The Strategic Project Manager

OCTOBER 15, 2021

One of the ways that Blue Ocean Strategy incorporates execution is through its approach to leadership. Blue Ocean Leadership is pretty simple in concept, and requires commitment and effort with a few basic principles to succeed. The Blue Ocean Approach to Leadership. The Leadership Canvas (or Profile).

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

APRIL 18, 2019

Building an adaptive leadership mindset, skill set and toolset. The PMO: Gap Closer. Reading the report and the call to actions – one thing struck me – who in the organisation is responsible for ensuring the gaps get closed. It’s the PMO. Where the PMO Closes the Gap.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. They let you know whether you can go overspent or what risk mitigation actions are the right ones for this point in the project. Risks and issues. Budget position.

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Project Pulse Journal

MAY 3, 2024

It is a discipline that integrates various principles to ensure that programs are managed effectively and align closely with strategic goals. These principles, including stakeholder engagement and benefits realization, form the strong leadership and backbone of successful program management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 19, 2023

If you are close to your recertification deadline, read my guide on how to quickly earn PDUs for renewal. All Ways of Working PDUs count towards Project Management Professional ( PMP )® maintenance, even if they are in a subject that feels more aligned to a different certificate, like the scheduling or risk credentials.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 12, 2022

This wasn’t a survey about project portfolio management at the PMO level. Planning is the top skill identified as being able to manage multiple projects, closely followed by communication and stakeholder engagement. I documented this as a risk, and continued to communicate it up the chain to leadership, but nothing changed.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

JUNE 20, 2019

Last week it was the fifth PMO Conference in London. With over 400 PMO practitioners from around the globe and over 20 sessions to choose from, there’s a lot to learn about where PMO is heading right now. Staying with the reporting theme, data analytics will be a game changer for the PMO in the coming years.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

This wasn’t a survey about project portfolio management at the PMO level. Planning is the top skill identified as being able to manage multiple projects, closely followed by communication and stakeholder engagement. I documented this as a risk, and continued to communicate it up the chain to leadership, but nothing changed.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Consider these changes faced by PMOs in recent years: The call to infuse agility and become a modern PMO. The pressure to evolve is mounting for the PMO, which needs to adapt to new digital strategies – and more strategic, product, or initiative portfolios – while bridging traditional practices.

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Paymo App

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Suppose you’re a project manager and have all your ducks in a row: sufficient industry experience, a PMP accredited certification, and a handful of successfully delivered projects that recommend you for a leadership position. This means your role is not anymore limited to planning, executing, and closing projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 23, 2022

Projects are subsets of workplaces and since project management is, for the most part, an activity that involves working very closely with others, the impact of a bully in a project is potentially lethal to project success. Alternatively, you may see the senior management adopting a disrespectful tone and exhibiting poor leadership skills.

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NimbleWork

APRIL 21, 2024

Stand up your PMO with the resources required to manage the software , the projects and the reporting. Be clear on the benefits you are expecting so you can bring your senior leadership team along on the journey. For example, it might not make sense to migrate a project is closing in a couple of weeks on to the new software.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This is done by performing work during initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing with a keen focus on meeting customer/client outcomes, and managing the schedule, cost, scope and quality the requirements/specifications. Procurement The process of obtaining goods, services, or works from an external source.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 18, 2024

Imagine navigating project risks confidently with efficient resource utilization, managing projects for maximum efficiency, and promoting a culture of transparency and accountability within your project team and organization. However, it's not merely about mitigating risks; it's about transforming them into opportunities for value creation.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 23, 2024

In project management, continuous improvement focuses on refining all aspects of the project management processes —from planning and executing to monitoring, controlling and closing—to increase efficiency, effectiveness, and adaptability. Focus on areas like agile methodologies, risk management, and leadership.

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LiquidPlanner

MAY 31, 2022

The tool is there as management support, and the sooner we get away from software being a PMO overhead, the better. Failing to adapt and deliver quickly gives competitors room to win or the window of market opportunity simply closes. Thank goodness. . As project managers, we need tools that empower us to lead our projects.

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NimbleWork

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

So we asked various questions – and listened closely to the answers that we received. Organizations and leadership understand the relative advantages and disadvantages of traditional and agile approaches – and are clear they need to move in the direction of agile. Is the PMO part of IT or reports to the business head?

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Planview

JANUARY 2, 2020

Since financial services institutions typically work within well-established practices to mitigate risks, new ways of working aren’t always immediately accepted. Challenges arise when senior leadership has yet to adopt an Agile mindset, even if their teams have. Risk levels. Agile teams are largely self-governing. Cost of delay.

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Planview

APRIL 15, 2020

EPMOs and Finance, together, can ensure the leadership team is making the best decisions now and for the future. Work with your PMO leaders to ensure your remote workforce is delivering on strategy? It’s important, of course, to reevaluate priorities, shift resources, and track progress closely.

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Project Risk Coach

AUGUST 28, 2017

One communication tool that I’ve used for enterprise programs such as implementing a Project Management Office (PMO) or an Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Program is an internal blog. What happens to the blog when you close out your program or project? Engage: occupy, attract, or involve (someone’s interest or attention).

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The Lazy Project Manager

JULY 6, 2020

[link] BOOK TODAY – OFFER CLOSES SOON. Planning for the possible Risks. Peter is the author of the number 1 bestselling project management book ‘The Lazy Project Manager’, along with many other books on Project Management, PMO development, Executive Sponsorship, Transformation Leadership, and Speaking Skills.

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The Lazy Project Manager

JULY 3, 2017

Ability to evaluate and judge – such is the essence of project leadership and decision making. Project (or Program) Management Office (PMO) activities and focus (supportive, directive, controlling). Tailwind Project Solutions was formed in 2014 to provide a bespoke approach to project leadership development.

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Project Risk Coach

AUGUST 28, 2017

One communication tool that I’ve used for enterprise programs such as implementing a Project Management Office (PMO) or an Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Program is an internal blog. What happens to the blog when you close out your program or project? Engage: occupy, attract, or involve (someone’s interest or attention).

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International Institute for Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Benchmarking is an excellent method to capture external best practices, possibly by using the project management office (PMO) or other internal organizations as the lead for external benchmarking activities. Step 5: Be able to implement the steps necessary to close the performance gap between your company and other companies/organizations.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 26, 2023

What leadership behaviors does the team need to draw on? And then of course – the overall risk for the project, even without the pandemic, is pretty significant. Add in the pandemic and you had a lot of high impact risks that could occur. How do we resolve conflict or disagreements?

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Does your organization invest in a Project Management Office (PMO)? If you are reading this then you must be considering setting up a PMO or have concluded your approach to project management is not working and you are in the process of analyzing, dismantling and preparing to rebuild it. Put the right leadership in place.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

MARCH 25, 2020

We live in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) world, a fact brought only too close to home by recent global events. But for companies with resilient systems and the right leadership, it is simply a question of re-configuring to address the new environment. This post first appeared on PMO Perspectives Blog.

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Resource Guru

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

At larger institutions, resource forecasting often gets scattered across resource managers and the PMO. Give accurate information to leadership : Get your project approved faster and give stakeholders transparency with a timeline of how long the project will take, how much it will cost, and how many people need to work on it to get it done.

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Techno-PM

MARCH 18, 2022

covering every stage from initiating through planning up until closing. Project Managers, PMO staff, Program managers, Project Management team members, Project Board members, Project management consultants, Quality consultants and Portfolio managers are all eligible for the PRINCE2 training.

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Online PM Courses

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

It’s apparently targeted at IT PM, but the sections on Managing Projects, Applied Leadership, and Business Acumen speak clearly to PMI’s Talent Triangle. Project risk, security, safety… If these are your interests, then Matthew Squair’s Critical Uncertainties blog is for you. Project Risk Coach. So, thank you Dave. Camel Blog.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

MARCH 7, 2019

Strategy Execution released the top ten trends for 2019 a few weeks ago and my first thoughts were; we’re seeing a lot of them in the PMO community which is both exciting and nerve-wracking at the same time. That means getting better at business cases; requirements; scoping; risks; planning; resourcing, scheduling.

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Planview

JANUARY 24, 2019

Part 5: How Risk Management is Crucial to Project Management. Project risk assessments and expectation agreements need to include outside partners. Project managers need to work closely with resource managers to ensure resource commitment. Likewise, estimates should be tied to risk assessments, as mentioned earlier.).

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Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

They work closely with executives and other stakeholders to understand the strategic direction of the company so that the product supports these objectives. Strong leadership skills are essential as well, as product managers need to be able to inspire and motivate cross-functional teams.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 23, 2020

I’m the director of the PMO, University of Washington. Bill Dow: I was at Microsoft for almost 14 years where I ran eight PMOs there. This year I was named one of the top 16 PMO leaders of the world, which is from the PMO Global Award, so was really exciting and hopefully you guys saw some of my presentations there.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

JULY 18, 2019

In ‘My Project Life’ (Chapter 2), Mr Nieto-Rodriguez explains his experience and journey leading to the instigation of the Brightline Initiative, under the auspices of the PMI (of which he was Chairman), the global coalition closing the gap in project management awareness. This post first appeared on PMO Perspectives Blog.

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Planview

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Once it’s closed and it’s done, it’s going to create some type of product or service, but the bottom line is that it needs to create some kind of return-on-investment (ROI). Then, a project is initiated, planning takes place, project execution happens, and the project is then closed out. One kind of washes out the other.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

APRIL 20, 2020

Ahead of its January meeting in Davos, the World Economic Forum published its Global Risks Report 2020, based on the input of 750 experts and outlining the biggest risks faced by economies over the next 10 years [1]. And if the WEF didn’t see a risk coming, then what hope do we have? Surely no-one could have predicted Covid-19?

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