caverns of knotty issues, and unpicking one led to something else unraveling. 2 ways to resolve tricky project issues. Review the lessons learned log.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

I want to spend more time doing what matters, and that means less time worrying about tools to do the work. These are all suitable for professional teams and will help you get more organized, stay focused and do more of the tasks that make a difference. Easy to use, your team will love it! Give it a second look if you are on the fence!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 20, 2022

But what do you actually talk about when you meet a project sponsor for the first time? Learn about them. I find out as much as I can about them, what they do, what their background is, what they enjoy most about their job – it gives me a good insight into the best way to tailor my interactions with them.

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JULY 20, 2023

The project management consultant has relevant skills and a wide range of knowledge about project management to provide guidance and help organizations make better decisions throughout the life cycle of a project. Project consultants often deal with business management issues and have a multi-focus approach.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Whether the request comes about as a result of an informal discussion or a formal corporate scheme, you should take the commitment to be a mentor seriously. In this article, you’ll learn how to approach mentoring a project manager and some practical tips to help you be a fantastic mentor to your new mentee (yes, that’s a word!)

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MAY 22, 2020

If you want better results from your team and your work, you should regularly stop to think about what was learned at the end of each project. This will get you thinking about what’s working well and what can be improved. To help you do this, we’ve created a lessons learned template for Excel. Business email *.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 13, 2023

And how do you show prospective employers that you are keen to commit to the job and you know enough about the role of a project manager for them to take a chance on you? Product Name / Product Image Rating Learn More Best place to start Kickoff from PMI 5.0 Learn more Comprehensive overview Project Management Foundations 4.5

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Initiating a project is where it all starts in PRINCE2®. You also put in place all the required elements to make sure the project goes smoothly. Decide how many stages you want, whether you are going to use gate reviews, what tolerances are acceptable and how you are going to escalate exceptions and issues.

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MARCH 8, 2024

An RFI in construction is a process for getting clarification about documents, drawings, specifications or other project conditions when there are questions or confusion about what to do. Once those issues have been resolved, the general contractor and subcontractor need to stay in constant communication.

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DECEMBER 26, 2023

For example, our roadmap provides an overview of all the projects in a program on one visual timeline. Learn more Why Is Program Governance Important? Program governance defines the roles and responsibilities for all the people on the team, but more than that it also defines the chain of command.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Let’s learn what is project risk, some common examples and how can you manage it. The term “project risk” refers to the sum of all individual project risks that might affect a project. The term “project risk” refers to the sum of all individual project risks that might affect a project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 12, 2024

Think about the different tools you are able to use (and there are far too many to go into in this article). If you are facilitating virtual meetings , get comfortable with the tech and prep your whiteboards etc so you have all the tools to hand. is the question I am asked the most about meetings. Will there be brainstorming?

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AUGUST 23, 2023

Learn more. This allows project managers to catch issues and apply controls to resolve them quickly and keep their project healthy. Project Schedule The project schedule is the start date and end date of the project, but also the duration of all the tasks that must be completed and milestones that mark major points in the project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 8, 2021

She splits her time between Germany (where she is from originally) and Mexico, where she dialed in for this discussion about project management communications at the Project Management Club on Clubhouse. Use a project management communication plan that talks about how to communicate with each stakeholder.

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APRIL 25, 2024

Managers can use kanban as a window into the team’s work, which provides transparency that allows them to identify and remove potential roadblocks before they become issues. Learn more History of Kanban Kanban was first introduced in Japan as a lean manufacturing approach pioneered by Taiichi Ohno in the late 1940s.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

It’s about execution and, therefore, critical to achieving your strategic goals. In general, tactical planning is in response to an immediate issue or situation. Our Gantt charts organize tasks, set milestones and link all four types of task dependencies to avoid costly delays. Tactical planning tells you how to get there.

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APRIL 24, 2024

While order processing seems to work fast and without issue, a lot is going on in the background to ensure the seamless management of placement, picking, sorting, packing and shipping. Learn more Why Is Order Processing Important for Businesses? Outside of inventory issues, ordering processing improves a company’s fulfillment.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Think about culture change, saving the rainforest, social planning, exploring the planets. These are all affected by socio-political, environmental, technological, and cultural shifts. It’s a set of tools to help you develop the knowledge and skills to solve the tricky issues (and probably even the easy ones).

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APRIL 2, 2024

ProjectManager has kanban boards, Gantt charts (that filter for the critical path, link all four types of task dependencies and can set a baseline to track project variance in real time), project dashboards, workload management charts and many other tools to help you manage projects of any size, complexity or industry. Here are some of them.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 7, 2023

I’ll confess: when I started out as a project manager, this was a piece of jargon that honestly didn’t mean much at all? It’s all so very buzzword bingo. Outside of the world of PMI, I’m not sure that the term is widely used at all, but let’s put that aside for a moment and consider what they are and how to use them.

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APRIL 19, 2024

Learn more One value of using this method is that it’s easier to identify bottlenecks and other issues that could delay the completion of tasks and address them before they affect your project budget or schedule. It’s easy to learn and understand, which is a big plus. Another issue is when teams make the board overly complex.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

A project meeting is a regularly occurring event where some or all of the project team and stakeholders gather to discuss the project. It all depends on the urgency and type of meeting being held. All reports are customizable so you can filter them to show only the data you want to see. Learn more. All Hands Meeting.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 28, 2023

Let’s learn more about RAG in project management because it’s a really useful, visual way of communicating project status. These colors represent different types of management action required and are a shorthand for talking about projects going well or those in trouble. For example: There are issues that need escalating.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

If only you knew ahead of time what those issues would be, you could better address them. This helps you avoid an issue that becomes a problem that negatively impacts the project’s time, cost and scope. If that risk becomes an issue, then the team member will be responsible for tracking it until the issue has been resolved.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Release managers are responsible for coordinating the release of new software versions and ensuring that all stakeholders are aware of and prepared for the changes. They ensure that new versions of software are released on schedule and without any major issues. There’s more to learn, more to understand, and the role is varied.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A good governance model requires every project to have a project sponsor and while you read about sponsorship all the time on blogs like these in reality I still come across people who don’t know who their sponsor is. Well, without having stakeholders who are participative you might miss issues. You manage lessons learned.

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APRIL 23, 2024

ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software that has multiple project views to implement operational projects across all departments. All project views update simultaneously, so everyone is always working on the same page. Learn more What Is the Difference Between Strategic and Operational Projects?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Just think about how much harder it is to communicate with someone from a different country who doesn’t speak your language. In this article, I’ll give you some tips about how to be aware of the impact of culture on communication at work and how to create an environment that is inclusive. So what can you do about all this?

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

The schedule of values is an itemized list of all the project activities. Our Gantt organizes your tasks, adds human and nonhuman resources and even links all four task dependencies to avoid costly delays and overruns. Learn more When Should You Use a Schedule of Values? Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2021

When you start the planning process for a project, one of the first things you need to think about is: what can go wrong? Issues will inevitably come up, and you need a mitigation strategy in place to know how to manage risks on your project. Project dashboards help you identify risk before they turn into issues.

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AUGUST 16, 2023

To remove the stigma attached to meetings, learn meeting planning. Using ProjectManager , an award-winning project management software, can not only capture the meeting agenda and share it among the attendees but list all the action items created during the meeting. Learn more. But meetings are important.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 22, 2024

I mentor project managers, and the types of problems that people come up with on calls are not technical issues for the most part. Mostly, people want to chat about other people. Organizational culture, management expectations and lack of the right software to provide visibility into the problem all contribute to the headache.

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