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Back to Basics: What is Project Governance?

MPUG

My task was to develop guidelines and artifacts for Technology Change Management processes. A Project Management Methodology is an integral part of project governance. Organizations can choose any project management framework or methodology to establish project governance structure. Project Governance.

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Gate Reviews: What Project Managers Need To Know

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project governance is an important part of project management processes – even if it’s not the most exciting part of getting work done. As a project manager, part of your role is shepherding the work through the project lifecycle. Governance is a key part of that, and gate reviews are part of navigating through the project.

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Project Management Job Titles: Understanding the Types of Roles in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

He managed all the logistics for the project including booking rooms for testing and training, making sure the right delegates showed up to the training, supporting them with claiming expenses, organizing project boards, steering groups and other governance milestones, and generally making everyone’s lives easier.

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Who does what in Project Initiation in PRINCE2®

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In addition, there are some practical aspects to agree with everyone, like: How to manage risks and issues How to track progress and what to do when you go off track What baselines you’ll use and how to control them How you are going to communicate and who to. Assemble the project initiation documentation Yey, more paperwork!

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PRINCE2: The Project Management Method Explained

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The History of PRINCE2® PRINCE2® is part of the best practice guidance that came out of the UK Office of Government Commerce. A British government agency, the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency, licensed it for use in government IT projects back in 1979. Document lessons learned for future projects.

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100+ Project Management Terms: PM Terminology Explained

ProjectManager.com

Business Plan A formal document that clearly defines the business goals of a project and how to attain them. The process is designed to increase project efficiency and minimize scope creep by controlling every change and ensuring that changes are made according to set requirements for approving change.

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What is Stakeholder-led Project Management?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Or put more bluntly: If you think you are doing stakeholder management and it’s not making a difference to the way you run your project, then you aren’t! There is a lot of change management involved in this kind of project and people can create problems to the point that they can push the project into the ‘failed’ zone.