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How to Develop Your Personal Project Management Philosophy

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article, you’ll learn how to develop a leadership philosophy for your projects and what skills are useful to underpin your chosen ways of working. How do you develop a personal leadership philosophy? Your personal leadership philosophy can be the difference between success and failure on a project. Here are four tips.

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12 Sure-Fire Ways to Improve Project Risk Management

Project Risk Coach

Mike was a functional project manager in an organization where I managed a PMO. They facilitate risk identification exercises that result in a boatload of risks. Some project managers wait until things are out of control before they exercise risk management. Want to pass the PMI-RMP ® Exam? What must we do?

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Tips for PfMP®Application

The IIL Blog

There are only a few thousand Portfolio Management Professionals (PfMP ® ) worldwide, according to PMI, making this a truly elite qualification. Carefully reading at least the first three chapters of Portfolio Management Standard in order to understand what Portfolio means in PMI Standard.

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Add to the C-Level

The Lazy Project Manager

Well it starts with strategy formulation which is no longer the annual exercise it used to be – nowadays it is an ongoing iterative activity. Leads, and is aided by, the PMO. These are the ones identified as having future leadership potential and any company will invest in such people for their joint futures.

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New Year’s Eve

The Lazy Project Manager

A New Year’s resolution is a tradition in which a person makes a promise to do an act of self-improvement, such as losing weight, doing exercise, giving up smoking etc. Peter Taylor is a PMO expert currently leading a Global PMO, with 200 project managers acting as custodians for nearly 5,000 projects around the world, for Kronos Inc.

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Know the value of your change

The Lazy Project Manager

Ability to evaluate and judge – such is the essence of project leadership and decision making. Project (or Program) Management Office (PMO) activities and focus (supportive, directive, controlling). Portfolio management should be much more than just a prioritisation of projects and resources exercise. And why not.

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Are your Project Managers working too hard to be effective?

The Lazy Project Manager

During my time leading a number of PMOs across different organisations one thing was common across all of the project managers that worked under the PMO, and that was they generally could be placed in to two groups. ’ Robert Heinlein. – a billion dollar software organisation delivering Workforce Management Solutions. .

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