Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Many organisations are investing in people, processes and structure to create teams focused on strategy execution, often by establishing project management offices (PMOs). Establishing solid communication as part of project leadership will also help team leaders gain the trust of the project teams they are managing.

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Resource Guru

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

But it does mean a balanced strategy that leans on strong retention practices matters. But that’s hardly the only benefit of establishing a strong agency client retention strategy. AdAge cites a perceived lack of strategy as yet another big reason clients decide to stop working with ad agencies.

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Our risks were identified, but a response strategy was never created. Creating unique items for each impact ensures we develop suitable response strategies. Response Plan: A response strategy or strategies should be documented for each risk. Response Trigger: Criteria for implementing the response strategy.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

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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Velociteach

MARCH 6, 2024

Strategic initiatives have higher visibility and require greater leadership engagement than a small maintenance project. The tyranny of the majority/minority, lowest common denominator solutions, ramrodding, or blocking strategies may prevail. Understand the Project Context Projects support the organization’s mission and goals.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 28, 2020

This definition of the ‘goal’ can create confusion for many who understand project-program-portfolio management and how goals aligns with the vision, mission, strategy, and objectives of an organization. As the saying goes, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”. Strategy execution is the downstream of culture. Lean Thinking.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

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. For example, on one project, I had the CFO steering group, and attendees were all SLT (senior leadership team members). Who will get you access to the resources you require?

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Velociteach

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Or risks were identified, but a response strategy was never created. Creating unique items for each impact ensures we develop suitable response strategies. A response strategy or strategies should be documented for each risk. Criteria for implementing the response strategy. Type : Opportunity vs. Threat Owners.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2021

For this email, it is assumed that the organization’s technical strategy has been defined and a governance model has been implemented. If neither is true, this email will still be valuable, it will just illustrate that strategy and governance are missing. Solve those problems with your leadership, let me know if I can help.

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Planview

JUNE 1, 2021

Executive teams have seen how Agile practices can help organizations gain speed, pivot quickly and effectively when needed, and deliver high-quality outcomes on strategy. At the same time, our traditional planning processes cannot keep up or sustain us anymore: The annual plan is most on-strategy the day you finish it.

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International Institute for Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Where is your leadership strategy now? Discover three types of flexibility in leadership and work/life balance needed to make that happen in the aftermath of COVID-19. You will see how to show Leaders that their strategy is being eaten by slow decisions that disrupt schedules, drive cost overruns and produce disastrous outcomes.

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Planview

OCTOBER 19, 2020

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. Joaquim’s response: Work is linked to strategies (initiatives). Joaquim answers the five remaining question below.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 15, 2021

The best way to prevent this from happening is by setting a cadence for meetings, requiring status reports , scheduling interdepartmental collaboration time and any number of other ideas. Successful team collaboration is the culmination of thoughtful strategies and adapting to challenges.

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Inloox

JULY 1, 2021

Lean Agile Leadership: Managers are the very core of lean agile development and business agility. These capabilities support each other and create opportunities for sustained leadership in the marketplace and services. These fixed, i.e. unalterable, ten principles aim to influence leadership behavior and decision making.

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Leading Agile

MAY 12, 2020

Teams delivering on a predictable cadence earn the trust of the business. As the Transformation scales, leadership ensures that appropriate clearing and conditions are upheld: Form Complete Cross-Functional teams at ALL levels of the organization. Delivery-level to Leadership).

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

MAY 16, 2023

Meeting Cadence Calendar. I didn’t see the importance of this when I first read about “Cadence Calendars.” The PMO I was working in and eventually lead had a handful of project managers, each with around 5-6 projects under their leadership. Fight for training dollars. Ensure travel is covered. Then another.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The project manager and the organization’s leadership must create the environment. Collaboration between project sponsors and stakeholders to develop the scope and best strategy is required for success, including estimations of time and costs. Erato reminds us of the importance of emotional intelligence in leadership.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

They are prepared to align strategy and execution for the entire organization. Develop Lean-Agile Leadership. Apply cadence and synchronize with cross-domain planning. Added skills that you will be embracing are lean agile leadership and mindset. The average salary for a SAFe Agilist is $106k per annum.

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Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

When people make such statements, they usually mean that they have trained product owners and a proficient Scrum master, and their team consistently follows the cadence of sprint planning, daily stand-ups, interviews, and retrospectives. We want great teams, we want positive work environments.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 24, 2022

The cadence of development of multiple teams. In addition, it aligns strategy and execution through Lean Portfolio Management. These values describe the culture that leadership needs to foster and how people should behave to use the framework effectively. Lean-Agile Leadership. Facilitate teams of teams planning.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

And let me give you three strategies. Actually, for strategies to build systems to ensure the right attributes are in place to empower your teams as a as a group. I think the servant leadership coaching world has talked about just be there for your teams and support them. Maybe the organizational strategy, right?

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Acceptable variances, reporting cadence, and status meetings are addressed in the plan. The plan may include the categories, processes for identifying and assessing risks, and a framework for developing response strategies. The plan should describe the practices for creating and monitoring response strategies.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 24, 2022

Program teams are needed in more complex organizations and sit between the strategy layer we’ll talk about here in a minute and the delivery/services teams. They meet on a regular cadence to move high-level work items through the system of delivery. *A Program Teams. More on this in a little bit too.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

Any software that you create is an organisational asset and decisions to cut quality need to be reflected in your company accounts and as such those decisions need to made by your executive leadership and should not be made by Developers. Professional Developers create working software. Release planning and predictable delivery.

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Leading Agile

MAY 11, 2021

Delivering on a regular, predictable cadence. If You Want to Be Trusted… An effective enterprise Transformation strategy is grounded in a trustworthy ecosystem around the people for them to produce products in a predictable way. Trust and influence are critical components in an enterprise transformation strategy.

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Planio

AUGUST 1, 2022

Build a leadership team that can get your required buy-in. This means embracing an iterative and customer-centric focus on all levels of the business, from how you build software to how you organize and run your customer support team, performance reviews, and growth strategies. Higher ROI on all your efforts.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2023

What would you suggest to the leadership of that organization to help the change effort? Be prepared to address and resolve any conflicts that may arise during the change process through effective conflict resolution strategies. Your organization used to be the technology leader in your market, but that was 20 years ago.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

That means that leadership behaviors, team member relationships, activities, and communication are all reflective of the company’s current principles and values. . The Pods meet on an agreed-upon cadence, and everyone in each Pod knows that they can reach out to other Pod members for questions, help, and a friendly voice.

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

APRIL 11, 2023

Understand how strategy is determined and also how project decisions are made to achieve organizational strategy. Do people feel strategy and supporting governance is effective? Also, look at communication cadence and means by which to share this information. Yeah, I talk about this a lot when discussing PMOs.

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Scrum.org

JULY 31, 2023

The new strategy should make the bank more customer-centric and enable them to get better, faster, and more effective at delivering value to customers. The dedicated teams were able to deliver in a regular Sprint cadence, which was much faster than before (weeks instead of months). The transformation impacted the whole bank.

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

JULY 21, 2021

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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Planio

MAY 9, 2022

Deciding on a meeting cadence that works for everyone: How many times a week should you meet? Taking risks becomes less scary when you know leadership understands your needs and experience. Does everyone know your product strategy and business goals? Leadership. At what point in the project should you provide it?

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

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? The roles, the ceremonies, the artifacts, the cadences, all those different things that we model as implementation details.

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Wrike

DECEMBER 20, 2021

However, this interaction will require the use of new technology and strategies to manage it properly. Embracing Agile as a means to combine strategy with output. Project management tools help organizations execute their strategy but they can also be used to manage the portfolio and the various tasks related to that strategy.

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Planio

OCTOBER 15, 2020

7 strategies and techniques for managing remote teams used by top remote companies. Here are the strategies, techniques, and tools these teams use on a daily basis to manage their remote teams. Leadership means seeing and addressing issues before they come up. It all comes down to these 7 powerful remote management strategies.

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Planio

MAY 24, 2018

OKRs translate your company strategy into a digestible way that allows every team member to know they’re working on the right thing. But as Desai shows in this example, a good OKR helps align them with company strategy and gives them a pretty clear roadmap of how to get there. Even better, OKRs are dead simple. At least in theory.

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Synchronized cadence: SAFe Agile uses a consistent rhythm of work called cadence , which includes standard Agile events such as sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective. Portfolio SAFe The Portfolio SAFe level focuses on aligning the strategy and investment decisions of the organization with its business goals.

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