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How to Manage Your Project Pipeline With Software

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When you’re a project management office (PMO) or program or portfolio manager, you’re going to have to deal with multiple projects in various stages of the project pipeline. By following these project pipeline management stages a PMO, program or portfolio manager can better deal with the complexities of juggling multiple tasks.

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Strategic Project Management: Planning Strategic Projects

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Usually, companies have a project management office (PMO) that will oversee the portfolio or program to ensure it meets strategic goals. These are high-level positions for people who already are tasked with managing projects, programs and portfolios as well as the aforementioned PMO. Let’s take a moment to define these positions.

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How to Build and Implement a Project Strategy

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Project Management Office (PMO): A PMO is responsible for defining and maintaining the standards for an organization’s project management. Establish Project Tracking Methods Once the project is in motion and tasks are being worked on, the project manager needs a method to monitor and track the team’s progress and performance.

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What Is an IT Budget? IT Budgeting Basics (Template Included)

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But those forecasts are estimates and to ensure that you keep to your IT budget, monitoring and tracking costs is imperative. Support the IT Asset Management Lifecycle Then there’s the IT asset management lifecycle, which goes from request, fulfillment and deployment to monitoring, servicing and retiring.

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100+ Project Management Terms: PM Terminology Explained

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Change control The term for a process to systemically monitor and approve or reject any change requests made to a product or project. Modern project management software applications can streamline finding your project’s critical path to help you manage scope and monitor the project.

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Measuring the Project Management Maturity of Your Organization

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These responsibilities usually fall under the purview of a project management office (PMO) and can be facilitated by using project management software. Costs, time and functionality are being tracked, reports are being made and monitoring high-level metrics.

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Workforce Planning Basics for Businesses and PMOs

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Strategic workforce planning is used by an organization or its project management office (PMO) to achieve its long-term plans. Download Excel File 3. Take Actions to Balance Workforce Supply and Demand To keep your workforce at capacity and staying productive requires monitoring.

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