article thumbnail

Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

These are all functions of a project board (or steering group). Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. In other words, this is the group that takes the tough decisions. What is a project steering group?

article thumbnail

Operationalize Your PMO

Bridge the Gap Consulting

Once your PMO is up and running, operationalizing and doing continuous improvement (CI) go hand-in-hand. Sometimes CI may lead to changes to the PMO’s operations, but you’re only making more efficient something you’re already doing. Here are some aspects of operationalizing your PMO. PMO-Specific Reports.

PMO 52
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Conducting a PMO Assessment

Bridge the Gap Consulting

My favorite is the PMO assessment. Whether considering standing up a new PMO or revamping an existing, doing an assessment is a key initial step to setting one up. Though there are PMO maturity models, which are all good, I don’t like to talk about those right away. Yeah, I talk about this a lot when discussing PMOs.

PMO 52
article thumbnail

Do We Need Risk Management in Agile Projects?

MPUG

Often, this is through its Project, Program, or Portfolio Management Office (PMO). What agile adds to this, therefore, is a distinct cadence of its own iterations or drawdowns of tasks into the Work in Progress part of the Kanban Board.

article thumbnail

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. Various Operational Groups : When starting with a new company or client, I want to spend time with the those performing the daily operational tasks to understand end to end processes, and how those fit into the overall value chain.

Cadence 52
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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?

Agile 141