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Conducting a PMO Assessment

Bridge the Gap Consulting

Understand how strategy is determined and also how project decisions are made to achieve organizational strategy. Is there any governance in place and if so, how effective is it? Do people feel strategy and supporting governance is effective? How many “Pet Projects” get spun up?

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The Value of an Agile Project Management Office

MPUG

Now imagine that a senior executive starts off his day and decides first to have a quick look at the project dashboard expecting to see metrics such as the current status of projects, earned value indices in terms of money and performances, and top risks. Welcome to the concept of the Project Management Office or PMO.

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Encapsulation vs Orchestration: Dependencies in Agile

Leading Agile

Another way to say this is that you either must break the dependencies, or you must manage them. There’s a dependency between one project and another based upon either project’s ability to stay on track. Any time we inject a dependency into the system, we create something that has to be managed outside of the team.

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Beginner’s Guide to Kanban for Agile Marketing

Digite

At the core of Kanban lies a paradox: by limiting the amount of work we do, we become more productive. Compared to Scrum, Kanban is a young work-management method. Kanban vs. kanban. In fact, many Scrum teams use this type of visualization to manage their work. Measure and Manage Flow. Image Credits: AgileSherpas.

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Agile Unplugged: EP 02 | Mike Cottmeyer and Dennis Stevens

Leading Agile

In this week’s episode, LeadingAgile Chief Methodologist, Dennis Stevens, sits down with Mike Cottmeyer to discuss Capability-based organizations, Systems of Delivery vs Systems of Transformation, managing dependencies, and more. – Talk about project management and things like that. – Yeah. – Mm hmm.

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What does a project manager do?

Planio

Creative features, successful product ideas, wild marketing stunts, full rebrands, or massive IT projects — none of them work without the project managers that tirelessly make sure everyone’s on the same page and making progress towards a shared goal. Researching and validating project ideas 2.

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

Workamajig

Project management terminology can be complicated. It doesn’t matter whether you’re working towards your PMP certification or simply managing projects casually in your organization, knowing core project management terms always helps. All Project Management Terms.