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PMO Leadership: How PMOs Can Evolve into Savvy PMOs

Planview

PMO leadership today is about more than being a purveyor of governance and delivering projects on time and on budget. Becoming a Savvy PMO requires first defining and the next areas of focus to advance maturity. Complete projects on time and on budget. This table summarizes how each approach their role.

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Project Failure – Why it Happens

Online PM Courses

Projects can fail when your team defines the solution before adequate research has validated that it is technically possible… or organizationally desirable. – 2 – Governance. Governance is hardly the most sexy of project management disciplines. Lack of Governance Structure. Too little Research.

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Enterprise Agility in Financial Services: Learnings from the 2019 Planview Horizons Customer Conference

Planview

Financial services companies often operate with a traditional approach to project and portfolio management where annual budgets define how projects are funded and executed. In this case, the budget is adjusted at any time during the cycle to accommodate changes in customer requests. Agile teams are largely self-governing.

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Roles and Responsibilities Template [Free Word Doc]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

A Roles and Responsibilities document is a formal way of defining what each role is responsible for on a project team. You are defining the roles that the team needs, so specify whatever you need in the document, noting that one person could do two roles. Get access to over 20 project management templates, ebooks, checklists and more.

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Why collaboration is key in project management—A story by Ordonna Sargeant

Resource Guru

This week, Director, Data Governance at American Express, and experienced PMP, Ordonna Sargeant, talks about what happens when you don’t have clearly defined team roles and why collaboration is the key to success in project management. You can read all the stories in our latest eBook, Confessions of a Project Manager.

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Healthcare PMO: BCBS Roundtable Exchanges Thought Provoking Ideas

Planview

Today, the organization has shifted its focus from projects that were completed on time and on budget to optimizing a project portfolio worth hundreds of millions of dollars that focuses on achieving strategic outcomes. While some of them are far in the journey, most are working through defining the best areas for agility and their roadmap.

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The Complete Project Manager’s Guide to Project Deliverables

Workamajig

Defining, tracking, and managing project deliverables is one of the most important responsibilities of a project manager. This is why project managers often focus obsessively on the deliverables - in defining, managing, and tracking them. Project governance plan. An eBook created by the marketing team to promote a new product.