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The PMO Game Changer: A Value-Driven Project Resource Management

The Lazy Project Manager

What is a Value-Driven Project Resource Management? Project resource management by PMO has changed significantly in the last 20 years. It is no more a mere spreadsheet for allocating resources to the projects and plug the holes. How Value-Driven Resource Management can be a Game Changer for the PMO?

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How to Manage Your Project Pipeline With Software

ProjectManager.com

Projects have a beginning, middle and end. That’s called the project life cycle. When you’re a project management office (PMO) or program or portfolio manager, you’re going to have to deal with multiple projects in various stages of the project pipeline. What is a project pipeline?

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What is ROM and how to calculate it (with example)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

But in reality, we rarely have the time or luxury of being able to provide that level of estimate at the earliest stage of project. Think of the ROM estimate as used for informational purposes at the beginning of the project. It’s used in the early stages of work, to establish the estimate cost with the information you have.

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9 Types of Artifacts in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Note: This article was put together before the PMBOK® Guide – 7 th edition was published so the information in it is drawn from publicly available information about what is going to be in the book. And yes, agile project management artifacts get a mention. Visual data and information. Documents are documents.

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Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) Estimate and How to Calculate It (with example)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Think of the ROM estimate as used for informational purposes at the beginning of the project. It’s not really something you should use for too long – it’s important to get to a more accurate view of project costs as soon as you can. Because some information is better than none! Any type of project can use a ROM estimate.

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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. Project governance is an oversight and controlling function. A general approach and methodology for defining project life cycle and phases.

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Collaborate 2023: Hand-Picked Sessions for PMO Teams

Wrike

As a PMO superstar, you know that Wrike is the solution you need to align your strategy with execution for end-to-end success. Here’s a peek into three exciting project management sessions that happened at Collaborate 2023. Aligning Strategy to Execution — Kalpesh Shah and Carolyn Lum Overview Kelpesh Shah, PMO leader at Radial, Inc.,

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