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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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What Is a PMO? (Infographic)

Wrike

Project management is a discipline loaded with acronyms: PMP, PRINCE2, CPM, WBS, PMBOK, PMI… and about 150 others. 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.” Definition of PMO. Who Needs a PMO?

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Project Management Statistics: 45 Stats You Can't Ignore

Workamajig

68% - more than 2/3rd - of organizations in PMI's annual survey said that they used outsourced or contract project managers in 2018. ( 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.

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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. Transparency can also manifest itself in cultural issues. Type of organization.

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2017 Project Management Conferences You Won’t Want To Miss

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The IIPMC is organized by Aryana Industrial and Research Group and PMI. PMI Sweden Passion of Projects: Malmö, Sweden 13-14 March 2017. This is how it looked when I was there in 2012. PMI EMEA Global Congress: Rome, Italy, 1-3 May 2017. Last year’s PMI EMEA Congress was in Barcelona. Plus, Malmö is a lovely city.

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Sustain Your PMO: Nine Easy Lessons

The Lazy Project Manager

As has been already discussed the reality out there in ‘PMO land’ is that there is not a plethora of wise and experienced PMO managers, directors, leaders, heads, etc., and so it is sensible for anyone who is engaged to help an organisation set up a new PMO or advise on improvements to an existing PMO to reach out for some help.

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Tailoring Your Project Management Approach: A Beginner’s Guide

Project Pulse Journal

Collaboration between the project manager, the project management office (PMO), and the project sponsor is vital in this phase. PMI White Paper retrieved from: [link] Whitaker, S. Adjusting project milestones and deliverables to reflect the project's complexity and objectives also contributes to the ongoing process of tailoring.