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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Scrum.org

AUGUST 9, 2023

During a dinner conversation after the conference, you further discover that PMO (Project Management Office) can support you in leading an Agile transformation and successful Scrum adoption, by covering governance and ensuring alignment across the enterprise. Partner with the PMO, they are your key stakeholder.

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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. Understanding plus action plus influence gives you engagement.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 23, 2022

The most obvious are impacts on project success, team performance, budgets and timelines. The best short answer is to appreciate what is within your realm of control and influence in order to create an action plan. That may give you an opportunity of influence outside the unit. The impact of bullying on projects.

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Underperforming Technical Team Influencer PMI PMO 195

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 27, 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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Influencer Finance PMO SCRUM 187

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. Resource Forecasting vs. Resource Management.

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team PMO Planning 342

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

DECEMBER 18, 2021

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. Understanding plus action plus influence gives you engagement.

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PMO Influencer Project Life Cycle Process 331

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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PMO Influencer Governance Government 52

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 25, 2018

How do you gain influence with body language? Elizabeth: Hello everyone, It’s Elizabeth here, and today, I am at the PMO conference in London with wonderful Geoff Crane who’s come over from Canada. Elizabeth: And you’ve had two days’ worth of PMO workshops? Elizabeth Harrin and Geoff Crane at PMO Conference.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

Have as many layers as fits within your PMO methodology. In every case, you should have people on the group who understand the project (or who can be brought up to speed) and who have influence and interest in the outcomes. Budget position. Take minutes, or co-opt someone from the PMO to help. Action updates.

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Governance Government Risk Management Technical Review 358

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 11, 2018

Read next: How to Engage Stakeholders With Your Project (Beyond the Power & Influence Grid). 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? It says, “They see the PMO as a Panadol, not an antibiotic.”

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Techno-PM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

PMO KPI Dashboard - Excel While more and more IT organizations have a project management office (PMO) in place nowadays, the percentage of IT PMOs which are terminated after just a brief period of time is far from encouraging. This is not to say that PMOs do not deliver value!

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Project Risk Coach

JULY 18, 2016

The best project managers work with their team members to break down the project, to identify resources, to estimate the work, and to develop the schedule and budget. How Strong Are Your Influencing Skills? I recently spoke with a project manager who works in a Project Management Office (PMO). Work WITH your team.

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Influencer PMO Estimate Leadership 150

Planio

OCTOBER 23, 2023

If the bricks are in high demand, the manufacturer might raise the price, causing you to exceed your budget. But what might influence your decision to allocate resources? Let’s look at some key factors that influence how you’ll choose where to allocate resources within your project: Project goals & objectives.

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Estimate Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Budget 88

Resource Guru

MARCH 21, 2023

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. On a small project, the manager might oversee each team member. So what does that mean exactly? In this case, let’s say it’s the creative director.

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Monitoring PMO Defining Engineering 98

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

LiquidPlanner

JUNE 14, 2023

Ongoing turmoil in the financial sector, pressure on prices and the supply chain, the cost of living and the cost of global warming… if it was my money, I’d be choosing projects that skewed toward low risk for now, but that’s a conversation to be having with your strategy team and the portfolio management office (PMO).

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2023 Artificial Inteligence Generative AI 2025 158

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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Development Team Review Project Life Cycle Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 148

ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Given its vast influence, it’s important to have a basic understanding of PMI and its history. The PMO Symposium is a place to exchange best practices and new insights into the strategies and practices in project management. The Project Management Institute also sets the standard for ethics in the field. Quick Facts About PMI.

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

How does this story relate to Authority vs. Influence? Johnny But when Johnny caught the ball bare handed to prove a point, the pitcher got the message and changed his approach for the duration of the game (influence). That That type of influence is what made Johnny an amazing player. Influence without authority is not easy! Here

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Techno-PM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

PMO KPI Dashboard - Excel While more and more IT organizations have a project management office (PMO) in place nowadays, the percentage of IT PMOs which are terminated after just a brief period of time is far from encouraging. This is not to say that PMOs do not deliver value!

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

JANUARY 9, 2020

Project leaders need to be able to be tactical in their approach, establishing things like the project budget and scope early, creating a project plan and ensuring the project is managed in such a way that the team does not lose sight of these things. This post first appeared on PMO Perspectives Blog.

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2020 Artificial Inteligence PMO Leadership 73

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. Leigh Espy.

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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.

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MPUG

JULY 31, 2023

Overall budget – Money required for all types of resources required to complete the project, which includes people, facilities, equipment, and materials. Some of them are decision-makers and can influence the direction of the project. Initial risks – A list of all the risks that are known at the time of beginning a project.

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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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Underperforming Technical Team Influencer PMO Governance 342

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 8, 2016

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. Action: Talk to the PMO again. Go back to the PMO, they should be prioritising initiatives.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 18, 2024

Establishing the Foundation and the Pillars of Project Governance In project management, success isn't merely about meeting deadlines or staying within budget constraints; it's about delivering tangible value that aligns the project objectives with organizational goals.

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Governance Government Risk Management 2015 52

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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LiquidPlanner

APRIL 17, 2018

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)? Are there any formal milestones, gate review or PMO expectations for the project? Who is just a pain in the @#$?

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Governance Government Software Review Manufacturing 95

Wrike

MARCH 1, 2022

TCPI forecasts a project’s possible outcome and alignment with the budget. It shows how to allocate and use available resources to deliver projects on time and within budget. TCPI PMP results may be: The existing budget at completion (BAC). If TCPI < 1, the cost of the project will be less than the existing budget.

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Estimate Construction Budget PMO 41

PM Basics

JANUARY 20, 2021

You need to manage people, but you don’t have influence or authority over them. Challenge #5: Scope Management is the most critical knowledge domain, but your leadership cares only about schedule and budget. Or the whole risk management process is simply inefficient, and you do it because PMO requires it. What about you?

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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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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

MAY 2, 2019

Sceptical stakeholders can be a blessing in disguise because they influence the group to address concerns. Who influences the decision-makers? Provide a financial overview in the form of actual spend compared with the budget as well as remaining spend compared with the estimate to completion. Who sits on the steering committee?

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Governance Government Influencer Risk Management 67

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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Wrike

DECEMBER 23, 2021

They help them manage the business of IT PMO and demonstrate how technology can improve the bottom line. But when it comes to influencing behavior, you may find that a particular set of IT metrics will push your team in a direction you don’t want them to go in. Here are the must-know terms: Time to resolve.

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