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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.

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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. It’s fine to have a different cadence at different points in the project lifecycle. The compliance manager will make his team available to help if he understands how the new software tracking system will monitor license usage across the company. When to hold the meetings.

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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.

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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.

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Connecting Business with IT to Achieve Agility in the Financial Sector

Planview

Joaquim’s response: The starting point was providing a governance framework that aligns the work of different roles to company objectives, KPIs, and cadence, with a good balance of rigor and flexibility. What was the biggest issue Santander encountered when incorporating the PPM solution with your existing PMO?

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What does a project manager do?

Planio

Execution & monitoring: With the plan in place, it’s time to start delivering. The project manager transfers the plan into a project management tool like Planio so that the team knows what to build (and the PM can easily monitor the schedule, budget, risk, and issues as things progress).

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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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