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. Even in normality that was a dying strategy.” Key Points.

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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. The priority work should align to your corporate strategy. You’ll probably have some big picture goals, maybe some company values, and a strategy, that have been set by executives responsible for strategic planning. You can’t do it all.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

RapidStart PMO: Online Project Management Training Review. Diab is the CEO of Leadership Formation, a consulting firm that focuses on helping organisations with strategy, alignment, execution and people. The paid course covers everything you’d need to get a PMO up and running in a few months. Workstream 2: Operating the PMO.

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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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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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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 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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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.

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Technical Review PMO Leadership Information Technology 269

Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 3, 2022

For this purpose, a great number of organizations started to set up a project management office (PMO) – according to the 2021 report on the state of project management [1], 82% of organizations reported to have one. . Read further to find out answers to these and other essential questions about a PMO. . What is a PMO?

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

These could be project managers or PMO colleagues. They have agendas of their own and are connected to strategy in ways you might not realize. People have to understand what the program is all about, how all the component projects contribute to the bigger picture and what role they help play in delivering this part of the strategy.

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The Lazy Project Manager

MAY 25, 2021

BOOK YOUR FREE PLACE TODAY. This webinar comes as Planview launches its new report, The State of Strategy Execution: Embracing Uncertainty to Adapt at Speed. 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’. Register today. *

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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. Strategy artifacts. The first category is documentation that relates to strategy and project initiation. Documents are documents.

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Logistics Artificial Inteligence PMI Performance Measurement 510

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

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. Where does the project fit in the overall business strategy?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

These could be project managers or PMO colleagues. They have agendas of their own and are connected to strategy in ways you might not realize. People have to understand what the program is all about, how all the component projects contribute to the bigger picture and what role they help play in delivering this part of the strategy.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

She has written five books on project management including Communicating Change, Collaboration Tools for Project Managers, Handbook of People in Project Management, Shortcuts to Success: Project Management in the Real World and Customer-Centric Project Management. Related: Top Project Management Conferences of 2019. Jason Westland.

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Consulting Lean 2019 Leadership 419

Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 23, 2024

Continuous improvement equips you with the tools to achieve this, helping your strategies evolve with every project, quickly adapting to new obstacles, and setting industry-leading standards. Visualize leading projects that deliver tangible enhancements, where each member contributes to the outcomes.

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Technical Review 2024 Innovation Sustainability 52

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 17, 2022

In this article we’ll look at strategies for managing several different projects that are running in parallel. You’ve got one pool of resources and you can drag-and-drop bookings to move them or assign them to someone else. “Book meetings with yourself to get work done.” Key Takeaways. Get Your Copy.

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Technical Review Software Review PMO 2020 386

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

A project coordinator, or an admin resource from the PMO would be the perfect extra pair of hands. She met the PMO Manager and another manager whom she knew had staff keen to learn about project management. If you try to over-book someone you’ll have the option to add the work to their waiting list. No problem, she thought.

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Planning PMO Software 290

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best Out of Virtual Work and Virtual Teams. 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. Think about how your PMO teams are rewarded.

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 2, 2022

They see the combination of digital and human labor as an effective way to execute their strategy.”. Such a strategy is misguided from the get-go. He suggests that “intelligent collaboration and risk management strategies require us, among other things, to perceive relationships, learn quickly and act upon relevant information.

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Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review PMO 158

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. OK, that’s clear.

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2014 PMO Technical Review Software Review 232

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 12, 2022

This wasn’t a survey about project portfolio management at the PMO level. Responses ranged from: The numerous enterprise /PMO metrics which are measured on a monthly cycle combined with reporting out to the stock market every 12 weeks. People struggling with poor management and lack of a strategy. I have to write things down.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Risk Management Engineering 378

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 7, 2022

This is the east coast global Project, Program, and Portfolio Management Summi t with a focus on Biopharma Portfolio Strategies. PMO Conference UK: London – 8th – 9th June 2022 & Edinburgh – 14th – 15th June 2022. Learn about latest practices, ideas and strategies and connect with other project managers.

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2022 PMO Innovation Sustainability 195

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 15, 2021

In this article we’ll look at strategies for managing several different projects that are running in parallel. You’ve got one pool of resources and you can drag-and-drop bookings to move them or assign them to someone else. “Book meetings with yourself to get work done.” Key Takeaways.

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Technical Review Software Review PMO 2020 353

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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PMO Influencer Process Project Life Cycle 425

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 22, 2017

Driving Project, Program, and Portfolio Success: The Sustainability Wheel [Book Review] Projects are not very good at integrating long term strategy because they are short term endeavours. Strategic Project Portfolio Management [Book Review] If you work in a PMO this is one book that you won't want to miss.

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Software Review PMO Sustainability Software 288

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

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. He is author of 13 best-selling books, including four about project management.

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2023 Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Underperforming Technical Team 409

Scrum.org

APRIL 10, 2023

Matrix of Influence Source: Book Product Mastery by Geoff Watts Image Created By Lavaneesh Gautam. Adapted from Book ‘Product Mastery’ By Geoff Watts Geoff has explained this simple yet very powerful technique in his book, Product Mastery. Stakeholder Exploration and Stakeholder Analysis are the pre-requisites for this.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 23, 2022

Coping strategies for dealing with workplace bullying. Consider what information would be needed create the most impactful and effective strategy to present a complaint? Always have a strategy to protect yourself, and your health. He has over 25 years of management, legal, and PMO, portfolio and project management experience.

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Underperforming Technical Team Influencer PMI PMO 195

The Lazy Project Manager

JULY 8, 2016

In ‘Strategies for Project Sponsorship’ the authors offer advice on many types of sponsor with suggestions for ways to work with them, or compensate for their ‘skills’ or ‘interest’ gaps. – a billion dollar software organisation delivering Workforce Management Solutions.

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PMO Executing Leadership Planning 267

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 22, 2023

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. For that, you need to turn to the good old fashioned book.

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Software Review Certification PMI Technical Review 311

The Lazy Project Manager

DECEMBER 14, 2018

A new book for you and your team: How to become a more confident public speaker the ‘Lazy’ way – Available now on Amazon. I could also say that I continue to get interest and bookings for future events. It also evolved in to a one day ‘Presentation Skills’ workshop – see the end of this book.

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PMO Leadership Executing 221

The Lazy Project Manager

APRIL 12, 2017

How to get Fired at the C-level goes beyond the constraints of a book. If you need to take it to the next level of detail, then the author offers two specific workshops based on his book. Step 1: Strategies for project sponsorship. Step 2: Building the best PMO.

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Executing PMO 2013 Leadership 186

The IIL Blog

JULY 26, 2023

Organizational leaders and business owners must develop strategies to commit general management and senior staff to these changes, and PMs need to adapt to the ensuing cultural shift. The project management office (PMO) originated to align all projects with standard operational procedures. The burden is shared.

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PMO Technical Review 2023 2017 78

Project Accelerator News

MAY 24, 2024

Successful gardeners are adaptable and adjust strategy and technique to overcome these challenges. IT Project Management Lesson – Project Managers must also identify potential risks early in the project lifecycle and, like our green fingered friends, develop go-to risk mitigation strategies, with contingency plans ready to roll into action.

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