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The PMO Series (3): The Different Project Management Office Types

Inloox

A PMO has various functions and purposes: It’s responsible for establishing and maintaining standardized processes, methods and policies in the organization and to make sure that projects align with the organizational business strategy. A lot of large enterprises will even have several PMOs with varying responsibilities in the organization.

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Zombie Projects and How to Kill Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Zombie PM is a term I came up with in 2010 when I put together a project management alphabet. Government PMO,” says Derek Huether, an enterprise Agile coach and trainer. “It was a traditional PMO, filled with certified professionals doing very good work in very specific areas of expertise.

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Strategic Project Portfolio Management [Book Review]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It sounds simple – we all know we should do it, but it’s hard to know where to start for a new PMO. It’s everything a novice PMO Manager needs to know to support her project managers at work. Everything a novice PMO Manager needs to know to support her project managers at work. He recommends being pragmatic with monitoring.

PMO 150
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PMI Are some more equal than others?

The Lazy Project Manager

Based on my ideas and this feedback I checked out the PMI congresses in EMEA and NA and APAC since 2010 and guess what? Peter Taylor is a PMO expert currently leading a Global PMO, with 200 project managers acting as custodians for nearly 5,000 projects around the world, for Kronos Inc. There is no escape from reality now.

PMI 150
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Simply the Best

The Lazy Project Manager

an exact replica of a submission that gave me the opportunity to speak at PMI events in Amsterdam and Sao Paulo in 2009, at Project Zone in Budapest 2010 and at a number of other sessions around Europe. Now I absolutely freely admit that it was not a ‘paper’ in the official sense of the word. It was, in fact.

PMI 150
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Five Immutable Principles of Project Success - A Compendium

Herding Cats

The Five Principles emerged while I was a PMO VP at Rocky Flats. 2010 - Five Immutable Principles of Project Success I used at a Carnegie Mellon course. When the dust settled, I had posted links to all the past blogs for the Five Principles. Here they are all in one place. But first some background. 2011 - Five Immutable Principles

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How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups

Scrum.org

From 2010 to 2017, I worked several years in three Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. Fallacy #6: We Need a PMO for Product. An agile organization does not require a PMO as the magic key to “scaling agile” is descaling the organization. Participation is free.).

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