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6 Barriers to customer centricity

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Experience has shown that once successes have been delivered and the customer sees evidence that the process delivers real benefit to them, face-to-face meetings follow very quickly at the customer’s request. A way to handle this is for the PMO to reassure project managers that scores will not be used to rank project managers.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Have as many layers as fits within your PMO methodology. A survey by the Centre for Complexity and Change at The Open University found that a third of project managers are involved in the decision making process but are not the sole decision maker themselves*. Take minutes, or co-opt someone from the PMO to help.

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Part II: A Simplified Approach to Determine IT Project Complexity

PM Times

It will discuss why the Core IT Complexity model is a good approach for most IT organizations and why it is important to determine project complexity as an ongoing and integral part of the Change Management and Risk Management process. Their complexity modeling could be part of a larger overall Risk Management process. Introduction.

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A Real-World Success Story: New Zealand Government Improves Project Delivery

Planview

Meeting the demands of ever-changing priorities within a government can lead to inconsistent processes, departments with limited visibility into what is being worked on, and no ability to monitor investments. In 2008, New Zealand experienced a significant government shift in leadership. The New Zealand Government Case Study.

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Webinar Recap: Do You Know How to Recover a Project?

MPUG

And welcome to today’s MPUG webinar, the Project Recovery Process. This was a project recovery process. I’m the director of the PMO, University of Washington. Bill Dow: I was at Microsoft for almost 14 years where I ran eight PMOs there. You may watch the live recording of this webinar at your convenience.

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Interview with Lazy Project Manager

Wrike

Today I want to introduce you to one of them, Peter Taylor, also known as "the Lazy Project Manager" Peter is a dynamic and commercially astute professional who has achieved notable success in Project Management; currently as head of a PMO at Siemens Industry Software Limited, a supplier of global product lifecycle management solutions.

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JP Morgan Chase & Co Project Manager Profile: Paul Rezaie

Project Management Hacks

What was the process? I regularly made small talk with project managers in the PMO department at JP Morgan Chase. Thanks to him, we were one of the few major banks to earn a during the 2008 recession. Second, I have a daily exercise habit where I work out in the morning and in the evening. Current Role. But I got my break!

2005 28