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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. However, there are three fundamental types of PMOs which you can find in a lot of organizations: 1.

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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 covers the whole lifecycle from finding ideas for projects, through the prioritisation process and planning for the most productive organisation possible. A version of this book review first appeared on my blog in 2010.

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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? Stream 1 is the CFP (Call for Papers) process which is formal and automated. There is no escape from reality now. Yes, lots the same faces turning up year after year. Now this was news to me. What do you think?

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Simply the Best

The Lazy Project Manager

Now as part of this process you can get such speaking bookings typically in two ways. This event required would-be speakers to submit a paper and once this was done that paper would be reviewed by 3 ‘peers’ in a blind review process. That is they don’t know who you are and you don’t know who they are. It was, in fact.

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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. 2011 - 5 Immutable Project Success Processes (Again). When the dust settled, I had posted links to all the past blogs for the Five Principles. Here they are all in one place.

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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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