Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2023

One of the questions I’m asked often when I’m mentoring project managers, is what is the difference between quality assurance and quality management? Let’s start with quality planning, because that’s where we start on a real project: planning how we are going to get a quality result.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 23, 2024

When you’re a PMP, program manager or portfolio manager, you need to deliver all those multiple projects on time and within budget. This requires an organization with a well-developed project management process. It’s essential to keep projects successful for any organization to thrive. What Is Project Management Maturity?

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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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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A construction superintendent is a professional who helps to manage projects and makes sure that they’re running as planned. One of their main responsibilities is to deal with the construction project’s resources and make sure they’re available for each assignment. They are there to monitor the progress of the project.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 26, 2023

There are many different types of projects, but interestingly, they all have one thing in common. They all go through the same cycle, known as the project life cycle, or project management life cycle. What Is the Project Life Cycle? Each of these phases is necessary for the effective delivery of the project.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Sometimes the whole picture isn’t clear when you’re planning a project. But with a traditional project management methodology, such as waterfall, you set everything up first and then you’re stuck with it. But the waterfall methodology is only one way to manage a project. That doesn’t mean the project starts without a plan.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 5, 2022

We talk a lot about project managers, but that title is more general than most might think. There are many different project managers, but today we’re interested in focusing on just one, the technical project manager. Are you interested in becoming a technical project manager or are you in the market to hire one?

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Managing a project is difficult. And that’s just the project! What about all those things that can impact the project? All of these things make up the project environment. Just as you live in an environment that impacts your life, so does your project. What Is a Project Environment?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 3, 2024

Managing more than one project at a time creates a lot of problems. How can you allocate resources wisely across all those projects? How can you keep the projects aligned with the strategic goals of the organization? That and more is what enterprise project management does. What Is Enterprise Project Management?

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Project managers put a lot of time and effort into researching the viability of their project. But all that work is pointless if they don’t communicate the purpose of the project to their team and clients. The team and client know the mission statement, the vision statement and the project plan.

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The IIL Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

November 15, 2023 All management disciplines, project management included, contain words and expressions that have meanings susceptible to change over time. On the other hand, the term “project value” has had multiple interpretations based upon the type of project, when in the project life cycle the term is used, and who is using the term.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Monday is a matchup made for project management professionals. Asana vs. Monday are both similar project management tools. They have features, such as project tracking, workflow automation and other standard project management software features. Not convinced that ProjectManager is a superior project management tool?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 26, 2022

A project is often considered something purely physical, like construction. The truth is, a project can be any work that has a beginning and an end. To that end, the legal industry has projects, too. Legal project management is well familiar to lawyers, even if they don’t necessarily use that phrase. Learn More!

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MPUG

APRIL 18, 2024

Accurately defining the scope of a project and getting stakeholder signoff early on is one of the keys to project success. It is incumbent upon you to get your scope right during the definition stage. This article provides an overview of the scoping process in four steps. Conclusion Scope creep kills projects.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Then, you’ll find out how project management software can help you reduce waste and save time. It’s the document that defines the steps that’ll take the project team from where they are to how they can achieve their shared goal. All necessary steps are detailed including start and end dates and the project duration.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Plan your budget on our Gantt chart, including all your resources and costs, and set a baseline to capture that budget. Corporate events can be used to train staff or educate the public on the brand or a product, celebrate company milestones, usher in changes in the company and provide networking opportunities or team-building exercises.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

There are many things that are needed when managing a project. These organizational process assets are critical to a project’s success and its operations. An organizational process asset is a tangible resource that’s used to guide the management of an organization’s projects and operations.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Construction projects come big and complex as well as small and simple, but one thing they all share is a construction phase plan. The construction phase plan is a critical construction project management document that helps to ensure a safe project. What Is a Construction Phase Plan?

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Resources are limited, but your ability to manage them to fulfill the needs of your project isn’t. One of the many challenges that face project managers is how to guide their project to a successful end without enough resources. PM Challenges: Lack of Project Resources. PM Challenges: Lack of Project Resources.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 29, 2021

Stuff happens on projects, and if the worst happens, it’s better to know about it in advance. However, at the beginning of your project when your risk log is empty, it can be a bit of a challenge to think of all the stuff that might need to go on there. Once common risk is lack of support from a key project sponsor.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 28, 2022

Whether you’re managing a traditional, agile or hybrid project, they all have one thing in common: documentation. Depending on the methodology, project management requires a lot of paperwork, which is why records management is so important. Records management helps control your current project and set the stage for future projects.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2022

A business case is a project management document that explains how the benefits of a project overweigh its costs and why it should be executed. Business cases are prepared during the project initiation phase and their purpose is to include all the project’s objectives, costs and benefits to convince stakeholders of its value.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 25, 2023

Time, cost and scope have to be controlled to successfully complete a project. How COQ does this, especially in project management, is what we’ll define. Whether you’re manufacturing products or delivering a service, project management software can help you with the cost of quality. What Is Cost of Quality (COQ)?

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PM Basics

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

No matter the industry or size of a project, scope management is the most crucial aspect – you must become a professional scope manager first of all. . Scope management is a combination of processes and tools that help to identify tangible and intangible project outcomes. Why Scope Management is Important?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 22, 2019

The only constant in a project is change. In terms of managing projects , there are two poles on the spectrum of how that work is done: agile and waterfall. Waterfall , or other more traditional project management methodologies, follows a strict framework that works to control change. Agile is all about change.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The first thing that must be established is a benchmark or baseline from which to measure the product to make sure that it’s delivered to the project’s quality expectations. ProjectManager is online project management software that delivers real-time data to help you catch problems quickly and resolve them.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

A change management plan can be the difference between project success and failure. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you how to create the right change management plan for your project. Jennifer started by saying how important a change management plan is for a successful project. In Review – How to Make a Change Management Plan.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Cost management is the process by which one plans and manages the budget of a business or project. In the case of a project, it helps the project manager estimate what the project will cost and set in place controls by which they can reduce the chance of the project going over budget. Cost Management Overview.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Teamhood is a Kanban project management system for teams. It’s a visual, flexible tool that is perfect for small and medium businesses who want to improve how they manage projects. Teamhood is a full Kanban system – but you don’t need to be trained in Kanban boards to use it. Cards represent projects. Let me show you how!

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Scope can make or break a project. If you’re not keeping a finger on the scope of the project, it can quickly go off-track, messing up your schedule and depleting the budget. That is how many projects fail. After all, the project manager is tasked with ensuring that the project reaches a satisfactory conclusion.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

An abundance of information is created, transferred and stored over the life cycle of a project. Without a way of organizing all information a project is doomed to fail. That’s what PMIS comes in, which is an acronym for project management information system. It’s easy for something to get lost in the mix. What Is PMIS?

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Uncertainty is a certainty in projects. Risks will arise and threaten the successful delivery of your project. That’s the first step in planning, managing and mitigating risk in your projects. That’s the first step in planning, managing and mitigating risk in your projects. The Four Categories of Risk in a Project.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 17, 2022

The project manager is on the ground, running the team and keeping the daily operations of a project running smoothly. But who looks after the project manager? In project management, that position is called a project director. Let’s take a look at a project director and learn what they do.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 5, 2020

Angela always excelled at playing leader or manager at group projects growing up. College, a few odd jobs, and an internship later, she landed a job as a design engineer and got to work on some exciting and challenging projects. Then she was made project manager. Today, project leaders have to cope in uncertain environments.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

That requires work, of course, and a lot of coordination between departments, which can be streamlined by project management software. As in any project plan, the marketing implementation plan will define the objectives of the campaign and the requirements to fulfill them. The scope is assessed and deliverables outlined.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 6, 2022

Connectivity is key to productivity in project management. Airtable is one of the many project management software solutions that presents itself as the app to connect your data, workflows and teams. Why seek an alternative project management solution? There’s no way to have a general dialogue with the project team.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 22, 2019

Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you how to deal with time limitations in a project. Jennifer opened with the fact that managing a project is controlling the triple constraint of cost, time and scope. Scope: You might reduce scope or segment it into phases. They might want to re-baseline the project.

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