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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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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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Webinar Recap: Microsoft Project Do’s, Don’ts, and Cool Customizations

MPUG

If you’re using project is in a portfolio or PMO, any of the enterprise level projects, consult with your administrator before you just start changing anything in project that you may see here today that you desperately want or desperately need. I need it, for example, to help me with my risk evaluations. Here we go.

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

64% of organizations say they frequently conduct risk management. [6]. Managing small, low-risk projects. Managing medium-size, moderate-risk projects. Between 2010 and 2020, 15.7 Business services (2 million jobs) and Manufacturing (630,000 jobs) supported the greatest number of project management roles in 2010.

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Webinar Recap: How Innovation & Portfolio Management Office Underpins Corporate Success

MPUG

During the 2010, 2013, and all of those other fun launches as we’ve gone through and continued to advance Microsoft Project, Project Online, and all of the good Project for the web stuff. External trends in the business environment are unprecedented, and people and organizations that can’t change are at severe risk.

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Webinar Recap: Understanding Dependencies, Leads, and Lags with MS Project

MPUG

As early as 2009, 2010, nearly 11 years before I was working as a PMO. It will have measured risks for your project. If you are ignoring dependencies, it’s going to have risks for your project. That becomes more risk management topic, though there is overlap with respect to scheduling.

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Webinar Recap: Agile Series Part 2 – Agile Features & Capabilities in MS Project / Project PPM

MPUG

You are a MPUG user for 10 years and you’ve got project 2010, and you can do things lethally, Agiley and Mobily. We can flag it as a high priority and then I also have to report to the PMO and the compliance team on this activity because we’re talking about process mapping. That is great. Did you want to save? None of that.

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