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What Is Lean Portfolio Management? A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

There are many ways to do this and one of which is lean portfolio management. Let’s first define lean portfolio management and then delve into how it works. We’ll also explain when to use lean portfolio management and how project management software can help you manage your portfolios better. What Is Lean Portfolio Management?

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Project Management Office Definition and Purpose

The Strategic Project Manager

This post gets down to the basics of the Project Management Office (PMO): What is a PMO, what is its purpose, and why do you need one (or more) in your organization? Is There a Single Project Management Office Definition? The rest of what a PMO might provide is situation-specific. Overriding Purpose of a PMO.

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How to Fix 5 Project Management Skills Gaps

Rebel’s Guide to PM

These also work for coaching your team, so if you are definitely not interested in learning all those spreadsheet formulae, help someone else get their skills up to scratch so they can best support you! Below are 5 of the areas where I know people struggle with skills, and a couple of tips about how you can improve in those areas.

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Lean Portfolio Management Operations: An Agile Approach

Planview

This blog is part of a series on Lean portfolio management for the enterprise. If you haven’t already, we recommend reading: Part 1: What is Lean Portfolio Management? Part 2: Lean Portfolio Management: Lean Budgets and Investment Funding. Didn’t we just say that a centralized PMO undermined LPM?

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Troubleshooting in Lean-Agile Development

MPUG

Many project managers utilize a Lean-Agile approach when there is high change or churn in project requirements, significant lack of clarity in scope, high complexity to their projects, and/or a larger number of risks associated with such. Two Lean-Agile Types. Iteration-based Lean-Agile. Flow-based Lean-Agile. Flow-based.

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How To Make 2023 A Successful Year for Your Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

External factors around projects are constantly changing at a breakneck speed which makes it challenging to definitively control the outcome without frequent course correction. XP, scrum, lean, etc.) Second, the use of lean and agile tools and methodologies beyond IT, software and manufacturing. Speak up a little more often.

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Cure Your Zombie PMO

Planview

Breaking news update: as I previously reported in the blog, “ Symptoms of the Zombie PMO ,” zombification is still proliferating in businesses throughout the world. In this updated report, I will expound upon the cures discussed by experts in the on-demand webinar, “ Avoiding the Pitfalls of a Zombie PMO.”.

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