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How To Start A Project As An Accidental Project Manager

Rebel’s Guide to PM

About Simon: Simon Harris, CGEIT, PMP ® , PRINCE2-Agile, IPMA-D, has over 25 years of consulting and contracting experience across a variety of industries. He offers online training courses on PRINCE2 that can be found by clicking here.

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Communications Tools: The Project Banner

Rebel’s Guide to PM

At conferences or trade shows where your business might have a stand (I’m thinking particularly for PMO teams who are recruiting project managers). You'll also like: Inside PRINCE2: Who does what in project Initiation Initiating a project is where it all starts in PRINCE2. Why use Kanban?

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Getting Into Project Management – Five Steps to Take

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

A popular way to try and kick start a career has been to take a PRINCE2 course and hope for the best. and ends with the same generic answers: “W ell I’ve done a bit of it in my current role ” or “S omeone said I would be good at it ” or even worse: “B ecause I’ve just done my PRINCE2.”. Attend webinars, seminars and conferences.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Have as many layers as fits within your PMO methodology. That’s the minimum (and the approach advocated by PRINCE2). You might want to have a conference call line open so that people who aren’t present can join the meeting on the phone. Take minutes, or co-opt someone from the PMO to help.

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#PMOT – Who are the Project Managers on Twitter to Follow?

Online PM Courses

And we mustn’t forget that there are other widely used hashtags in the #PMOT community, like #Agile, #PMO, and #PMP. Enthusiastic PMO bod. PMO flashmobber: arraspeople.co.uk. Leadership #PMO #StrategicPlanning Join us: project-management.pm. Senior Project Manager, PMP, PMO-CP certified. PM Bloggers.

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99 Reasons to Love (and Join) MPUG Now!

MPUG

What’s PRINCE2? We offer interviews from PMI® PMO Conferences to keep you up to date even if you can’t attend. You’ll meet Ronald Smith, who has over four decades of experience as Senior PM/Program Manager. We’ll tell you! Want to write an article, but don’t know how to start? Our editor can help you every step of the way….

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