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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

They let you know whether you can go overspent or what risk mitigation actions are the right ones for this point in the project. Have as many layers as fits within your PMO methodology. It was a much smaller group, and focused on strategic decision making instead of day-to-day problem solving and risk management. Key decisions.

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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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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

Organizational Fit Tailoring enhances project management practices by aligning them with the organization's values , culture, and risk tolerance. Collaboration between the project manager, the project management office (PMO), and the project sponsor is vital in this phase. Retrieved from: [link] Whitaker, S.

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Project Prioritization: Stop Working on the Wrong Projects!

Meisterplan

Zero-Based Budgeting/Risk. Each factor creates more work for your PMO, your portfolio board, or your project managers, depending on who is responsible for the project evaluation. Centralized scoring and prioritization processes for an entire project portfolio is a full-time job for more than one PMO manager.

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In Anticipation of PMI Global Congress North America 2012

Wrike

Some of the hottest topics this year are change management; requirements management; leadership and soft skills for project managers; agile; complexity in large projects; risk management; and the PMO, among others. We’re excited to offer some new panels and topics for 2012 as well. Our keynote speaker is Marcus Buckingham.

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