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How to take over an existing project [Free checklist]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Action if they aren’t clear: Ask the project sponsor to hold a workshop on defining this and providing ultimate clarity for everyone. For other areas of governance such as reporting and approval levels, talk to your PMO and get these in place. Action if there is no budget plan or information: Back to the PMO or your Finance team.

PMO 303
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How To Take Over An Existing Project [Free Checklist]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Action if they aren’t clear: Ask the project sponsor to hold a workshop on defining this and providing ultimate clarity for everyone. For other areas of governance such as reporting and approval levels, talk to your PMO and get these in place. Action if there is no budget plan or information: Back to the PMO or your Finance team.

PMO 505
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Stakeholder Analysis and Mapping: Part 2 of 4 Steps of Stakeholder Engagement

Scrum.org

Stakeholder Persona Canvas Sometimes, I have found that Empathy Mapping can be a time-consuming and resource-intensive process. Co-creation workshops enable collaboration and generate better ideas. Internal or External governance such as Finance, Legal, PMO, Risk, and Audit may fall into the category. Refine as you learn.

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Stakeholder Persona Canvas: A Tool For Understanding Stakeholders Better

Scrum.org

For example: PMO or Finance department in a company can affect how the budget has been used, this can impact how much we can build. Personas can then be used as a reference point throughout the product development process, to ensure that the product is meeting the needs of the intended audience. Don’t do it alone.

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Professionalise Project Management

The Lazy Project Manager

Perhaps we might begin with the PMO. Since PMOs lead the project management community – either directly or indirectly, according to your PMO model (see appendices) – then by considering what the best PMOs offer we can gain some insight and see that: The best PMOs have consistent, repeatable PM practices across the enterprise.

PMO 186
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Add to the C-Level

The Lazy Project Manager

Leads, and is aided by, the PMO. They experience the company as broadly as possible with experiences in finance and in sales and in marketing and in manufacturing and even sometimes in services perhaps. Sadly, I have yet to see a future ‘C’ work their way through the project arena, the PMO, the project management practise.

PMO 130
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Shift from Annual to Continuous Planning to Enable Agility [Webinar]

Planview

See if this sounds familiar: your organization’s strategic plan is constructed at the executive level, broken down into an annual plan that is led by finance, then operationalized by the PMO and other groups in the organization. You can instead start with your demand management processes. Understand your organization’s process.