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Organizational Process Assets: What does that even mean?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Organizational Process Assets (OPAs) are the collective knowledge, experience, and information that an organization has accumulated over time. OPAs include standard processes, procedures, tools, techniques, templates, and corporate knowledge bases or other resources used to manage projects or operations.

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Symptoms of an Ineffective PMO by Brad Egeland.

MindGenius

Are your project managers growing, expanding their careers, gaining needed training and certifications and mentoring colleagues the way a successful project management office (PMO) should be operating? A PMO needs leadership and that isn’t just the most experienced project manager giving some direction and running weekly PMO meetings.

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3 Continuous Improvement Strategies to Boost Your Project Management Skills

Project Pulse Journal

It became a global phenomenon through the influence of business philosophies like Total Quality Management (TQM) and methodologies such as Lean Methodology and Six Sigma, which emphasized systematic, strategic changes to eliminate waste, streamline processes, and eliminate waste and inefficiency.

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Enterprise Environmental Factors in Project Management

ProjectManager.com

These can influence the outcome of the project, program or portfolio so they must be managed. That’s why project managers and their teams need to take time to identify enterprise environmental factors that might influence their projects and figure out an action plan to mitigate or respond to them in a timely, effective manner.

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Back to Basics: What is Project Governance?

MPUG

An organization’s project governance framework provides project managers and teams with structure, knowledge base, support, and tools to for managing their projects. Governance is the act of governing, which includes steering, guiding, controlling, regulating, and influencing. Does it include a PMO?