Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Unfortunately I’m not able to say, “I’m struggling with Excel right now, I really don’t have these budgeting skills, so we won’t bother to have a budget tracker on this project.” They might not be a popular choice but once you have made the switch you’ll find the data incredibly useful.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 14, 2024

That means removing the busywork of project management like data collection, status reporting and tracking – which I think is a good thing. There are more data and analytics projects being kicked off in 2024 than previous years, with 77.6% of organizations reporting that they are driving business innovation with data compared to 59.5%

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 22, 2024

Securing the right resource (and enough of it) is a huge headache for PMO leaders and project professionals. The PMO can lead on this but everyone will need to follow the process for it to work. But you’re going to have to do them if you want to make data-driven decisions. and define how leaders can secure resources.

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Planview

MAY 9, 2023

In anticipation of International PMO Day, we began curating the stories for this PMO case study roundup several weeks ago. The PMO has a long history of driving significant benefits for the business. Partnering with Planview, Cognizant created a multidisciplinary team to build and implement the enterprise PMO roadmap.

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Planview

JUNE 5, 2020

PMO leadership today is about more than being a purveyor of governance and delivering projects on time and on budget. The Savvy PMO fosters organizational agility, cultivates efficiencies, and drives growth strategies. Start with this quick-start post to becoming a Savvy PMO. The Journey to Becoming a Savvy PMO.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 23, 2024

When you’re a PMP, program manager or portfolio manager, you need to deliver all those multiple projects on time and within budget. On the other hand, if an organization has underdeveloped management, the more likely that its projects will have trouble meeting deadlines and staying on budget.

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WorkOtter

MAY 23, 2023

Setbacks in productivity can damage the success and growth of your business, which is why setting up a Project Management Office (PMO) to help handle and oversee various projects at once is a great way to avoid these issues. What Exactly is a PMO? Setting up a PMO can help with many different components of a business.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 23, 2023

The project manager , another project manager, a PMO person, or a risk audit person could carry out the audit. Audits are part of internal controls on a project and fall under the governance arena, so if you have specific PMO team members who look at governance, they are the ones to ask. Who carries out the risk audit?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 12, 2024

Strategic workforce planning is used by an organization or its project management office (PMO) to achieve its long-term plans. It does this by generating data and analyzing that data about both its workforce and coming challenges to make sure that they’re ready for the unexpected.

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Planview

JUNE 28, 2019

Funding practices—that is, the way budgets are allocated throughout the organization—dictate nearly every business outcome. When implementing Lean-Agile practices at scale, organizations quickly realize that their push for agility conflicts with traditional budgeting and cost accounting practices. This is where Lean budgeting comes in.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 18, 2021

The 9 types of artifacts are: Strategy Logs and registers Plans Hierarchy charts Baselines Visual data and information Reports Agreements and contracts Other – a bucket category for anything else. Here are some examples: Budget Milestone schedule Scope baseline Performance measurement baseline. Visual data and information.

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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. It’s a way of automating repetitive tasks and it’s having a bit of an impact on the PMO community. A strategic shift for PMOs. RPA is Robotic Process Automation.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 9, 2021

Summary review of Sciforma: Sciforma is a PPM tool that has powerful portfolio management features and will level up your PMO. It takes about 15 minutes to create a project submission form that captures the data needed to record this potential project and log it in the system. The Ideas form data translates to a project score.

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Planview

DECEMBER 13, 2019

A healthcare PMO today must have a strong constitution. Not only are they faced with challenges unique to healthcare, PMOs are also going through the trends mentioned in our recent post, “ Conquer Your Business Transformation.” This is where the healthcare PMO comes in, but the group agreed that it’s presenting challenges.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 20, 2023

Here’s the list: Strategy Logs and registers Plans Hierarchy charts Baselines Visual data and information Reports Agreements and contracts Other – a bucket category for anything else. Here are some examples: Budget baseline Milestone schedule Scope baseline Performance measurement baseline.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 8, 2021

I spoke to Nada Abandah , a project manager in the PMO for the Dubai Health Authority, about what it’s like to work in healthcare during a discussion for the Project Management Club on Clubhouse. Nada: Use the skills of your team and make sure they know how to use the data properly. Is there a tool that is being used in healthcare?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In this article I’ll share estimating techniques for schedules and budgets: the kind of things we need to know to get projects done. We create estimates mainly for project budgets and project schedules. The answers to these questions will allow you to pull together a project timeline and a budget. Why estimate? Expert judgment.

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Planview

MARCH 6, 2020

Executives expect PMOs to be the catalyst for this change. Success requires becoming a more “Adaptive PMO,” evolving how you plan, govern, and empower delivery teams to do their best work. This transition can be uncertain, but Planview is working with PMOs to make it easier as this new video demonstrates.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

In the last decade, more and more corporations have developed a project management office (PMO) to benefit their business. To get started, you’ll want to learn more about PMO examples, how to set one up, and how to train your employees. What Is a PMO? PMO Examples. What is a PMO?

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Portfolio management teams learn about enterprise strategy and how to execute that strategy by allocating the budget. ProjectManager is online portfolio management software that delivers real-time data to make better decisions when managing a portfolio. The senior leadership team will apply lean principles to manage the portfolio.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

This is a huge advantage for a PMO (even a fledgling PMO in a team that is just getting on the ladder with project management). As well as a baseline, you can track SPI, EV, and progress against budget. Reports can be exported as.csv file if you need the data in a different system. Earned value metrics are built in!

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Planview

OCTOBER 7, 2020

How w e ll your Proj e ct Manag e m e nt Offic e (PMO) or E nt e rpris e PMO (E PMO ) functions is conting e nt on two things: th e minds e t of e ach of your e mploy e e s and e stablishing a strat e gic top-down proj e ct portfolio cultur e.   Transparent adherence to a budget.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 15, 2021

Project managers plan, budget, monitor and report on the project with project management tools , sometimes pitching the idea of the project or being assigned to it once it’s already been approved. A project can begin and certainly is designed to fail if there first wasn’t a plan devised to see it through, on time and within budget.

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Project Accelerator News

APRIL 18, 2024

If you’re new to a role, instead of slashing or splashing budget and drastically altering project team structure, how about looking at the small step changes you can make that can quickly unlock ROI. Capturing diverse data types across various locations with varied access levels can be complex. Less broom, more polish!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 3, 2019

Dashboards are typically made up of graphs, charts, Red/Amber/Green buttons and other data visualisations that make it easy to see what’s going on. Tip: Talk to your team about how to use a project dashboard so they understand why the data is being collected and how it is going to help you all manage the project going forward.

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Wrike

AUGUST 22, 2018

Whether or not you’re a project manager by title, one acronym you’re sure to hear more often is PMO. What is PMO?” PMO stands for “project management office.” The percentage of companies with a PMO has nearly doubled since 2000, according to The State of the PMO 2016. . Definition of PMO. Who Needs a PMO?

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EasyProjects

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The project management office (PMO) is typically an operating unit of a professional services firm. The writer worked for an extended period in two firms that may broaden the concept of the PMO. The writer worked for an extended period in two firms that may broaden the concept of the PMO. Introduction. Was it project-based?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 24, 2020

They tend to monitor the budget and hold the purse strings of the project. Project managers are also responsible for managing risk and the budget. Project Management Office (PMO). However, if it does exist the PMO will decide on the processes used in a project and how to follow them. Project Team Members.

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MPUG

MAY 18, 2020

You probably only spend a small part of your day on budgeting or scheduling activities. This will help him/her to make the necessary changes to the project budget. For example, your reporting manager might need weekly status reports, but your Project Management Office (PMO) may only need status reports on a monthly basis.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 26, 2024

With digital project management skills like effective online communication, robust leadership, data literacy, adaptability, professional and personal life stress management, and adept virtual team management, you can lead your projects to completion. Data Literacy In digital project management, making decisions based on data is a must.

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Wrike

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In this article, we’ll tackle this very topic from the perspective of IT PMO and how it can shape work both inside and outside of the IT department. Let’s take it from the top: The IT PMO As established with our overview of the IT PMO , some of the key elements of the PMO include governance, intake, allocation, collaboration, and reporting.

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Wrike

MARCH 25, 2021

What is an Agile PMO? Aren’t all PMOs supposed to be Agile and support transformative change? Does my organization need an Agile PMO? Keep reading to discover the benefits of Agile development and the specific set of features and organizational structure an Agile PMO offers that regular PMOs simply don’t.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The project schedule and its budget will greatly influence resource forecasting. The most obvious is that it allows project managers to know what they’re working with and how to use those resources effectively to get the project done on time and within budget. Historical data is also helpful when resource forecasting.

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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. I believe part of the problem is that organizations have, until now, had only historical data to rely on when grappling with this challenge. . This includes: .

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Planview

MAY 4, 2020

Does your PMO provide the project visibility and insights required to help the organization deliver on strategy? For some PMOs, project visibility is limited to just project status. The Savvy PMO extends visibility and reporting to six key areas: Project Status and Health. Planned versus Actuals. Intake and Demand.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Consider these changes faced by PMOs in recent years: The call to infuse agility and become a modern PMO. The pressure to evolve is mounting for the PMO, which needs to adapt to new digital strategies – and more strategic, product, or initiative portfolios – while bridging traditional practices.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Use the project handover templates from your PMO or make your own. Budget Share the project budget position. If any ‘spare’ budget is available, make sure the team know whether they can access it or whether it goes back into the main project pot. The document becomes the basis for my knowledge transfer.

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