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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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Managing Project Assumptions and Risks

The IIL Blog

Context and environmental factors should govern process requirements, specificity, and formality. Cross-reference. Cross-reference: See below. Cross-reference: Commonly used to cross-reference assumptions and risks, this field can also be used to track these items in other project documents. Notes: See below.

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Managing Project Assumptions & Risks

Velociteach

Context and environmental factors should govern process requirements, specificity, and formality. Cross-reference. Cross-reference. Commonly used to cross-reference assumptions and risks. The following fields should be common to both lists: Category.

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Use This Free Project Status Report Template for Fast and Easy Project Reporting

Project Bliss

Use this project status report template if your Project Management Office or governing body doesn’t have a standard template in place. If your PMO or governing body already has requirements in place, follow those. It gives you reference points in your schedule to measure progress against. Milestones and Deliverables.

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What is Lean Portfolio Management? Primary Focus | Objectives

Agilemania

LPM also known as Lean Portfolio management, refers to how senior leadership uses lean principles and systems thinking approaches to align strategy with execution. Portfolio management teams apply these principles and approaches to strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance.

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Conducting a PMO Assessment

Bridge the Gap Consulting

Though maturity models are great, I won’t make reference to them here. Is there any governance in place and if so, how effective is it? Do people feel strategy and supporting governance is effective? Also, look at communication cadence and means by which to share this information. Perceived Stakeholder Value.

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Overcoming the Barriers to Business Agility

Leading Agile

And so if you show up and like you say, “Hey, I want to adopt Agile,” but you know, you’re not familiar with the strategies or Agile governance strategies or such, right? We talk in LeadingAgile a lot about the idea of reference architecture versus reference implementation.

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