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15 Free PMO Templates for Excel and Word

ProjectManager.com

A PMO, or project management office, can be an internal department or an external group or agency that defines and maintains the standards for a company’s project management. However, all three can use PMO templates to support project programs and portfolios. We’ve collected 15 free templates that are suitable for a PMO.

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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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Servant Leadership in PMO Management: A Path to Success

The IIL Blog

However, the traditional hierarchical management approach is evolving, giving rise to the concept of servant leadership within PMOs. Servant leadership is a leadership philosophy where the leader’s primary focus is on serving and empowering team members within the PMO. Ask yourself and your team: Are our processes documented?

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Use Case Template: Introduction of Change Management with InLoox

Inloox

That's why we’ve created a change management planning template to enable you to properly initiate changes in your company with InLoox. Definition Change Management The goal of change management is to adapt processes, strategies and structures in companies in order to move with the times and achieve competitive advantages.

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Gate Reviews: What Project Managers Need To Know

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If your project is facing a gate review, then it’s highly likely you will also have a set of documents or expectations to complete in order to kick off the process and move the work on to the next stage. The PMO will specify the route your project has to follow. Step 1: Create documentation. Step 2: First document approval.

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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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