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Seven Project Management Influencers to Watch

Project Risk Coach

Perhaps these individuals are influencing you through a blog, online videos, online courses, or books. Grab a cup of coffee as I share seven influencers that I follow. In addition to her books, Susanne provides great articles on her website. His comments are professional, informative, and spot on. Susanne Madsen.

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PMOs Shifting from Watchdogs to Strategic Enablers

Project Risk Coach

Unfortunately, many Project Management Offices (PMOs) become nothing more than a watchdog, one that ensures compliance to a strict set of rules. In this article, we will explore why this happens and what it takes for PMOs to become strategic enablers. PMOs Have Gone to the Dogs PMOs are started with the best of intentions.

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Seven Project Management Influencers to Watch

Project Risk Coach

Perhaps these individuals are influencing you through a blog, online videos, online courses, or books. Grab a cup of coffee as I share seven influencers that I follow. In addition to her books, Susanne provides great articles on her website. His comments are professional, informative, and spot on. Susanne Madsen.

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Organizational Process Assets: What does that even mean?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Organizational Process Assets (OPAs) are the collective knowledge, experience, and information that an organization has accumulated over time. They might be influenced by market conditions (risk appetite statements might change, for example, if the market suddenly gets a lot more competitive). They influence how we do the work.

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How to take over an existing project [Free checklist]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You can leave the detailed stuff until your review is finished but having something at high level will eventually inform your detailed project planning for the next 6 months. For other areas of governance such as reporting and approval levels, talk to your PMO and get these in place. Who is your project sponsor? How do you spend it?

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Stakeholder Analysis and Mapping: Part 2 of 4 Steps of Stakeholder Engagement

Scrum.org

By Lavaneesh Gautam , Professional Scrum Trainer In the previous article (Stakeholder Exploration: Part 1 of 4 Steps of the Stakeholder Engagement) , we discussed: “Stakeholder”- who are they? Stakeholder Analysis The definition we discussed in the previous article. Stakeholder Engagement” What does it mean? Refine as you learn.

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Questions to ask a project management mentor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

What’s it like running big projects/a PMO/working in X field? Who are the key influencers for Y? Understanding the workplace culture and the dynamics of soft power within the organization can hugely increase your influence, so use your mentor for the insider information! I’m having trouble getting a response from X.

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