Bridge the Gap Consulting

APRIL 18, 2023

Now it’s time to create a PMO Business Case and start moving the needle from idea to reality. If you notice, I call it a PMO Business Case, not a PMO Charter. I don’t like the word “charter” when talking about creating PMO’s. Below are some of the key components of a PMO Business Case.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

MAY 2, 2019

Within the project management community, the concept of governance is seen as a fundamental project control, which is easy to grasp in principle. Getting the governance piece right requires insight and at times a few honest conversations about roles and responsibilities. Creating a smooth escalation and governance process.

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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. Sure, PMO leaders can blame sr.

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Planview

JULY 9, 2019

Part 2: Lean Portfolio Management: Lean Budgets and Investment Funding. Traditionally, in an effort to maintain alignment and consistency across the portfolio, organizations have dedicated a centralized Program Management Office (PMO) to planning, program management, and solution definition. Support program execution.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 8, 2016

Check #5: Governance. Is there a governance structure? For other areas of governance such as reporting and approval levels, talk to your PMO and get these in place. Check #6: Budget. Is the budget approved? Action if the answer is No: Back to the PMO or your Finance team. Who is your project sponsor?

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

hours, personnel needed, and/or tasks) to ensure that a project can be completed on time and within budget. Change Control A formal process of documenting, reviewing, approving, and managing a change to a project’s scope, schedule, budget, or quality parameters. Capacity Planning To identify the number of resources (e.g.,

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Inloox

AUGUST 5, 2018

Also, it stresses the importance of investing in skilled and experienced project managers to meet these challenges and become one of the champions in project management – meaning that at least 80% of your projects are completed on time, on budget, meting business intent, and having high benefits realization maturity. Data intelligence.

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LiquidPlanner

APRIL 17, 2018

Project Governance. Identify any key stakeholders, their influence and expectations on the project. Who has influence over the project outcome? What are the project constraints (budget, time, mandatory deliverables)? Project Governance. Related: Project Governance for Distributed Teams. Project Overview.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 7, 2023

These can influence the outcome of the project, program or portfolio so they must be managed. That’s why project managers and their teams need to take time to identify enterprise environmental factors that might influence their projects and figure out an action plan to mitigate or respond to them in a timely, effective manner.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 3, 2018

I think 2018 is going to bring more focus on business success metrics and less about scope, schedule and budget. I think when we think about how we are delivering our projects, we need to focus on Business Value, Customer Satisfaction, Governance and less about coming in on time and budget. Speak up a little more often.

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Wrike

APRIL 25, 2023

A project charter is a brief, formal document outlining the scope, objectives, budget, and stakeholders of a project. Baseline the project: The project charter establishes a baseline for the project scope, budget, timeline, and desired outcomes, keeping everyone working within set parameters to hit the most important metrics.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

And you know, the manifesto had just been written and I was working as a project manager in a company called CheckFree here in Atlanta and squarely like in the PMO. And so, it’s that for a couple years, that group reorganized and I kind of find myself back in a regular PMO and I’m like, that’s not cool, right?

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Online PM Courses

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

And another common source of failure is an inability to control your scope, leading to scope creep and over-runs in both schedule and budget. Guidance from your PMO (Project/Program/Portfolio Management Office). And what governance will you set over your change control process ? What has Project Governance Ever Done for Us?

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Planview

JANUARY 8, 2019

Forward-thinking organizations incorporate business processes for governance and decision-making, particularly regarding which investments should be made during the strategic planning process and ongoing checkpoints. Funding and Budgeting. They assume that strategic and operating plans are already in place as isolated components.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Such tools provide a solution to establish a prioritization process for projects that helps organizations govern their existing and future efforts. The software can organize a ranking system to determine projects by value, risk, budget, and resources required. Budget scenario planning . Portfolio Balancing.

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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

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. Data Analysis and Synthesis.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 25, 2022

They will articulate the project objectives and goals to the PMO and anyone else who will listen! The role is predominantly assurance and governance, approving deliverables and making sure the work moves through any gate reviews and governance points as necessary. Without trust, influence is almost impossible.”.

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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. Data Analysis and Synthesis.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Whether you are agile , hybrid or predictive, you need to tailor for size of project, maturity of PM organizational structure, budget, timescales, willingness of the people to do the work, quality outcomes required and so much more. Build quality into processes and deliverables. Adaptability and resilience. How do you embrace resilience?

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

We are a consulting company in the DC Baltimore area that specializes in project and portfolio management for about 80% of our customers in the government space, the other 20 in the commercial space. So, that’s done a lot more in the commercial space than it ever is in most government spaces. By education and training.

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The structure of your organization’s project management office (PMO) may be the difference between effective and ineffective project management. Your PMO structure must blend in with the organizational culture to ensure project management success. What is a PMO structure? What is a PMO structure? Controlling PMO.

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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. Focus on the initiatives that they need to be aware of for their work, because they can positively influence the outcome or remove roadblocks.

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Project Bliss

MARCH 27, 2017

Creating the budget. As you identify all the resources you need for your project, you’ll be able to create the project budget. This post provides instructions and a template for creating a project budget. Understand how market changes could impact or influence the project. Identify deliverables and milestones.

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

Using the chosen project management process to track progress and budget. The project manager transfers the plan into a project management tool like Planio so that the team knows what to build (and the PM can easily monitor the schedule, budget, risk, and issues as things progress). Usually work on one or two large projects.

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Project-Management.pm

APRIL 6, 2017

These project portfolio management benefits are also accompanied by Project Management Office (PMO) initiative to further gain your project’s rate of success. Risks in project portfolio management come in various forms : governance, resource management, and financial. Project Portfolio Management Benefits #3: Efficient Resources Use.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Is it your PMO, individual project managers, or others? 55% PMO, and 45% individual project managers. Tad: Well good, clearly it is the PMO that is landing much of this, but it’s actually the innovation or strategy groups that start much of this activity. Is it the innovation strategy group? Tad: Awesome. 0% on other.

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Paymo App

JANUARY 19, 2018

ability to monitor and control budgets. manage budgets and billings. The UK government developed PRINCE2, so if you’re planning on working in the UK, you might want to give this certificate a go. Not just hoping we were on time and budget but tracking progress daily. expert knowledge to meet specific circumstances.

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PM That Works

APRIL 23, 2018

I took that to mean as well as is also contacts to be you know the main data date the mandated budgets the things that just tended not matter whereas you know where we're going to deliver the content. In other words you know again you're on time and on budget but you don't realize the benefits. Morris: Yeah yeah.

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