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PMO Leadership: How PMOs Can Evolve into Savvy PMOs

Planview

PMO leadership today is about more than being a purveyor of governance and delivering projects on time and on budget. The Savvy PMO fosters organizational agility, cultivates efficiencies, and drives growth strategies. Becoming a Savvy PMO requires first defining and the next areas of focus to advance maturity.

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Review Agile

Henny Portman

Agile by Rini van Solingen and Maarten Kossen was originally published in Dutch. The book starts with a warning that agile is more than a mindset, it is a philosophy, followed by 22 chapters, in which the authors show that it is easy to understand, but very difficult to apply at first. Scrum or agile?

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Enterprise Agility in Financial Services: Learnings from the 2019 Planview Horizons Customer Conference

Planview

We facilitated a roundtable discussion of our customers at the 2019 Planview Horizons Customer Conference where enterprise agility in financial services organizations was discussed. Challenges arise when senior leadership has yet to adopt an Agile mindset, even if their teams have. Agile teams are largely self-governing.

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Review IPMA Organisational Competence Baseline – for developing competence in managing by projects, version 1.1

Henny Portman

The IPMA OCB describes five groups of of organisational competence: Project, programme and portfolio governance Project, programme and portfolio management Project, programme and portfolio alignment Project, programme and portfolio resources Project, programme and portfolio people’s competences.

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Win at Digital Transformation By Connecting Portfolio Management and Value Stream Management 

Planview

It is inclusive of the work involved to prioritize, define, implement (code), test, deploy, release, and support the product or service. Recommended Read: Learn the basics of VSM in the eBook, What is Value Stream Management in Software Delivery? The Flow Framework ® is a popular framework used in VSM.

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Outputs and outcomes—A story by Dr. Al Zeitoun

Resource Guru

You can read all the stories in our latest eBook, Confessions of a Project Manager. Lesson learned: Always define what project success looks like The key lesson is this: You have to have a joint view of what project success looks like. You can call it agility, you can call it the Voice of Customer—whatever works.

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Why collaboration is key in project management—A story by Ordonna Sargeant

Resource Guru

This week, Director, Data Governance at American Express, and experienced PMP, Ordonna Sargeant, talks about what happens when you don’t have clearly defined team roles and why collaboration is the key to success in project management. You can read all the stories in our latest eBook, Confessions of a Project Manager.