Bridge the Gap Consulting

APRIL 18, 2023

Now it’s time to create a PMO Business Case and start moving the needle from idea to reality. If you notice, I call it a PMO Business Case, not a PMO Charter. I don’t like the word “charter” when talking about creating PMO’s. Below are some of the key components of a PMO Business Case.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 2, 2019

A few years ago, I was hired as a Project Management Office (PMO) consultant for a software products company. My assignment was to setup their PMO, implement best practices, and oversee projects for twelve months before handing over the setup to the client. Setting up a PMO is very challenging task. Track a project schedule.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 23, 2024

These responsibilities usually fall under the purview of a project management office (PMO) and can be facilitated by using project management software. Cost Management This process works to better estimate, budget and control costs throughout a project’s life cycle and keep expenditures within the approved budget.

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Project-Management.pm

MARCH 25, 2017

It’s safe to say that Project Management Office ( PMO ) has numerous advantages and the results it impacts to the organization have been effective and helpful. Every existing organization around the globe are swearing by PMO. Over the years PMO profitability seems non-existent. However, it has its downsides.

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Project-Management.pm

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Various government agencies have been the successful producing result for the past years, thanks, to adhering to mandatory policies. Implementing PMO is the key to combat such issue. With this, PMO will take over various components of the agency such as strategy , quality of the products, and enhancement of resource management.

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Planview

OCTOBER 7, 2020

How w e ll your Proj e ct Manag e m e nt Offic e (PMO) or E nt e rpris e PMO (E PMO ) functions is conting e nt on two things: th e minds e t of e ach of your e mploy e e s and e stablishing a strat e gic top-down proj e ct portfolio cultur e.   There was a lot to do, that we didn’t even know about yet.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

MAY 2, 2019

Within the project management community, the concept of governance is seen as a fundamental project control, which is easy to grasp in principle. Getting the governance piece right requires insight and at times a few honest conversations about roles and responsibilities. Creating a smooth escalation and governance process.

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The structure of your organization’s project management office (PMO) may be the difference between effective and ineffective project management. Your PMO structure must blend in with the organizational culture to ensure project management success. What is a PMO structure? PMO can also mean Program or Portfolio Management Office.

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Planview

JUNE 28, 2019

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. In traditional organizations, this power resides with the PMO.

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Kiron Bondale

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

This makes it impossible to accurately estimate capacity during iteration planning and usually contributes to a team missing their iteration commitments resulting in delivery delays. Instead of having a dedicated team of primary roles for a project, most team members will be multitasking between multiple projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 12, 2022

This wasn’t a survey about project portfolio management at the PMO level. Nearly 70% of project professionals thought that team management was crucial, with 62% reporting they felt project control and governance was key. What was initially estimated to take one quarter, ended taking 4. Literally, it is whatever is on fire today.

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Henny Portman

DECEMBER 7, 2021

E.g., resource management is broken down into the key components resource management planning, resource estimation, resource acquisition, team development and team management. Each knowledge area is broken down the into specific key components. For each component you get best practices to look for or to implement.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

This wasn’t a survey about project portfolio management at the PMO level. Nearly 70% of project professionals thought that team management was crucial, with 62% reporting they felt project control and governance was key. What was initially estimated to take one quarter, ended taking 4. Literally, it is whatever is on fire today.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Bottom-up Estimating A project estimation technique that leverages tactical-level team members/subject matter experts (SMEs) to break down tasks into smaller components to create a more accurate estimate. Project Governance The framework and guidelines for decision-making, responsibility, and accountability within a project.

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Planview

JANUARY 19, 2023

However, many digital transformation initiatives struggle to deliver the expected financial value, with more than half lagging behind original estimates, according to a Gartner survey of CIOs. The PMO determines how strategy gets put into action and turned into execution and delivery.

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

MARCH 11, 2021

But, out of respect for the PMO manager who asked not to be named or have this published until his retirement in March of 2021, I held off. One of my first PMO managers had an Actuary background. He needed to tell a story; what the PMO was doing to advance the company’s goals and the teams involved in making that happen.

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LiquidPlanner

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Ask your PMO for a blank project closure template, or create your own checklist. How did the project management processes and governance work for us? When you work in an environment with a high degree of uncertainty, you’ve used techniques like ranged estimation to manage that risk during the project’s lifecycle.

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Planview

JULY 9, 2019

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. Didn’t we just say that a centralized PMO undermined LPM? Support program execution. Support Program Execution.

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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 12, 2021

Program Manager ‘s job involves running programs to meet the strategic goals of an organization, including managing plans, budgets, and resources ; Program Management Office (PMO) Executive is another name for a program management officer, an employee responsible for project and program success in an organization. PMO Job Titles.

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International Institute for Learning

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Perhaps the most significant reason for the slow growth of many needed project management changes was due to senior management’s desire for standardization of governance and execution for the multitude of traditional projects managed for external clients. The PMO and Project Pipeline Interfacing.

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Planview

JANUARY 2, 2020

Even in organizations where teams were already practicing Agile, it was common for senior leadership to favor the more traditional portfolio management due to their comfort with detailed project plans and heavier governance. Agile teams are largely self-governing. Read the Lean Portfolio Management: Lean-Agile Governance Blog.

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Online PM Courses

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Your ‘Project Cost Management Plan’ Establishing your costs – the processes of estimating and budgeting. The governance considerations for project cost management. Project Cost Management is a process that has two principle components: Estimating costs and creating a project budget from them. So, get set.

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Planview

JANUARY 24, 2019

The following content is based on the whitepaper, “Bigger Than a Breadbox: 10 Tips for Better Project Estimates, Part 2,” written by Jerry Manas. So far in this series, we’ve examined a number of ways to improve problems with project estimates. Part 2: Improving Project Estimates is all About Direction.

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

In 2021, the Project Management Institute estimated that by 2030 the global economy would need 25 million more project managers to keep up with the demand for change. During this phase, there’s a lot of box-ticking and governance to ensure everyone understands their ongoing requirements. But there’s a problem.

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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. Benefits are much harder to estimate but it can still be done, and experienced companies are able to map projected benefits, albeit within wider ranges than for project costs, whilst avoiding the natural tendency to over-estimate those benefits.

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Project-Management.pm

APRIL 26, 2017

They measure and estimate cost, project duration, and ensure that the projects are where they are supposed to be but it doesn’t guarantee that it will solve all your problems. The following costs included in the planning stage of the project are estimated accurately through this project portfolio management KPI metric.

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International Institute for Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Benchmarking is an excellent method to capture external best practices, possibly by using the project management office (PMO) or other internal organizations as the lead for external benchmarking activities. Improvement in estimating accuracy by a certain percentage or dollar value. The steps can range from four to ten steps.

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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 28, 2021

The conference committee encourages everyone to prepare papers on one of the relevant topics, among which there are: Managing people, Managing projects, Software management activities, Project execution and monitoring, Empirical estimation technique, Critical path analysis. This day will be fully PMO-focused.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 5, 2023

Experts in AI estimate that the implementation cost in some organizations could conceivably be in the millions of dollars. The responsibility for policies and procedures may be delegated to a project management office (PMO). Some of the risks facing project management organizations are presented in the sections that follow.

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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. The Project Canvas.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Government – Federal. Government – City/State/Local. Estimated Project-Oriented Job Openings 2010-2020: . Project Management Offices (PMOs). PMO Popularity by Company Size: 61% of small organizations (<$100M) have a PMO. 88% of mid-size companies ($100M-$1B) have a PMO. 116,100. . 113,000. .

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Risk management, for instance, has little value if all we do is log the risks and assign ownership and mitigating actions, without subsequently following up and taking these risks into consideration when planning, estimating and executing the project. This post first appeared on PMO Perspectives Blog.

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Project-Management.pm

JULY 27, 2017

From this birth of a technology that the industry has witnessed the rise of Project Management Office (PMO). Portfolio management metrics measure everything from performance to cost estimation and even to resource management. Don’t forget to upgrade your PMO as well to make measuring metrics easier. . .

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Project Bliss

MARCH 27, 2017

Identifying activities, dependencies, sequencing, and time estimates. As the project manager, you may report to stakeholders, governance bodies, and anyone else who needs project information. This could be seen as more of a Portfolio Manager or Project Management Office (PMO) Manager role. Reporting.

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Wrike

JUNE 27, 2022

In other words, when you create an RFP, you’re asking businesses to submit their best estimates for completing what you need to get done. It should also provide enough details about the project so that the aspiring bidders can provide an accurate estimate of what it would take to finish it. Government agencies.

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Susanne Madsen

JUNE 18, 2018

Is a Project Management Office (PMO) in place to support the project manager with best practices and financial reporting or does the project manager need to be able to define the project management standards? Has the project already been kicked off or would the project manager need to define and plan it?

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Project-Management.pm

JULY 19, 2017

It is also a helpful tool when you are collecting data or estimating cost that will save you from guessing them all day. Go with PMO: Portfolio Management Office (PMO) has played a crucial role in the world of portfolio management; it helps portfolio to be more coordinated and aid in improving task management as a whole.

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