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Why is it a project manager’s job to fix companies?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Projects are the future, a good portfolio office can influence and shape strategy and project management is the only way to holistically deliver improvements. At the roundtable discussion about project management in the collaborative age way back in 2012, the talk turned to how project managers could shape strategy. All good stuff.

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Top 11 Cities for Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

City Percentage Shanghai 78% Buenaventura 52% NEOM 39% Warsaw 39% Seattle 19% Tokyo 19% London 19% Las Vegas 19% Washington DC 19% Brisbane 19% Sydney 19% Percent of project professionals who believe they will get a pay increase of 5% of more in the next 12 months (Source: PMI; figures relate to country). They are both cannabis plants.

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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

Then, in 2012 I presented a collection of Collaborative Games for Risk Management  at the Agile 2012 Conference in Dallas and PMI Global Congress in Vancouver. After If we were following the PMI risk management process, this would involve the qualitative and quantitative risk management steps.

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Sustain Your PMO: Nine Easy Lessons

The Lazy Project Manager

And there are communities you can connect to – on LinkedIn, through the project management bodies such as PMI and APM, etc. It is critical for a PMO to achieve a level of maturity, as the PM-Partners: PMO Trends 2012 report states: There’s a direct link between the maturity of the PMO and the value it provides.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Five Immutable Principles of Project Success , PMI Spring Seminar, 2021, Austin TX. Five Principles of Project Success , PMI, Northern Utah Chapter, Professional Development Day, 2012. Improving DOE Project Performance Using DOD Integrated Master Plan , Waste Management Symposium Feb 26 - Mar 1, 2012.

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T-shirt sizing in Agile and Waterfall Projects

Project Pulse Journal

T-shirt sizes help estimate the effort and duration of tasks sequentially, influencing the project timeline and resource allocation. Paper presented at PMI® Global Congress 2012—North America, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. References Martins, J. 2024, January 16). link] Sliger, M. Agile estimation techniques.

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Strategy vs. tactics: How to use both to build better products

Planio

According to a study from the Project Management Institute (PMI), for most companies, the answer would be somewhere around one in three. In fact, studies in 2019 found that only 68% of leaders believe their organization is good at developing strategy — down from 80% in 2012. Having a product strategy often isn’t the issue.