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How to Build and Implement a Project Strategy

ProjectManager.com

Project Management Office (PMO): A PMO is responsible for defining and maintaining the standards for an organization’s project management. They help with prioritizing projects, providing governance guidelines and ensure that projects are beneficial to the organization by aligning with larger strategic goals.

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14 Common Project Risks (+ more)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

However, at the beginning of your project when your risk log is empty, it can be a bit of a challenge to think of all the stuff that might need to go on there. In this article we’ll look at common project risks so you can start filling up your risk log and making the right plans. Here is a list of common project cost risks.

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The Meta City, Remote Work, & the Strategic Project Manager

The Strategic Project Manager

Enabled by technology, and accelerated by the pandemic, our world continues to evolve with “ The Rise of the Meta City “, as depicted and described in this fascinating Harvard Business Review article. It is influencing manufacturing, distribution, financing, marketing and sales. The four key forces are 1.

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Starting a PMO

MPUG

The PMO seeks to enhance the practices of execution management, organizational governance, and strategic change leadership. For example, if you had three American companies in the same business of manufacturing motorcycle tires and each had 4,000 employees which included 100 IT people, their PMOs would still be different.

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Estimates, Forecasts, Projections

Herding Cats

We can estimate the total cost, total duration, and the probability that all the Features will be delivered on the program we are working for the US Government. Or ANY software project for that matter. The estimated completion cost for this program is $357,000,000 with an accuracy of $200,000 and a precision of $300,000.

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Two Parallel Processes of Project Success - Both Value and Delivery are Needed

Herding Cats

Software engineering economics is a topic that addresses the elements of software project costs estimation and analysis and project benefit-cost ratio analysis. As well, these costs and the benefits from expending those costs produce tangible and many times the intangible value. Related articles.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. How to Deal with Project Risk Management Effectively In Your Organization?,” Scale Project Management Is Risk Management, “Robert N. Manufacturing Automation, 2005.