Henny Portman

JUNE 25, 2022

The book PMO Services and Capabilities – Including an overview of AIPMO’s competence framework – Competences per PMO service – Techniques and tools per PMO service is written by Robert Joslin. Each organizational unit is unique, each organizational unit needs its own set of PMO services.

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Project Risk Coach

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

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. How PMOs Can Become Strategic Enablers 1.

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WorkOtter

JULY 12, 2023

The points below will assist you in carving out a PMO strategy that’ll make a difference for you. Understand the Advantages and Usefulness of Roadmaps First things first, you need to get to know the benefit of a project management office (PMO) roadmap. As a rule of thumb, make sure that you are setting S.M.A.R.T.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 6, 2023

If you haven’t heard the term before, we’ll begin with a definition of strategic project management and explain how strategic projects differ from operational projects. Usually, companies have a project management office (PMO) that will oversee the portfolio or program to ensure it meets strategic goals.

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Henny Portman

JANUARY 3, 2024

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. Can a PMO employee not be a portfolio manager or portfolio analyst?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 15, 2024

As a program manager, PMO or project team leader, you probably think about how to plan upcoming work. At this point in the process you can secure funding for your capability improvements including any training needs. Those challenges are particular to your organization, so it’s not possible for me to tell you what to do.

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Inloox

APRIL 7, 2017

First off: The acronym “PMO” has many different meanings. In this blog series, however, we will use the acronym PMO to describe the project management office. The project assistance is only assigned to one specific project, while the PMO is the central point of contact for all projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 6, 2023

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.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2024

The APM BOK defines project quality as: “The fitness for purpose of the degree of conformance of the outputs of a process, or the process itself to requirements.” While definitions of quality vary between professional organizations, they all have “being fit for purpose” as a common theme.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

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

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 9, 2023

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.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2024

We’ll go over that and link to free project management templates that can help you in this process. The creation process for an organization’s project strategy is in the hands of leadership and management. What Is Project Strategy? Project strategy is made up of your plan and the tools that are used to complete the project.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I've also had the joy and the pain of implementing three Project Management Offices (PMOs), two in Information Technology Departments and one Enterprise PMO. Through the years, I've noted many reasons that PMOs fail or struggle. It's rarely just one thing; it's usually a combination of things. Here is a list of causal factors.

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

MAY 4, 2023

Now that the PMO is chugging along, it’s time for you, as the PMO leader, to look at continuous improvement. Here are some considerations as you look to improve your PMO’s processes. Just because you have a PMO and it’s chugging along doesn’t mean it could be better. She was amazing at CI.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

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. Risk management is the most important of your project controls. So what exactly is project risk management? Risk breakdown structures.

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

APRIL 6, 2023

Starting up or revamping a PMO is tricky and complex. If a PMO will help navigate these turbulent waters, it should not be on one or two people to determine its direction. Committed organizations will setup a PMO Steering Committee. I’ll start by saying a PMO Steering Committee is not a guarantee.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

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.

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

JANUARY 12, 2023

Why do you want a PMO? That’s a hell of a question to ask when you’re the consultant asking a client why they want to start a Project Management Office (PMO). Yes, they’d read about a company in the same industry that stood up a PMO and was successful. ” PMO was born. Sounds like sunk costs to me.

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Inloox

MAY 24, 2017

The last part of our PMO blog series will try and answer this question. Implementing ‘new’ agile methods such as Scrum or Kanban will have a significant impact on the PMO, as it’s the project management center of the organization. It’s also important to review and revise PM frameworks and processes.

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WorkOtter

OCTOBER 8, 2019

“How do you sell management on the relevance and importance of the PMO to the organization?”. This is one of the top questions pondered by the majority of PMO leaders I have met in the workshops I have presented over the years. To do this the PMO must become aligned with the organization’s strategies, goals and objectives.

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Inloox

MAY 8, 2017

The implementation of a PMO is just like any other project. Before you start the project, you should analyze your organization’s current situation and based on these insights create a concept for your PMO. You need complete transparency before, during and after the implementation process.

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Planview

MAY 11, 2018

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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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

In the last decade, more and more corporations have developed a project management office (PMO) to benefit their business. To get started, you’ll want to learn more about PMO examples, how to set one up, and how to train your employees. What Is a PMO? PMO Examples. What is a PMO?

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Project-Management.pm

MARCH 25, 2017

It’s safe to say that Project Management Office ( PMO ) has numerous advantages and the results it impacts to the organization have been effective and helpful. Every existing organization around the globe are swearing by PMO. Over the years PMO profitability seems non-existent. However, it has its downsides.

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Inloox

APRIL 13, 2017

A quick reminder: In the first part of this series , we’ve already established what a PMO is and what its function in an organization is: ". The most important roles in a PMO How many and which team members a PMO needs, largely depends on the scope of the tasks the PMO has to fulfil in the respective organizations.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 8, 2021

I spoke to Nada Abandah , a project manager in the PMO for the Dubai Health Authority, about what it’s like to work in healthcare during a discussion for the Project Management Club on Clubhouse. The response has shown us how much potential we have to throw away rigid processes. What’s it like being a project manager in healthcare?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

Six videos covering tools and techniques, the process and more. RPA is Robotic Process Automation. It’s a way of automating repetitive tasks and it’s having a bit of an impact on the PMO community. PMOs will be reporting centers and support the teams in addressing major issues or risks that the teams escalate.”.

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EasyProjects

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The project management office (PMO) is typically an operating unit of a professional services firm. The writer worked for an extended period in two firms that may broaden the concept of the PMO. The writer worked for an extended period in two firms that may broaden the concept of the PMO. Introduction. Was it project-based?

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MindGenius

APRIL 9, 2020

Are your project managers growing, expanding their careers, gaining needed training and certifications and mentoring colleagues the way a successful project management office (PMO) should be operating? As we go about this thought process, let’s consider a few common causes of ineffective and failing project management offices.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 18, 2021

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. But who am I to be putting forward my own definition of engagement?

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

APRIL 22, 2021

As an adult, these movies definitely don’t have the same effect as when I was younger. So, what do Disney movies and PMO’s have in common? While having coffee with a PMO director, he mentioned the PMO he’s leading is maturing at a good pace. Happy Ending!! Yeah, I’ll root for the villain.

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Wrike

AUGUST 22, 2018

Whether or not you’re a project manager by title, one acronym you’re sure to hear more often is PMO. What is PMO?” PMO stands for “project management office.” The percentage of companies with a PMO has nearly doubled since 2000, according to The State of the PMO 2016. . Definition of PMO.

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Inloox

APRIL 27, 2017

A PMO has various functions and purposes: It’s responsible for establishing and maintaining standardized processes, methods and policies in the organization and to make sure that projects align with the organizational business strategy. However, there are three fundamental types of PMOs which you can find in a lot of organizations: 1.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

First we should start with a definition of program management. These could be project managers or PMO colleagues. However, you could move into program management from a senior operational role or another PMO role as well. What is a program? Program Management in the Organization.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Start with a ROM estimate and iterate until you get to a definitive estimate. Companies have different determinations of what range ROM should cover, so your finance team or PMO might have a particular range in mind. Definitive estimate. In project management we do a lot of iterating, and this is exactly what you do here.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 5, 2022

If you are in a PMO , you might have this challenge. Yes, it’s difficult to make the jump from objective to measure in some cases, especially with projects that are more about knowledge work than process improvement. But this journey from strategy to executable project definition is something that we see lacking in many businesses.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 5, 2022

At that time, our organization was a certified CMM Level 3 company, and we were already using our homegrown project management methodology based on CMM L3 processes. Our charter was to improve existing processes and build new processes for L4 and L5. Stage gate and phase-end review processes. Conclusion.

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