Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

There is a chance that processes lean too far in the other direction too. Fix by: Work with the PMO to review the processes. Big complex projects need big, complex structures to support them with all the governance, oversight, and process that implies. Read next: 5 golden rules for writing project documentation.

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Process PMO Risk Management Software Review 377

Planview

MAY 11, 2018

Breaking news update: as I previously reported in the blog, “ Symptoms of the Zombie PMO ,” zombification is still proliferating in businesses throughout the world. In this updated report, I will expound upon the cures discussed by experts in the on-demand webinar, “ Avoiding the Pitfalls of a Zombie PMO.”.

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PMO Technical Review Lean Governance 109

Planview

MARCH 6, 2020

Executives expect PMOs to be the catalyst for this change. Success requires becoming a more “Adaptive PMO,” evolving how you plan, govern, and empower delivery teams to do their best work. This transition can be uncertain, but Planview is working with PMOs to make it easier as this new video demonstrates.

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PMO Agile Planning Governance 78

Planview

OCTOBER 28, 2021

PMOs are in a state of transition: ever shifting to support different teams, ways of working, strategic objectives, transformation programs, priorities, and more. Managing this level of complexity and constant change requires a modern approach to PPM – one that positions the PMO to become a more strategic creator of business value. “

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Governance Government PMO Lean 158

Scrum.org

MARCH 23, 2022

For example, prior to the pandemic, structuring teams around specialist skills, building an amazing planning and resource allocation process (PMO), and putting in place as much automation as possible would for many be the holy grail of productivity. Expensive resources would be optimized. Keep teams and endeavors as small as possible.

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Lean PMO Construction Risk Management 217

Planview

AUGUST 26, 2019

Throughout this series, we’ve discussed the five ways to become agile, addressed the primary issues and roadblocks, as well as the critical steps required to transform the PMO, all based on the whitepaper, The Agile PMO: 5 Steps to Driving Agility at Scale. Part 1: Driving Agile at Scale: The Agile PMO. This must change.

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Agile PMO Lean Governance 92

Planview

JANUARY 2, 2020

Even in organizations where teams were already practicing Agile, it was common for senior leadership to favor the more traditional portfolio management due to their comfort with detailed project plans and heavier governance. Agile teams are largely self-governing. Compare this with the outcome-based approach of Lean-Agile practices.

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2019 Agile Lean Governance 103

Kiron Bondale

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

If governance committees aren’t selecting the right projects which are in alignment with strategic objectives, and only kicking off as many projects as can be effectively staffed, it won’t matter how efficient, empowering or customer-centric the organization’s delivery practices are.

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Agile Governance Government Finance 153

Planview

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Lean-Agile Delivery : Process-driven work is flowed in for teams to execute on by leveraging lean and agile methods allow these teams to test and deliver more frequently and establish a continuous feedback loop increasing speed time-to-value. Connecting Strategy to Delivery.

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PMO Lean Governance Government 60

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

JANUARY 30, 2020

Agile is moving beyond technology and is now widely used in financial services, government, and professional services companies. StratEx has developed a unique Lean & Agile certification program that is methodology agnostic and teaches best practices from Lean, Agile, and the emerging field of DevOps.

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Certification SCRUM Lean PMO 109

International Institute for Learning

APRIL 12, 2023

He gives strategic directions on project portfolio prioritization to the Confectionery business and supports project delivery with continuous improvement techniques and root cause mindset using rigorous Black Belt Lean 6 Sigma methodologies. Dr. De Acutis is certified in PMP-PMI ® , Green and Black Belt Lean 6 Sigma.

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Finance Lean PMO Sustainability 40

The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Lean A project management philosophy that aims to maximize value while minimizing waste. Lean Six Sigma Combining Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to eliminate defects and waste. Project Governance The framework and guidelines for decision-making, responsibility, and accountability within a project.

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Development Team Review Project Life Cycle Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 148

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 3, 2018

XP, scrum, lean, etc.) I think when we think about how we are delivering our projects, we need to focus on Business Value, Customer Satisfaction, Governance and less about coming in on time and budget. Second, the use of lean and agile tools and methodologies beyond IT, software and manufacturing. Helena Lui. Helena Lui.

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2018 Artificial Inteligence Consulting Underperforming Technical Team 300

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 19, 2017

Today I’m interviewing Karen Chovan, MASc, PEng, PMP, who has dedicated her career to helping others deliver clean, lean and green approaches to project and programme management. I really am appreciative that I gained so many business skills at a young age, but I’ve still a lot to learn myself! I just wonder what will come next.

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Sustainability Lean Construction Engineering 168

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

E – Project Management Terms Earned value management (EVM) A way to measure project performance, and is commonly used in government projects. It is commonly employed in Agile and Lean projects, often in response to end-user feedback in product development cycles.

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Lean Event Chain 393

Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 25, 2024

A Project Management Office (PMO) isn't just about oversight; it's about empowering your projects to deliver real value. A well-implemented PMO can transform your project delivery process , ensuring that every project is set up for success from the start. Discover how a PMO can be a game-changer for your organization.

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Technical Review Software Review Software Developers Software Development 52

Project Accelerator News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A colleague at the time joked that we needed a “Source-Out-To-Help-Out” government scheme to remind project decision makers of all their options! From strategy to service delivery, this cost-effective model for project delivery is underpinned by Stoneseed’s PMO, methodology and toolset. And commit!”

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PMO Lean Governance Government 40

Planview

APRIL 16, 2021

The role of the PMO is changing. We recently got an in-depth look into this new face of the PMO during our webinar – “What’s Ahead for the PMO?” She and I discussed the responsibilities, expanding skill sets, and strategic capabilities of the modern PMO – and how to advance in that direction. Types of Today’s PMOs.

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PMO Development Team Review Governance Government 99

NimbleWork

APRIL 25, 2024

In this series of weekly sessions, we will demonstrate how you can effectively and easily align Strategy to Execution, with the use of principles such as Visual Work Management, Lean Thinking, and Pragmatic Agile to dramatically improve your work management and collaboration capability while enabling and empowering your people to take ownership and (..)

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Meisterplan

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The City of Munich and the federal government invested more than 750 million euros to modernize the hospital and put it on a sound footing so that it can continue to offer excellent care to patients. . Meisterplan’s Lean PPM approach is a good example of this. The PMO must not be the trash can of the organization.

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2014 Agile Healthcare PMO 54

LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Such tools provide a solution to establish a prioritization process for projects that helps organizations govern their existing and future efforts. Comprehensive integrated planning with critical path method (CPM) and lean scheduling. Top Features: Visualize the portfolio workload with waterfall, collaborative, or Lean-Agile views.

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Software Review 2022 Software Planning 88

Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

And you know, the manifesto had just been written and I was working as a project manager in a company called CheckFree here in Atlanta and squarely like in the PMO. And so, it’s that for a couple years, that group reorganized and I kind of find myself back in a regular PMO and I’m like, that’s not cool, right?

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Agile Consulting Influencer Underperforming Technical Team 140

Planview

JULY 5, 2019

The past four blogs in our series are based on the whitepaper, The Agile PMO: 5 Steps to Driving Agility at Scale and have centered around how the PMO can guide the enterprise towards greater agility. It requires that the PMO start embracing agile. Part 2: Agile Transformation Requires Just Enough PMO Governance.

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PMO Agile Governance Government 79

Leading Agile

DECEMBER 3, 2018

After creating unique and clever branding for their internal SharePoint site, the PMO would busily fail to coordinate the work of the four teams. Now they have four levels of PMO function, and 40 teams instead of 4. Structure, Governance, Metrics. It’s the governance of all your work. Governance. Or science.

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Governance Government PMO Lean 105

Velociteach

MARCH 4, 2024

And what they found was that, when they asked the government executives about, okay, how did it really go, how large part of the benefits did you actually realize, they answered less than 50% of the expected benefits. So we need to be a little gentle with the sponsor that has actually leaned in. Did we realize the benefits?”

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Consulting Initiating Process Estimate 59

Leading Agile

AUGUST 22, 2019

In this live talk with LeadingAgile’s Marty Bradley, we’ll dig into the topic of Enterprise Transformation and discuss how it’s different from a traditional Agile PMO. Applying Agile to Government Agencies w/ Richard Cheng. Mob Programming w/ Woody Zuill. In this live talk, we’re chatting with Woody Zuill about Mob programming.

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2019 Agile Governance Government 11

MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

We are a consulting company in the DC Baltimore area that specializes in project and portfolio management for about 80% of our customers in the government space, the other 20 in the commercial space. So, that’s done a lot more in the commercial space than it ever is in most government spaces. By education and training.

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Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Governance 52

Planview

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Joaquim’s response: The starting point was providing a governance framework that aligns the work of different roles to company objectives, KPIs, and cadence, with a good balance of rigor and flexibility. What was the biggest issue Santander encountered when incorporating the PPM solution with your existing PMO?

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Agile Cadence PMO Governance 99

Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

During this phase, there’s a lot of box-ticking and governance to ensure everyone understands their ongoing requirements. Learn from their mistakes and lean on them for insights. If you’re working on a complex IT project, you can lean on more detailed techniques such as the Critical Path Method or PERT to provide more granularity.

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Development Team Review 2030 Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 78

LiquidPlanner

JUNE 6, 2017

PMOs and process specialists spend months developing standard processes, methods, and templates to achieve predictable results. Believe it or not, the PMO doesn’t create a new template or a new process out of sadistic pleasure. Of course, project governance still needs to be in place to ensure the project doesn’t “run off the track.”

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Manufacturing PMO 2017 Lean 111

Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 28, 2021

February 21-23 — International Conference on Lean Six Sigma and Project Management is suitable for you if you’d like to meet your peers and consider Lean Six Sigma and PM challenges as well as to exchange your ideas and experience. June 14-15, London, UK — PMO 2021 Conference is the largest UK’s conference for PMO practitioners.

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2021 Technical Review Construction Software Review 98

MPUG

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Is it your PMO, individual project managers, or others? 55% PMO, and 45% individual project managers. Tad: Well good, clearly it is the PMO that is landing much of this, but it’s actually the innovation or strategy groups that start much of this activity. Today, we’re starting to see the churn again for PMOs.

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Innovation PMO Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 40

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Lean & Test Driven Development (TDD) – 11%. Government – Federal. Government – City/State/Local. Project Management Offices (PMOs). PMO Popularity by Company Size: 61% of small organizations (<$100M) have a PMO. 88% of mid-size companies ($100M-$1B) have a PMO. 69% to 45% ). [12].

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2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

And I was working for this VP that was like really super cool, is very into agile and we were coming up with really creative things for like team formation strategies and agile governance, all stuff. We have to figure out how to install governance. None of the stuff on scaling was out there. We have to start getting predictable.

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2021 Agile Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM 62

Wrike

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

When a new city or town is formed, a charter is written to define its organization and governing body along with its basic powers, procedures, and functions. Just like James Bond leans on his license to kill when he’s out in the field, the charter serves as a PM’s license to do what needs to be done in service of the project.

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Defining Executing Budget Risk Management 74

Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Audit: The process of analyzing a project to ensure that it is being governed as intended. Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO): A dedicated department within an organization that's responsible for the governance of projects, programs, and portfolios across the organization. A project sponsor can request an audit.

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Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Risk Management 78

Paymo App

JANUARY 19, 2018

The UK government developed PRINCE2, so if you’re planning on working in the UK, you might want to give this certificate a go. Lean focuses on moving the main goal towards valuable product delivery with fewer resources. The PRINCE2 Certification. This certification has three main levels: PRINCE2 Foundation. Tired of waste?

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2018 Prince2 Certification Technical Review 111