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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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Review Individual Competence Baseline – Reference Guide ICB4 for PMO

Henny Portman

All the competences are aligned with the IPMA ICB that is used by all the project, programme or portfolio managers in their everyday activities. Within all three main activities, the PMO worker also has an advisory role towards their manager and other stakeholders. Can a PMO employee not be a portfolio manager or portfolio analyst?

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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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How Do You Prioritize Your Work as a Savvy PMO?

Planview

Just enough governance involving the right people, timing, criteria, and methods. These must be based on your company’s business goals, and with that, leadership buy-in is essential. business objectives (strategic alignment, customer focus, risk reduction, etc.), Let’s start with the first step in the process. Get confident.

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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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Why Projects Fail – Five more reasons

Online PM Courses

Governance. As a project manager, your ablity to negotiate for what you need is part of your route to success. This could equally fit under ‘weak leadership’ However you classify it, if your people aren’t committed to your project’s success, they may as well be committed to its failure. Wrong Resources.