Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 14, 2024

He managed all the logistics for the project including booking rooms for testing and training, making sure the right delegates showed up to the training, supporting them with claiming expenses, organizing project boards, steering groups and other governance milestones, and generally making everyone’s lives easier.

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PMO Construction Engineering Logistics 385

Henny Portman

JUNE 25, 2022

The book PMO Services and Capabilities – Including an overview of AIPMO’s competence framework – Competences per PMO service – Techniques and tools per PMO service is written by Robert Joslin. Each organizational unit is unique, each organizational unit needs its own set of PMO services.

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PMO Governance Government Consulting 115

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 6, 2023

Business Resilience: A practical guide to sustained progress delivered at pace is a book by an impressive authoring team. The tone is set immediately with the powerful introduction: this is not a book for the faint-hearted! There are 5 domains in the business resilience framework laid out in the book. Who is this book for?

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PMO Sustainability Certification Influencer 418

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 16, 2017

This article, Bridging the PM Competency Gap [Book Review] , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. The book won’t tell you what competencies your team needs, but it does lay out a roadmap for helping you work that out for yourself. Do You Need This Book? How far do you think your company goes supporting project managers?

Technical Review 304

Technical Review 2015 PMO Energy 304

Planview

AUGUST 16, 2021

Portfolio Management Offices are in a prime position to deliver this business agility – with the right PMO roadmap. Peter, who wrote the book The Lazy Project Manager , drew upon his 30 years of experience building and leading PMOs to provide some guideposts. I explained how and what is holding other organizations back. (18:40):

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PMO Agile Lean Governance 158

MPUG

MARCH 8, 2024

Live Event: Copilot Studio and the PMO – Creating a Capable and Useful AI Assistant Wednesday, March 20, 12:00pm – 1:00pm EST Earn 1 PDU: 1 Ways of Working Click to register now and join us live! Sadly Sam Hofman’s “Do’s and Dont’s” e-book was larger than 3 MB. Smaller files are available to test.

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PMO Generative AI PMI Certification 111

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

RapidStart PMO: Online Project Management Training Review. When I talked to him about this course he thought it made more sense to create it as online media as opposed to a book, and I think with the way learning is going right now that makes sense. Then it talks about aligning the PMO. Workstream 2: Operating the PMO.

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PMO Technical Review Software Review Certification 164

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Perhaps you’ve been asked to mentor an apprentice , or someone new to the PMO or team. However, you might find that as a project manager in the PMO, you are mentoring others across the business who are doing projects but who do not work in the PMO – they can feel the same about the role being isolating. Need a mentor?

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PMO Technical Review Certification Risk Management 318

International Institute for Learning

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I recall a time when I was the program manager of a large initiative, and the PMs who reported to me would constantly roll their eyes when they had to submit their weekly status reports to the PMO. I recall having a disagreement on how “proper” risk statements should be written with the PMO manager. What can we do?

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PMO 2022 Governance Government 59

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

For other areas of governance such as reporting and approval levels, talk to your PMO and get these in place. 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. Go back to the PMO, they should be prioritizing initiatives.

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PMO Governance Government Budget 303

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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PMO Sustainability 2012 Underperforming Technical Team 170

Henny Portman

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

AIPMO is developing the first ‘leading’ international PMO standard based on a combination of research findings and expert knowledge. P3O or IPMA PMO certifications are not comparable to AIPMO’s core certifications in terms of approach, content and outcome. AIPMO’s core PMO certifications covers much more!

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PMO Certification Monitoring Consulting 88

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 15, 2016

It took me a while to get my hands on Simon Moore’s book, Strategic Project Portfolio Management *, but I’m rather glad I did. I read a lot, and I notice fonts, layout, box copy, but in this book, most of all the lovely tables. Praising a book because it is pretty is probably shallow, but it does matter for the reader experience.

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PMO 2010 Estimate Initiating 150

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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PMO Development Team Review Governance Government 99

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 6, 2022

Not you as an individual, not you as a PMO, not you as a group of dedicated project managers. Your PMO should come up with (if they haven’t got it already) a list of the project prioritization categories. Or, to rephrase, you have a long list of work ideas that senior managers would like to get done as projects. You can’t do it all.

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PMO Initiating Software Review Executing 439

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

I have been a bit lax with project management reading recently but one book that I have made time for is The Conscious Project Leader: How to Create a Culture of Success for Your Projects, Your Team and Yourself. It didn’t take much browsing on his website to realise that it was going to be my kind of book. Colin Ellis.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership PMO Estimate 150

Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I've also had the joy and the pain of implementing three Project Management Offices (PMOs), two in Information Technology Departments and one Enterprise PMO. Through the years, I've noted many reasons that PMOs fail or struggle. It's rarely just one thing; it's usually a combination of things. Here is a list of causal factors.

Technical Review 269

Technical Review PMO Leadership Information Technology 269

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Again, reuse documents that you have already produced to streamline the effort and ask around to see if your PMO or colleagues have templates that you can use. I’ve rounded up a list of my recommended project governance books. Your stakeholders are engaged. Further reading. Pin for later reading.

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Governance Government PMO 2016 427

The Lazy Project Manager

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Book your VIP option place here [link]. More information and booking here [link]. Three great options from myself are also open to you and your teams: The Lazy Project Manager: Productive Laziness in Project Management hosted by PMO Leader. Based on the Amazon #1 Bestselling Project Management Book by Peter Taylor.

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Artificial Inteligence PMO 2020 PMI 385

The Lazy Project Manager

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A new book from the author of #1 best-selling book ‘The Lazy Project Manager’ Enabling project managers to adapt to the new technology of artificial intelligence, this first comprehensive book on the topic discusses how AI will reinvent the project world and allow project managers to focus on people.

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Artificial Inteligence 2030 PMO Leadership 302

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As long as you understand and can explain the figures, you don’t have to crunch them yourself if you trust the reports from your PMO or tools. Book a power hour with me. Book a power hour Pin for later reading This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management Need a mentor?

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Finance Risk Management Budget Risk 319

The Lazy Project Manager

MARCH 2, 2021

You don’t do my type of work (project management, PMO leadership at a global level, keynote speaking, consultancy and training) without clocking up some pretty impressive airmiles and flight status. Won the PMO Influencer of the Year award. We know that now! It has, in more than one way, been an astonishing year.

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PMO Underperforming Technical Team Influencer 2019 298

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

It maintains a database of all your resources, projects, and bookings. When the project gets approved, you can reassign the booking to a real resource. I can see it being very helpful for executives, and also PMO managers trying to get leaders to understand that they can’t take on any more projects right now! Resource dashboard.

Software Review 493

Software Review 2020 Software PMO 493

Henny Portman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

2020 was again an extremely fruitful book review year. I wrote around 50 book reviews including 16 corresponding quick reference cards and several personal insights, and views on specific topics in the field of project, program and portfolio management. My own books, whitepapers and articles. Agile related books.

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2020 Technical Review Prince2 2011 105

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. I.T.O.B.P.M – WORTH A SHOT?

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Budget PMO 59

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Or book a power hour with me and get started on your mentoring journey straight away! What’s it like running big projects/a PMO/working in X field? Do you have any book recommendations on X topic? Book a power hour with me. Book a power hour This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management

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Cadence Logistics Certification Influencer 313

The Lazy Project Manager

JANUARY 22, 2021

These individuals are promoting courses, presentations, qualifications in some cases, or are making some bold declaration about the past, present and future of PMOs but (and here is the really scary part) if you take a closer look at their career (as declared on their LinkedIn profile) they don’t seem to have ever actually run a PMO.

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PMO Consulting Engineering 350

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 18, 2023

There are plenty of different ways to spread what you have learned from your project around the PMO, project managers and teams. This is a good way to reach a wider audience with your lessons learned as you can invite members of other project teams or the wider PMO community to come along and hear what worked on your project.

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PMO Software Review Initiating Finance 322

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?

2021 479

2021 PMO Executing Risk Management 479

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. 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. Go back to the PMO, they should be prioritizing initiatives.

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PMO Governance Government Budget 505

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2024

Book quality checks Now you know what project quality measures you are trying to hit, book some quality checks in. Also, if you have internal auditors or a Quality Assurance function, or someone in the PMO who can do an informal (or formal) project review, book that in as well. The options are: Once (i.e.

Software Review 332

Software Review Technical Review Budget Defining 332

Scrum.org

JANUARY 15, 2024

I once worked with an organisation where the PMO presented metrics that were manipulated to align with expected outcomes. On the other, they can lead to a culture of misrepresentation and pressure, where teams feel compelled to meet targets at the cost of quality and honesty. One example I encountered vividly illustrates this conundrum.

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Agile 2024 PMO Leadership 154

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Learn more in my book, Project Co-ordinator: This is a similar role to the Project Administrator, but people with this job title are more likely to do ‘hands on’ project work as well as admin. Instead, people with PMO job titles are in a crucial support function. Here are some common job titles you’ll find within the PMO.

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PMO Construction Retail Infrastructure 347

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

Read Anthony Mersino’s excellent book: Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers. It’s a way of automating repetitive tasks and it’s having a bit of an impact on the PMO community. Moreover, the PMO may be removed from tracking those efforts after the problems have been identified and the teams set the work into motion.”.

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2022 PMO Risk Management Artificial Inteligence 484

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 5, 2022

If you are in a PMO , you might have this challenge. Morgan, Levitt, and Malek discuss this in their book, Executing Your Strategy: How to Break It Down and Get it Done. In the book, they use an example of an airline. In the book, they give one example, fast turnaround for planes on the ground. People do that.

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2017 Defining Executing PMO 434

The Lazy Project Manager

MAY 25, 2021

BOOK YOUR FREE PLACE TODAY. It also marks the launch of Peter’s new book: Make Your Business Agile: A Roadmap for Transforming Your Management and Adapting to the ‘New Normal’. What’s more, five lucky webinar delegates will receive Peter’s signed new book in the Planview draw*! Free Planview Webinar Registration.

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Agile PMO 2021 Executing 225

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

These could be project managers or PMO colleagues. However, you could move into program management from a senior operational role or another PMO role as well. This is an edited extract from my book, Project Manager (BCS Books). Make sure the proposal also includes the need to recruit a project manager to replace you.).

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PMO Technical Review Leadership Risk Management 276