ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Resources are anything you need to execute the project plan. Resource Forecasting vs. Resource Planning. Resource forecasting is used in resource planning. You can’t plan your resources if you don’t know what resources you have. These two aspects of project planning are connected and inform one another. Learn more.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

AUGUST 8, 2019

Back in 2015, we took a look at the five advanced training options for people working in PMO. Four years on and a few things have changed in the PMO field. There is now another PMO certification option available alongside P3O from AXELOS and the PPSO ones from BCS, both of which feature in the last article.

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Planview

MAY 7, 2018

Today’s PMO is not only under pressure to work at hyper-speed but also to satisfy customers who have higher expectations about their digital experience. To enable your PMO to keep up with the pace of digital transformation, it’s time to transition from tactical to strategic planning. What types of work are covered by your PMO?

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Online PM Courses

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

When we did our roundup of the 50 best Project Management Blogs in 2017 it quickly became one of our most popular posts. So, here then is our list of the 52 best Project Management Blogs for 2019. How do People Consume Project Management Blogs? It seems to me that the blogs that thrive will offer something specific.

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Planview

APRIL 27, 2023

In this series of three blog posts, you’ll dive into the story of a biotech company we’ve recently worked with to help them align their technology and business teams so they could start achieving the outcomes of their transformation. The key objective for their transformation was to integrate and standardize their PPM system.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 25, 2022

They will articulate the project objectives and goals to the PMO and anyone else who will listen! During planning and preparation. During the planning phase, the person in the sponsorship role will provide the business context, and support the team to create a realistic plan. What happens if the sponsor is too busy?

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The structure of your organization’s project management office (PMO) may be the difference between effective and ineffective project management. Your PMO structure must blend in with the organizational culture to ensure project management success. What is a PMO structure? PMO can also mean Program or Portfolio Management Office.

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Planview

MAY 26, 2023

The big idea associated with this blog series is improving your odds of making a transformation stick. If you missed the first post in this series – where we introduced the company’s transformation goals, a 5-point plan for organizational change management, and more – head over now to read part one of their story.

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Under my PMO Director experience, I used to manage different programs and projects that composed several portfolios; thus, it was a big deal to choose the right portfolio and to make correct distinguishment between portfolio and program. Plan your study with regard to current risks (COVID).

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This software isn’t just critical for enterprise organizations, but any company that manages shared resources and has complex projects with succession planning components. Project management is a process used to plan, organize and execute a task, event or project. Scenario-plan when priorities change. Portfolio Balancing.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 7, 2019

I couldn’t fit it all in this blog post. My own personal themes are around remaining comfortable with high levels of uncertainty and therefore having much more flexible/looser plans for the business. A well-documented plan? You can get to the online course here: The PMO Lifecycle: Building, Running, and Shutting Down.

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LiquidPlanner

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Looking at the 4 T’s in terms of your work life today, you may conclude that even the best project manager can’t influence the autonomy of their tasks and time. I will continue to share my predictions on How AI Helps with Productivity & Prioritization and also on Planning Intelligence. No crystal ball required. About the Author.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 3, 2018

I couldn’t fit it all in this blog post. My own personal themes are around remaining comfortable with high levels of uncertainty and therefore having much more flexible/looser plans for the business. A well-documented plan? How you anticipate setbacks and deviations from plan. So I made you an ebook. Get the ebook!

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NimbleWork

APRIL 23, 2024

When you know what you want to achieve and what the blockers are, it’s easier to create a plan. This person doesn’t have to be the most senior, or even a PMO team member. Set organizational goals and cascade these down through line managers so everyone’s success contributes to everyone else’s bonus plan.

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LiquidPlanner

MAY 31, 2022

Project management has been a job since the Egyptians mapped out plans for pyramids – and probably before that too. The tool is there as management support, and the sooner we get away from software being a PMO overhead, the better. Software should enable us, and our teams, teams to plan, predict and perform better.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

JANUARY 9, 2020

Project leaders need to be able to be tactical in their approach, establishing things like the project budget and scope early, creating a project plan and ensuring the project is managed in such a way that the team does not lose sight of these things. This post first appeared on PMO Perspectives Blog.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Baseline An original plan for measuring performance and tracking changes. Capacity Planning To identify the number of resources (e.g., Change Management The approach to plan and implement strategies that guide individuals and organizations through a change (e.g., identify items such as benefits and costs).

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Planview

JULY 9, 2019

This blog is part of a series on Lean portfolio management for the enterprise. Traditionally, in an effort to maintain alignment and consistency across the portfolio, organizations have dedicated a centralized Program Management Office (PMO) to planning, program management, and solution definition.

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Jez Lister

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

I first came across the Project Management Office or PMO concept twenty-five years ago whilst working as a project manager for a large systems integrator. Most of my colleagues – myself included were initially unclear about the purpose of the PMO and assumed that we were all to be relocated to new offices. PMO as a Service Provider.

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LiquidPlanner

JUNE 7, 2022

The best scenario for your organization is to consider slow growth, wise project and customer selection, and focus on profitability by planning, requirements gathering, and scope management. Or could influence you to invest in hard to find and expensive human resources when you simply have a short-term capacity constraint.

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NimbleWork

APRIL 23, 2024

When you know what you want to achieve and what the blockers are, it’s easier to create a plan. This person doesn’t have to be the most senior, or even a PMO team member. Set organizational goals and cascade these down through line managers so everyone’s success contributes to everyone else’s bonus plan.

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Resource Guru

MARCH 21, 2023

The team will include roles needed for project planning, development, and implementation. Identifies the best project team roles based on the project scope Plans and allocates people and resources ( meeting rooms , equipment , etc.) A project team is a group of individuals brought together to work on a specific project or initiative.

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LiquidPlanner

JUNE 14, 2023

Ongoing turmoil in the financial sector, pressure on prices and the supply chain, the cost of living and the cost of global warming… if it was my money, I’d be choosing projects that skewed toward low risk for now, but that’s a conversation to be having with your strategy team and the portfolio management office (PMO).

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LiquidPlanner

JUNE 8, 2022

Use the right project management software to track progress, make changes to the plan and work intelligently with colleagues. Plan for the pattern of interruptions. If you can spot similar patterns in your work, you can plan for them. Perhaps it’s around the time your reports need to be in to the PMO. About the Author.

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Planview

OCTOBER 8, 2020

  Top 6 things that will change in PPM  These six things topped the list of PPM-based changes that your business is likely to see in the next year and beyond:  A shift from the traditional PMO to a centralized Enterprise PMO (EPMO). Strategically shifting from the traditional PMO to a centralized enterprise PMO.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 8, 2016

Ensure that sufficient planning has been completed so that the onward direction is clear. You won’t know if the risk log is sound and the resource planning sensible until you investigate. Worst case, you’ll find out that there are hardly any plans, documents and methods of control over the work. Check #4: Plan.

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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 12, 2024

PMO London 2024 June, 18-19. London, UK The PMO conference is focused on issues related to the work portfolio, program, and project offices. The conference attendees will learn the insights from the latest PMO research, and learn about new PMO ideas, methodologies, and products.

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International Institute for Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

By Hassan Osman , PMO Director & Author | Cisco Systems. Hassan Osman is a Program Management Office (PMO) Director at Cisco Systems* where he leads global virtual teams on delivering large and complex programs. He is a certified PMP, CSM, and ITIL, and blogs about managing remote teams on www.thecouchmanager.com.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Additionally, I distributed the survey link via blog posts and various social media postings. Please note that I used Grammarly to correct typos and punctuation: While the cross-team big room planning is very useful, in my experience, SAFe is top-down. The main acquisition channel was the Food for Agile Thought newsletter.

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Wrike

APRIL 25, 2023

Creating a project charter at the start is crucial to establish unified effort across teams, determine the best action plan , and visualize the project outcome. We’ll end with a walkthrough of how to map every phase of your project life cycle using Wrike’s free work plan template.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 26, 2023

Thinking of plan A, B, and C is a necessity any time you are in Alaska in the Winter, especially when you are mushing a team of dogs, there is cold, or hot (-40 to +30), there is rain, sleet and/or snow, vicious winds, and so forth. Some of the decisions and choices that were made influenced the following races.

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Wrike

MARCH 1, 2022

Running successful projects requires calculated planning and monitoring. TCPI provides insight into any cost and performance variations from the project plan. A few questions you can ask to learn which factors to adjust to complete a project at the initial planned budget include: What are the project’s remaining risks?

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Collaborate and co-create new products and services and integrate feedback from their customers into all of their planning and design processes. Among the skills adaptive leaders need in their toolboxes are: Driving and influencing change. This post first appeared on PMO Perspectives Blog. How Do We Develop It?

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Wrike

DECEMBER 23, 2021

They help them manage the business of IT PMO and demonstrate how technology can improve the bottom line. But when it comes to influencing behavior, you may find that a particular set of IT metrics will push your team in a direction you don’t want them to go in. Here are the must-know terms: Time to resolve. Lack of balance.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

So far in this blog series, we have defined strategy, covered the basis of strategic planning, and discussed who to include in your strategic planning team. Well, annual planning is required to get the budget, but there is no need to spend the time that is spent on it today. Step 2: Bring in the annual plan.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 9, 2017

It is almost always people focused, and why the skills of empathy and influence are critical. Others take training courses, and today we have access to great information online such as courses and blogs. Growth involves changing how people work and interact. This can be slow going or painful, and usually both.

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Meisterplan

JANUARY 2, 2019

Each factor creates more work for your PMO, your portfolio board, or your project managers, depending on who is responsible for the project evaluation. You need to ensure good information flow, especially in early project planning phases. However, senior management should no longer have any influence on the sub-portfolio itself.

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