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10 common resource management problems and how to fix them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

They should have extended the dates if people weren’t available. They should have worked out what resources were really needed and secured support. People will be assigned to lower priority work, meaning you don’t have the right skills or people available to work on your strategic initiatives. Track employee retention.

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How to Secure Resources for Your Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

They might be working on several of your projects, or supporting another project manager with their work. Use a multi-project, consolidated schedule to plan forward, identifying what support or skills you might need in four or five months’ time if you don’t currently have resources booked. This can be time-consuming in itself.

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Planning a Budget for a Proposal in 5 Easy Steps (+ Example)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Granted, if the budget you build in the proposal phase is carefully put together and everything goes according to plan, you will end up using that directly as your project budget, but for the purposes of this article, let’s just stick to the proposal phase. For more on how to create a project budget, this article has all the info you need.)

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57 AI in Project Management Statistics

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It covers everything from the impact of AI replacing jobs to how AI is used to support the delivery of projects. Predictive analytics tools and chatbots are the most commonly used, with 26% of organizations using these or planning to use these to support project delivery. 23% of organizations are using or planning to use RPA.

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5 Tips To Re-Energize Your Daily Standup Meetings

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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. Activity 4: If you were a support ticket what would you be? Think about how you could adapt it to the way your department gets requests for support.

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Implementing AI in your projects: how to start and improve

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article, we will cover strategies to usher in this adoption and certain tasks that can be augmented with AI. The more complex the task – and the more human intervention needed – the harder it is to automate , at least until you have a better understanding of the AI tools available.

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Hybrid is the norm, not the exception

Kiron Bondale

As I wrote in last week’s article, projects themselves can’t be waterfall, agile, traditional or hybrid but how we approach them can be. If you liked this article, why not read my book Easy in Theory, Difficult in Practice which contains 100 other lessons on project leadership?