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The PMO Roadmap for Driving Business Agility

Planview

Portfolio Management Offices are in a prime position to deliver this business agility – with the right PMO roadmap. This is what consultant Peter Taylor and I discussed during our recent webinar: Modernizing PPM: A Practical Four-Step Roadmap to Accelerate Agility. Can you go over Lean versus Agile?

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How To Make 2023 A Successful Year for Your Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Mark Phillips runs a consultancy focused on high performing projects. XP, scrum, lean, etc.) Second, the use of lean and agile tools and methodologies beyond IT, software and manufacturing. Visual, lean tools that truly engage all team members are going to become essential. First, virtual teams are becoming the norm.

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Small business tips for managing projects with a lean team

LiquidPlanner

You don’t need a formal project management office (PMO) to understand your resource capacity. Lean teams must collaborate well and trust each other. Brad Egeland is a Business Solution Designer and IT/PM consultant and author with over 25 years of software development, management, and project management experience.

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The 18 Most Influential People in Project Management

ProjectManager.com

Lindsay Scott is the director of Manchester, UK-based PMO Learning Limited which is dedicated to helping PMO professionals get the most out of their careers with training and organizational development opportunities. He writes consistently on his blog about software development and lean, Kanban and agile development principles.

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Agile Consulting

Leading Answers

April’s theme at ProjectManagement.com where I write a monthly column was “Consulting,” and in this article, I examine the world of Agile Consulting and coaching. Getting Started Personally, I was hesitant to get into agile consulting and coaching. Consultants help clients by working with them to bring meaningful improvements.

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100+ Project Management Terms: PM Terminology Explained

ProjectManager.com

” G – Project Management Terms Henry Gantt American mechanical engineer and management consultant who developed the Gantt chart in 1910. It is commonly employed in Agile and Lean projects, often in response to end-user feedback in product development cycles.

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Top Project Management Conferences of 2022

ProjectManager.com

What to Expect: Sessions focus on agility, software engineering and lean business. Future PMO. Future PMO is a one-day event that is for PMO and project management professionals of all levels. Speakers include Federico Vargas, CEO, GE360 and keynote speaker Laura Barnard, training and consultant, on PMO strategies.

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