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The PMO Game Changer: A Value-Driven Project Resource Management

The Lazy Project Manager

What is a Value-Driven Project Resource Management? Project resource management by PMO has changed significantly in the last 20 years. It is no more a mere spreadsheet for allocating resources to the projects and plug the holes. How Value-Driven Resource Management can be a Game Changer for the PMO?

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What is ROM and how to calculate it (with example)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Break the project work into chunks. Your PMO might have definitions for each of those to help you define and refine your estimates at the early stages of the project. If your PMO does not have standard categories like this, you can make them up. Want to know more about analysis and estimating?

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Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) Estimate and How to Calculate It (with example)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Break the project work into chunks. Your PMO might have definitions for each of those to help you define and refine your estimating at the early stages of the project. If your PMO does not have standard categories like this, you can make them up. What’s the purpose of a ROM estimate in project management?

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9 Types of Artifacts in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You’ll typically create them after you complete some kind of data analysis to help you absorb the information – and the best case scenario is that you’ve got the tools to update them automatically instead of every dashboard being a beautiful, but manual creation. However, nothing in project management it really mandatory.

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Bottom-up Estimating A project estimation technique that leverages tactical-level team members/subject matter experts (SMEs) to break down tasks into smaller components to create a more accurate estimate. Burndown Chart A tool in Agile project management that tracks the work completed and the work remaining to help teams manage progress.

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Project Artifacts and How to Use Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You’ll typically create them after you complete some kind of data analysis to help you absorb the information – and the best case scenario is that you’ve got the tools to update them automatically instead of every dashboard being a beautiful, but manual creation. However, nothing in project management it really mandatory.

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Sciforma Review [2021]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Are you looking for a robust, scalable PPM solution that can manage the whole project life cycle and show you what’s being worked on at any one time? In this review of Sciforma, I’ll share the pros and cons of this enterprise-centric project and portfolio management tool. Product: Sciforma. Pricing is on application.