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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here’s an introduction to these important groups as part of the governance framework so you can get yours set up and working on your project. A project board provides oversight and governance for the project. What you need is adequate governance for the project. What is a project board? Call your meetings anything you like.

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Review People Over Process

Henny Portman

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. Furthermore, neither agile or scrum contemplates how the agile team should be connected to a larger organization and to external partners who will likely have differing development processes and cadences.

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Project Management: Principles, Practices & Context

Velociteach

More recently, the profession has grappled with two intertwined questions: Should principles or processes govern project management? Processes describe the inputs, tools, techniques, and outputs used to execute project activities. A toolkit is a collection of techniques and practices used within the project processes.

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What is Lean Portfolio Management? Primary Focus | Objectives

Agilemania

Portfolio management teams apply these principles and approaches to strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance. It is a part of the Lean Enterprise movement, which seeks to eliminate waste from business processes through the application of lean principles. Strategic Portfolio Review.

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Agile Still Works

Scrum.org

Tools fail, processes stop, things go wrong. . How can we find the right cadence for collaboration and when should we collaborate? In our consulting work we frequently train, mentor and coach our clients to use Scrum as a management framework. Getting infrastructure and remote working tools is a good start. But is that enough?

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Managing Project Assumptions & Risks

Velociteach

Context and environmental factors should govern process requirements, specificity, and formality. Large, complex projects will require more highly structured processes than smaller ones. Risk and Assumptions Logs The assumptions and risk logs are primary tools for managing these processes. Are there new items?

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Conducting a PMO Assessment

Bridge the Gap Consulting

As a consultant, I love doing assessments. Is there any governance in place and if so, how effective is it? Do people feel strategy and supporting governance is effective? Existing Processes and Tools. Document the processes used today. Ask historical questions about why processes and tools were selected and used.

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