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How to Manage Your Project Pipeline With Software

ProjectManager.com

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. It shows each project as it moves from one stage to the next in the project management process, from initiation to closure. That’s called the project life cycle.

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The PMO Roadmap for Driving Business Agility

Planview

Portfolio Management Offices are in a prime position to deliver this business agility – with the right PMO roadmap. Peter, who wrote the book The Lazy Project Manager , drew upon his 30 years of experience building and leading PMOs to provide some guideposts. The PMO roadmap shows how to cultivate effective strategy execution at speed.

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How to take over an existing project [Free checklist]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Scroll down and you can download it instantly. For other areas of governance such as reporting and approval levels, talk to your PMO and get these in place. Action if there is no budget plan or information: Back to the PMO or your Finance team. Action if you can’t find out: Talk to the PMO again.

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PMO Leadership: How PMOs Can Evolve into Savvy PMOs

Planview

PMO leadership today is about more than being a purveyor of governance and delivering projects on time and on budget. The Savvy PMO fosters organizational agility, cultivates efficiencies, and drives growth strategies. Planview created the Savvy PMO Guide Series to give organizations actionable guidance on how progress PMO leadership.

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How to Build and Implement a Project Strategy

ProjectManager.com

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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Become a Modern PMO That Empowers Your Organization

Planview

In this post, we’ll show you how to become a modern PMO that enables your organization to adapt to an ever-changing professional landscape. But first, let’s look at the key benefits that come from transitioning into a modern PMO. Why You Should Become a Modern PMO. Let’s get started.

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Lessons Learned in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The 3-step lessons learned process The lessons learned process is easier than you might think. There are plenty of different ways to spread what you have learned from your project around the PMO, project managers and teams. Process change is hard, especially when you are busy doing the actual project.

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