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What Is an Agile PMO?

Wrike

What is an Agile PMO? Aren’t all PMOs supposed to be Agile and support transformative change? Does my organization need an Agile PMO? Keep reading to discover the benefits of Agile development and the specific set of features and organizational structure an Agile PMO offers that regular PMOs simply don’t.

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Step-by-Step to Smooth Project Closure

LiquidPlanner

Ask your PMO for a blank project closure template, or create your own checklist. Complete a project management review and lessons learned exercise (more on that below). When you work in an environment with a high degree of uncertainty, you’ve used techniques like ranged estimation to manage that risk during the project’s lifecycle.

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How to Manage Competing Priorities

LiquidPlanner

Against each activity, estimate (at a high level) the hours you spend on that work per week. . I recommend carrying out the same exercise as above: start with your current task list. Talk this through with the PMO or your manager before approaching each of the project sponsors to negotiate new, realistic deadlines.

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Why Earned Value Management is Important

MPUG

This is a huge advantage for PMO teams and portfolio managers who may want to review project performance across multiple projects. This kind of comparative data could be used as part of ‘lessons learned’ exercises or deep dives into processes so that the whole organization can benefit from good practice. EVM improves communication.

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Is Your Strategic Project at Risk Due to Poor Implementation of Proven Project Management Practices?

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

The practices we implement need to add value rather than being a ticking boxing exercise. Risk management, for instance, has little value if all we do is log the risks and assign ownership and mitigating actions, without subsequently following up and taking these risks into consideration when planning, estimating and executing the project.

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Five Steps to Rapid Recovery of Failing Projects

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

Examine variances by estimator. Obtain new estimates for the next period from the estimator. Therefore, the RPM should exercise caution before calling this meeting, ensuring that everyone will agree the objectives are complete before the meeting is conducted. This post first appeared on PMO Perspectives Blog.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT SUCCESS IN THE NEW YEAR

The Squad Report

Your organization will be forced into estimating what skills will be needed and forecast when those skills will be needed throughout the year. There are several PPM software tools which can help with this exercise or for smaller organizations we have Resource Planning spreadsheets in our toolkit we can utilize.