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Managing Multiple Projects: The Research

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This wasn’t a survey about project portfolio management at the PMO level. Case study. Nearly 70% of project professionals thought that team management was crucial, with 62% reporting they felt project control and governance was key. Case study. “I Proactivity and ownership. Political awareness.

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Managing Multiple Projects: The Research

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This wasn’t a survey about project portfolio management at the PMO level. Case study. Nearly 70% of project professionals thought that team management was crucial, with 62% reporting they felt project control and governance was key. Case study. “I Proactivity and ownership. Political awareness.

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7 Ethics Tips For Project Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

That didn’t sit quite right with her (and she didn’t know she was a perfect example of a project management ethics case study when she was telling me the story!). Being able to act as a credible, trusted leader is dependent on you and your team making ethical choices about how you manage and lead the work.

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Zombie Projects and How to Kill Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

That doesn’t make you a project manager, it makes you an operational team leader – although you could find that there is a useful long-term product management role for you if you prefer this way of working. have poor management. have poor oversight; and. Killing those zombie projects — a case study.

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25 Practical Project Team Development Practices

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

Project managers don’t usually have a specific budget for team development, and yet, as the PMBoK says, teamwork is a critical factor for project success, and developing effective project tea ms is one of the primary responsibilities of the project manager. Of course, there are many dimensions to team leadership.

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Government Lessons in People Over Process

Leading Answers

My first opportunity to create and run a large agile team did not start well. Having had good successes with small to medium sized agile teams I was keen to unleash the benefits on a bigger scale. A clean-sheet development opportunity with a smart team and engaged business group – what could go wrong? What have I done?

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Project Prioritization

EasyProjects

Increasingly, companies have full-time project-management offices (PMO) with staff and budgets to pursue project planning, management, and evaluation full time. Where the list is long, this is work for the PMO or an ad hoc project-prioritization committee. Since it was developed in the 1970s, it has been continuously refined.

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