Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 24, 2020

For other areas of governance such as reporting and approval levels, talk to your PMO and get these in place. 6: Review the budget. Is the budget approved? Action if there is no budget plan or information: Back to the PMO or your Finance team. Action if you can’t find out: Talk to the PMO again.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 10, 2022

You’ll probably end up with a number of different types of reports going to different audiences: project reports, budget reports, briefings to senior managers, and others that you do on an ad hoc basis. I’ve rounded up a list of my recommended project governance books. We recommend: Project Status Report Template.

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The Lazy Project Manager

JANUARY 27, 2016

As has been already discussed the reality out there in ‘PMO land’ is that there is not a plethora of wise and experienced PMO managers, directors, leaders, heads, etc., and so it is sensible for anyone who is engaged to help an organisation set up a new PMO or advise on improvements to an existing PMO to reach out for some help.

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Planview

APRIL 16, 2021

The role of the PMO is changing. We recently got an in-depth look into this new face of the PMO during our webinar – “What’s Ahead for the PMO?” She and I discussed the responsibilities, expanding skill sets, and strategic capabilities of the modern PMO – and how to advance in that direction. Types of Today’s PMOs.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 21, 2021

In this extract from their new book, Jahn Karsybaev and Fred Obiero share the characteristics and behaviors of successful and unsuccessful project leaders. They run meetings inefficiently, which results in participant frustration and complaints to VPs of PMO. What makes a bad project manager? And how can you be a good project manager?

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Project Accelerator News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

My PM friend Stu thinks you can – with OPEN-BOOK IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT. OPEN-BOOK IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT The term open-book management (let’s call it OBM) is not a new thing, I think you can trace its origins back to the mid-1980s and it is pretty self-explanatory, ‘does what it says on the tin’ stuff.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The overall change is managed as a program, under a program manager who consolidates program-level risks, manages resource conflicts across all projects, controls the budget and works with business owners to realize the benefits across all the initiatives. These could be project managers or PMO colleagues.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 24, 2022

Your timesheet has a few solitary hours left to book against this work. The PMO will want a copy and you should also send one to the project sponsor and any other senior stakeholders. Double-check that the PMO has the lessons too. Close out the budget and contracts. This is the time that project managers wrap up the work.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

Look at your project schedule and consider whether you have truly incorporated enough change management activities (and time/budget for those activities) in the plan. Read Anthony Mersino’s excellent book: Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers. Think about how your PMO teams are rewarded. What you can do. Be curious.

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Epicflow Blog

MAY 12, 2023

And that’s no wonder – an effectively working PMO can streamline a company’s project management processes, improve their outcomes, optimize costs, and facilitate achieving an organization’s business objectives. However, despite their increasing popularity and significance, PMOs face a number of difficulties. Сhallenge #2.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Fix by: Work with the PMO to review the processes. If they don’t realise they have to use the room booking process for sorting out meeting rooms, they will continue to circumnavigate the process and go directly to the office manager: causing problems on both sides, I expect. So you still do them, pointlessly and with bad grace.

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Process PMO Risk Management Software Review 382

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 18, 2021

Note: This article was put together before the PMBOK® Guide – 7 th edition was published so the information in it is drawn from publicly available information about what is going to be in the book. Here are some examples: Budget Milestone schedule Scope baseline Performance measurement baseline. But what if you don’t use PMI methods?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The overall change is managed as a program, under a program manager who consolidates program-level risks, manages resource conflicts across all projects, controls the budget and works with business owners to realize the benefits across all the initiatives. These could be project managers or PMO colleagues. Pin for later reading.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 25, 2020

Peter Taylor, the Lazy Project Manager, has just written a book about it, Get Fit with The Lazy Project Manager. OK, so what was the inspiration behind writing a whole book about it? That sounds like the same overarching philosophy as I wrote about in my book, Customer-Centric Project Management. Budget and spend.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 17, 2022

I also have a notebook which has a list at the back for non-project work such as updating my objectives, tasks related to me helping on other projects, department budget work, and so on. You’ve got one pool of resources and you can drag-and-drop bookings to move them or assign them to someone else. Key Takeaways. Get Your Copy.

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Technical Review Software Review PMO 2020 386

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Cost overrun This is the actual cost that exceeds the estimated cost in the budget, also known as a cost increase or budget overrun. Estimation In a project context, estimation is the way to make accurate budgets or timelines for a project. Here’s how EVM can be applied over the course of a project’s duration.

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Lean Event Chain 393

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 22, 2023

But the budget is tight. Join a community A community of interest can take many forms, from your professional community of project managers at work, perhaps organized by your PMO, an online community or an industry group or professional body that you are part of — one that has regular meet ups. Here are some book recommendations.

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Software Review Certification PMI Technical Review 311

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

So we’ll look at how to use those principles to support your team’s drive engagement throughout the PMO and encourage stakeholders to take action. Finally, I’m assuming that you work in a project or programme environment within the context of a PMO. And I will come back to that term, engagification in a moment.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Government PMO,” says Derek Huether, an enterprise Agile coach and trainer. “It was a traditional PMO, filled with certified professionals doing very good work in very specific areas of expertise. “But this PMO was managing software applications, both in development and in operation.

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MPUG

MARCH 15, 2024

In earlier versions, we used it for book research and found the information from the prompt was way off base. Project Success Prediction AI can analyze historical data to predict future project success rates based on project type, team composition, budget allocations, and timelines. When Open AI launched ChatGTP2.5,

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 15, 2021

I also have a notebook which has a list at the back for non-project work such as updating my objectives, tasks related to me helping on other projects, department budget work and so on. You’ve got one pool of resources and you can drag-and-drop bookings to move them or assign them to someone else. Key Takeaways.

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Technical Review Software Review PMO 2020 353

LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 22, 2022

That means that projects are likely to be delivered late and over budget because the priority isn’t clear and time becomes randomized trying to juggle too much. The work will all get done on time and within budget. We clearly need some help here, and I strongly believe AI can offer that help. When everything is #1 , nothing is #1.

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LiquidPlanner

DECEMBER 5, 2022

There are a few things you can do to make sure you’ll have all the info you need before you start your project: Budget more time up front for detailed planning and strategy. He has built and led some of the largest PMOs in the world with organisations such as Siemens, IBM, UKG, and now Ceridian, where he is the VP Global PMO.

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Underperforming Technical Team Transportation PMO Software Review 158

LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Do you deliver projects late or over budget? Keynote speaker and coach, Peter Taylor is the author of the number 1 bestselling project management book ‘The Lazy Project Manager’, along with many other books on Project Management, PMO development, Executive Sponsorship, Transformation Leadership, and Speaking Skills.

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Artificial Inteligence Planning Technical Review 2008 158

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

I wrote a book all about this: Collaboration Tools for Project Managers (published by PMI), which talks about how to choose, set up and use the right tools for your workplace. Oh look, another subject I wrote a book on! And the tools are getting better and better at helping – if we know how to use them. Stakeholders.

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Technical Review Software Review PMI Influencer 364

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 23, 2022

The most obvious are impacts on project success, team performance, budgets and timelines. He has over 25 years of management, legal, and PMO, portfolio and project management experience. Paul’s book, Workplace Bullying: Its Just Bad for Business is available on Amazon. The impact of bullying on projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 18, 2021

So we’ll look at how to use those principles to support your team’s drive engagement throughout the PMO and encourage stakeholders to take action. Finally, I’m assuming that you work in a project or programme environment within the context of a PMO. And I will come back to that term, engagification in a moment.

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Project Accelerator News

APRIL 5, 2024

IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT CAPABILITY ASSESSMENT We measure how successful our projects are all year round, in terms of Return On Investment (ROI), budgets, delivery times met, etc but an IT Project Management Capability Assessment checks in on how effective the delivery frameworks and processes that underpin project success are.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Typically, project managers report weekly or monthly, sharing the current status, progress, risks, issues, outstanding decisions, budget situation, and anything else that speaks to project performance. Some teams may have a daily standup meeting to take the pulse of the project(s).

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Project Accelerator News

MAY 24, 2024

For instance, resource issues or talent gaps can be addressed with professionals from the PmaaS market, or Project Management Office advisory services can help strengthen your existing PMO, taking a proactive approach minimises risk, disruption and ensures ongoing project resilience. 4 – Nurture and Maintain! Now that’s resource optimisation!

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Sustainability PMO Risk Management Monitoring 52

Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

Have as many layers as fits within your PMO methodology. Start out by booking your meetings as an hour – no one really likes to be tied up for longer than that and your attendees are busy people with packed diaries. Budget position. Take minutes, or co-opt someone from the PMO to help. Action updates.

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Governance Government Risk Management Technical Review 363

MPUG

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Then, I partnered with a PowerBI expert and he wrote a chapter on PowerBI dashboards for my book, Project Communication Tools. I used PowerBI on every one of the eight PMOs I ran at Microsoft, and it was always part of my reporting tool suite. For example, a project has kept a budget risk in the risk log for many months.

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Planview

AUGUST 17, 2022

If something doesn’t work anymore and it’s slowing your organization down, take a page from Marie Kondo’s book. But, as the PMO, this is the perfect time to drive home the value you can offer your organization. You’ll also need to step outside your comfort zone as a traditional PMO. And yes, this can be daunting.

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Musings on Project Management

OCTOBER 13, 2023

I hope not; I wrote the book Quantitative Methods in Project Management some years ago. Numbers are a PM's best friendIs this news?I

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PMO Budget 170

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 25, 2019

But the budget is tight. A community of interest can take many forms, from your professional community of project managers at work, perhaps organised by your PMO, an online community or an industry group or professional body that you are part of – one that has regular meet ups. For that, you need to turn to the good old fashioned book.

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Certification PMO PMI Technical Review 334

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 7, 2019

You can see a list of all their books in one place here. He is the author of Reinventing Communication by Routledge, a book on how to design, lead and manage high performing projects. You can see Mark’s book, and all the other experts’ books on Amazon here. Many of them are authors. Ranjit Sidhu. Ranjit Sidhu.

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

MARCH 21, 2023

PMO Failure. We hear about PMO’s failing all the time. Stats on PMO failure rates are all over the map based on your definition of “failure.” What follows is a list of reasons PMO’s fail from my experience and what I’ve gathered from others. I have a book idea. ” Catchy!

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