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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. Some PMOs are finding it difficult to evolve beyond a focus on improving project management practices, which can inhibit agility and growth. Top-down governance – Emphasis on compliance, standards, and processes.

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Enterprise Agility in Financial Services: Learnings from the 2019 Planview Horizons Customer Conference

Planview

Since financial services institutions typically work within well-established practices to mitigate risks, new ways of working aren’t always immediately accepted. Financial services companies often operate with a traditional approach to project and portfolio management where annual budgets define how projects are funded and executed.

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Project Failure – Why it Happens

Online PM Courses

It certainly is, and all you need to do is follow all the principles of good Project Management, including foreseeing and acting on all threats. These articles include: How to get Better Project Management Results. Seven Vital Project Management Priorities. Project Management Essentials. – 2 – Governance.

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Project Manager or Project Leader? What’s the Difference?

Online PM Courses

Are you a Project Manager or a Project Leader? One way I like to think of the difference between Project Management and Project Leadership is that: Project Management gets things done. One way I like to think of the difference between Project Management and Project Leadership is that: Project Management gets things done.

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How Savvy PMOs Drive Actionable Insights with Portfolio Dashboards

Planview

High-level visibility into the state of the portfolio enables executives and portfolio managers to plan and execute the highest-value initiatives in context, balancing across financial and resource constraints. With this information, the program or portfolio manager can verify that all work is connected to the strategic plan.

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12 Project Management Rules You’d be Wise to Note

Online PM Courses

When you have been Managing Projects for a while, you will start to notice that some things are always true. Each of these ‘ Project Management Rules ‘ reminds us of something important about Project Management, so I have been collecting them for nearly 20 years. Mike’s Project Management Rules.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

One of our clients, a retired USAF Col Program Manager at an NNSA Weapons Testing Site has a statement that is applicable here: If you lack academic basis and validated experience, your advice is simply unsubstantiated opinion without any basis in fact or principle. Flint, School of Management, Working Paper Series, September 2005.”.