Planview

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

First, let’s acknowledge that it’s not easy to establish an effective prioritization process when your PMO and teams are in high demand. This disconnect points to the struggle PMO directors face to identify and enact an effective prioritization process. Just enough governance involving the right people, timing, criteria, and methods.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As a PMO superstar, you know that Wrike is the solution you need to align your strategy with execution for end-to-end success. Aligning Strategy to Execution — Kalpesh Shah and Carolyn Lum Overview Kelpesh Shah, PMO leader at Radial, Inc., The post Collaborate 2023: Hand-Picked Sessions for PMO Teams appeared first on Blog Wrike.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 23, 2024

In other words, you can look at an organization with strong project management maturity as one that’s managing the planning, execution and compilation of its projects well. These responsibilities usually fall under the purview of a project management office (PMO) and can be facilitated by using project management software.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2019

It’s a password-protected page of the blog with direct links to everything for you to download. If you are looking for information on project budgeting, check out my blog over at ProjectManagement.com, The Money Files. Plus the templates I have for you are awesome. There are plenty of free templates available on this site.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

In the last decade, more and more corporations have developed a project management office (PMO) to benefit their business. To get started, you’ll want to learn more about PMO examples, how to set one up, and how to train your employees. What Is a PMO? PMO Examples. What is a PMO?

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Project Accelerator News

MAY 10, 2024

Blog by Nicol Cutts, Head of Projects, Professional Services at Stoneseed. As I sat, musing about what to write for this very highbrow and important Stoneseed IT Project Management blog, my eyes caught sight of my tickets to Chatsworth International Horse Trials. That’s the blog! Whooooooooooooah!” I’m chomping at the bit now!

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Wrike

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Throughout this three-part blog series, we’ve explored how IT teams can fight back against the cost center label through a flexible approach to projects and collaboration with the organization’s business units. Historically, the IT PMO capabilities have been provided by one-off, purpose-built, or custom solutions (spreadsheets, anyone?).

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

AUGUST 8, 2019

Back in 2015, we took a look at the five advanced training options for people working in PMO. Four years on and a few things have changed in the PMO field. There is now another PMO certification option available alongside P3O from AXELOS and the PPSO ones from BCS, both of which feature in the last article.

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Planview

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Simply read what you can now, then bookmark this blog so you’ll have it saved for later. The best gift for your PMO: Portfolio and Resource Management tips. Your PMO @ Hyper-speed Workshops [Webinar]. Hyper-speed Revisited: The Role of the PMO in the Agile Enterprise [Webinar]. The Zombie PMO Outbreak [eBook].

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

JUNE 20, 2019

Last week it was the fifth PMO Conference in London. With over 400 PMO practitioners from around the globe and over 20 sessions to choose from, there’s a lot to learn about where PMO is heading right now. Staying with the reporting theme, data analytics will be a game changer for the PMO in the coming years.

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Planview

AUGUST 26, 2019

As we finalize our six-part blog series on how to become agile, let’s take a look back at the previous five blogs and provide you with a brief summary of their key points. Part 1: Driving Agile at Scale: The Agile PMO. Part 2: Agile Transformation Requires Just Enough Governance. This must change.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This can be either by adding efficiency to the company’s operations or aligning with its strategic plan. It views a project through the lens of how it connects to the overall strategic plan of the company. A strategic project is connected to a company’s larger strategic plan. Not necessarily.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 24, 2020

But who is going to execute that plan and turn the abstract into the practical? They plan it, develop a schedule, assemble a project team and manage their workload throughout the project’s life cycle. Project Management Office (PMO). The PMO also will archive the project for historical data, collecting and analyzing its results.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This software isn’t just critical for enterprise organizations, but any company that manages shared resources and has complex projects with succession planning components. Project management is a process used to plan, organize and execute a task, event or project. What is Project Portfolio Management? Portfolio Balancing.

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Planview

JUNE 28, 2019

This blog is part of a series on Lean portfolio management. Adopting Lean-Agile budgeting practices helps to decrease funding overhead and friction while maintaining financial governance, helping to align budgeting practices with Lean-Agile goals. Business units present their ideas to the PMO in an annual planning meeting.

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The IIL Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Senior management must realize that they must actively function as project sponsors and serve on governance committees. They must also realize project governance is NOT the same as functional governance and must be willing to understand and accept new levels of authority, responsibility and decision making. Harold Kerzner (M.S.,

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Wrike

MAY 19, 2023

Scalability: A Clear Path Forward for Modern PMOs” took place over three separate sessions, featuring a stellar line-up of speakers including: Carolyn Lum, Industry Principal for PMO at Wrike, is a strategic business transformation leader who has led large-scale projects, programs, and portfolios across industries.

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Planview

JULY 9, 2019

This blog is part of a series on Lean portfolio management for the enterprise. Traditionally, in an effort to maintain alignment and consistency across the portfolio, organizations have dedicated a centralized Program Management Office (PMO) to planning, program management, and solution definition.

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Planview

JANUARY 2, 2020

We learned more about some of the biggest struggles financial institutions face with a focus on capacity planning, funding models, and digital transformation. Agile teams are largely self-governing. Many of the participants at the conference are currently using a traditional PPM framework for budgeting, planning initiatives, or both.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

JUNE 1, 2020

A realistic strategic execution plan must be developed and embodied in integrated project portfolio management. Executives should ensure strong governance. Strong project portfolio management and strong project management are underpinned by strong governance. This post first appeared on PMO Perspectives Blog.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 8, 2016

Ensure that sufficient planning has been completed so that the onward direction is clear. You won’t know if the risk log is sound and the resource planning sensible until you investigate. Worst case, you’ll find out that there are hardly any plans, documents and methods of control over the work. Check #4: Plan.

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Jez Lister

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

I first came across the Project Management Office or PMO concept twenty-five years ago whilst working as a project manager for a large systems integrator. Most of my colleagues – myself included were initially unclear about the purpose of the PMO and assumed that we were all to be relocated to new offices. PMO as a Service Provider.

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NimbleWork

APRIL 21, 2024

The good news is that all the challenges can be overcome with some planning and a good software solution to underpin management of the portfolio. Stand up your PMO with the resources required to manage the software , the projects and the reporting. You can’t expect project managers to do it.

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LiquidPlanner

DECEMBER 12, 2022

At least, that’s what I was planning for in my head! Plan for the end. Even if you don’t know what work will be required during the closure phase, you can still block time on the project plan. Ask your PMO for a blank project closure template, or create your own checklist. Use a project closure checklist.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 3, 2018

I couldn’t fit it all in this blog post. My own personal themes are around remaining comfortable with high levels of uncertainty and therefore having much more flexible/looser plans for the business. A well-documented plan? How you anticipate setbacks and deviations from plan. So I made you an ebook. Get the ebook!

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Wrike

APRIL 12, 2021

Regardless of the industry your PMO operates in — IT, construction, business services, finance and banking, or manufacturing — success depends on delivering projects on time and on budget, as well as demonstrating the ROI of your PMO to the organization. Unfortunately, roughly 70% of projects PMOs start actually fail.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Baseline An original plan for measuring performance and tracking changes. Capacity Planning To identify the number of resources (e.g., Change Management The approach to plan and implement strategies that guide individuals and organizations through a change (e.g., identify items such as benefits and costs).

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 8, 2018

Your PMO should have a DPIA template, and any project that touches personal data should be required to complete it. This is something your Information Governance Manager or DPO can help with. Then you can appropriately plan the controls and actions required to move the project forward. Will You Transfer Data Outside the EU?

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EasyProjects

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Suppose your organization’s annual planning exercise comes up with 50 projects that would cost perhaps $10 million, but you have the capacity and financial resources for only $2.5 Where the list is long, this is work for the PMO or an ad hoc project-prioritization committee. Best practices to prioritize projects.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 10, 2024

Project managers are constantly making requests to the project management office (PMO). A PMO is setting the tone for how projects are managed and should structure its activities as they demand projects. But there are only so many resources in which to do this and, therefore, the PMO must prioritize projects. That’s normal.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

MARCH 7, 2019

Strategy Execution released the top ten trends for 2019 a few weeks ago and my first thoughts were; we’re seeing a lot of them in the PMO community which is both exciting and nerve-wracking at the same time. That means getting better at business cases; requirements; scoping; risks; planning; resourcing, scheduling.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

MAY 28, 2020

And of course, for our projects and our organisations, we don’t have Governments to bail us out. Organisations that are unable to reliably realise the planned benefits from their investments will either be lucky, or more likely eventually fail. Front-End Planning Starts with the Business Case.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 19, 2017

We worked on every stage of the initiative, from initiation and planning through to all the facets of execution, iterative review and expansion of the program over time with each success. In my past corporate role I was part of a team managing organisational change integrating sustainability throughout the business. That’s interesting.

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Planview

JANUARY 24, 2019

For your reading convenience, we’ve decided to give it everlasting life here on the blog. Part 4: It’s Time to Start Planning for Resources. If these changes happen too frequently, however, it speaks to a need for governance process maturity, demand prioritization, and particularly a process that supports evaluating tradeoffs.).

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The IIL Blog

JULY 26, 2023

Thinking of plan A, B, and C is a necessity any time you are in Alaska in the Winter, especially when you are mushing a team of dogs, there is cold, or hot (-40 to +30), there is rain, sleet and/or snow, vicious winds, and so forth. Each village has different governance and the ambiguity also contributed to the complexity of the situation.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

JULY 18, 2019

Labelling something like a ‘project’, (when it may in fact be an initiative of low value or low complexity) may even have negative consequences in terms of additional governance and control costs that may not be necessary, as well as creating prioritisation problems. This post first appeared on PMO Perspectives Blog.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Arrow Diagramming Method A network diagramming technique that represents the start and end of activities with arrows to help with scheduling in the project planning phase. Baseline A baseline is an estimate of the project’s scope, schedule and costs that is created during the planning stage. It is also called a Business Case.

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