The IIL Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This transformation signifies a need for adaptive strategies and mindsets to navigate the evolving project management landscape effectively. Resilience and Risk Management: The prevalent global uncertainties highlight the paramount importance of business and societal resilience and proactive risk management in project initiatives.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 6, 2023

A PMO director is a senior-level position that takes ownership and is accountable for creating, organizing and implementing the strategies and business programs in an organization. They’ll invest in project management software and archive projects for historical data that can be used when planning new initiatives.

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Planview

JUNE 5, 2020

PMO leadership today is about more than being a purveyor of governance and delivering projects on time and on budget. The Savvy PMO fosters organizational agility, cultivates efficiencies, and drives growth strategies. The PMO’s Initial Focus. Top-down governance – Emphasis on compliance, standards, and processes.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 13, 2024

However, navigating the intricacies of virtual collaboration requires a unique set of strategies and approaches to ensure seamless communication, productivity, and alignment among all the team members. By implementing these strategies, you can empower your team members to thrive and deliver value to your organization.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 12, 2022

Project governance is an important part of project management processes – even if it’s not the most exciting part of getting work done. Governance is a key part of that, and gate reviews are part of navigating through the project. Governance is a key part of that, and gate reviews are part of navigating through the project.

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Moira Alexander

MAY 2, 2017

The foundation for overall business success and project initiatives starts here, making it imperative for executive sponsors to be in sync with project leadership out of the gate. The first component is building the institutional IT strategy. Make sure everyone knows where they fit into the strategy.

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The Strategic Project Manager

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Then it focuses on strategy and project management as careers that can lead to CIO – but with a careful strategic approach. These roles involve more responsibility and leadership in managing IT systems, projects, and teams. This post looks at whether there is a typical path to CIO – or what it needs to include.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 15, 2022

They are the foundation upon which an organization’s culture, core values, and strategy are built. You can also build competence across the business as a whole by hiring new personnel with the necessary skills or by making changes in leadership. It all depends on what is right for the strategy, brand, and mission of the business.

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Proofhub

JANUARY 4, 2021

As you start your project, you need to take the initiative on the preparatory work, from preparing the scope, estimating the costs, assigning resources, and creating a project timeline, to getting sign-off on the key performance indicators. These things will dictate the way you initiate and manage your project from idea to conclusion.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2022

Business cases are prepared during the project initiation phase and their purpose is to include all the project’s objectives, costs and benefits to convince stakeholders of its value. Think of the business case as a document that is created during the project initiation phase but will be used as a reference throughout the project life cycle.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. Here’s an introduction to these important groups as part of the governance framework so you can get yours set up and working on your project. What is a project board?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 24, 2023

From examples of project activities in a business versus operational activities to strategies for balancing projects and operations simultaneously — this article will help you understand the differences and consider the similarities. Projects help deliver strategy. The context for projects All organizations need to do projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The overall change is managed as a program, under a program manager who consolidates program-level risks, manages resource conflicts across all projects, controls the budget and works with business owners to realize the benefits across all the initiatives. In this role you’ll work under your own initiative most of the time.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

While businesses run projects, they also have strategies and objectives that must be met. Business project management is the process by which internal business projects are streamlined and aligned with business strategies and objectives. Businesses aren’t projects but they share many commonalities.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 9, 2023

During a dinner conversation after the conference, you further discover that PMO (Project Management Office) can support you in leading an Agile transformation and successful Scrum adoption, by covering governance and ensuring alignment across the enterprise. More ideas (e.g. Cross-Team Refinement) can also be found in the Nexus Guide.

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Project Pulse Journal

MAY 3, 2024

Does achieving strategic synergy across various initiatives seem like an uphill battle? The roles, responsibilities, and skills required for program management vary depending on the initiative and the stage of the program lifecycle, highlighting the changing nature. How do Programs Relate to Projects and Portfolios?

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Project Pulse Journal

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Imagine initiating a project so effectively that it stays on track and aligns perfectly with organizational goals. In this article, we provide step-by-step tactics for " Initiating a Project " the right way. In this article, we provide step-by-step tactics for " Initiating a Project " the right way. What is Project Initiation?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 30, 2024

Each organization possesses a unique blend of people, processes, culture, mindset, governance, management, and leadership. We have achieved considerable success using a strategy that involves co-creation with stakeholders and pilots. We assemble a cross-functional team drawn from different business units.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The overall change is managed as a program, under a program manager who consolidates program-level risks, manages resource conflicts across all projects, controls the budget and works with business owners to realize the benefits across all the initiatives. In this role you’ll work under your own initiative most of the time.

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Henny Portman

APRIL 12, 2024

Governance alignment. These phases include service strategy, service design, service pilot and implementation, service operation, and service transformation or retirement. It distinguishes between management and governance principles and discusses how principles can be applied throughout the organization. Governance alignment.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Misalignment of Goals : Sales teams and other stakeholders may have goals that do not align with agile methodologies, fearing that direct interaction between developers and customers might undermine sales strategies or targets​​. What would you do to initiate change? How can we overcome these issues?

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Organizational strategy plays a vital role in the success of any business. In this article, we will explore the importance of organizational strategy, the key elements that make it effective, the steps involved in its formulation, and the challenges that may arise during implementation.

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Inloox

MARCH 27, 2024

Definition of the PDCA cycle The initial letters PDCA stand for the four steps in a continuous improvement process (CIP, Kaizen): Plan-Do-Check-Act (Plan-Do-Check-Act). If not, the insights inform the next planning cycle to refine the strategy for better results in the next cycle. What is the PDCA cycle?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The mission statement should be easy to understand and should be aligned with the organization’s strategy. Ministry of Works, Government of Bahrain. The PMO’s mission is maximizing the value of State initiatives in the public interest through the successful implementation and management of best project management practices.

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Planview

APRIL 12, 2018

Meeting the demands of ever-changing priorities within a government can lead to inconsistent processes, departments with limited visibility into what is being worked on, and no ability to monitor investments. The New Zealand Government Case Study. The New Zealand government serves approximately 4.7 million people.

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Scrum.org

JULY 30, 2023

Leadership and Scrum True agility for companies goes beyond fancy methodologies and rituals. It begins with clear leadership, providing a definitive direction for the business. Indeed, many methodologies employ similar principles, whether fully or partially, to expedite testing and improvement of strategies.

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Planview

MAY 26, 2021

We jointly presented findings from the new Strategy Execution Benchmark research. A category of “Strategy Execution Leaders” emerged from the results. Let’s say your strategies have changed or another strategy has emerged in response to a market shift – maybe a competitor launched a new product.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) involves connecting strategy to execution by using lean principles. Budgets are allocated to execute an enterprise’s strategy by portfolio management teams. The lean portfolio leadership team creates the goal of your company. Review of strategy alignment. What is LPM? LPM operations.

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Wrike

JULY 21, 2023

The successful implementation of organizational strategies is key to achieving strategic success. In this article, we will explore the common hurdles in strategy implementation and provide insights into how organizations can overcome them to achieve their desired outcomes. Provides a roadmap for resource allocation.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Front of mind are resources and intangible things like leadership, experience and general know-how. Besides the examples above, an operational process asset can be any practice or knowledge from anything used to execute or govern the project, even lessons learned from previous projects and historical data.

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NimbleWork

APRIL 11, 2024

The second required an understanding of government and public sector procurement process, benchmarking hardware and software systems and working with myriad vendors and computer system standards at a time, when no such systems or standards had ever existed.

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Inloox

APRIL 16, 2024

How to perform a SWOT analysis Once the SWOT analysis is completed: 5 key approaches for strategy development Concrete example: SWOT analysis in a software development project Conclusion 1. This knowledge enables the project team to develop and implement risk management strategies to avoid potential obstacles or mitigate their impact.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 3, 2020

At least, the 1950’s were when project management emerged as a discipline to help manufacturing, construction and government initiatives deliver more reliably and with greater repeatability. A shift to leadership. Finally, there’s also more emphasis on leadership. Fun times.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

There was almost no discussion of the importance of teaming strategies to the methodology. The governance model? Governance and control. Dependencies and governance. Dependencies and governance are a reality. You have to address governance and compliance and audit and control. Somehow it was out of scope.

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Wrike

APRIL 28, 2021

Perhaps you’ve heard of governance, risk, and compliance, also known as GRC, before, but you aren’t sure how important it is to you or your business. What is governance risk and compliance (GRC)? What exactly is governance, risk, and compliance, or GRC for short? How will GRC benefit your company?

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The IIL Blog

MAY 14, 2024

For example, projects where the technological dimension (the “how”) takes precedence over the initial raison d’être and intention (the “for what” and the “what”) remain “suspended on the surface”, with no real connection to the field, and ultimately no impact.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 25, 2023

You’ll even find project officers working in not-for-profit organizations and government agencies. Summary The project officer will report directly to the project manager and assist with all aspects of the project from initiation to closure. Project officers don’t exclusively work for one project manager on one project.

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