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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.

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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? The PMBOK® Guide now seems to reference so many skills and competencies for project managers and the job is so broad.

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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. You’ll want to document a terms of reference for your governance committees so they know what they are supposed to do. It’s fine to have a different cadence at different points in the project lifecycle. Take minutes, or co-opt someone from the PMO to help.

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The Value of an Agile Project Management Office

MPUG

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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Use This Free Project Status Report Template for Fast and Easy Project Reporting

Project Bliss

If your PMO or governing body already has requirements in place, follow those. It gives you reference points in your schedule to measure progress against. If desired, you can incorporate ticket or reference numbers if you have a system that tracks them. Some teams require this weekly, while others may want it monthly.

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Troubleshooting in Lean-Agile Development

MPUG

When I referred to the two Lean-Agile types, the categorization is based on an incremental delivery aspect. 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. Let’s understand these two types a bit more.

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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. Then maybe just to kind of add another thing here, which is reference architecture. What do you do with audit and compliance?

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