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What Is a PMO Director? Role, Responsibilities & Salary

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PMO stands for project management office and it’s responsible for the project management standards in an organization. It can be a department in that organization or a group of professionals, either inside or outside the organization. Either way, it’s run by a PMO director. What Is a PMO Director?

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Book review: Risk Happens

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Mike Clayton defines risk as “uncertain events that can affect outcomes,” in his book, Risk Happens!: Managing Risk and Avoiding Failure in Business Projects. Risk management is the most important of your project controls. So what exactly is project risk management? Risk breakdown structures.

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A History of PMI & Its Role in Project Management

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The Project Management Institute (PMI) is a nonprofit organization for those working in project management across the globe. If you have even a passing interest in the field, then you’ve bumped up against PMI. Given its vast influence, it’s important to have a basic understanding of PMI and its history. A History of PMI.

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The PMO Skillset, the House of PMO, and Strategic PM

The Strategic Project Manager

PMO’s institutionalize those processes and frameworks across all projects within an organization or domain. Are project management and PMO skillsets different? The PMO Skillset. There surely are more things a PMO does, but this covers the main groupings. The House of PMO.

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Project management degrees: Do you need one and what you can do with it

Rebel’s Guide to PM

She wrote: I have been advised that you have to do a degree in a particular subject e.g. engineering, do project management training e.g. PMI®, PRINCE2® etc and work your way up in order to become a project manager. PMI reports an expected global need for 25 million new project professionals by 2030. Is this true?

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Free and Low Cost Project Management Resources

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There was a question in our Facebook group recently: where can I get project management templates? Personally, I’d like to think that your PMO will purchase the templates that you need to use, or that your manager will let you buy templates on their corporate credit card. Learn more PMI-ACP PMI-ACP Exam Simulator 4.0

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Organizational Process Assets: What does that even mean?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Outside of the world of PMI, I’m not sure that the term is widely used at all, but let’s put that aside for a moment and consider what they are and how to use them. They might be influenced by market conditions (risk appetite statements might change, for example, if the market suddenly gets a lot more competitive).

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