Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 13, 2023

Project management is a great career. And how do you show prospective employers that you are keen to commit to the job and you know enough about the role of a project manager for them to take a chance on you? I’ve taken plenty of project management certificates over the years – but mostly, they cost money.

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Certification 2023 PMI Prince2 450

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 29, 2024

Do you need to write a budget proposal report? We start with the 5 easy steps to plan and write your budget proposal. Then I’ll show you a worked example (from a fictional proposal but you will be able to see how to apply this to your project). Why is a budget proposal important? I’ll show you how.

Budget 317

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 7, 2024

It’s not only communicative but helps management develop strategic plans so the company can accomplish its goals. Our roadmap is a Gantt chart that visually represents all of your strategic goals and related projects, including the steps necessary to accomplish them. Organizational strategy has many layers.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 22, 2024

I mentor project managers, and the types of problems that people come up with on calls are not technical issues for the most part. Or “resources” as we unkindly call people in project management. Securing the right resource (and enough of it) is a huge headache for PMO leaders and project professionals.

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Technical Review PMO Risk Management Software Review 280

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. Who is the BEE Methodology Practitioner course for?

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Software Review Technical Review Certification Change Management 318

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 14, 2024

We gathered 57 of the top AI in project management statistics to help understand this key development in technology. Recent advancements in tech have changed how project managers work in 2024. It covers everything from the impact of AI replacing jobs to how AI is used to support the delivery of projects.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review 2028 2024 372

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.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 6, 2023

PMO stands for project management office and it’s responsible for the project management standards in an organization. The two others are the program management office and the portfolio management office. Filter the view by project, client or customer and add as many columns as you need.

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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. This will inform the construction project’s budget.

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Construction Monitoring Certification Engineering 372

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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Construction Governance Government Defining 324

ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Construction project management relies on good planning, experienced contractors and powerful construction project management software. While Procore is a known name in construction project management, many construction managers are looking for a Procore alternative. Procore falls short in many ways.

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2024 Construction Software Review Technical Review 364

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 12, 2024

One way to make sure you’re supporting your team and project alike is with workforce planning. Then we’ll help you with the workforce planning process and explain the benefits of using workforce planning in your projects. Finally, we’ll see how project management software allows you to better manage your workforce.

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Planning Estimate Risk Management Budget 343

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.

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Software Review Budget Monitoring Risk Management 367

ProjectManager.com

JUNE 15, 2021

Project managers are the point person in charge of a specific project or projects within an organization. We regularly feature project management resources to help train PMs to land jobs in the industry or develop better skills in their current role. What Does a Project Manager Do?

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Certification Prince2 Monitoring PMI 441

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

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Your team is your most valuable resource when executing a project. The ability to know who you need and when you need them for the project is what workload analysis is all about. As you can imagine, workload planning is essential for project success. Project management software helps with workload analysis and capacity planning.

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Manufacturing Monitoring Estimate Executing 316

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 12, 2023

Despite your efforts to clearly define the scope, time and resources necessary to successfully complete the projects, things simply don’t always go according to plan. Maja Mrsic Here are 3 examples of projects that didn’t go to plan. So why do some projects crash to their doom? The merger was not a successful one.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

IT financial management (ITFM) covers the costs of keeping our network, servers and devices running. IT financial management is a bit more complicated than that and we’ll explain by more thoroughly defining the term. Then we’ll list the professionals who are tasked with IT financial management and their key objectives.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It’s perfect for building out a professional profile and solidifying your reputation and credibility as a project manager, whether you are currently looking for a new role or not. As you deliver new projects, complete new training courses or gain new certifications, you should be going back to LinkedIn to add them to your profile.

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Certification Software Review Budget Change Management 357

ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Gantt chart is one of the most important tools in a project manager’s toolbox. One side is a spreadsheet that collects important project data and the other is a visual timeline that shows the entire project from start to finish. What Can You Use a Microsoft Project Gantt Chart For?

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Budget 345

Project Accelerator News

AUGUST 31, 2023

‘ What is project management’ is a pertinent question in healthcare management. Simply put, it is the process of planning, organising and then overseeing the work of a project team in order to achieve a particular objective within agreed timeframes and budgets.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Having to make an event budget adds another layer of stress. But it doesn’t have to be a nightmare if you follow a few simple steps to creating an event budget. If you’re struggling with the event budget it can negatively impact the whole event. What Is an Event Budget? We’ll help you avoid those pitfalls.

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Budget Transportation Estimate Risk Management 332

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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Construction Planning Risk Management Estimate 325

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. In my experience, that creates tension.

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Retail Governance Government Healthcare 407

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. What Is a Technical Project Manager? If either applies, read on.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – ( PMBOK® Guide ) Seventh Edition represents a major shift in the way ‘how to do project management’ is presented by PMI. Instead of the Knowledge Areas , we have the whole body of project management split up into performance domains.

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Technical Review Software Review PMI 2023 298

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 31, 2024

Coming up with long-term goals for a business or organization is just the beginning of a five-year project. A balanced scorecard is a strategic management performance metric. It’s a common management tool worldwide, used across industries, including government and nonprofit organizations. What Is a Balanced Scorecard?

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Performance Measurement Governance Government Initiating 399

ProjectManager.com

JUNE 30, 2021

The construction project manager role is a unique position, though it shares many of the attributes associated with any kind of project manager. If you’re looking for an experienced construction project manager, you need to understand their job. What Does a Construction Project Manager Do?

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Construction Certification Budget Logistics 302

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Sol Benady is a management consultant, Fintech entrepreneur, and program manager working in the banking sector. He started his career as an auditor in London, trained with E&Y where he qualified as an accountant, and then moved into consulting for retail and investment banking for a wide range of projects and clients.

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Budget 2015 Retail Governance 361

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 11, 2022

Listing projects on your resume helps make your job application stand out. Here’s how to showcase your projects on your CV (as we call a resume here in the UK, and I’ll use both terms interchangeably in this article) to make it clear what you are capable of. What projects to include on your resume. Here’s how to do it.

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Technical Review Budget Prince2 Software Review 433

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

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Then we’ll outline what’s included in the project order so you know how to make one run production more efficiently. If they are not in stock, then a requisition order will be created to acquire them. All this is part of the larger manufacturing process that can be controlled with project management software.

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Manufacturing Software Review 2024 Executing 333

ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 11, 2023

If you’re a construction project management company looking to hire a site engineer you’ll need to have a thorough job description to caption the right candidate. They are also responsible for organizing and supervising the construction project. Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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Engineering Construction Sustainability Technical Support 339

ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

However, a good manufacturing engineer also has knowledge of mechatronics, commerce, economics and business management. ProjectManager is award-winning project management software with powerful Gantt charts for manufacturing processes. Manufacturing engineering is what keeps those integrated systems operating.

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Manufacturing Engineering Technical Review Software Review 344

The IIL Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

And so, we were not at all surprised to see that at IIL’s November International Project Management Day Virtual Conference , the most attendance in any one session was at the panel discussion on, you guessed it: AI. What does it mean for me in my role as a Project Manager?

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Artificial Inteligence Generative AI ChatGPT Software Review 167

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 15, 2023

Project management is all about solving problems before they happen. But even the best planning isn’t going to avoid challenges throughout the project. Let’s look at 15 project management challenges and how to deal with them. Let’s look at 15 project management challenges and how to deal with them.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 10, 2024

But the only reason it feels effortless is because of order management. We’ll explain what order management is and explore how an order management process is conducted. There are, of course, people behind the order management process. What Is Order Management? Customer satisfaction is also an objective.

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