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

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If you have sat through any project management conference presentations or talked to someone evangelizing about the role of the PMO then you will have heard this stuff before. 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.

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The Inloox Blog Turns 10!

Inloox

What many don't know: Project management encompasses much more than just methods and metrics, in fact key elements of the discipline include leadership skills and collaboration. Over time, the InLoox blog has evolved from a project management blog to a portal for high-quality articles on project management, leadership and productivity.

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What Is a PMO? (Infographic)

Wrike

Whether or not you’re a project manager by title, one acronym you’re sure to hear more often is PMO. What is PMO?” PMO stands for “project management office.” The percentage of companies with a PMO has nearly doubled since 2000, according to The State of the PMO 2016. . Definition of PMO. Who Needs a PMO?

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. Have as many layers as fits within your PMO methodology. For example, on one project, I had the CFO steering group, and attendees were all SLT (senior leadership team members).

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6 Barriers to customer centricity

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is an edited extract from Customer-Centric Project Management by Elizabeth Harrin and Phil Peplow (Gower/Routledge, 2012). A way to handle this is for the PMO to reassure project managers that scores will not be used to rank project managers. Project management was either seen as a tool for control or a leadership discipline.

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Project Management Statistics: 45 Stats You Can't Ignore

Workamajig

Project Management Office (PMO) Statistics. As we wrote earlier, creating a project management office (PMO) can drastically improve productivity and bring greater clarity to your PM processes. PMO and EPMO: 80% of high-performance organizations - Champions - have a PMO. It's not always a rosy picture for PMOs.

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2017 Project Management Conferences You Won’t Want To Miss

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is how it looked when I was there in 2012. RICS and APM Project Leadership Conference: London, UK, 28 March 2017. The theme will be Collaboration in Project Leadership, and they are partnering with the APM as in previous years. PMO Conference UK: London, UK, 7 June 2017. Plus, Malmö is a lovely city. Very topical!

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