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PMO Leadership: How PMOs Can Evolve into Savvy PMOs

Planview

PMO leadership today is about more than being a purveyor of governance and delivering projects on time and on budget. Becoming a Savvy PMO requires first defining and the next areas of focus to advance maturity. Top-down governance – Emphasis on compliance, standards, and processes. The Journey to Becoming a Savvy PMO.

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How to Create a Content Plan for Your Content Strategy

ProjectManager.com

To reach their target customers, marketers use content marketing tactics like blog posts, eBooks, case studies and social media. A content plan, on the other hand, is the blueprint that defines the assets and steps needed to implement your content strategy. That’s the first step in content marketing: defining your target audience.

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Review Individual Competence Baseline – Reference Guide ICB4 for PMO

Henny Portman

This new IPMA standard defines the competences for the individuals working in PMO. A PMO has three main activities: Design – the creation, establishment and maintenance of standards, processes, procedures, and tools that define how work should be done inside. Perform – performing administrative and specialist support work.

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Project Failure – Why it Happens

Online PM Courses

Projects can fail when your team defines the solution before adequate research has validated that it is technically possible… or organizationally desirable. – 2 – Governance. Governance is hardly the most sexy of project management disciplines. Lack of Governance Structure. Too little Research.

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Win at Digital Transformation By Connecting Portfolio Management and Value Stream Management 

Planview

It is inclusive of the work involved to prioritize, define, implement (code), test, deploy, release, and support the product or service. Recommended Read: Learn the basics of VSM in the eBook, What is Value Stream Management in Software Delivery? The Flow Framework ® is a popular framework used in VSM.

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Outputs and outcomes—A story by Dr. Al Zeitoun

Resource Guru

You can read all the stories in our latest eBook, Confessions of a Project Manager. Lesson learned: Always define what project success looks like The key lesson is this: You have to have a joint view of what project success looks like. Download your free copy here. You need to create that early, and you need to revisit it often.

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Review IPMA Organisational Competence Baseline – for developing competence in managing by projects, version 1.1

Henny Portman

The IPMA OCB describes five groups of of organisational competence: Project, programme and portfolio governance Project, programme and portfolio management Project, programme and portfolio alignment Project, programme and portfolio resources Project, programme and portfolio people’s competences.