ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 28, 2020

A project never exists in a vacuum. A project is executed by a team within an organization that has some sort of a project management framework established to enable the process. This framework should be designed to suit the needs of your projects, your goals and your team. What is a Project Management Framework?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 5, 2024

Knowledge areas are no longer covered in the PMBOK ® Guide - Seventh Edition. PMBOK 7 talks about the 8 project performance domains. This article reviews and explains the 10 project management Knowledge Areas from the PMBOK® Guide -- Sixth Edition. How many knowledge areas are there in project management?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 10, 2023

It took me a while to get my hands on Simon Moore’s book, Strategic Project Portfolio Management , but I’m rather glad I did. Choosing projects for the best returns Moore’s book looks at how project management offices should choose and prioritize projects in order to give businesses the best returns.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2024

Everyone wants their projects to be “quality” but I often get asked about how to manage project quality in real life. What does it mean to “do” project quality? You probably already know that you need a quality management plan , and that management, assurance and control are the pillars of doing it right.

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

As a project manager, you constantly juggle a million tasks at once. This article will provide clear guidance on how to define and assign risk management roles and responsibilities for projects and programs. Ensuring that all of the risks are addressed can be a daunting task, particularly for larger, complex projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 22, 2023

Every journey starts with the first steps and every project with a plan. In order for stakeholders and executives to get onboard with a certain initiative, PMs (project managers) must draft a compelling overview covering all the bases: objectives, necessary resources, tasks, schedules, milestones, deliverables, so on and so forth.

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Project Risk Coach

JANUARY 9, 2024

In the intricate world of project management, where each decision can lead to a myriad of outcomes, the ability to forecast and manage potential risks is invaluable. How to Perform Decision Tree Analysis Here's a step-by-step guide on how to perform decision tree analysis for quantitative risk analysis.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 14, 2024

If you’re searching for a project management job, you’ve no doubt come across a range of different job titles. The ‘project manager’ job descriptions have a wide variety of roles and duties, which can make it hard to know what’s right for you. That’s what a project is.

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 21, 2022

How often have you found new requirements towards the end of your projects? If you want to improve your project success, improve your requirements processes. No requirements management plan. The project manager should define the approach to requirements development and management. Requirement.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 18, 2024

I have mentored project managers for years, and recently, more of my mentees have been going through project management apprenticeships. Maybe an apprenticeship in project management would be the right career move for you? Maybe an apprenticeship in project management would be the right career move for you?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 22, 2023

Let me tell you about a project decision that was awkward for me — then I’ll share some tips on how to do decision-making better. My project sponsor was on holiday in Canada. The easier part is always implementing that decision – after all, isn’t that what project managers do? We would delay the pilot.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 16, 2023

Construction projects must be well orchestrated. There are many contractors working on various aspects of the overall project. Contractor management is a process to manage the contractors and make sure they’re doing what they need to do, when they need to do it and meeting quality standards. What Is a Contractor?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® exam is changing in 2023. This will bring it in line with the latest PMBOK® Guide – 7 th edition and generally more modern ways of thinking about project management. Every so often PMI carry out an assessment of what people in project management jobs do all day.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2023

You’ve probably heard project managers talk about project assurance, but what exactly is it? I’ve worked on project teams for over 20 years and project assurance is just part of the job. Let me share some tips on what it is, who is responsible for project assurance, and how it works in real life.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

If you aren’t using PRINCE2®, or if you want some general guidance as well about project closure documents and so on, read this next: How to close a project. A project has a start, a middle and an end, so closing a project is an important part of the project management lifecycle.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Projects can be a hotbed of conflict. 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. And project managers contribute hugely to that because we go out and look for it.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 11, 2024

Change management is often part of a project manager’s role, but we don’t get a lot of formal training in how to make it happen. If your project doesn’t land well, the change isn’t adopted, people go back to old ways of working and the benefits are not realized. A cost-effective and comprehensive self-paced training.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2022

They are perfect for anyone working in a project environment, but if you are managing teams of any kind you’ll find something useful in here. I’ve met managers who think that project teams communicate and collaborate by default. And project communication doesn’t happen unless you make it happen.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 4, 2022

Whether it’s a statement of work, a business case, or project requirements, there are lots of documents produced by projects. And it falls to the project manager to produce most of them, or at least oversee and coordinate their production. Someone will want a change or there will be a formal project change raised.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 16, 2022

Xebrio brings together requirements management and end-to-end traceability with task management and test coverage all the way to release management. It’s a project management ecosystem that is perfect for technology-led teams, with workflows and an easy interface with a low learning curve. Website: Xebrio.com.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 21, 2023

Are you wondering whether you should take the IBM project management certificate or the Google project management course? They are both excellent, credible training providers, and both courses are aimed at beginner-level project managers. The Google Project Management training The Google course is fantastic.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 17, 2023

Closing down a project early is very different to carrying out a controlled close when a project has reached its natural conclusion and delivered everything that stakeholders were expecting. When a project is unexpectedly closed early, it can be difficult to know what steps to take next. Why do projects close early?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Are you looking at what PRINCE2 ® (PRojects IN a Controlled Environment) certificate you should get? But it’s not as well-known in the United States, where the Project Management Professional (PMP)® certificate from PMI, the Project Management Institute, has the largest market share. Which PRINCE2 course is best?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A project timeline is a visual representation of the tasks that make up the project, showing the sequence of events and key dates. Let’s be clear: I’m not talking about a detailed project Gantt chart, PERT chart or a flow chart. What do you need to create a project timeline? Longer projects can be split by quarters.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

You’ve delivered a great project – or at least made it to the end, exhausted! Now it’s time to handover the work because the project is closing. I had one memorable project where I couldn’t get rid of it. It was fine, but it did pull me away from other projects. And it’s not what project management is supposed to be.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Every project would claim it is their intention. In this sixth article, Robin presents a business focused architecture for projects, and supplementary models designed to promote collaboration. This discussion naturally reads like a description of a project management (PM) implementation, and it does indeed use PM concepts.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 23, 2023

Are you looking for a way to better manage the risks associated with your projects? Risk audits are an effective tool that can help project managers and program managers identify potential issues before they become problems. What is a risk audit in project management? And it’s not just me saying that.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 7, 2023

I’ve been managing projects for over 20 years and I found the Google Project Management Certificate capstone course quite tricky. For more general tips on how to earn the Google project management certificate quickly, read the story of how I passed the certificate in a week.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

You’re here because you’re interested in finding out whether the IBM Project Manager Professional Certificate is right for you? Summary review The IBM Project Manager Professional Certificate is a good CAPM® alternative or course to use towards your CAPM prep. Who is the IBM Project Management Certificate for?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Have you ever worked on a project where you got going, and then there was confusion about what you were actually supposed to be doing? The project initiation phase is where you start to pull together all the stakeholders and what they want, to get the whole project team aligned behind the idea. How frustrating. Keep it short.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Tech disruption is huge in our industry, so why not get ahead and show employers that you are ready to take the lead and can lead low-code app development projects? Business users, like project managers and teams, are using this approach to take some of the workload off application developers. They mean short projects).

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 19, 2021

My project sponsor was on holiday in Canada. The easier part is always implementing that decision – after all, isn’t that what project managers do? As a project manager, you will be used to making multiple decisions on a daily basis. All of them are part of the project governance framework. And… breathe.

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The stakeholder engagement plan is "a component of the project management plan that identifies the strategies and actions required to promote productive involvement of stakeholders in project or program decision making and execution ( PMBOK® Guide – Sixth Edition, Page 723 )." PMBOK® Guide – Sixth Edition –.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Managing resources in professional services firms is crucial for maintaining sustainability and achieving anticipated employee performance goals. But unfortunately, many resource managers have to rely on approximation and guesswork because they don’t have the right tools and techniques. Let us begin with the basics.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 24, 2023

Projects and operations are both necessary for businesses to succeed, but they require different approaches. When it comes to managing them effectively, understanding the differences between projects and operations is key. Projects change the business. The status quo is good but project managers keep changing things!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2021

Did you know that 56% of your project budget might be at risk due to poor communications? Perhaps that number (from research by PMI ) surprises you, but I’m sure you aren’t surprised by the fact that good communication management on projects leads to higher success rates. What is project communication management?

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Are you aware that the Project Management Institute (PMI) is updating the PMI-RMP exam? Moreover, the exam is being updated with terms and concepts that are in alignment with the PMBOK® Guide and the new Risk Standard. Finally, the exam will include questions about project lifecycles–predictive, agile, and hybrid approaches.

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