Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Hybrid Project Management: The Next Step for Agile. It’s certainly something I’ve used: ongoing iterations for development with significant customer involvement in the deliverables at all stages, but managed within a waterfall governance structure and life cycle. The future of project management needs to be more agile.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Lean portfolio management is a process by which strategy is aligned with execution using a lean approach and agile portfolio operations and governance. Lean project management is part of an agile methodology that aims to increase customer value by removing project waste. Execute Lean Governance. Learn more.

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Planview

MARCH 6, 2020

What’s the top factor for future success according to nearly 4,000 project managers, PMOs, and executives? The answer may not surprise you: “Organizational agility.” Success requires becoming a more “Adaptive PMO,” evolving how you plan, govern, and empower delivery teams to do their best work.

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Planview

DECEMBER 13, 2019

A healthcare PMO today must have a strong constitution. Not only are they faced with challenges unique to healthcare, PMOs are also going through the trends mentioned in our recent post, “ Conquer Your Business Transformation.” This is where the healthcare PMO comes in, but the group agreed that it’s presenting challenges.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Welcome to the concept of the Project Management Office or PMO. In this article, we will learn about PMOs as organizational structures, about various types of PMOs, and about traditional roles within a PMO. PMO Definition. As noted in the definition, a PMO is an organizational structure. Types of PMOs.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 13, 2024

In this article, we will explore the actions PMs can take to manage virtual project teams effectively, addressing common challenges and providing practical insights to enhance collaboration, governance, and performance. Define Roles and Responsibilities Clarifying roles and responsibilities is essential for governance.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

JUNE 20, 2019

Last week it was the fifth PMO Conference in London. With over 400 PMO practitioners from around the globe and over 20 sessions to choose from, there’s a lot to learn about where PMO is heading right now. Data Analytics. Automation.

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Wrike

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In this article, we’ll tackle this very topic from the perspective of IT PMO and how it can shape work both inside and outside of the IT department. Let’s take it from the top: The IT PMO As established with our overview of the IT PMO , some of the key elements of the PMO include governance, intake, allocation, collaboration, and reporting.

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Project Accelerator News

APRIL 18, 2024

Capturing diverse data types across various locations with varied access levels can be complex. Take project management to a higher level with robust data analytics capabilities. Transform project-related data into actionable insights. Less broom, more polish! Enable seamless collaboration within Teams.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Consider these changes faced by PMOs in recent years: The call to infuse agility and become a modern PMO. The pressure to evolve is mounting for the PMO, which needs to adapt to new digital strategies – and more strategic, product, or initiative portfolios – while bridging traditional practices.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Agile ) methods together. However, this finding is markedly different to what VersionOne found in their 14 th Annual State of Agile report in 2020. Their research found that only 9% of Agile practitioners were using hybrid methods. Managing a business that wants agile development against waterfall commitments.

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NimbleWork

APRIL 21, 2024

Stand up your PMO with the resources required to manage the software , the projects and the reporting. Hybrid agile organizations manage this really well. Make sure your software is capable of including projects in the portfolio regardless of whether the teams are using agile, predictive or hybrid methods to run them.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 26, 2024

With digital project management skills like effective online communication, robust leadership, data literacy, adaptability, professional and personal life stress management, and adept virtual team management, you can lead your projects to completion. Don't let the digital age leave you behind.

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Planview

JUNE 28, 2019

When implementing Lean-Agile practices at scale, organizations quickly realize that their push for agility conflicts with traditional budgeting and cost accounting practices. It’s not possible to truly achieve organizational agility without evolving these practices. In traditional organizations, this power resides with the PMO.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 20, 2024

This customization process involves a modification of methodologies and governance structures, transforming project management into a strategic asset as dynamic as the projects it aims to guide. Tailoring prevents teams from being overwhelmed by irrelevant procedures or documentation, fostering a more agile and responsive environment.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Agile A flexible and dynamic approach to project management that allows for iterative updates during defined time blocks, which allows for incremental value. Agile Manifesto The fundamental document that outlines the values and principles of Agile project management. Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g.,

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Planview

JANUARY 19, 2023

The PMO determines how strategy gets put into action and turned into execution and delivery. By applying VSM across planning, development, and release, execs tell us that they can finally get the data they need to calculate time to market, find bottlenecks, and begin their journey toward determining value delivered.”

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 3, 2018

It’s a lot to read, so here are some spoilers drawn from common themes I heard time and time again in the interviews: Agile – if you don’t know enough about it, you need to start learning. In 2018, it might seem like we could let our increasingly agile, multi-disciplinary, and highly collaborative teams just get on with it.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

This method uses a hybrid approach to include shorter work periods (sprints) and agility to be more responsive to change as work progresses. As organizations adapt to new work methodologies, new approaches to planning, funding, and analysis will develop, shifting to ‘just enough’ governance and a more lean approach to portfolio management.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

MARCH 7, 2019

Strategy Execution released the top ten trends for 2019 a few weeks ago and my first thoughts were; we’re seeing a lot of them in the PMO community which is both exciting and nerve-wracking at the same time. Artifical Intelligence and Big Data are Permeating Project-Based Work. Will we have a new boom time in IT projects?

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 5, 2023

The protection for company proprietary data is critical. This includes who is allowed to use the AI system, how partners and stakeholders will be allowed to interact with AI, who will be responsible for compliance with government regulations and laws on the use of AI, and how continuous improvements will be managed.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

Mike Cottmeyer was recently a guest on the Agile to Agility podcast with Miljan Bajic where he discussed Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling. Agile to Agility Website. So, I’m the CEO of a company called Leading Agile, started about 11 years ago, I’m based in Atlanta, Georgia. Listen now.

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Wrike

APRIL 12, 2021

Regardless of the industry your PMO operates in — IT, construction, business services, finance and banking, or manufacturing — success depends on delivering projects on time and on budget, as well as demonstrating the ROI of your PMO to the organization. Unfortunately, roughly 70% of projects PMOs start actually fail.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Agile A methodology for project and product management, typically used to deliver software projects in an iterative way with short bursts of work called “sprints” Though initially designed as a process for IT and engineering projects, it has since been successfully applied to other industries like marketing.

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International Institute for Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Benchmarking is an excellent method to capture external best practices, possibly by using the project management office (PMO) or other internal organizations as the lead for external benchmarking activities. Comparing benchmarking data is often difficult to do if the two companies have very different project management cultures.

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International Institute for Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Agile Project Management. In the past decade, Agile has finally established is rightful place in Project Management. One example of this is PMI’s acquisition of Disciplined Agile and FLEX. For example, how do you manage risk on an agile project? For example, how do you manage risk on an agile project?

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Online PM Courses

JULY 2, 2018

As with previous reports, Success in Disruptive Times is filled with fascinating data and valuable insights. The theme of disruption is is more about the need for agility in the face of rapid commercial and technical changes. Big data and data intelligence. Government regulation and reform. It’s very subtle.

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Binfire

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Visual PM tools which only support Agile or Kanban. Agile using Kanban board or other visual work progress tools. Security, is your data safe and retrievable if you decide to leave the service? Your team’s documents and data are on multiple other applications. Teams having PMO. Projects in government.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Effective Complex Project Management: An Adaptive Agile Framework for Delivering Business Value , Rober K. Advanced Project Portfolio Management and the PMO: Multiplying ROI at Warp Speed , Gerald Kendall and Steven Rollins. The Program Management Office: Establishing, Managing and Growing Value of a PMO , Craig Letavec.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Such tools provide a solution to establish a prioritization process for projects that helps organizations govern their existing and future efforts. Integration with agile processes. Gantt charts, Kanban board views for agile & waterfall projects. PPM tools also help establish what your project needs are. Real-time insights.

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

We are a consulting company in the DC Baltimore area that specializes in project and portfolio management for about 80% of our customers in the government space, the other 20 in the commercial space. It is taking both traditional waterfall and agile and pushing them together into a project or a program. By education and training.

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Online PM Courses

OCTOBER 21, 2018

These may be: External standards imposed upon you by third parties like Governments, regulators or customers in your value chain. Project, program, or portfolio management standards imposed by your PMO (Project, Program, or Portfolio Management Office). Reporting and recording of data. Reliability.

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Planview

JUNE 30, 2022

In times of economic uncertainty, PMO value is critical. PMOs don’t just make sure that run-the-business work and projects are completed, they also operationalize the strategic plan. Maximum PMO value ensures the work delivered aligns with company strategy. Certainly, the PMO is not immune. Adopt a Modern Mindset.

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Planview

JULY 5, 2019

The past four blogs in our series are based on the whitepaper, The Agile PMO: 5 Steps to Driving Agility at Scale and have centered around how the PMO can guide the enterprise towards greater agility. It requires that the PMO start embracing agile. It requires that the PMO start embracing agile.

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

Background myself, I’ve been doing project program, PMO management for going on, I guess, 30 years now. Having spent half my life in the commercial space and half in the government space, the questions are always there. And then I came back and started using it in larger government programs. What’s happening now.

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Planview

APRIL 27, 2023

When a transformation doesn’t stick – whether it’s digital, Agile, organizational, or a combination — you risk missing your critical business outcomes. They had no data visualization or analytics tools available, which provided no actionable line of sight to the capacity of and demand upon the resources.

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The structure of your organization’s project management office (PMO) may be the difference between effective and ineffective project management. Your PMO structure must blend in with the organizational culture to ensure project management success. What is a PMO structure? PMO can also mean Program or Portfolio Management Office.

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