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Organizational Process Assets: What does that even mean?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Organizational Process Assets (OPAs) are the collective knowledge, experience, and information that an organization has accumulated over time. OPAs include standard processes, procedures, tools, techniques, templates, and corporate knowledge bases or other resources used to manage projects or operations.

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Back to Basics: What is Project Governance?

MPUG

A Project Management Methodology is an integral part of project governance. Organizations can choose any project management framework or methodology to establish project governance structure. Project governance is sometimes confused with project management, and many people use these terms interchangeably. Project Governance.

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Enterprise Environmental Factors in Project Management

ProjectManager.com

Setting up these procedures is the responsibility of a project management office (PMO) , While not all organizations have a PMO overseeing these responsibilities, it’s sometimes under the purview of the project manager, PMOs are in charge of coordinating all project, program and portfolio management-related activities.

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Online repositories or project documents (Part Two)?

Kiron Bondale

If a PMO leader wishes to institute governance and gating over the project portfolio, having key project data captured in documents scattered across multiple folders or sites makes this objective manually intensive. Greater value realization from centralized information. Encourages collaboration.

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How are learnings shared between project teams?

Kiron Bondale

knowledge base, database, wiki) for all teams Communicating learnings of interest to a specific skill set via Community of Practice meetings Embed learnings by updating or creating templates, checklists, standards or policies. As usual, I wanted to understand which approaches were most commonly used in practice.

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