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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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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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The Transformation Journey: Lessons Learned

Planview

A continuous planning cadence – quarterly, monthly, or even weekly – enables organizations to be ready to move fast when change occurs, or new opportunities appear on the horizon. He not only owns the process for PI planning but also the logistics, tooling, and agenda. Where do you begin? What needs to change?

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Project242: Build Strength in Multiple Areas, Not Just a Few

Bridge the Gap Consulting

These workouts include heavy tension and faster cadence at lower resistance. I’ve learned about different frameworks and increased my tool chest of methods for helping clients be successful. Groups like project management/PMO, fulfillment, billing, manufacturing, shipping, supply chain, and even pilots have all been on my list.

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Troubleshooting in Lean-Agile Development

MPUG

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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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. The “cultural adjustment” happens where different roles see that the framework and tools help them to achieve their part.

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