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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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9 Types of Artifacts in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article we’ll look at the types of artifacts in project management, typical documents for each type. There’s also a checklist of project artifacts by phase at the end, which you can use as an aide-memoire for creating your own documentation. The article will be updated in due course. What is an artifact?

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Hot Topics at IIL’s International Project Management Day!

The IIL Blog

as they discuss how to create and sustain a PMO, as well as the role effective power skills play in this process. Now with more complex projects come higher risks, and it is for this reason that we see an emerging need for flexible risk management. Tune in to Mario Arlt, Ph.D. Then join Rodolfo De Acutis, Ph.D. and Leon Herszon, Ph.D.

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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. This could also be included as project contingency.

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Project Artifacts and How to Use Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article we’ll look at the types of artifacts in project management, typical documents for each type. There’s also a checklist of project artifacts by phase at the end, which you can use as an aide-memoire for creating your own documentation. The project deliverable is a new app. What is an artifact?

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Back to Basics: What is Project Governance?

MPUG

An organization’s project governance framework provides project managers and teams with structure, knowledge base, support, and tools to for managing their projects. Project governance is an oversight and controlling function. A general approach and methodology for defining project life cycle and phases.

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5 Tips for Working With the IT Helpdesk

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article we’ll look at how project teams can better work with the IT team so that that group can be ready to ‘receive’ the project when the time comes to handover the work. That effort stops when you leave the project. The group that often gets forgotten is the IT Helpdesk.