The Strategic Project Manager

AUGUST 11, 2022

PMO’s institutionalize those processes and frameworks across all projects within an organization or domain. Are project management and PMO skillsets different? The PMO Skillset. There surely are more things a PMO does, but this covers the main groupings. The House of PMO.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 13, 2024

However, navigating the intricacies of virtual collaboration requires a unique set of strategies and approaches to ensure seamless communication, productivity, and alignment among all the team members. By implementing these strategies, you can empower your team members to thrive and deliver value to your organization.

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Planview

MAY 9, 2023

In anticipation of International PMO Day, we began curating the stories for this PMO case study roundup several weeks ago. The PMO has a long history of driving significant benefits for the business. But PMOs must be agile and adaptable to be valued business partners. And for good reason. And for good reason.

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The Strategic Project Manager

AUGUST 31, 2023

Finally, it discusses its impact and relevance to both strategy and project management. Strategic Implications: Strategy as a Portfolio of Options The idea of building the capacity to adapt, innovate, anticipate change, and respond to change aligns with the “Strategy as a Portfolio of Options” concept.

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Information Technology) or in a Project Management Office (PMO). Risk Owners The risk owner is “the person responsible for monitoring the risk and for selecting and implementing an appropriate risk response strategy” ( The Standard for Risk Management in Portfolios, Programs, and Projects, page 168). There are different types of PMOs.

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The Lazy Project Manager

MAY 25, 2021

Modernizing PPM: A Practical Four-Step Roadmap to Accelerate Agility. This webinar comes as Planview launches its new report, The State of Strategy Execution: Embracing Uncertainty to Adapt at Speed. Why right now is the time to claim the PMO’s seat at the executive table. About Planview.

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Planview

JUNE 5, 2020

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. Start with this quick-start post to becoming a Savvy PMO. The Journey to Becoming a Savvy PMO.

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Planview

APRIL 29, 2022

In this post, we’ll show you how to become a modern PMO that enables your organization to adapt to an ever-changing professional landscape. But first, let’s look at the key benefits that come from transitioning into a modern PMO. Why You Should Become a Modern PMO. Let’s get started.

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MPUG

MARCH 30, 2020

PMI describes the Project Management Office (PMO) as a strategic driver for organizational excellence. The PMO seeks to enhance the practices of execution management, organizational governance, and strategic change leadership. Do any of the projects link back to corporate strategy or goals? Remember, People + Process = Success.

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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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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 12, 2022

What to Expect: Industry innovators help professionals be more productive, and learn best practices, skills and strategies to succeed with over 25 educational sessions and four hands-on workshops. Agile & Beyond. Agile is not new. What to Expect: Sessions focus on agility, software engineering and lean business.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 14, 2024

54% believe it will change the way work is organized and 53% believe it will increase project team agility. 65% of experts see AI as a catalyst for implementing advanced project management strategies. 25% of PMO directors say that AI has disrupted their PMO ( Capgemini ) – and I’m sure that number will only continue to rise.

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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.” Challenges Connecting Strategy and Delivery: “How do we ensure we are investing in the right things?”.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I've also had the joy and the pain of implementing three Project Management Offices (PMOs), two in Information Technology Departments and one Enterprise PMO. Through the years, I've noted many reasons that PMOs fail or struggle. It's rarely just one thing; it's usually a combination of things. Here is a list of causal factors.

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Planview

APRIL 24, 2020

It’s operationalizing the new plans to ensure everyone keeps executing on strategy. They can ensure that people, money, and technologies are focused on the right work that will deliver the strategy. Here are some of the ways savvy PMOs are doing this. Staying on Strategy Amid Disruption.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 18, 2021

And yes, agile project management artifacts get a mention. The 9 types of artifacts are: Strategy Logs and registers Plans Hierarchy charts Baselines Visual data and information Reports Agreements and contracts Other – a bucket category for anything else. Strategy artifacts. Logs and registers. You can grab the set I use here.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

On June 30th Christopher Handscomb and I presented a webinar based on our joint research on the topic of the value of enterprise agility. Firstly, I see Enterprise agility - building an agile organizational system - as being all about creating resilience and sustainability over time. CH - I’d like to add a couple of points.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 9, 2023

During a dinner conversation after the conference, you further discover that PMO (Project Management Office) can support you in leading an Agile transformation and successful Scrum adoption, by covering governance and ensuring alignment across the enterprise. Partner with the PMO, they are your key stakeholder.

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Planview

AUGUST 26, 2019

As we finalize our six-part blog series on how to become agile, let’s take a look back at the previous five blogs and provide you with a brief summary of their key points. Part 1: Driving Agile at Scale: The Agile PMO. The path toward agility necessitates a thoughtful strategy and patience. This must change.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

JUNE 1, 2020

After some tapping on their laptop, they proudly showed me their new corporate webpages, proclaiming their ‘strategy’, ‘vision’ and ‘mission’ statements. [1] All we need to do now is execute that strategy! Strategy is not hard to understand: Where is our chosen market? Executives must develop a clear strategy.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 12, 2022

That’s why stage gate processes are normally found within predictive (waterfall) methodologies, because agile approaches have their own ceremonies, norms and processes for moving work on and securing approvals to continue. The PMO will specify the route your project has to follow. Benefits of gate reviews. Step 1: Create documentation.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The Zombie-PMO apocalypse is here. Executives are expecting more from PMOs than ever. They must drive digital transformation and fuel growth strategies by delivering complex programs across the organization at speed. But there is one problem…PMOs are finding it very hard to adapt. Are you able to escape this epidemic?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best Out of Virtual Work and Virtual Teams. It’s a way of automating repetitive tasks and it’s having a bit of an impact on the PMO community. PMOs will be reporting centers and support the teams in addressing major issues or risks that the teams escalate.”.

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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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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This will give you an idea if it’s the right strategy to execute your portfolio management. Lean portfolio management is a process by which strategy is aligned with execution using a lean approach and agile portfolio operations and governance. What Is Lean Portfolio Management? Establish Strategic Themes.

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Planview

JANUARY 11, 2024

Elevate your Project Management Office (PMO) to become one of the most effective strategic partners in your organization. Adopting a sponsor’s mindset enables the PMO to drive value across the business, even when faced with disruption and economic uncertainty. How Does Your PMO Think? You have big plans for the new year.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 20, 2023

And yes, agile project management artifacts get a mention. Here’s the list: Strategy Logs and registers Plans Hierarchy charts Baselines Visual data and information Reports Agreements and contracts Other – a bucket category for anything else. OK, let’s get to it: here’s the list of project management artifacts.

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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. Staying with the reporting theme, data analytics will be a game changer for the PMO in the coming years.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 20, 2020

One of the largest series of conferences for project managers in North America, the Project Summit has industry innovators who help professionals be more productive, and learn best practices, skills and strategies to succeed. For the agile enthusiast, this scrum gathering takes place twice a year since 2013. Agile & Beyond .

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

AUGUST 8, 2019

Back in 2015, we took a look at the five advanced training options for people working in PMO. Four years on and a few things have changed in the PMO field. There is now another PMO certification option available alongside P3O from AXELOS and the PPSO ones from BCS, both of which feature in the last article. Business Analysis.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 7, 2022

Agile and Beyond: Detroit, Michigan, USA, 24-25 May 2022. The Agile and Beyond conference is back again and they are currently looking for speakers! This is the east coast global Project, Program, and Portfolio Management Summi t with a focus on Biopharma Portfolio Strategies. The Future PMO: London, UK, 6 October 2022.

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Planview

APRIL 24, 2020

It’s operationalizing the new plans to ensure everyone keeps executing on strategy. They can ensure that people, money, and technologies are focused on the right work that will deliver the strategy. Here are some of the ways savvy PMOs are doing this. Staying on Strategy Amid Disruption. Ensuring Work Delivery.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Retrospective Antipatterns is a great book for those in agile project management – especially if you’ve read all the classics. Any books about achieving business goals, portfolio management, strategy execution or case-study driven books will count here. Retrospective Antipatterns Author: Aino Vonge Corry. PDU claim: 9 hours.

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Planview

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Santander UK, one of the world’s largest retail and commercial banks, has been on an Agile and digital transformation journey for some time. This included incorporating Agile processes and other work methodologies into its traditional project portfolio management (PPM) processes, to help speed delivery of new products and services.

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Inloox

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Achieving and maturing organizational agility is the key object for established organizations in order to keep delivering business value. In fact, an organization’s agility level is the most important factor influencing project success rates. But what does agility really mean? What is agile transformation?

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Wrike

APRIL 28, 2023

Project management office (PMO) teams play a vital role in managing complex projects. In this article, we’ve outlined seven easy ways to improve PMO team efficiency and boost productivity. Evaluate and Select the Right PMO Software Evaluate various software options and select the one that best suits your company’s needs.

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