Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Elisa Cepale I facilitate daily standup meetings for our support team. In this article, I’ll look at 5 activities you can try in your daily team standup meeting. In this article, I’ll look at 5 activities you can try in your daily team standup meeting. What’s the point of a daily standup meeting?

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Information technology (IT) involves the use of computers, digital storage, networking and other physical devices, infrastructure and processes to create, process, store, secure and exchange electronic data. IT service management (ITSM) is the process of how those services meet the needs of the end users who employ them.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 2, 2021

That’s why a kickoff meeting is so important. A kickoff meeting puts everyone on the same page. It’s all part of the meeting agenda and makes sure the project team starts off on the right foot. What Is a Project Kickoff Meeting? A kickoff meeting is usually led by the project manager. It sets up project success.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As a business grows, it needs to look at new processes or ways to improve the processes it has in place. Whatever the objectives, process implementation is how they achieve these goals. If you’re looking to improve your business processes , you need to know what process implementation is and why it’s so important.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 7, 2023

One key tool to success is understanding how to use organizational process assets effectively. But what is an organizational process asset (OPA)? In this blog post, we’ll take a look at what organizational process assets are, why you would use them in project management and some best practices for utilizing these important tools.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 10, 2023

Project meetings often feel as if they’re in the way of your work. If you’re not working from an agenda or you don’t manage those meetings, that can be true. But meetings are critical for project planning and team collaboration. What Are Project Meetings? Types of Project Meetings. Learn more.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 22, 2023

Getting a product from an idea to the marketplace is a long journey that’s mapped in the production process. Another way to look at the production process is as a series of detailed steps that take you from one point to the next until you’ve completed the process. What Is a Production Process?

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 9, 2022

To do so, they go through what’s called the project evaluation process and make use of project management software to help them manage their team’s work, plan and evaluate their project performance. Project evaluation is the process of measuring the success of a project, program or portfolio. What Is Project Evaluation? Learn more!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 31, 2020

Countless gurus have advocated for the benefits of reducing the time spent in meetings, of the number of meeting attendees, and even of meetings in general. The truth is, some meetings are necessary and if done right they are simply the best way to exchange ideas, form plans and make decisions. Here’s what that entails.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

If you think this way about meetings, chances are others do, such as the team members you’ve called together to discuss a vital aspect of the project you’re all working on. Instead of dismissing meetings whole cloth, you could try some icebreaker games to make them more fun and productive. So, what are some icebreakers for meetings?

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ProjectManager.com

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? Project risk management is the process of identifying, analyzing and responding to any risk that arises over the life cycle of a project to help the project remain on track and meet its goal.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I bet you have plenty of project management processes, don’t you? The bottom line is this: having processes doesn’t guarantee that your project will be any better than if you didn’t have them. But I’m a big believer in making sure everything is fit for purpose and processes are included in that. Processes are too informal. “Oh,

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 8, 2022

Resource management is the process of planning, scheduling and allocating resources to complete a project. Project managers are in charge of overseeing the resource management process from start to finish. Resource management involves creating plans and processes so that those resources can be managed. Learn More!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 11, 2022

Have you been asked to pull together a strategy planning meeting agenda? In this article, I’ll explain what a strategic planning meeting can cover and share a sample agenda you can customize for your strategy sessions. The conversations need a structure to help keep the pace and ensure the meeting runs smoothly.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 25, 2022

By using incremental steps towards completing a project, agile teams can easily adjust their project plan or product development plan to better meet their customer requirements. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. First, that the individual is more important than the process; second. Daily Standup Meetings.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 20, 2022

Just as we only look at the building and often neglect the foundation that supports it, the architectural design process is the bedrock of construction project management. It’s a lengthy process that follows the construction project from inception to completion. What Is the Architectural Design Process? Learn more.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 2, 2023

Meeting minutes help with communication at work — they ensure people have a common understanding of what the meeting was about and what they should be doing next. In this article we’ll look at why minutes are worth doing and then dive into the 10 simple tips for taking effective meeting minutes.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 1, 2022

It’s a group of people from the project team that meets regularly to consider changes to the project. Through this process of detailed examination, the change control board decides on the viability of the change request or makes recommendations accordingly. They also lead change control board meetings. Learn more.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 11, 2023

Once the production line is in action, managers need to keep a close eye on what’s happening to ensure they’re meeting the production schedule and delivering goods on time to retailers. Let’s look into what production control is, what a production controller does and explore the process of production control. They are as follows.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Initiation Phase The initiation phase might be the most important of all five phases as it maps out the approval process for the project and sets everything in place to build. The construction bidding process will also begin at this point. Learn more Now, let’s look more closely at each of the five construction phases.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 21, 2021

Contract administration is the process of creating a contract between employer and contractor. The process ends when the contract is agreed upon and everyone has signed the dotted line. Contract administration can be a long process, especially if it is the first time an employer and contractor are working together.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 18, 2023

We’ll answer those questions as well as outline the process when managing construction change orders. Construction Change Order Management Process. If nothing is constant other than change, then a process needs to be in place in order to manage the construction change orders that occur over the course of the project.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

To keep to your schedule and manage costs, you need to gather and process project data throughout the five PMBOK project management groups. What Are the 5 PMBOK Project Management Process Groups? Project management software helps project managers stay on top of each of these process groups. Initiating Phase. Planning Phase.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 6, 2023

Without funding and the proper budgeting process, projects in any industry grind to a halt. By understanding the budgeting process for business and project management , it’s easier to understand how to make a budget for your company or project. Budgeting Methods Budgeting methods are how you implement a budgeting process.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

If you think this way about meetings, chances are others do, such as the team members you’ve called together to discuss a vital aspect of the project you’re all working on. Instead of dismissing meetings whole cloth, you could try some icebreaker games to make them more fun and productive. So, what are some icebreakers for meetings?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 15, 2020

Meetings—there can be too many. Meetings are sometimes held to discuss when to meet: it can feel absurd. However, meetings are not some useless artifact from business past. That’s why a planning meeting in project management is key to kicking off a successful project. What Is the Purpose of a Planning Meeting?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 19, 2021

We had the go/no go meeting and as I sat in the office, it just felt like we weren’t ready. It’s helpful to have a decision-making process or framework to guide you, especially when faced with complex problems that require additional info from others. There are 5 steps the decision-making process in project management.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Mapping this out with a production flow chart ensures a more seamless process. A production flow chart is used to illustrate the manufacturing process of a product. It shows the stages, equipment used and quality control checks where you’ll check the product to ensure it meets quality expectations. We’ll get to that shortly.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2018

If so, it might be time to start implementing proven project management processes and phases at your organization in order to bring your company’s workflow under control. Without project management tools, you’ll be scrambling to gather actionable data, track progress and meet deadlines. Get Buy-In for a New PM Process.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 28, 2020

Project management is made up of processes. Project managers and their teams depend on those processes to ensure that a project runs smoothly. But what about those processes? Too often processes are relied on as if they were somehow perfect and cannot be touched. What Is a Process Improvement Plan?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 12, 2020

I facilitate daily standup meetings for our support team. Int his article, I’ll look at 5 activities you can try in your daily team standup meeting. What’s the point of a daily standup meeting? If you work with Agile methods , you will likely be attending standup meetings every day. Elisa, over to you….

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 11, 2022

The steps to getting the product to you is the manufacturing process. The manufacturing process is often taken for granted, but not by manufacturers. Let’s take a moment to look at the big picture of manufacturing, and then zero in on what the manufacturing process is. Steps of the Manufacturing Process. There are many.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 13, 2023

TL; DR: Adherence to Legacy Systems, Processes, and Practices Administrative overreach and micromanagement in Scrum mainly arise from clinging to legacy systems and traditional (management) practices, leading to rigidity and misapplication of Agile principles. Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available !

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NimbleWork

DECEMBER 10, 2023

A retrospective meeting, often associated with agile methodologies like scrum and kanban , is a crucial opportunity for a team to reflect on their recent work and identify areas for improvement. To help make sure that your team looks forward to it, here are five tips to make a retrospective meeting more productive: 1.

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