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PMOs Shifting from Watchdogs to Strategic Enablers

Project Risk Coach

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. Third, some PMO managers lack authority and relational influence in the organization. It Starts With PMO Sponsorship!

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 416
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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. Boost your skills: Make sure everyone on the team knows how to manage risks and what the process is.

Finance 318
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Book review: Risk Happens

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Clayton defines it as 3 things: Processes to make the project more predictable Tools to deal with the real world as it happens Behaviors and attitudes that allow us to cope when change does happen. This can lead us to set up risk management activities that are less than effective, or influence our approaches to managing project risk.

Risk 372
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Engaging Stakeholders with Gamification [video]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

So we’ll look at how to use those principles to support your team’s drive engagement throughout the PMO and encourage stakeholders to take action. Finally, I’m assuming that you work in a project or programme environment within the context of a PMO. Definition of engagement. I define engagement like this.

PMO 418
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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.

SCRUM 144
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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. Stakeholder Persona Canvas Sometimes, I have found that Empathy Mapping can be a time-consuming and resource-intensive process. Users may fall into this.