Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 12, 2022

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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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

JUNE 1, 2020

After some tapping on their laptop, they proudly showed me their new corporate webpages, proclaiming their ‘strategy’, ‘vision’ and ‘mission’ statements. [1] All we need to do now is execute that strategy! Presumably, it will just happen now that senior management have expressed the strategic direction? How will we get there?

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 24, 2023

COBIT This is a governance framework and supporting toolset developed by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA). COBIT works with ITIL by offering governance and assurance to ITIL’s supervision for service management. They include the following. Let’s take a moment to quickly define these ITSM processes.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 7, 2022

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.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 24, 2024

As an example, different skills may be needed for strategic projects that demand radical rather than incremental changes from how the firm conducts business. Some of the new skills needed for strategic projects include design thinking, rapid prototype development, crowd storming, market research, brainstorming and change management.

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The Strategic Project Manager

MARCH 8, 2023

This post looks at the major elements of the Project Charter and how they link back to strategy. How to Write a Project Charter The Project Charter is often the first document that the actual project manager of the project writes. There are more detailed documents to prepare for many of these components and sub-components.

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The Strategic Project Manager

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The Blue Ocean Strategy framework is unique in that it incorporates execution into the strategy. By contrast, most strategy frameworks are just that – strategy, and strategy alone. They separately require strong execution, which usually takes strong project management. Everybody gets a say.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 22, 2020

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! This book sets out a way to manage stakeholders that many project managers will recognize: Identify and document. Develop strategies. Plan approach. 3 Types of Project.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Here are some tips for selling Agile project management methodology to stakeholders: 1. Align Agile project management with your organization’s strategy. In certain cases, it’s possible to cling to legacy or home-rolled project management practices even when development teams have moved into some form of Agile development.

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Epicflow Blog

JUNE 10, 2024

In contrast to traditional project/program/portfolio managers dealing with individual projects/programs/portfolios, the role of a CPO is more strategic, he or she is a member of the executive board and oversees all project-related activities and their connection with an organization’s business strategy.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Business goals are achieved through a structured plan with clear guidelines for how the strategy will be executed. It involves change management and touches on every department, which is why human resources are involved. This is similar to change management, which controls changes and manages them through their life cycle.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2021

If that’s you, be on the look out for these kinds of job titles, as you can probably enter project management higher up the ranks: Project manager Senior project manager Program manager Business change manager Organizational change manager Delivery manager PMO manager.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 15, 2022

They are the foundation upon which an organization’s culture, core values, and strategy are built. Organizational competence is essential for businesses to keep up with the ever-changing environment. And let’s face it, whatever sector you work in, things have been pretty change-y over the last few years. Change management.

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The Strategic Project Manager

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Then it focuses on strategy and project management as careers that can lead to CIO – but with a careful strategic approach. Broadening Experience – In addition to technical expertise, acquire a broad understanding of business operations, strategy, and industry trends.

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Wrike

JULY 21, 2023

The successful implementation of organizational strategies is key to achieving strategic success. In this article, we will explore the common hurdles in strategy implementation and provide insights into how organizations can overcome them to achieve their desired outcomes. Provides a roadmap for resource allocation.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 2, 2023

If that’s you, be on the lookout for these kinds of job titles, as you can probably enter project management higher up the ranks: Project manager Senior project manager Program manager Business change manager Organizational change manager Delivery manager PMO manager.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Walter Stinnett’s Project Managers are Change Managers webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Project Managers are Change Managers. Walter serves as a program manager for Edwards Performance Solutions.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 25, 2024

Take control of your projects and programs today and start seeing the benefits of strategic project management. What is a Project Management Office? A Project Management Office (PMO) is a centralized department within an organization that standardizes the governance of projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Competency models for project managers also call out these kinds of behaviors so we’ve known for a long time that they are part of what separates a good project manager from an excellent project manager.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 8, 2018

These courses tend to be no longer than half-a-year in duration and teach how to define, measure and sustain a planned program, while covering topics like program governance, stakeholder engagement and strategies related to managing a program of projects. Program Manager Responsibilities. Program Manager.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 22, 2024

Project management involves various critical functions, from ensuring seamless coordination to task deadlines, articulating clear objectives, and managing resources. However, navigating these functions can pose significant challenges for project managers, impacting progress and success.

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Project Pulse Journal

MAY 3, 2024

They help in the decision-making process relating to project and program prioritization, ensure resource allocation aligns with the business strategy and goals, and adjust strategies as market or organizational conditions change.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 7, 2024

Discover the importance of organizational governance systems, delve into essential project-associated functions, learn how to navigate the project environment, and ensure you are communicating and building relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Further, many organizations tend to have projects without a higher purpose.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 14, 2023

However, noticing the benefits of collaboration, you merged them into a unified 'Go-to-Market' team, aiming to harmonize their strategies and communication. Example: Recognizing the inefficiencies in manual data entry, you invested in an AI-powered Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. You've introduced new tech.

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Henny Portman

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Some are more or less combined and two principles collaborate across boundaries (to facilitate effective cross-organizational governance where it does not already exist) and deal with ambiguity (to embrace the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous nature of programmes and focuses attention on the need to make ‘eyes-open’ choices).

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 25, 2023

Any project manager that needs assistance to fulfill their job will hire a project officer, whether that’s in healthcare, technology, manufacturing or logistics. You’ll even find project officers working in not-for-profit organizations and government agencies.

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Kiron Bondale

MARCH 19, 2017

The best portfolio prioritization scoring model or the most integrated sprint planning and reporting tool suite will merely provide evidence of dysfunction if behaviors don’t change. Without this, cargo cult behavior will be seen from both portfolio governance participants and agile teams.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2021

You will still need trust, empathy, and organizational change management to achieve lasting change. For this email, it is assumed that the organization’s technical strategy has been defined and a governance model has been implemented. Solve those problems with your leadership, let me know if I can help.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) involves connecting strategy to execution by using lean principles. Budgets are allocated to execute an enterprise’s strategy by portfolio management teams. What Are The Key Components Of Lean Portfolio Management? Review of strategy alignment. What is LPM?

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iZenBridge

MAY 20, 2021

Analyze and Categorize stakeholders to Develop, execute, and validate a strategy for stakeholder engagement. Plan and manage the budget, monitor project budget variations and work with the governance process to adjust as necessary. Manage project changes by executing change management strategy based on the project LIfe Cycle.

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

So as you guys know, Leading Agile, we are exclusively in the change management business. Typically, we’re doing Agile transformation and all the change management is associated with that. Implementing solid practices is key to changing hearts and minds over time. There’s just a lot of stuff to unwind.

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Moira Alexander

JANUARY 18, 2017

PMI's Pulse of the Profession report shows "only 64 percent of government strategic initiatives ever meet their goals and business intent -- and that government entities waste $101 million for every $1 billion spent on project and programs.". How does this bill impact PM practices within the federal government?

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2021

This title probably attracted two types of people – people who are wondering what the role of the ancient practice of martial arts has in organizational change management. Consequently, this model of Dojos provides hope but does not create long-lasting change. Want to Change Culture? Have a Plan.

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

We delivered scope, but did not deliver value with our outcomes (the project was later deemed a failure, but with it came the valuable lesson of organizational change management (OCM)). If it doesn’t align to a business strategy, it’s probably a “pet” project that shouldn’t be moving forward.

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The Strategic Project Manager

JANUARY 9, 2024

This post digs into this ambitious career objective, the required skills and attributes, strategy and project management as steppingstones to the CEO role, and attractive alternative career objectives. Strategy As a Stop on the Path to CEO There are many paths to the CEO role. A career in strategy can certainly be a good one.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 14, 2018

People do what a project manager asks, because it is their job to. A project leader creates a vision and strategy, and inspires people to act, painting a vision of the future. Your role is to lead the project and you are fortunate enough to have a project manager working with you to manage the day-to-day planning and delivery aspects.

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Planview

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Challenges Connecting Strategy and Delivery: “How do we ensure we are investing in the right things?”. One of the challenges discussed was how the healthcare industry’s constantly shifting dynamics make connecting strategy to delivery more complex at all times. Here are five highlights from the discussion: 1.

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