The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

There are only a few thousand Portfolio Management Professionals (PfMP ® ) worldwide, according to PMI, making this a truly elite qualification. Before you start the PfMP ® Exam preparation, I highly recommend you assess your experience in Portfolio Management by: Reading the PfMP ® prerequisites ( [link] ); Studying PfMP ® Handbook.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 10, 2023

The Empathy Mapping exercise helps developers to put themselves in the stakeholders’ shoes in order to see and understand their needs, motivations, and actions better. Internal or External governance such as Finance, Legal, PMO, Risk, and Audit may fall into the category. However, the reality is different.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 15, 2017

John, Sally, and Bill just left a full-day project management workshop. Are you responsible for project management workshops for a PMI Chapter, a Project Management Office (PMO), or your organization? Project managers will leave your workshops excited about what they learned. Ask for volunteers for an exercise.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 15, 2017

John, Sally, and Bill just left a full-day project management workshop. Are you responsible for project management workshops for a PMI Chapter, a Project Management Office (PMO), or your organization? Project managers will leave your workshops excited about what they learned. Ask for volunteers for an exercise.

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LiquidPlanner

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Project closure is one of my favorite times in the lifecycle as a project manager. I know I’m not alone: 62% of project managers say it’s hard to deliver quality work due to the time pressures of working on multiple projects. Ask your PMO for a blank project closure template, or create your own checklist. Pay final invoices.

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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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Bridge the Gap Consulting

AUGUST 25, 2023

Professionally, “What if…” took me down the path of project management. Then I asked what if I ran a PMO, and did! They’re almost a super power; a muscle that needs to be nurtured and exercised. Most of you reading this have some level of project management experience. What if I could do one more.

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Project Risk Coach

JANUARY 30, 2017

Fitbit tracks every part of your day — including activity, exercise, food, weight, and sleep — to help you find your fit, stay motivated, and see how small steps make a big impact.”. I can see if I’m going to bed and getting up at a consistent time, how many calories I’m burning, and how many days in a row that I’ve exercised.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Although 93% of organisations report that they use standardised project management practices , only 23% say that these practices are used throughout the organisation. When standardised project management practices aren’t used, it should come as no surprise that projects are failing. That’s not ideal.

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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. Managing the overall portfolio risk to the organisation. Managing resource requirements across the project portfolio. Leads, and is aided by, the PMO.

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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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Jez Lister

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

I first came across the Project Management Office or PMO concept twenty-five years ago whilst working as a project manager for a large systems integrator. Most of my colleagues – myself included were initially unclear about the purpose of the PMO and assumed that we were all to be relocated to new offices.

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EasyProjects

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Suppose your organization’s annual planning exercise comes up with 50 projects that would cost perhaps $10 million, but you have the capacity and financial resources for only $2.5 Where the list is long, this is work for the PMO or an ad hoc project-prioritization committee. Best practices to prioritize projects.

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MPUG

MAY 8, 2023

Earned value management is an approach for performance management on projects. In this article, we will define earned value, and discuss why earned value management is important to project success. The difference with applying earned value is simply that you can track and manage performance in a data-driven way.

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Techno-PM

AUGUST 24, 2021

When it comes to project management processes, benefits realization management remains one of the most challenging ones for many reasons. The checklist is an aid for the project manager, project sponsor, and beneficial owners, that is, it is not exclusive to a certain role. Download Project Benefit Realisation Templates !

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

“Continually evaluate exposure to risk, both opportunities and threats, to maximize positive impacts and minimize negative impacts to the project and its outcomes.” “That’s a risk I’m willing to take” I responded. So what is the best type of risk identification and documentation approach?

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The Lazy Project Manager

JULY 3, 2017

We will come on to the definition of this term in one moment but to begin we need to clearly differentiate Challenge 1 – Invest in the right portfolio management, which was all about knowing what your true portfolio value is. In all aspects, the project demands the intelligent project manager. Project Methodologies and practices.

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Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The profession of a project manager belongs to senior positions with an increased level of responsibility and as a result, stress. . It’s described as “a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed”. . Managing Dysfunctional Teams Is Waste of Time.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

MAY 16, 2019

Project managers don’t usually have a specific budget for team development, and yet, as the PMBoK says, teamwork is a critical factor for project success, and developing effective project tea ms is one of the primary responsibilities of the project manager. Project Manager: We don’t have a budget for coffee.

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Techno-PM

MARCH 18, 2022

The aim of the first qualification is to provide a background on the concepts, process, terminology, and techniques needed to be able to successfully manage projects using Prince2. PRINCE2® is a project management methodology that is used by many organizations around the world.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

MARCH 25, 2020

When is the last time that your project team actually managed to all gather around a physical table to develop a plan or build ideas? Putting together a risk plan using Post-Its in a classroom may be fun, but when virtual teams work together to produce a plan in a virtual breakout, then they are practicing multiple skills.

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Planview

DECEMBER 20, 2019

I came from a project management background and I was always concerned about time, scope, and budget. We look at two planes of geometry, one is risk and the other, of course, is reward. We’ve got two questions for risk and two questions for reward. It’s a fun exercise to go through. One kind of washes out the other.

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Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

In the world of project management, there is one tool that can make the difference between a project’s success or failure – the project management checklist. This comprehensive guide will walk you through the importance of a project management checklist, its benefits, essential elements, and how to implement it.

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The Lazy Project Manager

JUNE 7, 2017

The following is an extract from my new book ‘How to get Fired at the C-Level: Why mismanaging change is the biggest risk of all’ in association with my friends at Tailwind Project Solutions – the extracts follow a series of 5 Challenges that I think every organisation should consider, and consider very carefully: ‘Change is the law of life.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Perhaps your organisation’s learning and development department already have the career management and careers path frameworks available for your role. It helps if we have an appreciation of what our learning styles might be, and this article looks at the seven styles in the context of project management. During Your Training.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The project charter delegates authority to the recovery project manager (RPM), who is typically an individual from outside the project. Because the RPM and his or her team are “outsiders” it is important at the outset that the project manager (PM) and his or her team are committed to working with the assessment and recovery team (ART).

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The Squad Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

At the start of the new year Project Management leaders should take some time to be sure the organization is focused on delivering successful projects in 2018. When leaders pay attention resources perform at a higher level, obstacles (Risks/Issues) are removed more easily, and funding is not challenged. But how do you do that?

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Think of a business case as the reason you create a project that you’re going to manage in the first place. We will need to involve supply chain managers and Super Widget project management teams, which may temporarily reduce the number of widgets we’re able to produce, potentially resulting in $25,000 in lost revenue.

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Workzone

APRIL 5, 2022

Choosing project management software has become a monumental project by itself. The number of project management software solutions available has exploded in recent years. Finding a project management software isn’t hard. You are reading this guide, so that’s an admission that you know you need a better way to manage projects.

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MPUG

JULY 1, 2020

Hey listen, Kyle is going to manage the questions today. If you’re using project is in a portfolio or PMO, any of the enterprise level projects, consult with your administrator before you just start changing anything in project that you may see here today that you desperately want or desperately need. Kyle: Oh, that’s good.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

If you ask founders and managers of startups why they want to become an agile organization, they typically name reasons such as: Becoming more efficient in software delivery, Delivering faster, Improving the predictability of software deliveries. And just relabeling the positions of the old middle management rarely works.

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

He is responsible for the implementation of enterprise project management solutions for Edwards’ clients as well as overseeing the custom application development performed at Edwards around enterprise solutions and Microsoft Project for both desktop and server as well as SharePoint. Fletcher Hearns: Great, thank you Kyle.

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Henny Portman

OCTOBER 2, 2020

I was already several times assessor and judge for the PMO of the world award. You watch on your own a one-hour presentation of a PMO. You assess that PMO at six criteria: PMO’s journey, client service, best practices, innovation, community and value generation and summarize strong points and areas for improvement.

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The Lazy Project Manager

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

So for the ‘productive lazy’ project manager I would suggest that it is perfectly acceptable for the lights to be on and for no-one to be at home; not all of the time obviously, and at critical times access and visibility are all too important. The ‘open door’ policy has become a real management cliché. ‘Of Be a good manager.

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PM Basics

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In addition, you can get a simple template I developed and used throughout 10 years as a software development project manager. Project Manager and Authority Level. Nizhebetskiy Dmitriy is assigned as the project manager. The Project Manager will identify and request any other internal resources. High-Level Project Risks.

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Techno-PM

JULY 17, 2018

This pearl of wisdom is true for everyday life, yes, but equally true if you are managing a project. Let’s do a quick exercise: when was the last time you went on holidays and forgot something at home? After all, the Project Management Plan is the bible of the project and the main reference to guide the project team.

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PM That Works

AUGUST 15, 2020

So I thought I would take the opportunity today and just talk through some of the things that's happening here in our lives and then go through one of my, my newest content deliveries that we're talking about, which is called a portfolio management dream, and how to stop that from becoming a nightmare. So let's get into today's topic.

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