Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 7, 2023

They might be influenced by market conditions (risk appetite statements might change, for example, if the market suddenly gets a lot more competitive). They serve the same purpose – to influence the context and environment for the project – except they are external influences instead of internal influences.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Risk management is the most important of your project controls. This can lead us to set up risk management activities that are less than effective, or influence our approaches to managing project risk. Mike Clayton defines risk as “uncertain events that can affect outcomes,” in his book, Risk Happens!:

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

What’s it like running big projects/a PMO/working in X field? Who are the key influencers for Y? Understanding the workplace culture and the dynamics of soft power within the organization can hugely increase your influence, so use your mentor for the insider information! Which of these do you think would be the best fit for me?

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

APRIL 18, 2023

Now it’s time to create a PMO Business Case and start moving the needle from idea to reality. If you notice, I call it a PMO Business Case, not a PMO Charter. I don’t like the word “charter” when talking about creating PMO’s. Below are some of the key components of a PMO Business Case.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 24, 2020

Worst case, you’ll find out that there are hardly any plans, documents and methods of control over the work. For other areas of governance such as reporting and approval levels, talk to your PMO and get these in place. Action if there is no budget plan or information: Back to the PMO or your Finance team. 1: Check Your Role.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

External factors around projects are constantly changing at a breakneck speed which makes it challenging to definitively control the outcome without frequent course correction. This may be by adopting a new tool or approach, learning some new skills in listening, influence, or negotiation, or maybe simply allocating more time to it.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2022

Now that command and control is recognized as an ineffective way of managing projects, project managers need alternatives that work when they don’t have authority over the team. Being able to influence and get results, even when you aren’t in charge, is so important if you want to collaborate effectively with the team.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

More trust, less control (especially in remote teams). What we practice already and more and more companies are adopting is more trust and less control. It’s a way of automating repetitive tasks and it’s having a bit of an impact on the PMO community. Think about how your PMO teams are rewarded. Why is it important?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 23, 2022

The best short answer is to appreciate what is within your realm of control and influence in order to create an action plan. That may give you an opportunity of influence outside the unit. Before you decide what to do, here is a list of issues to consider: Take time to learn and observe those with influence (i.e.

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

APRIL 22, 2021

So, what do Disney movies and PMO’s have in common? While having coffee with a PMO director, he mentioned the PMO he’s leading is maturing at a good pace. As he put it, “Not every story we tell in the PMO has to have a happy ending.” And that’s OK for a mature PMO. No heros stop it!

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Techno-PM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

PMO KPI Dashboard - Excel While more and more IT organizations have a project management office (PMO) in place nowadays, the percentage of IT PMOs which are terminated after just a brief period of time is far from encouraging. This is not to say that PMOs do not deliver value!

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 27, 2018

There’s always going to be some risk involved in a project, but often it’s how well you prepare and control that risk that marks good project management. There are also processes by which to implement and control those phases. That’s how you start the project, and how you start it is going to influence every phase that follows.

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LiquidPlanner

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Looking at the 4 T’s in terms of your work life today, you may conclude that even the best project manager can’t influence the autonomy of their tasks and time. He has built and led some of the largest PMOs in the world with organizations such as Siemens, IBM, UKG, and now Ceridian, where he is the VP Global PMO.

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Inloox

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

In fact, an organization’s agility level is the most important factor influencing project success rates. A transformation program with your PMO as change agent As a start, establishing a formal agile transformation program will help you set the grounds for a consistent and uniform transformation throughout your organization.

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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. Hand in hand, little by little, every piece of knowledge counts.

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LiquidPlanner

JUNE 14, 2023

Ongoing turmoil in the financial sector, pressure on prices and the supply chain, the cost of living and the cost of global warming… if it was my money, I’d be choosing projects that skewed toward low risk for now, but that’s a conversation to be having with your strategy team and the portfolio management office (PMO).

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Change Control A formal process of documenting, reviewing, approving, and managing a change to a project’s scope, schedule, budget, or quality parameters. Project Management Office (PMO) An organization’s centralized office or department that oversees and supports all organizational project management efforts.

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Jez Lister

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

I first came across the Project Management Office or PMO concept twenty-five years ago whilst working as a project manager for a large systems integrator. Most of my colleagues – myself included were initially unclear about the purpose of the PMO and assumed that we were all to be relocated to new offices. PMO as a Service Provider.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

Have as many layers as fits within your PMO methodology. In every case, you should have people on the group who understand the project (or who can be brought up to speed) and who have influence and interest in the outcomes. Take minutes, or co-opt someone from the PMO to help. Do I need a project board or a steering group?

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Techno-PM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

PMO KPI Dashboard - Excel While more and more IT organizations have a project management office (PMO) in place nowadays, the percentage of IT PMOs which are terminated after just a brief period of time is far from encouraging. This is not to say that PMOs do not deliver value!

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LiquidPlanner

JUNE 7, 2022

Or could influence you to invest in hard to find and expensive human resources when you simply have a short-term capacity constraint. You don’t need a formal project management office (PMO) to understand your resource capacity. To do so, I offer three simple resolutions to control potential scope creep: Resource manage.

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

How does this story relate to Authority vs. Influence? Johnny But when Johnny caught the ball bare handed to prove a point, the pitcher got the message and changed his approach for the duration of the game (influence). That That type of influence is what made Johnny an amazing player. Influence without authority is not easy! Here

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 11, 2018

Read next: How to Engage Stakeholders With Your Project (Beyond the Power & Influence Grid). I think if you want to overcome the C-Suite concerns, then you really need to be asking for any project or PMO how does this link to the incoming expenditure or profit loss? It says, “They see the PMO as a Panadol, not an antibiotic.”

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The Strategic Project Manager

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Crystal includes 3 core beliefs: Technologies change techniques – How we work, and the way a team chooses to work together, will be influenced by the technologies that are available. Some are critical, and some not, and the likelihood and ability to control the impact are important for each risk.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Enterprise environmental factors can be defined as conditions that aren’t under the immediate control of the project team. These can influence the outcome of the project, program or portfolio so they must be managed. They can include cultural influences, the political climate and much more.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

And you know, the manifesto had just been written and I was working as a project manager in a company called CheckFree here in Atlanta and squarely like in the PMO. And so, it’s that for a couple years, that group reorganized and I kind of find myself back in a regular PMO and I’m like, that’s not cool, right? Yeah, that is awesome.

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Inloox

AUGUST 5, 2018

The 2018 edition of the Pulse highlights feedback and insights from 4,455 project management practitioners, 447 senior executives, and 800 project management office (PMO) directors from a range of industries, including government, information technology (IT), telecom, energy, manufacturing, healthcare, and construction.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 3, 2018

External factors around projects are constantly changing at a breakneck speed which makes it challenging to definitively control the outcome without frequent course correction. Bill Dow , PMP, is a recognised expert in developing and managing Project Management Offices (PMOs.) He has 20+ years as a project manager and PMO leader.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 8, 2016

Worst case, you’ll find out that there are hardly any plans, documents and methods of control over the work. For other areas of governance such as reporting and approval levels, talk to your PMO and get these in place. Action if the answer is No: Back to the PMO or your Finance team. Action: Talk to the PMO again.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 18, 2024

We will explore how the project management control process and systems are the backbone of project success, providing structure, oversight, and direction to ensure that projects are executed and aligned with organizational goals and values.

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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. Each author and researcher tend to look at the steps included in benchmarking differently. The steps can range from four to ten steps.

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The Strategic Project Manager

APRIL 7, 2022

Here are five project management areas that are directly influenced by Key Resources: Portfolio Management – Decisions throughout the business model canvas are an input to the projects that need to be done and their priority. I recommend these PM templates (paid link): —————————————-. Atlassian, GitLab, etc.),

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Planio

OCTOBER 23, 2023

While we’ve already briefly touched on it, it’s important to reiterate that resource management goes hand in hand with other project controls, such as scope, quality, and cost management. But what might influence your decision to allocate resources? Understand the processes within your organization for getting resources.

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The Lazy Project Manager

JANUARY 27, 2016

As has been already discussed the reality out there in ‘PMO land’ is that there is not a plethora of wise and experienced PMO managers, directors, leaders, heads, etc., and so it is sensible for anyone who is engaged to help an organisation set up a new PMO or advise on improvements to an existing PMO to reach out for some help.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

MAY 2, 2019

Within the project management community, the concept of governance is seen as a fundamental project control, which is easy to grasp in principle. Sceptical stakeholders can be a blessing in disguise because they influence the group to address concerns. Who influences the decision-makers? But in reality, it’s a different matter.

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PM Times

APRIL 7, 2021

Most companies now seek project managers who follow the PMO processes like Waterfall or Agile and many C-Level executives support the PMO process. However, a formally adopted PMO process to implement and closely monitor projects and portfolios does not account for everything occurring in IT. Conclusion.

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Meisterplan

JANUARY 2, 2019

Each factor creates more work for your PMO, your portfolio board, or your project managers, depending on who is responsible for the project evaluation. The Decentralized Domain Approach – Control Is Not Always Everything Do you like to be in control and don’t like giving up responsibility? (Source: Harvard Business Review ).

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