Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 6, 2023

To get the benefits of better business resilience, you need to commit at the most senior levels within the delivery and change organization, preferably at board level. What is business resilience? Change is certain; business resilience and progress are not. This is my copy, gifted to me by the authors.

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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. Let’s look at each of those domains next.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 31, 2023

But is it possible to structure a process of continuous improvement at your company so that it aligns with your preferred management tools, team morale and overall objectives? But what is it and how can it be applied to your business? What Is Continuous Improvement? Good questions. Let’s take a look. Learn more.

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The IIL Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

Elissa Farrow March 20, 2024 Leadership futures are where change is not a challenge but an opportunity. These leaders recognise that their words wield the power to shape narratives, and they actively seek out dynamic, empowering approaches that transcend traditional transactional models.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 16, 2022

That’s what business process management is all about. Business process management looks at the processes a company employs to deliver its goods or services to its customers. What Is Business Process Management (BPM)? Business process management is broad and dynamic. It has to be.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 14, 2023

Agile Fluency® Model is a fantastic model. With this model, you start seeing your journey as a series of paradigm shifts and stages toward higher fluency in Agile: The Agile Fluency model has been as an inspiration for us, when we were designing Org Topologies. And the next chapters detail these change steps.

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The IIL Blog

APRIL 24, 2024

It traces its roots to Lean, which is also foundational to other modern management theories. Out of necessity, it needed to be very efficient to compete. It developed the just-in-time delivery model, which freed up working capital. So, what is value? What makes them happy? What are they willing to pay for?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 26, 2023

Resource management is a balancing act. But when it comes to resource leveling vs resource smoothing, which would you choose for what situation? What are the differences between these two approaches? What are the differences between these two approaches? Claire needs that resource; no one else can step in.

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 22, 2024

Cloud transformation is not simply a technological shift but a comprehensive, multi-dimensional journey that requires strategic planning, execution, and management. This includes how to focus investments, get the technology right, and what is needed to get the business benefits.

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The IIL Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Cybersecurity is not the problem that needs to be fixed; it’s the digital enterprise’s capability to manage its digital business risk, with cybersecurity only playing a small part. Digital Value Management System Let’s start with a new mental model focusing on creating and protecting digital business value.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 4, 2023

But what moves it forward? The Evidence-Based Management (EBM) method ensures your journey doesn't stall at the vision stage but progresses forward, fueled by hard data and tangible insights. What Is Digital Transformation? What Is Evidence-Based Management (EBM)? The answer lies in evidence.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 19, 2020

It takes strategy, and then a model to implement that strategy. No surprise, there are models to accomplish this called strategic planning models. They’re great for businesses, big and small, and assist in project planning and implementing organizational goals in a thorough and structured manner.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

What Is a Project Management Methodology? A project management methodology is a set of principles, tools and techniques that are used to plan, execute and manage projects. Project management methodologies help project managers lead team members and manage work, while facilitating team collaboration.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

But what does it take to get there? A while back, I asked project management experts w hat we should be aware of as we go into the new year to achieve their most successful year ever? And this article is a summary of what they replied. Especially as the last few years haven’t been exactly stellar years for many of us!

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 20, 2023

You can watch the video below to hear what we say, but it's also worth framing the problem and the need for change here. You can watch the video below to hear what we say, but it's also worth framing the problem and the need for change here. What is Traditional Training? What is Immersive Learning?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 31, 2024

If you’re not familiar with a balanced scorecard, we’ll define the term and show the four perspectives it tracks as well as explain what should be included in a balanced scorecard. What Is a Balanced Scorecard? A balanced scorecard is a strategic management performance metric.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 3, 2020

Sarah Coleman is co-author of Project Leadership, a book in its third edition exploring how leadership and project management intertwine. I caught up with Sarah to find out more about what effect a leader can have on a project. Many of us as project managers have found that we do struggle with the concept and practice of leadership.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 20, 2023

In this article we’ll look at the types of artifacts in project management, typical documents for each type. What is an artifact? In project management, artifacts relate to documents, templates, outputs or a specific deliverable. For example: a project management artifact is the project closure document.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – ( PMBOK® Guide ) 7 th 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 3 performance domains. But what does it actually mean?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 7, 2020

Change management is so important for making sure that the change you deliver is embedded in the organisation. In other words, if you want people to use what you create — or to shift their ways of working to the new standards and processes you implement — then you have to help them through the transition.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

But what if there's a more dynamic, resilient way? In this blog, we'll unravel how embedding a learning perspective within your transformation strategy can lead to more meaningful, lasting change, particularly in the context of Agile methodologies and digital transformation. What Is Transformation Strategy? Holistic change.

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Kiron Bondale

OCTOBER 18, 2020

A question which I’m asked regularly during my classes is what the best place is to start an agile transformation within a company? A common approach for major organizational changes is to start at the top with executive leadership, creating a coalition of commitment and support towards a shared vision for the future.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2024

In times of organizational challenges, the temptation to cut costs often leads some to view Agile frameworks as a luxury rather than a necessity. It may not be the panacea for every situation, but Agile emerges as the preferred approach when the need for creativity and adaptability arises.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 16, 2024

These striking innovations, which look like toys, are the facade of a profound shift in the industrial paradigm based on speed of change, open-source, decentralization, and composability. What lessons can be learned from these industrial successes, and what pitfalls should be avoided to maximize the achievement of business objectives?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

And project managers contribute hugely to that because we go out and look for it. We challenge leaders, we talk about risk and what might go wrong and we call people out on poor performance through project monitoring and control. What is team conflict? You could say we go looking for trouble.

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The IIL Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

By Dr. Elissa Farrow November 8, 2023 In the ever-evolving landscape of portfolio management, organisations can now leverage advanced technologies to not only improve traditional practices but to also unlock new dimensions of efficiency and effectiveness. Predictive Analytics: AI-driven predictive models forecast project success and impact.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The trick is to balance those needs every Sprint. You can never build the perfect process and everything changes over time, so by focusing on delivering the value today you get an immediate return. Processes and systems to allow this to happen seamlessly is part of the ‘stable backbone’ of any agile operating model. .

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 26, 2020

This is quite a long read which you can download as the whitepaper "Systems Thinking in Organizational Coaching". Without changing our patterns of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought. In fact, any type of change would benefit from using Systems Thinking approach.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 22, 2024

It doesn’t impact the bottom line and struggles to affect any real change in the organization’s ability to improve the customer experience. Your delivery teams will only be as agile as the dependencies and organizational impediments surrounding them will allow them to be. So, what do they care about?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Let’s discuss how and why this happens and what we can do to break the chains of the feature factory. ? Let’s discuss how and why this happens and what we can do to break the chains of the feature factory. ? This focus on output, rather than outcome, leads to a disconnection from the real needs of the customers or the market.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

The Clash of Paradigms In the traditional management paradigm, born from Frederick W. Taylor’s scientific management, the goal was efficiency through standardization, predictability, and control. Management sought to deconstruct work into repeatable tasks optimized through measurement and refinement.

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Leading Agile

JULY 22, 2022

The problem is that even when you do it perfectly, establishing a team-level Agile Delivery Model is almost always insufficient. We can’t simply provide the Teams with everything they need and assume they will figure out how to make good on the delivery. It’s insufficient because the rest of the organization isn’t built to be Agile.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 7, 2024

What is A System for Value Delivery in Project Management Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Are you a project manager looking to improve your project management skills and help your organization grow? Take the next step towards mastering the value delivery system and project management.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 21, 2022

Becoming more Agile for large, well-established businesses is more than just a change for the IT organization; it has wide, sweeping implications. Particularly challenging are changes that involve learning a new way of being, like “becoming more agile.” I’ve seen change initiatives go poorly. WHERE TRANSFORMATIONS CAN GO WRONG.

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 30, 2022

This is usually because we start with team-level Agility thinking that’s all we need. But what we may have failed to consider is how the rest of the organization will need to change to exploit this new delivery capability. We need to begin to understand the concerns that are blocking us. Overcoming Our Conflicts.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So, picture this: you are transitioning from your current position into a project management career. The industry didn’t matter; it was about translating my work experience into specific project management industry-recognized terms and managing projects. What are the Essential Project Management Buzzwords?

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 23, 2024

Today, continuously enhancing your project management skills is beneficial and expected. Don’t just respond to changes; proactively embrace them. Begin integrating continuous improvement into your project management today, and transform your approach into a proactive, innovative powerhouse ready for the future's challenges.

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