Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

For other areas of governance such as reporting and approval levels, talk to your PMO and get these in place. 6: Review the budget Is the budget approved? Action if there is no budget plan or information: Back to the PMO or your Finance team. Action if you can’t find out: Talk to the PMO again.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Unfortunately I’m not able to say, “I’m struggling with Excel right now, I really don’t have these budgeting skills, so we won’t bother to have a budget tracker on this project.” Below are 5 of the areas where I know people struggle with skills, and a couple of tips about how you can improve in those areas.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 24, 2023

Ideally, you’d be able to provide a definitive estimate, carefully created from loads of input from subject matter experts and plenty of research on past projects and their budgets. And we haven’t yet received the mandate to do a deep dive into requirements and scope that would enable more accurate results from the budget forecasting.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2024

Also, if you have internal auditors or a Quality Assurance function, or someone in the PMO who can do an informal (or formal) project review, book that in as well. Tip: Make sure you have the project management tools and testing software that make your life easier. Tip: Avoid scope creep! Training could include technical skills.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 9, 2023

During a dinner conversation after the conference, you further discover that PMO (Project Management Office) can support you in leading an Agile transformation and successful Scrum adoption, by covering governance and ensuring alignment across the enterprise. Partner with the PMO, they are your key stakeholder.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 14, 2021

Ideally, you’d be able to provide a definitive estimate, carefully created from loads of input from subject matter experts and plenty of research on past projects and their budgets. And we haven’t yet received the mandate to do a deep dive into requirements and scope that would enable more accurate results from the budget forecasting.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 6, 2022

Not you as an individual, not you as a PMO, not you as a group of dedicated project managers. Your PMO should come up with (if they haven’t got it already) a list of the project prioritization categories. You may opt to do the top 10 projects, or as many projects as you can do until you hit your budget of $x. Step 5: Repeat.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 13, 2022

It helps project managers to make decisions about how to best complete a project within the iron triangle constraints of time, budget, and scope – and all the other constraints that fall outside the somewhat outdated triangle model! Here are four tips. Tips for creating your own project management philosophy. Define your values.

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Project Accelerator News

APRIL 5, 2024

IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT CAPABILITY ASSESSMENT We measure how successful our projects are all year round, in terms of Return On Investment (ROI), budgets, delivery times met, etc but an IT Project Management Capability Assessment checks in on how effective the delivery frameworks and processes that underpin project success are.

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Planview

DECEMBER 24, 2018

What better way than with a reading list filled with portfolio and resource management tips? 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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 24, 2022

The PMO will want a copy and you should also send one to the project sponsor and any other senior stakeholders. Double-check that the PMO has the lessons too. Close out the budget and contracts. Your project budget and contracts are closed out at project completion. Make sure that everything that needs to be done is done.

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LiquidPlanner

JULY 30, 2019

Project managers wonder where the PMO fits in their career as many project managers are rewarded with more projects and higher complexity and scope—not detours into process, methodology, and compliance. If you are a PM who has considered a PMO assignment, you may have asked yourself these questions: Where does the PMO fit in this career path?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Here are my five tips for working out who is best placed to do the work. The person best placed to do the work may be far too expensive for your project budget, so you may have to compromise. If you have someone on the team in a project co-ordinator role or PMO support, it would be more cost-effective to use that person.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Unfortunately too much of the discussion around project management skills is still rooted in hard skills and techniques: planning, scheduling , risk management , budgeting. Bryan publishes his subscription-only newsletter Project Leadership Tips every month. Subscribe at bryanbarrow.com.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Cost overrun This is the actual cost that exceeds the estimated cost in the budget, also known as a cost increase or budget overrun. Estimation In a project context, estimation is the way to make accurate budgets or timelines for a project. Learn tips on How to Monitor Projects by Elizabeth Harrin.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Maybe you’re part of a newly-minted project management office (PMO). Or perhaps you’re a tenured PMO leader and looking to refine your skills. This is a collection of tips to help you advance your skills, mitigate risk, and address challenges head-on to advance your newly created PMO. What do you do?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 3, 2022

Tip: Mention learnings from previous projects in here. This section shows how the different teams fit together, who is on the Project Board, how the PMO fits in, who is leading the different workstreams and so on. Tip: The roles and responsibilities section can help you identify resource requirements. Risk management plan.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In this article I’ll share estimating techniques for schedules and budgets: the kind of things we need to know to get projects done. We create estimates mainly for project budgets and project schedules. The answers to these questions will allow you to pull together a project timeline and a budget. Why estimate? Expert judgment.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

So we’ll look at how to use those principles to support your team’s drive engagement throughout the PMO and encourage stakeholders to take action. Finally, I’m assuming that you work in a project or programme environment within the context of a PMO. How many projects has the PMO closed this month?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 9, 2021

Summary review of Sciforma: Sciforma is a PPM tool that has powerful portfolio management features and will level up your PMO. Tip: Make sure you have someone in the system admin role before this happens so you can make the most of those conversations. Budget Management. You can build capex budgets. Website: [link].

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 3, 2019

Tip: Talk to your team about how to use a project dashboard so they understand why the data is being collected and how it is going to help you all manage the project going forward. You can track budget by phase. You can show real time budget variance and estimate to complete. BVDash Project Budget Example.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 11, 2022

For example: Budget position Upcoming deadlines further in the future than the next week Decisions required Actions outstanding that need to be formally chased Any risks, issues or changes that need to be formally brought to the attention of the report recipient. 3 Quick Tips for Project Status Reporting. Blue: item is completed.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

How can I stay within the budget with the available resource mix? Enterprises fail to deliver projects on time and within budget without the right forecasting tools. Subsequently, the project fails to deliver on time and within budget. What should I do with the excess capacity without sufficient work to engage them?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2019

My first tip is that you’ll have to look around to find one for what you need and that fits your project management environment. Here are some more tips for using free templates. Email Address As well as the resource library, I'd like to receive project management tips by email from GirlsGuidetoPM.com. I'm in!

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The project schedule and its budget will greatly influence resource forecasting. The most obvious is that it allows project managers to know what they’re working with and how to use those resources effectively to get the project done on time and within budget. Resource Forecasting Tips.

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Wrike

MARCH 25, 2021

What is an Agile PMO? Aren’t all PMOs supposed to be Agile and support transformative change? Does my organization need an Agile PMO? Keep reading to discover the benefits of Agile development and the specific set of features and organizational structure an Agile PMO offers that regular PMOs simply don’t.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Read next: 5 Tips for working with the IT helpdesk on projects. Use the project handover templates from your PMO or make your own. Budget Share the project budget position. If any ‘spare’ budget is available, make sure the team know whether they can access it or whether it goes back into the main project pot.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 18, 2021

So we’ll look at how to use those principles to support your team’s drive engagement throughout the PMO and encourage stakeholders to take action. Finally, I’m assuming that you work in a project or programme environment within the context of a PMO. How many projects has the PMO closed this month?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 17, 2023

Tip Find the little successes and celebrate those with your team. If you have a linear, predictive plan, or you have a PMO with a closure document template, then you can use that as the basis for your early close plan. These are the little successes you can walk away with, and celebrate with your team.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For example: PMO or Finance department in a company can affect how the budget has been used, this can impact how much we can build. Once you have made some decisions they also want to know about how you are spending the budget. The Customer Service department is affected by the quality of the products or features we build.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 17, 2022

I don’t profess to have this down to a fine art (you can read my experience of how I learned to juggle several projects ), but here are some tips that I use for managing your tasks, resources and time across several projects at once. You’d want to manage them as separate projects, but how do you keep all the tasks organized?

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Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Budget limitations. A project manager is responsible for successful project delivery within time and budget frames. If a PMO expert doesn’t have a reliable approach to manage uncertainty in projects, he or she is at risk to suffer from stress every day. . Read more: How to Reduce Stress: Tips for Project Managers.

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Project Risk Coach

JUNE 24, 2016

Furthermore, less than 30% of the projects are completed on budget and on schedule due to poor project management. Problems] The PMO Launch Project [Project Name] will be undertaken to implement a Project Management Office (PMO). Question: What other tips do you have for creating and sharing your projects?

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Typically, project managers report weekly or monthly, sharing the current status, progress, risks, issues, outstanding decisions, budget situation, and anything else that speaks to project performance. The first tip is to make sure you are being informative at all times , in meetings, in casual conversations, and in emails.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 15, 2021

I don’t profess to have this down to a fine art, but here are some tips that I use for managing your tasks, resources and time across several projects at once. You find out what is a priority by: Asking your sponsor or line manager Taking direction from the PMO Using your professional judgment. Managing Tasks Across Multiple Projects.

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Planview

APRIL 24, 2020

But how do you quickly reprioritize work, shift resources, reallocate budgets, and realign teams – especially when you’ve got employees scattered across time zones, cultures, work methodologies, and now mostly home offices – or dining room tables? PMOs are in a position to smoothly facilitate all this.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 26, 2019

Email Address As well as the resource library, I'd like to receive project management tips by email from GirlsGuidetoPM.com. On the next screen you'll also have the option to subscribe to the GirlsGuideToPM.com newsletter with weekly(ish) project management tips. For example: Budget position. I'm in! Decisions required.

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