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A practical guide to quality management, assurance & control

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I’ll also link the practice back to the PMBOK® Guide and Managing Successful Projects, the latest PRINCE2 manual. The activities include: Identifying the deliverables (which PRINCE2 calls products) and documenting expectations around customer satisfaction about what quality standards they will adhere to.

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Free and Low Cost Project Management Resources

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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. Free eBooks Many software vendors have free ebooks full of useful advice like this one , this one , and these. And training to choose from.

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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. You can find my views on whether CAPM or PRINCE2 is the right choice for you here. Is this true? That’s about 2.3

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10 Places to Get Free Project Management Templates

Rebel’s Guide to PM

ProjectManager.com is a software tool, but they have a massive set of resources that work without their software. PRINCE2 Templates from Axelos. If you work in a PRINCE2 environment, you’ll be aware that it’s quite document heavy! ProjectManager.com. Download the ‘critical friend’ project assurance template on gov.uk.

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Top 10 Must-Read Books on Collaboration on Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders. Communication Skills for Project and Programme Managers is tailored to PRINCE2® project environments. It’s also very expensive for the amount of pages, so see if you can get your PMO to invest in it! Jean Tabaka: Addison Wesley. ISBN: 9780321630056.

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

ProjectManager.com

Try Our Award-Winning Project Management Software Free! That means that project managers work in virtually all fields, from software development and IT to human resources, from advertising and marketing to construction, and everything in-between. There are two major certifying bodies, PRINCE2 and the Project Management Institute (PMI).

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Project Management Trends [2022]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The trend towards valuing soft skills is important because as automation and AI bring advanced features to our tools, much of the ‘technical’ bits of project management can be done by software. It’s a way of automating repetitive tasks and it’s having a bit of an impact on the PMO community. Think about how your PMO teams are rewarded.

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