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The Functions of a Project Management Office

Project Pulse Journal

A Project Management Office (PMO) is a centralized department within an organization that standardizes the governance of projects. Controlling PMO Industry Application - A controlling PMO is common in regulated industries like pharmaceuticals, healthcare, and finance. What is a Project Management Office?

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Add to the C-Level

The Lazy Project Manager

A Chief Projects Officer (CPO) is typically responsible for providing governance over an organisation’s internal projects – external, or customer facing projects can be also covered but that is entering a slightly different world – with a focus on: Ensuring all projects support the current strategic objectives.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

“A Taxonomy of Threats for Complex Risk Management,” Centre for Risk Studies, Research Programme of the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School, June 2014. “A 1, March 2014. 1–10, 2014. A Risk Management Methodology for Project Risk Dependencies,” Tak Wah Kwan and Hareton K.N.,

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

“A Taxonomy of Threats for Complex Risk Management,” Centre for Risk Studies, Research Programme of the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School, June 2014. “A 1, March 2014. 1–10, 2014. A Risk Management Methodology for Project Risk Dependencies,” Tak Wah Kwan and Hareton K.N.,

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

MPUG

This whole idea of inadequate baselining is some people might think it’s fraudulent, but in many ways, it’s self-fulfilling prophecy when it’s utilized so strongly as a governing agent in organizations. In this case, we’re in 2014 in this example file. There’s two IT and one finance. Here we go.

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Government – Federal. Government – City/State/Local. Popularity by Industry: Finance – 87%. Finance – 93%. InformationWeek: Enterprise Project Management Survey 2014. Project Management Institute: Pulse of the Profession 2014 – The High Cost of Low Performance. March, 2014. 116,100. . 113,000. .

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . 6, No 5, October 2014. [3] Princeton University Press, July 21, 2014. [4] The competition.