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The Value of an Agile Project Management Office

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Welcome to the concept of the Project Management Office or PMO. In this article, we will learn about PMOs as organizational structures, about various types of PMOs, and about traditional roles within a PMO. PMO Definition. As noted in the definition, a PMO is an organizational structure. Types of PMOs.

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Do We Need Risk Management in Agile Projects?

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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. The post Do We Need Risk Management in Agile Projects?

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Troubleshooting in Lean-Agile Development

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It’s usually based on a cadence. As shown in the above figure, there is no regular timeboxed iteration, but incremental delivery can happen in cadence. The PO can be the business owner or in some other structure, the PO can be paired with the business owner directly or via the Agile Project Management Office (PMO).

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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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How Charles Byrd Gets It Done: Project Management & Networking Tips

Project Management Hacks

Out of college with a BBA in information technology I started on a help desk providing 2nd and 3rd level support for Cadence, a Silicon Valley software company. I was then promoted to be a project manager and founded our company’s PMO. Productivity, system, and marketing consulting is also available on a limited basis.

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

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Projects might additional calendars as well to show resource availability, communication cadence, etc. Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) : A certificate in project management basics offered by Project Management Institute (PMI). A CAPM is often a basic requirement for project management roles.

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Webinar Recap: Agile Series Part 2 – Agile Features & Capabilities in MS Project / Project PPM

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And today’s session is eligible for one PMI PDU in the technical category, and the code for claim that is on the screen now, that’s mpugwebnlearn091819. You’re going to see this coming out at a very fast cadence. Today’s session will cover Agile features and capabilities in Microsoft Project and project PPM.

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