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Connecting Business with IT to Achieve Agility in the Financial Sector

Planview

Santander’s vision was to create an ecosystem that enables enterprise agility by connecting business with IT and strategy into delivery – with a single line of sight into key initiatives at every stage of the journey. What was the biggest issue Santander encountered when incorporating the PPM solution with your existing PMO?

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It is made up of people who have an interest in the project: representatives from each of the key stakeholder communities, who meet on a regular basis to provide direction, authority to proceed and to decide on the strategy for the project. Have as many layers as fits within your PMO methodology. Call your meetings anything you like.

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Project242: Build Strength in Multiple Areas, Not Just a Few

Bridge the Gap Consulting

These workouts include heavy tension and faster cadence at lower resistance. Here are some of the key things I’ve learned in addition to project management, building those other “professional muscles”: Strategy : This was a HUGE eye opener. Those strategies turned into projects. Sweat will be drippin’!!

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Shift from Annual to Continuous Planning to Enable Agility [Webinar]

Planview

See if this sounds familiar: your organization’s strategic plan is constructed at the executive level, broken down into an annual plan that is led by finance, then operationalized by the PMO and other groups in the organization. Yet, as soon as you begin to figure out exactly how the plan is to be executed, change happens.

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What does a project manager do?

Planio

Making sure that projects align with the overall business strategy and goals. He confirms the benefits outweigh the investment and puts the business case to the Finance Director for approval. Real-world example: Now that James has his Gantt Chart completed, he works with his PMO to plan the resources he’ll need for the project.

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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

What do you do with planning cadences? 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. How do you go up into Portfolio Management? How do you go up into investment management, that kind of a thing?

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

Workamajig

Projects might additional calendars as well to show resource availability, communication cadence, etc. Communication Plan: A document outlining the communication strategy for the project, including all stakeholders and their relationship to the project. Communication : Any communication sent to a stakeholder in a formal capacity.