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2017 Project Management Conferences You Won’t Want To Miss

Rebel’s Guide to PM

January to March 2017. 12th International Project Management Conference: Tehran, Iran, 12-13 February 2017. They expect over 1600 researchers, project managers, and practitioners to attend the 2017 conference. PMI Sweden Passion of Projects: Malmö, Sweden 13-14 March 2017. SPMI Symposium: Singapore, 16-17 March, 2017.

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Online Training: RapidStart PMO Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

RapidStart PMO: Online Project Management Training Review. The paid course covers everything you’d need to get a PMO up and running in a few months. There are two workstreams within the RapidStart methodology: Workstream 1: Designing, launching and aligning the PMO. Then it talks about aligning the PMO. What’s Covered.

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How to Get Projects From Strategy

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If you are in a PMO , you might have this challenge. This can either be stated in the level that must be achieved e.g. 95% of flights having an on-time departure per day, or an improvement that you desire e.g. to reduce ground time by 10% on 2017 times. An older version of this article first appeared on the 2080 blog in 2017.

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5 Simple Reasons Why Processes Don’t Work

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Fix by: Work with the PMO to review the processes. If there is a risk that the process doesn’t work as expected you should be monitoring that (it’s most likely a task for your PMO) and ensuring that any subsequent issues with the process are captured and dealt with. So you still do them, pointlessly and with bad grace.

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PMO: The Gap Closers

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

Worldwide, those figures account for a 68% uplift in economic activity related to project-oriented work (figures from PMI’s Project Management Job Growth and Talent Gap 2017–2027 ). The PMO: Gap Closer. It’s the PMO. The only entity that exists today that can support that is the PMO.

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The PMO Series (1): Definition and Function of a Project Management Office

Inloox

First off: The acronym “PMO” has many different meanings. In this blog series, however, we will use the acronym PMO to describe the project management office. The project assistance is only assigned to one specific project, while the PMO is the central point of contact for all projects.

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Best of 2017: The Top 10 Most Popular Posts on the InLoox Blog This Year

Inloox

We’ve also taken a closer look at the PMO’s role in project management in our PMO series as it plays an important part in an organization’s ability to deliver successful projects. The report “Job Growth & Talent Gap 2017-2027” examines the reasons for this gap.

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