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Project Intake Process: Prioritizing Project Requests & Proposals

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Project managers are constantly making requests to the project management office (PMO). PMOs can use project management software to review and decide on whether to accept, reject or defer the request. ProjectManager’s Gantt charts help you estimate costs and create budgets. That’s normal.

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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. They help with prioritizing projects, providing governance guidelines and ensure that projects are beneficial to the organization by aligning with larger strategic goals.

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Lessons Learned in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There are plenty of different ways to spread what you have learned from your project around the PMO, project managers and teams. This is a good way to reach a wider audience with your lessons learned as you can invite members of other project teams or the wider PMO community to come along and hear what worked on your project.

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What Is Lean Portfolio Management? A Quick Guide

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Lean portfolio management is a process by which strategy is aligned with execution using a lean approach and agile portfolio operations and governance. Here you’ll plan from the top down your budget, estimating what funding you’ll need with cost-management planning. This requires accurate estimates of resources. Manage Demand.

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100+ Project Management Terms: PM Terminology Explained

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Baseline A baseline is an estimate of the project’s scope, schedule and costs that is created during the planning stage. Cost overrun This is the actual cost that exceeds the estimated cost in the budget, also known as a cost increase or budget overrun.

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Creating the PMO Business Case

Bridge the Gap Consulting

Now it’s time to create a PMO Business Case and start moving the needle from idea to reality. If you notice, I call it a PMO Business Case, not a PMO Charter. I don’t like the word “charter” when talking about creating PMO’s. Below are some of the key components of a PMO Business Case.

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