Bridge the Gap Consulting

APRIL 11, 2023

My favorite is the PMO assessment. Whether considering standing up a new PMO or revamping an existing, doing an assessment is a key initial step to setting one up. Though there are PMO maturity models, which are all good, I don’t like to talk about those right away. Yeah, I talk about this a lot when discussing PMOs.

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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. 6: Review the budget Is the budget approved? 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.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 28, 2023

B Blue Project closed R Red Project is likely to deliver late/over budget A Amber Project has missed some targets but overall end date/budget is not at risk G Green Project on track As you can see, this equates to the acronym BRAG. Check with your PMO. The budget is overspent by more than 10%/outside tolerance.

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Software Review PMO Risk Management Closing 287

Bridge the Gap Consulting

MAY 16, 2023

Once your PMO is up and running, operationalizing and doing continuous improvement (CI) go hand-in-hand. Sometimes CI may lead to changes to the PMO’s operations, but you’re only making more efficient something you’re already doing. Here are some aspects of operationalizing your PMO. PMO-Specific Reports.

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

MARCH 26, 2023

You’re a PMO Leader! Being a PMO leader has been one of the most challenging and rewarding aspects of my career. Thankfully, I’ve had some really good mentors along the way who showed me being a PMO leader and a project manager are two very different things. So, what are the traits of a PMO leader? Good times!

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PMO Finance Budget Executing 52

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Clearly defined reporting is an important governance element because it’s reports that tell the steering group what is going on. As the key decision-making group, they need enough information to be able to make the right decisions without being bogged down in the detail. We recommend: Project Management Plan Template.

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Governance Government PMO 2016 427

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

OCTOBER 15, 2021

B Blue Project closed R Red Project is likely to deliver late/over budget A Amber Project has missed some targets but overall end date/budget is not at risk G Green Project on track. Check with your PMO. It could be over budget, running behind schedule or have uncontrolled scope changes (or all three).

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Software Review PMO Risk Management Closing 370

Bridge the Gap Consulting

APRIL 18, 2023

You’ve asked a lot of questions to a diverse group of stakeholders. 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. Below are some of the key components of a PMO Business Case.

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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.” Investing in and prioritizing the right work were also hot topics for the rest of the group.

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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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PMO Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Inteligence Budget 52

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. 6: Review the budget. Is the budget approved? 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.

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PMO Governance Government Budget 505

Project-Management.pm

JULY 4, 2017

Organizations believe a focus group on their PMO that is used to boost its effectiveness and also to trigger more projects. But sometimes a focus group has a negative impact on PMO for many reasons such as time issues, budget, and it can cause office politics to rear its ugly head. Brainstorming vs. Focus Groups.

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PMO Budget Risk Management Risk 96

Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

You can group columns so they represent different themes, steps, teams, whatever, within a process or list. Want to group by user? 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). You can manage a project budget in there. You do that.

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Software Review Software Agile Estimate 393

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. Budget Management. You can build capex budgets. You can then see available budget and that can help you make decisions about what projects can be done. Website: [link]. Sciforma Overview.

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Software Review 2021 PMO Project Life Cycle 392

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. Think about how your PMO teams are rewarded. What you can do?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Acceptance authority: This is the person (or group) responsible for final sign off of the deliverable. We planned for the lab costs in our project budget. Often the function is provided by the PMO or another business team. However, Process Groups: A Practice Guide does have all the info in about how to ‘do’ quality management.

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Controlling Prince2 Software Review PMO 304

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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PMO Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Executing 78

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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PMO Agile Consulting Leadership 36

Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 26, 2021

The number of people in the team The project budget The duration The outcome. I managed a capital budget of £8.6m There is a big difference between someone capable of leading a team of 30 in a complex deployment and someone whose past experience has been on projects with no budget responsibility and a team of 3.

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Technical Review Finance Software Review Budget 379

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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PMO Artificial Inteligence 2016 2018 64

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2023

There was a question in our Facebook group recently: where can I get project management templates? Personally, I’d like to think that your PMO will purchase the templates that you need to use, or that your manager will let you buy templates on their corporate credit card. And training to choose from.

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Prince2 PMI Certification Software Review 387

Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 13, 2022

It helps project managers to make decisions about how to best complete a project within the iron triangle constraints of time, budget, and scope – and all the other constraints that fall outside the somewhat outdated triangle model! What fits with your current PMO might not work in a new organization if change jobs. Define your goals.

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Leadership PMO Defining Agile 366

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. Program managers specialize in managing a group of closely related projects that are part of a program. Manage budget.

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Certification Prince2 Monitoring PMI 441

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 22, 2023

But the budget is tight. 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.

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Software Review Certification PMI Technical Review 310

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

However, it’s possible that some of that group don’t have even a high-level overview of the project, so it’s worth planning in a recap. Use the project handover templates from your PMO or make your own. Budget Share the project budget position. Ideally, you should know this already. How much was spent and on what?

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Technical Review Closing Software Review Prince2 269

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 2, 2023

Use a standard template If your company does not have a standard template for minutes , make one up, or ask your PMO. For example, make a note of any project change requests that were approved or rejected, or budget decisions. If the group decided anything, write it down! Using a standard template saves you time. Have minutes!

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Technical Review Software Review PMO Initiating 381

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. How many projects has the PMO closed this month?

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PMO Influencer Process Project Life Cycle 420

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 11, 2018

So Simon’s been our resident expert in the Facebook group this week, and we’ve been talking all things to do with accidental project managers. I think if you want to overcome the C-Suite concerns, then you really need to be asking for any project or PMO how does this link to the incoming expenditure or profit loss?

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PMO Finance Budget Consulting 177

Techno-PM

DECEMBER 14, 2017

What is a PMO Charter? A PMO Charter is one of the most important documents in the life of a Project Management Office. Project charters formally recognize the existence of projects in an organization, the PMO Charter legitimizes the existence of the PMO before the business. What should a PMO Charter contain?

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PMO Defining Governance Government 52

Scrum.org

APRIL 2, 2023

For example: PMO or Finance department in a company can affect how the budget has been used, this can impact how much we can build. Once you have made some decisions they also want to know about how you are spending the budget. The Customer Service department is affected by the quality of the products or features we build.

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Innovation Finance PMO Budget 178

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 23, 2022

The most obvious are impacts on project success, team performance, budgets and timelines. He has over 25 years of management, legal, and PMO, portfolio and project management experience. He serves as member of the PMI Ethics Member Advisory Group. The impact of bullying on projects. Shane Cowishlaw, writing on Stuff.co.nz

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Underperforming Technical Team Influencer PMI PMO 195

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 11, 2022

For example: Budget position Upcoming deadlines further in the future than the next week Decisions required Actions outstanding that need to be formally chased Any risks, issues or changes that need to be formally brought to the attention of the report recipient. Tip: If you are emailing that many people, put them in BCC!

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PMO Governance Government Controlling 322

Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 16, 2022

There’s a lot riding on getting your PMO mission statement right. After all, the mission statement is what will guide the PMO as it strives to achieve its goals and objectives. Creating a powerful PMO mission statement doesn’t have to be difficult – but it does require some thought and careful planning.

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PMO Technical Review Information Technology Governance 355

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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Lean Agile PMO Engineering 74

Scrum.org

JUNE 7, 2021

The Consequences : Remember that probably about 10 % of the member of a social group are change agents, 5-10% are refuseniks pushing back, and 80 % typically comprise the silent majority joining when the dices have fallen. My Budget, My Feature. That “Agile” is not the quick fix for everything that is going wrong.

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SCRUM Agile Technical Review Software Review 182

Resource Guru

MARCH 21, 2023

A project team is a group of individuals brought together to work on a specific project or initiative. Each member of the team has a unique set of skills and responsibilities that contribute to the success of the project —ultimately, completing the project on schedule and on budget. So what does that mean exactly?

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