Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 16, 2022

There’s a lot riding on getting your PMO mission statement right. After all, the mission statement is what will guide the PMO as it strives to achieve its goals and objectives. Creating a powerful PMO mission statement doesn’t have to be difficult – but it does require some thought and careful planning.

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Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

In the ever-evolving world of project management, effective leadership is a crucial factor in achieving the success of any endeavor. One leadership theory that has gained traction in recent years is the Situational Leadership Theory. Directing: Appropriate when team members are low on both competence and commitment.

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

It happened to be a challenging exercise to structure my portfolio experience by Domains according to the Portfolio Standard. A results-oriented visionary, Jennifer specializes in establishing effective enterprise PMOs to drive transformational changes and the seamless implementation of complex IT projects.

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The Lazy Project Manager

JUNE 22, 2017

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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The Lazy Project Manager

DECEMBER 30, 2016

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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The Lazy Project Manager

JULY 3, 2017

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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Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

According to Gallup , 76% of employees in both leadership and non-leadership roles have experienced burnout at least once. As the position of a project manager belongs to the executive leadership role types, these experts manage not only projects but also people. Let’s take a small test. . Do you feel frustrated lately? .

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The Lazy Project Manager

JUNE 10, 2016

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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Leading Answers

JUNE 9, 2017

Sharpening the Saw: Building Your Skills and Knowledge In addition to organizational change management, consultants need ready access to credible research that supports their ideas—along with frameworks, training materials and exercises to perform that reinforces this work with a variety of stakeholders. However, healthy eating coaches exist.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

MAY 16, 2019

Of course, there are many dimensions to team leadership. Blake & Mouton’s ‘ managerial grid ’, which classifies leadership style according to the variables of ‘concern for production’ and ‘concern for people’ is over 50 years old, but still provides a useful framework for thinking about the best leadership approach.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

MARCH 25, 2020

But for companies with resilient systems and the right leadership, it is simply a question of re-configuring to address the new environment. Organisations with the systems and leadership to survive and thrive within the VUCA environment continue their commitment to professional development. There are few, if any, disadvantages!

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The Lazy Project Manager

JUNE 7, 2017

Fear is one way, so why not try this simple exercise when you get the opportunity. Tailwind Project Solutions was formed in 2014 to provide a bespoke approach to project leadership development. Putting a price on something works well, I find. Hopefully putting a value on the portfolio will have woken up the executives (or even you).

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It was informative with engaging exercises and great conversations. After the presentation was over, I overheard two people having a disagreement about the PMO’s they worked for. I’m paraphrasing their conversation here, but… “Your PMO isn’t that great. What the hell went wrong?

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The project sponsor, as well as those in leadership roles, can help identify negative and positive risks. This type of exercise can even be a little fun! Companies and PMO’s that are more mature have a structured approach to risk. There two risk identification approaches that I like to take.

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Techno-PM

MARCH 18, 2022

Project Managers, PMO staff, Program managers, Project Management team members, Project Board members, Project management consultants, Quality consultants and Portfolio managers are all eligible for the PRINCE2 training. Examples and exercises that demonstrate how these knowledge areas might be applied in practice.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

MAY 30, 2019

Keep the profile very factual and get rid of the words or phrases that can apply to anyone, “hardworking”, “exceptional leadership skills”, “team player” You need the space for the factual stuff we mentioned in point 1. This post first appeared on PMO Perspectives Blog. Like the article?

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The Squad Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

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. The goal of this exercise is to ensure you aren't setting the project up to fail before it even begins. Think about a baseball game.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Resolve serious leadership problems. 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. To clarify, the RPM must: Focus on building everyone’s morale.

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Planview

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Question: For those leadership members that were not always in agreement, or that perhaps were a bit more resistant (to the process change), how did you go about getting them to accept the strategic work intake process? I take them through that exercise and show them how you’ve got to select things based upon some criteria.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Try this exercise: get your business case down to one sentence. This will be especially useful if you’re working with a team that will present the business case to leadership. It’s not that the idea of adding illustrations to the business case was so great. Distill the idea into an elevator pitch. Gather information.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Fallacy #6: We Need a PMO for Product. An agile organization does not require a PMO as the magic key to “scaling agile” is descaling the organization. Former BCG managers will likely urge to establish a project management office (PMO) because this is how they learned organizing work. How to Make ‘Agile’ Work in Startups Then?

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Workzone

APRIL 5, 2022

Brainstorming exercise with your team. Teams looking for this type of solution often have formal project managers and a PMO (project management office.). Communicate benefits to leadership. While this process helps your team, it’s also vital for you to hear your team’s feedback – good or bad.

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The Lazy Project Manager

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

An ‘open door’ policy can easily transform a project manager’s role from that of an authority, and managing, figure to that of a subservient accommodator with little chance for exercising control on those that demand access to them. Be a good manager. Henry Ward Beecher.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Today I want to introduce you to one of them, Peter Taylor, also known as "the Lazy Project Manager" Peter is a dynamic and commercially astute professional who has achieved notable success in Project Management; currently as head of a PMO at Siemens Industry Software Limited, a supplier of global product lifecycle management solutions.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

And all that stuff’s like really super important, but we have this debate internally quite a bit with my leadership team. That was a conversation we had on our morning call this morning with my whole leadership team and my entire consulting company. Is the PMO and Agile Transformation office? Maybe right.

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PM That Works

AUGUST 15, 2020

So our second dream that I want to talk about is where people will convene a PMO. When we were done with this exercise, the first thing I asked them to do was let's go ahead and rank our existing projects against this criteria. Certainly we have the ability to mess up how we implement the software and thereby make the nightmare happen.

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The IIL Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

What are your recommendations for being certified in Agile and Scrum and is it value added for project managers or the leadership managing project managers as well? This is optimization exercise and companies struggle. What if your PMO refuses to adjust its methodology for business needs and only looks at itself first?

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