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PMOs Shifting from Watchdogs to Strategic Enablers

Project Risk Coach

First, organizations implement PMOs with a lack of clarity. Why does the organization need the PMO? What is the role of the PMO? How will the PMO engage with the senior leaders? Second, the PMO fails to ask for feedback and incrementally evolve. How PMOs Can Become Strategic Enablers 1.

PMO 457
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Business Resilience: An Overview

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Some other less obvious but equally important benefits are: Increasing productivity Adopting a ‘one team’ approach across the organization Delivering in a predictable fashion (every PMO leader wants this!) This book would be great for PMO practitioners.

PMO 418
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15 Non-Academic Project Management Books to Earn PDUs

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It will teach you how to influence others, even when you are not directly managing them. Engaging Stakeholders on Projects is another one of my books, but it definitely deserves its place in the list if I do say so myself! Definitely worth a read. It’s about influence and negotiation and how to get things done.

PMI 348
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How to Fix 5 Project Management Skills Gaps

Rebel’s Guide to PM

As a project manager, you are expected to have all-round skills encompassing the technical fields of project management like planning and scheduling, through to the interpersonal skills like communicating up and influencing others. And I don’t have them all – I’m aware of that.

Finance 319
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Book review: Risk Happens

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The book includes a good explanation of product breakdown structures and work breakdown structures saying: To move from a scope statement to a plan in your project definition, you will need to articulate your project activities and deliverables item-by-item. Set up your risk management structures straight away.

Risk 373
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5 Tips for Scrum Masters: Collaborating with Project Management for success in a transforming landscape

Scrum.org

During a dinner conversation after the conference, you further discover that PMO (Project Management Office) can support you in leading an Agile transformation and successful Scrum adoption, by covering governance and ensuring alignment across the enterprise. You do have an active Product Goal, right?)

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Stakeholder Analysis and Mapping: Part 2 of 4 Steps of Stakeholder Engagement

Scrum.org

Stakeholder Analysis The definition we discussed in the previous article. This definition is quite broad and hence the list of stakeholders could be quite big. Matrix of Influence Source: Book Product Mastery by Geoff Watts Image Created By Lavaneesh Gautam. They don’t have influence in decision-making for the Product.