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Questions to ask a project management mentor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

At regular meetings You’ll find a regular cadence and probably settle into a regular agenda or routine with the check in sessions. What’s it like running big projects/a PMO/working in X field? Who are the key influencers for Y? Here are some sample questions you can use to keep the conversation moving.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Have as many layers as fits within your PMO methodology. In every case, you should have people on the group who understand the project (or who can be brought up to speed) and who have influence and interest in the outcomes. It’s fine to have a different cadence at different points in the project lifecycle.

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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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What does a project manager do?

Planio

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. Find the right meeting cadence for you and your team. Focus Projects may impact/influence multiple parts of the business. At their core, every great company runs on organized chaos.

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Why Agile Transformation Fails | AgileIndy 2021

Leading Agile

And then you can imagine an in-state where you have encapsulated value streams, really solid business ownership, value streams are able to produce small batches on a regular cadence, and the capabilities are largely grouped, the ones that work together. And it’s interesting, sometimes people go well, is that what the PMO is now?

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