Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 30, 2022

I was already managing a couple of projects and while I probably could take on the workload of this additional small piece of work, the mental overload of juggling so many things was getting too much. As far as I can recall – it was quite a while ago now – I basically had that one thing to do. But that’s a different story.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

First, we should make sure we’re talking about the same thing. It’s one thing. But managing your personal tasks and managing the tasks across the team are two different things. I just remembered things. Everyone works in different ways and each team will have different needs.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 10, 2023

ProjectManager has real-time dashboards that you can share with stakeholders, and eight different in-depth project reports that you can make with just a few clicks. That’s because good preparation can set you up for success on the big day. If you can still read them clearly from a standing position, then the text is big enough.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 21, 2021

I was already managing a couple of projects and while I probably could take on the workload of this additional small piece of work, the mental overload of juggling so many things was getting too much. As far as I can recall – it was quite a while ago now – I basically had that one thing to do. But that’s a different story.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 16, 2023

Learn more How to Motivate Your Team With These 10 Strategies It’s easy to say you’re going to motivate your team, but quite another thing to actually do it. Celebrate Both Small & Big Wins One thing no one likes is feeling unrecognized for the work they do. ProjectManager connects teams to foster collaboration.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 19, 2023

Agile methods need Agile teams — teams that think differently and work in ways that support responsive delivery. So why are agile teams different to other types of ‘classic’ project team? Together, they are a “whole team” They don’t need anyone or anything else to get things done.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 20, 2023

“Great things in business are never done by one person. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain Constructive criticism should be always welcome in any team. There is no such thing as a self-made man. It is the only thing that ever has.”

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 22, 2023

What people mean by “release planning” is trying to forecast when we will deliver certain things when certain releases might happen, and we might not know for sure what’s on those releases. How small could the product backlog be? How big could the product backlog be? ( An old-fashioned term, but we’re still stuck with it).

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The framing effect is a cognitive bias that can lead us to make different decisions based on how information is presented to us. This shows how our decisions can be swayed by seemingly small details. When it comes to making decisions , we all have different ways of going about it. What is framing in decision making?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 4, 2023

4️⃣ Organizations don’t know how to set SMALL improvements. Even if organizations know what to improve, they get stuck in way too big of improvements. Analyze where things are stuck in the traps, and determine how to set things in motion. Once we find the proper leverage points, even a small push can trigger a big change.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Busyness might mean you’re spending time on the wrong things. Productive people spend time on the right things. Write things down Write down tasks to reduce the mental overload of having to remember them. Everything else I’ll take as a win, but getting those 3 things done are the non-negotiables.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Project assurance is different to quality assurance. The project assurance role typically does 3 things. They report back to the project board to provide that confidence level, or to flag up where the team is letting things slip. Project assurance is an ongoing check and balance to ensure that the project is being run right.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 15, 2020

First, we should make sure we’re talking about the same thing. It’s one thing. But managing your personal tasks and managing the tasks across the team are two different things. I just remembered things. Everyone works in different ways and each team will have different needs. You could do the task.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 25, 2021

We don’t all have big budgets to produce banners, T-shirts and mugs with logos on to share the messages about our projects. If you are still here, then you don’t have a big budget for project communications. Another cheap thing to do is to get rice paper logos printed and then use them as cake toppers. You might be different.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Instead of throwing a complex change agenda, starting small, iterating, and scaling is wise. This one pertains to coming up with new ideas and trying new things. It's not just about new products but also finding better ways to do things or using the latest tools. Ability to innovate. Can your business change when needed?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 7, 2023

But before making any decision, it’s important to understand the difference between problem solving and decision making. While they may appear similar at first glance, there are key differences in how each process should be approached – understanding these differences will help you make more informed decisions!

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 31, 2022

Regarding distribution, efficiently handling end products such as routing and delivery can make a big difference. Whether you’re in a big company or a smaller one, there’s always room to increase operational efficiency. There are different strategies to achieve operational efficiency. Operational Efficiency Formula.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Each one of those components connects directly to a TPM goal, and takes into account a different type of productivity loss: Availability: This corresponds to the TPM goal of having no stops in production while taking into account availability loss (all events that stop productive for an appreciable length of time). The 6 Big Losses and OEE.

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 22, 2021

Individuals, groups, and organizations have different opinions, sometimes strong opinions. I was asked to facilitate a series of meetings with key stakeholders to resolve the differences. 5 Ways to Respond to Stakeholder Conflict Whenever you face strong differences in opinions, determine how you will manage the conflict.

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TechEmpower - Project Management

JULY 24, 2023

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. The conversations are interesting and varied because they’re about new, exciting, different things. What are your big milestones? Who are your big competitors? Fulfillment?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

There's a big difference between truly understanding the product owner’s accountability and focusing on responsibilities only. Here are seven things a product owner should stay away from to be more effective in maximising value: 1. But there's a difference between accountability and responsibility.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 27, 2020

My thoughts on this are: Collaboration tools and Gantt charts serve different purposes, so you shouldn’t see one as replacing the other. The great thing about this webinar was that people started answering each others’ questions. Magdalena answered: I have a small consulting business – and we use Freedcamp (like basecamp).

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Considering that Scrum teams make a ton of decisions every day and also have resolutions (not only once per year though), this could make huge difference when formulating for example working agreements, capturing retrospective results and of course initiate agile transformations. .

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

To better understand process manufacturing, let’s first define the term and explore the different types of process manufacturing. The batch can be big or small, depending on the manufacturer, as well as the frequency of manufacturing these batches. This is where a group of the same products are produced at the same time.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

It’s a visual, flexible tool that is perfect for small and medium businesses who want to improve how they manage projects. You can group columns so they represent different themes, steps, teams, whatever, within a process or list. This is a tiny picture but it shows the different types of dependency! Let me show you how!

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

All events, big and small, need a budget to cover expenses. Even if you’ve produced dozens of events prior to the one you’re budgeting now, there will always be differences. Prices for things change and there’s an inherent risk in putting together an event that can impact your budget. Learn more. Types of Events.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Task management software is crucial for managing projects big and small. There are also tools that allow users to report on progress and performance, add attachments and use calendars, among other things. Every project created has different views: list, conversation, calendar, progress and files. Asana Features.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 4, 2021

There is also PRINCE2 Agile as a specific, different qualification you can get. What are the main differences between PRINCE2 and the PMBOK® framework? There is a lot of documentation but you don’t have to do it all and what you do complete really helps people understand the project scope and get things right.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Everything we do has an impact on different time horizons. CH - Executive understanding and commitment is absolutely essential, perhaps the most important thing when embarking on an enterprise-wide agile transformation. Does it mean that it's your recommendation for big companies? . It's taken from Spotify/ING model.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Whether it’s a big problem or a small issue doesn’t actually matter. The one thing that derails your project is people,” Aaron said. When your project is sliding sideways, you need your project stakeholders – clients, customers, sponsor – to work with you to help put things right. Work with your stakeholders.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 20, 2021

I’ve been booking meetings for the next couple of months because I know my team get very busy, and if we don’t schedule the time we won’t meet to talk about the big stuff. Whether they are big strategic visioning type meetings for your programs or the daily stand up or somewhere in between, we spend a lot of time meeting with other people.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 14, 2022

What’s going wrong in a project can be any number of things. An exception report doesn’t necessarily have to capture an issue that will derail your project —t hese problems can be big or small and have a major or minor impact on the project or business. An exception report can also help with data quality.

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Zen Project Management

JANUARY 22, 2023

Can it be too big or too small? They didn't need to do traditional stand-ups because they were swarming around one thing at a time. The Scrum Master kept an eye open for impediments, but otherwise was focused on the next thing that would improve the team's productivity. I worked with a team once that had 3 developers.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 4, 2024

How do we improve the process as we build things and so forth? Code base too big. And then you said adding too big of a code base, not breaking it down, not having microservices, Audience Acquiring a company and having to integrate all their stuff. So we’re not building the simplest thing that’ll work.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 12, 2022

Your lifecycle might look a bit different. You might call them different things (some of our projects have a development phase, for example). So you can see that you can have different processes for different types of projects, as you see fit. Gates allow you to transition between stages in a controlled way.

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Scrum.org

MAY 24, 2023

However, we live in a world where nothing is permanent and things change rapidly. Probably in the coming decades, Artificial Intelligence will not remain a ‘ nice to have ’ thing and will turn into a ‘ necessity for survival ’ for many organisations. The only thing that can change is organisational structures.

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Productivity Land

APRIL 2, 2024

Running a small business in this era of competitiveness means being conscious of everything – competitors, the economy, internal affairs, and so much more. 5 Things You Can Do for Improving Productivity In small businesses, productivity is one of the most critical factors since profitability stems from it.

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