Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

When I started working for White October we followed the conventional “scrum” format, where the team get together, share what’s new, what’s challenging and what’s happening, and everyone gives feedback and makes suggestions to unblock each other. What if you need to meet remotely?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 4, 2024

Choosing the best kanban software for your team might be overwhelming, especially if you’re not sure of what features to look for. Trello’s tools and features are mainly geared towards marketing, product development and creative teams, but can also be used to manage tasks and workflows in other industries.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 18, 2020

Creativity is the cornerstone of innovation. Thinking creatively is what takes your work from average to outstanding. Creativity fixes problems. So how can you put more creativity into your work day? This article has 5 simple ideas to improve your team’s creativity. It looks out for risks.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 20, 2023

Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you what PM skills, PM tools and related experience you need to succeed in this competitive field. What Is a Project Management Consultant? What Is Project Management Consulting? ProjectManager’s real-time dashboards help project management consulting find what’s wrong and fix it.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 4, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll look at what autocratic decision making is, when you should use it in your projects, how it fits with leadership styles, strategies for successful implementation within the workplace, and more! Join us as we explore the complexities of autocratic decision making. What is autocratic decision making?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 8, 2024

That’s normal – we all make mistakes from time to time, especially in a new job. In this article I’ll share 10 simple things that you can do to get up to speed quickly and avoid those rookie errors. Check out our Project Management Glossary for common terms and what they mean in real life.

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

And in a way, we are. How do we do this? One risk is that we may fail to identify activities. In this exercise, we should consider: What deliverables must be created to achieve the project objectives? What will NOT be delivered in the project? What are the assumptions? Reduce lags.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

We all need to become comfortable with some risks. We are never going to eliminate all risks. So our best course of action is to prepare a risk mitigation plan so that we can manage those risks that are the most dangerous to our organization effectively before they have the opportunity to negatively impact us.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 5, 2024

Agility is supposed to be about enabling people to do their best and most creative work. And we believe this happens through collaborative and empowered self-managing teams who focus on customer value and work in iterative and incremental ways that enable learning, feedback, and validation.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 28, 2022

What Is a Design Brief? Design Brief vs. Creative Brief. While often referred to as the same thing, a design brief and a creative brief are different animals. The design brief lays out how things will be done while the creative brief is more about establishing the project objectives. Learn more. Project Scope.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 19, 2021

What is employee engagement? When an employee is fully engaged with their employer, they are highly motivated to go above and beyond what is required of them – and that’s exactly what we need on project teams, right? Lots of work has been done on the concept of engagement and what goes into it.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

We started this Scrum foundation series explaining we see four underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. In the past series of mails we covered the three pillars of Empiricism, the Scrum Values, and Self-Management. A self-managing team is taking decisions about who does what, when, and how. Do people keep an open mind?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 24, 2023

Management, as the saying goes, is about doing things right, and leadership is about doing the right things. But how do you adopt a style that supports both? That’s what I hope I offer my team, and that’s what I expect from them. What works day-to-day is not necessarily going to work during a crisis.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Common Project Management Styles We’ve whittled down the many different project management styles and settled on what are the most common. These popular approaches to project management all have their Pros and Cons, which we highlight, so you can decide which is the best common project management style for your project. Yes and no.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 31, 2023

We know instinctively that it’s worth working together to get projects done. What is teamwork? Teamwork promotes creativity When people work together, you’re creating a better environment for creativity. Read next: 5 Ways to Boost Your Team’s Creativity 2. It brings people together to achieve a common goal.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 18, 2022

If so, then you know how frustrating and even maddening it can be to try to work on something without having a good understanding of what is required. It might feel like you’ll never nail down what you’re supposed to be doing (GDPR project, I’m looking at you). First, let’s make sure we know what we are talking about.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 20, 2023

But what are the qualities of a leader? Ask a dozen people what leadership looks like to them and you’ll likely get a dozen different answers. To do so, leaders must be capable individuals who excel at problem-solving. If we don’t have self-esteem, it becomes hard to control our emotions and have empathy for others.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2024

This approach fosters innovation, creativity, and, importantly, team engagement – vital ingredients for successful product development. What sets apart a truly Agile team is the focus on goals and outcomes rather than a microscopic preoccupation with tasks and timings. Where are we going? What value does this bring?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 9, 2024

We feel sluggish after eating on a full stomach, and similarly, the team feels fatigued after planning with 100% utilization. Similarly, in sprint planning, it’s crucial to leave 'breathing space' for creativity, unforeseen challenges, and a productive team's natural ebb and flow. Now, let’s bring this back to you and your team.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Execs love a pretty timeline, and in this article, I’m going to show you what you should be including in yours to wow your stakeholders (and build some credibility at the same time). What do you need to create a project timeline? Key activities: What work is going to happen? What if you don’t have a start date?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 26, 2023

What is the SCARF model? There are five factors that the brain is always monitoring that have a huge impact on how we behave. We are acutely sensitized to look out for these factors. As time goes on Stefan becomes less certain (C) about what to expect and how the meeting is likely to pan out. The converse is also true.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

We have dozens of free project management templates to choose from. It helps you forecast what you need to spend to deliver a successful marketing campaign. Creative Brief Template. Marketing, advertising and design projects require project briefs just as construction, manufacturing or engineering projects do.

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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. Using our 20 years of project management experience, we reviewed AI statistics and trends from trusted third parties, which forms the foundation for this list. Only 9% say they are extremely ready.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Looking at complexity theory as described by David Snowden, we have various decision-making contexts called domains. These domains describe different ways of how we solve given problems. With simple problems, we have all the facts; we work with the known knowns. We have best practices with tight constraints.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 29, 2022

What is the future of project management? Let’s look ahead and see what the next 10 years will bring for project management software, jobs, and the role itself. There’s a trend towards more and more knowledge work being run in a projectized way, which means more and more people doing project management as part of their day job.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Create All the Goals and Objectives Alone Yes, as a product owner, you are accountable for: Developing and explicitly communicating the Product Goal In the same Scrum Guide 2020, we find out that: The Product Owner may do the. Without an entrepreneurial mindset, it's hard to navigate challenges with creativity.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 25, 2022

What you really mean, he would argue, is that the Marketing team, or the Finance team, is asking for something. We did them because they helped support the company’s overall objectives, moving us forward together to achieve the required business changes. Delivering business transformation requires creativity from all teams.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 11, 2022

Let’s face it, you want to execute your project well but you don’t want to spend a lot of money doing it. But what is value engineering, how do you implement it and is it different across industries? But what is value engineering, how do you implement it and is it different across industries? Creative Phase.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 8, 2024

Many teams are trapped in the ghosts of Agile past, adhering rigidly to the three fundamental questions of the daily scrum: What did I do yesterday? What am I doing today? And what's blocking me? This habitual approach leads to a stagnation in creativity and productivity, undermining the very essence of Agile.

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Inloox

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Definition of a concept What exactly is a concept? However, we would never call a marketing concept created by an agency, or even a concept for a project necessary for the project proposal, a draft. So when we speak of a concept in project management , we are not talking about a simple draft. creativity methods).

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 2, 2023

How we approach challenging discussions can mean the difference between a transformative moment and one that goes sideways. Fortunately, there is a lot we can do to prepare for those times when we need to wade through a thorny issue. So, how can we navigate these situations successfully? Take a breath and prepare.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

It’s not a silver bullet, but it can give you some structure to creatively solve problems while also making your value visible and your goals clear. During the Q&A part on humble planning, Maarten answered the following questions, among others: What about other common iterative change management strategies?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 11, 2022

What is a Goal? . How do we know that we are getting closer to what we need to achieve? Having a Product Goal provides the information of “where we are going” to the teams. . The Goal: For example, for an Online Ecommerce, in 6 months we will be having the capability to allow the search of products.

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Scrum.org

MAY 1, 2023

I was teaching the Professional Scrum Master course last weekend and we were talking about how Scrum Masters can foster a positive Scrum Team culture. There’s no “script” for what to do next—the team must figure it out. The Scrum framework is set up to support creative adaptation through transparency and inspection.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 1, 2021

I like doing the communication bits of projects, and when I worked on a large software rollout there was plenty of opportunity to create buy in and engagement through communication. In this article, I’ll share a project management case study: a time when we used creative solutions for project comms and got creative with video.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The problem has never been solved, nor has the solution ever been created, so you don’t know what you don’t know. In complicated work, such as civil engineering, we can apply a set of best practices and be relatively certain that a desired outcome will be achieved. Only then will they know, with certainty, how to do the work.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In short, this is what the Liberating Structure "Ecocycle Planning" is about. So, what do the recent claims of Agile's death tell us? ? Creative Destruction: hopefully, it was in Maturity at some point. Some can do this by themselves; others need guidance. What's your take on this? They *can* get unstuck.

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