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3 Project Planning Considerations for the New Year

LiquidPlanner

If your organization has a project management office (PMO), this work may be led by them. If not, you will need to determine the team members, dollars, and technology your budget can accommodate – as well as how to maximize productivity to achieve your goals in the coming year. Prioritizing Your Team’s Work.

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Shifting from Projects to a Product-Centric Approach

Planview

In my last blog, “ Agile Transformation: The PMO’s New Paradigm ” we covered the significance of embracing different types of work and the role that continuous planning plays in becoming an Agile PMO—but that’s only the beginning. Project schedules can no longer be the PMO’s core focus. Redefine Success.

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Project Management Blog Roundup: The Best of 2021

Ganttic

The blog presents ways to work smarter, not harder in order to complete projects on budget and on time." Todd Ramlin, Manager of Cable Compare "This blog is targeted towards beginners that struggle to complete projects on time alongside facing budget and productivity issues. And packs a lot of info without ever feeling overwhelming.

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Webinar Recap: How Innovation & Portfolio Management Office Underpins Corporate Success

MPUG

Tad: The conversation today is built off a white paper called Innovation and Portfolio Management Office. Is it your PMO, individual project managers, or others? 55% PMO, and 45% individual project managers. The PMO has a much higher percentage of actual traction, but the chief innovation office is new.

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Dr. Harold Kerzner Q&A: How Changes in Project Management Are Supporting Agile and Scrum

The IIL Blog

Tools such as EVM (Earned Value Management) provide a metric for schedule and budget. What if your PMO refuses to adjust its methodology for business needs and only looks at itself first? I wrote a white paper for IIL on Benefits Realization and Value Management. REPORTING AND METRICS.

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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

And you know, the manifesto had just been written and I was working as a project manager in a company called CheckFree here in Atlanta and squarely like in the PMO. And so, it’s that for a couple years, that group reorganized and I kind of find myself back in a regular PMO and I’m like, that’s not cool, right?

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Showcase Recap: Easily Capture and Manage Ideas/Demands with MS Project Online Integration

MPUG

Then a focus if you have it, a PMO or a EPMO, where you can focus on capacity and best practices. This can be from the task, the project managers to the ongoing folks that roll up to the PMO. I can see by the year I have a total budget of 66 million. Then I can send this to a final evaluation. The committee already approved 2.8