Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 10, 2023

It sounds simple – we all know we should do it, but it’s hard to know where to start for a new PMO. It covers the whole lifecycle from finding ideas for projects, through the prioritization process and planning for the most productive organization possible. He recommends being pragmatic with monitoring.

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Planview

MAY 9, 2023

In anticipation of International PMO Day, we began curating the stories for this PMO case study roundup several weeks ago. The PMO has a long history of driving significant benefits for the business. But PMOs must be agile and adaptable to be valued business partners. And for good reason. And for good reason.

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PMO Governance Government Transportation 78

Planview

AUGUST 16, 2021

Portfolio Management Offices are in a prime position to deliver this business agility – with the right PMO roadmap. Peter, who wrote the book The Lazy Project Manager , drew upon his 30 years of experience building and leading PMOs to provide some guideposts. The PMO roadmap shows how to cultivate effective strategy execution at speed.

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PMO Agile Lean Governance 158

MPUG

JUNE 5, 2023

In today’s discussion, we’ll explore the intriguing concept of the Digital Project Management Office (PMO). You may ask, “What is a Digital PMO?” Understanding the Concept of the Digital PMO The Digital PMO, as its name suggests, integrates digital project management tools at its core.

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MPUG

MARCH 8, 2024

Live Event: Copilot Studio and the PMO – Creating a Capable and Useful AI Assistant Wednesday, March 20, 12:00pm – 1:00pm EST Earn 1 PDU: 1 Ways of Working Click to register now and join us live! Just imagine the power when you add your company’s Project Management best practices and processes document.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 16, 2024

When you’re a project management office (PMO) or program or portfolio manager, you’re going to have to deal with multiple projects in various stages of the project pipeline. It shows each project as it moves from one stage to the next in the project management process, from initiation to closure. That’s called the project life cycle.

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Musings on Project Management

APRIL 9, 2020

I've written before that the PMO is the world of 1-sigma; 6-sigma need not apply. One-time projects don't generate enough data for real statistical process controls to be valid. To wit: projects are the domain of small data. Small data is why we approximate, but approximation is not.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Are you ready to take your PMO into the future? Join Bill Dow, PMP (2023 PMO Influencer of the Year Winner), as he takes you through the step-by-step process of introducing metrics into your PMO. Many PMO Managers struggle when understanding what metrics to create in their PMOs for a variety of reasons.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 23, 2023

A risk audit is a process used to determine whether the actions to manage the risk are actually happening and if they are happening effectively. The project manager , another project manager, a PMO person, or a risk audit person could carry out the audit. What is a risk audit in project management? Who carries out the risk audit?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 15, 2024

As a program manager, PMO or project team leader, you probably think about how to plan upcoming work. The data you gather is the basis for the development plan you need to put in place. So, now is the point that you can start to write out your development plan based on the data you have gathered and the gap that you have identified.

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WorkOtter

MAY 23, 2023

Setbacks in productivity can damage the success and growth of your business, which is why setting up a Project Management Office (PMO) to help handle and oversee various projects at once is a great way to avoid these issues. What Exactly is a PMO? Setting up a PMO can help with many different components of a business.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The Initiating a Project process is designed to “establish solid foundations” according to the 2023 Managing Successful Projects official manual, also known as PRINCE2 7. Agree tailoring requirements The project manager is responsible for working out how to tailor the processes to fit the project. There are seven things to do.

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Planview

JUNE 5, 2020

PMO leadership today is about more than being a purveyor of governance and delivering projects on time and on budget. The Savvy PMO fosters organizational agility, cultivates efficiencies, and drives growth strategies. Planview created the Savvy PMO Guide Series to give organizations actionable guidance on how progress PMO leadership.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 22, 2024

Securing the right resource (and enough of it) is a huge headache for PMO leaders and project professionals. The PMO can lead on this but everyone will need to follow the process for it to work. But you’re going to have to do them if you want to make data-driven decisions. and define how leaders can secure resources.

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Technical Review PMO Risk Management Software Review 280

Planview

APRIL 29, 2022

In this post, we’ll show you how to become a modern PMO that enables your organization to adapt to an ever-changing professional landscape. But first, let’s look at the key benefits that come from transitioning into a modern PMO. Why You Should Become a Modern PMO. Let’s get started.

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PMO Governance Government Executing 88

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 29, 2022

I review a lot of PM software tools and there are companies now making massive leaps into integrating big data, automations, machine learning and more into the way they collate, present and make it possible to use large data sets. Efficiency is more than having the right process. Could that be you? Human/machine collaboration.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

Six videos covering tools and techniques, the process and more. I see a day in the not too distant future where you plug your task information into a tool and out pops an estimate, based on the last 12 projects using the same resource and qualitative data on past performance. RPA is Robotic Process Automation. What you can do.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 23, 2024

This requires an organization with a well-developed project management process. That’s because the project teams involved with these successful projects follow a defined and repeatable process, which mitigates risk and achieves objectives. It’s essential to keep projects successful for any organization to thrive.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They might not be a popular choice but once you have made the switch you’ll find the data incredibly useful. Boost your skills: Make sure everyone on the team knows how to manage risks and what the process is. Finally, make sure that when you are scheduling you are doing so with all the data – correct and accurate data.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 18, 2021

The 9 types of artifacts are: Strategy Logs and registers Plans Hierarchy charts Baselines Visual data and information Reports Agreements and contracts Other – a bucket category for anything else. For example, an estimate is the obvious output of the estimating process, so estimates aren’t mentioned again as a separate project artifact.

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Planview

DECEMBER 13, 2019

A healthcare PMO today must have a strong constitution. Not only are they faced with challenges unique to healthcare, PMOs are also going through the trends mentioned in our recent post, “ Conquer Your Business Transformation.” It’s an exciting time as we go through the portfolio process.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 12, 2024

Then we’ll help you with the workforce planning process and explain the benefits of using workforce planning in your projects. Workforce planning is the overall process of analyzing, forecasting and planning workforce supply and demand. Workforce planning also involves the process of forecasting the gap between capacity and demand.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 2, 2019

A few years ago, I was hired as a Project Management Office (PMO) consultant for a software products company. My assignment was to setup their PMO, implement best practices, and oversee projects for twelve months before handing over the setup to the client. Setting up a PMO is very challenging task. Step III – Create Templates.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 9, 2021

Summary review of Sciforma: Sciforma is a PPM tool that has powerful portfolio management features and will level up your PMO. It takes about 15 minutes to create a project submission form that captures the data needed to record this potential project and log it in the system. The Ideas form data translates to a project score.

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Software Review 2021 PMO Project Life Cycle 392

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

We will need to know about this and how we can harness digital assets to streamline infrastructure, logistics and data tracking on projects. AI is already a feature in some project management tools and robotic processing will help automate routine PMO tasks. Efficiency is more than having the right process.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 20, 2023

Here’s the list: Strategy Logs and registers Plans Hierarchy charts Baselines Visual data and information Reports Agreements and contracts Other – a bucket category for anything else. For example, an estimate is the obvious output of the estimating process, so estimates aren’t mentioned again as a separate project artifact.

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Planview

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Regardless of whether you’re still learning how to prioritize projects or you’re a seasoned veteran, you can walk away from this blog knowing how to become a Savvy PMO. Who has a say in your prioritization process? Now, it’s time to choose a prioritization process that works to deliver the best results. Here’s how.

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PMO Risk Management Risk Monitoring 78

Planview

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

In the first workshop in this series , we discussed how your organization can shift toward continuous planning, using your current annual planning and demand management processes as starting points. In part 2 , we will venture into how you can fuel decisions with data by improving and increasing your data insights.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Could your work intake and demand management processes use some sprucing up? Have no fear, the Savvy PMO is here! This blog series is for you whether you are inundated with work requests, need a more streamlined process, require better scoring and prioritization, or have other challenges with demand management.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

APRIL 18, 2019

The PMO: Gap Closer. It’s the PMO. It’s a combination of different PMOs in a larger organisation – a Portfolio Office with Programme and Projects PMOs, maybe even a Centre of Excellence too. The only entity that exists today that can support that is the PMO. Where the PMO Closes the Gap.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 4, 2021

It will be something we see more of and it will lead into other trends – for example, driving data analysis and giving recommendations for decisions. The next topic that comes to mind for the future of project management is data science and analytics. Change management is another huge topic for data science.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This real-time data will then be available across our software features. But IT budgets also fund the streamlined provisioning of this process through effective planning and optimizing utilization. However, there tend to be a few professionals who are mostly involved in this process. What Is Included in an IT Budget?

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MPUG

APRIL 29, 2024

With over 15 years of experience, Erik has become a go-to resource for enterprises looking to leverage the latest Microsoft technologies like Power Platform and Copilot Studio to drive PMO transformation. The combination of these 3 tools can assist any PMO with their day to day needs. Erik: There’s so much potential.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

A Legal Project Manager supports legal teams to deliver either process improvements and internally-facing work, or legal projects for clients. Instead, people with PMO job titles are in a crucial support function. Here are some common job titles you’ll find within the PMO. PMO Manager: The person who leads the PMO team.

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PMO Construction Retail Infrastructure 347

Planview

OCTOBER 7, 2020

How w e ll your Proj e ct Manag e m e nt Offic e (PMO) or E nt e rpris e PMO (E PMO ) functions is conting e nt on two things: th e minds e t of e ach of your e mploy e e s and e stablishing a strat e gic top-down proj e ct portfolio cultur e.   Understanding the cost of each project was of most concern.

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PMO Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Executing 78

MPUG

MAY 6, 2024

Natural Language Processing (NLP) One of the key AI applications is automating document analysis, particularly in the critical phases of requirements gathering and stakeholder communication. These recommendations are grounded in data insights, providing a solid foundation for decision-making.

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Planview

MARCH 6, 2020

Executives expect PMOs to be the catalyst for this change. Success requires becoming a more “Adaptive PMO,” evolving how you plan, govern, and empower delivery teams to do their best work. This transition can be uncertain, but Planview is working with PMOs to make it easier as this new video demonstrates.

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