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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. The PMO leadership journey to becoming a Savvy PMO builds on a collaborative approach to adapt processes, support multiple work methodologies, and relook at their toolset. The Journey to Becoming a Savvy PMO.

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40 Reasons PMOs Fail

Project Risk Coach

No project sponsor or project charter for the implementation of the PMO Failure to define the "P" in PMO (Project Management Office or Program Management Office) Failure to place the PMO at the right level of the organization (e.g., If you need to develop a PMO project charter , check out my eBook: Start Writing Your Project Charter Today!

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How to be a Superhero Project Manager

LiquidPlanner

First, let’s define what project success really means. Your project could be delivered on time and within budget, but your teammates and leadership may not be satisfied with the outcome for a few different reasons. A great way to ensure you are aligned with leadership’s goals is to set KPIs upfront. Lead to a great outcome.

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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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Falling in Love with Your Project Plans

LiquidPlanner

Software is scalable and will help you clearly define and assign tasks, customize reports, and track time. You can provide company leadership the assurance that everyone is 100% utilized or at least being utilized as much as planned in your resource plan, revealing that all of us required a bit of down time to remain fully productive.

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Enterprise Agility in Financial Services: Learnings from the 2019 Planview Horizons Customer Conference

Planview

Financial services companies often operate with a traditional approach to project and portfolio management where annual budgets define how projects are funded and executed. Challenges arise when senior leadership has yet to adopt an Agile mindset, even if their teams have. How it’s delivered. When it’s delivered.

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Roles and Responsibilities Template [Free Word Doc]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

A Roles and Responsibilities document is a formal way of defining what each role is responsible for on a project team. You are defining the roles that the team needs, so specify whatever you need in the document, noting that one person could do two roles. Get access to over 20 project management templates, ebooks, checklists and more.