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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

These are all functions of a project board (or steering group). Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. In other words, this is the group that takes the tough decisions. What is a project steering group?

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How to Create a Powerful PMO Mission Statement

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There’s a lot riding on getting your PMO mission statement right. After all, the mission statement is what will guide the PMO as it strives to achieve its goals and objectives. Creating a powerful PMO mission statement doesn’t have to be difficult – but it does require some thought and careful planning.

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Project Management Job Titles: Understanding the Types of Roles in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article, we’ll go through what they mean and what you can expect to do in one of those roles. However, in this article, we’re focusing on people who predominately manage projects. He learned a lot about project management in the process and eventually went on to become a PMO Manager.

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

The Lazy Project Manager

Project resource management by PMO has changed significantly in the last 20 years. This article would help you understand how a value-driven resource management can become a major game-changer for the PMO and become a profit centre for the business. How Value-Driven Resource Management can be a Game Changer for the PMO?

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How to manage project assurance (with PRINCE2 guide)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You should expect them to report back to the steering group to share any proposed changes to the standard methods for your organization! In my experience, assurance is carried out by the PMO or another project manager whom I have invited to do a peer review. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management

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Why is it a project manager’s job to fix companies?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If you have sat through any project management conference presentations or talked to someone evangelizing about the role of the PMO then you will have heard this stuff before. Isn’t this what a PMO is for? Perhaps that is where the PMO comes into play. PMOs do generally have a bit more resource and a bit of thinking time.

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Gate Reviews: What Project Managers Need To Know

Rebel’s Guide to PM

For simplicity, and because the UK government uses the terminology of gate review, that’s what I’m going with in this article. The PMO will specify the route your project has to follow. If you are new to the idea or thinking about implementing one for your PMO, here is an example so you can see how it works.

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