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

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a project manager, you are expected to have all-round skills encompassing the technical fields of project management like planning and scheduling, through to the interpersonal skills like communicating up and influencing others. Skill #4: Scheduling Scheduling takes task management to the next level. It’s juggling dependencies.

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Finance Risk Management Budget Risk 319

Planview

DECEMBER 13, 2019

A healthcare PMO today must have a strong constitution. Not only are they faced with challenges unique to healthcare, PMOs are also going through the trends mentioned in our recent post, “ Conquer Your Business Transformation.” We argue less and spend more time discussing what we plan to work on.”.

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Healthcare PMO Innovation Lean 97

MPUG

MARCH 8, 2021

Many project managers utilize a Lean-Agile approach when there is high change or churn in project requirements, significant lack of clarity in scope, high complexity to their projects, and/or a larger number of risks associated with such. Two Lean-Agile Types. Iteration-based Lean-Agile. Flow-based Lean-Agile. Flow-based.

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Lean Software Review Technical Review Agile 64

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 12, 2022

What to Expect: This three-day event focuses on the importance of planning, scheduling and how to manage scope. It plans to address how to plan for a future beyond the Covid crisis. The Resource Planning Summit. What to Expect: Sessions focus on agility, software engineering and lean business. 27-March 1.

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2022 Technical Review PMO Underperforming Technical Team 283

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

A well-documented plan? XP, scrum, lean, etc.) Second, the use of lean and agile tools and methodologies beyond IT, software and manufacturing. Visual, lean tools that truly engage all team members are going to become essential. Lean in a little more to the opportunities before you. Proper briefs?

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2023 Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Underperforming Technical Team 404

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

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Cost and plans: Free 14-day trial, then Team, Professional or Enterprise plans depending on the number of Solutions and records required. Every aspect of what you need to run a PMO has already been thought-through and created for you. That means you don’t need a PMO system admin or analyst to manage the product.

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Software Review 2022 PMO Lean 355

Planview

APRIL 24, 2020

In our first two posts in this blog series, we provided examples of how organizations are using dynamic planning and rapid reprioritization to pivot quickly in response to disruptive change and new opportunities. Part 2: Dynamic Planning: Refocus, Reprioritize, and Reallocate Rapidly. What’s the next level of dynamic planning?

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Planning PMO Technical Review Budget 125

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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PMO Governance Government 2014 52

ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Originally from Auckland, New Zealand, Mr. Westland is the author of multiple project management publications, including: Building High Performing Teams, Step-by-Step Project Planning, Managing Projects of All Sizes, The Project Management Life Cycle. He has also written articles for a wide variety of print publications and websites.

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Consulting Lean 2019 Leadership 419

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 (..)

2024 52

2024 PMO Lean Governance 52

Planview

DECEMBER 21, 2018

During the event, I had the opportunity during one of the keynotes to present some of the views of 451 Research on how to embrace change and keep the PMO relevant. Not doing any one of these will open you to challenging friction in your work planning, execution, and tracking. It’s time to become a ‘liquid’ enterprise.

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PMO Construction Executing Lean 60

Inloox

JUNE 15, 2021

That's why we’ve created a change management planning template to enable you to properly initiate changes in your company with InLoox. Change management is very complex and requires thoughtful planning and a transparent approach. With the help of a project management software, you can keep track of past and planned measures.

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Change Management PMO Lean Sustainability 130

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. “

Governance 158

Governance Government PMO Lean 158

LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This software isn’t just critical for enterprise organizations, but any company that manages shared resources and has complex projects with succession planning components. Project management is a process used to plan, organize and execute a task, event or project. Scenario-plan when priorities change. Portfolio Balancing.

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Software Review 2022 Software Planning 88

Planview

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In the first workshop of this series, we covered how your organization’s current annual planning and demand management processes can act as starting points in your journey toward continuous planning. It provides you with detailed, upfront planning and design, and it works best when you have well-known requirements. Can’t wait?

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PMO Software Lean Agile 60

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

APRIL 18, 2019

In my last blog, “ Agile Transformation: The PMO’s New Paradigm ” we covered the significance of embracing different types of work and the role that continuous planning plays in becoming an Agile PMO—but that’s only the beginning. Project schedules can no longer be the PMO’s core focus. Redefine Success.

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PMO Lean Finance Agile 106

Meisterplan

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

So, it seems people are changing their minds about PMOs, and realizing that when they are done right, they increase project and company success. That being said, if you are part of a PMO, there are some things you want to avoid. Here is my list of things you shouldn’t say or do as a PMO manager or director. “Great idea!

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PMO Lean 2017 Initiating 54

ProjectManager.com

JUNE 15, 2021

Project managers plan, budget, monitor and report on the project with project management tools , sometimes pitching the idea of the project or being assigned to it once it’s already been approved. Project Planning. Regardless, you must figure out beforehand what the risks are and set in place a plan of action if they in fact occur.

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Certification Prince2 Monitoring PMI 441

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 212

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 7, 2019

My own personal themes are around remaining comfortable with high levels of uncertainty and therefore having much more flexible/looser plans for the business. A well-documented plan? XP, scrum, lean, etc.) You can get to the online course here: The PMO Lifecycle: Building, Running, and Shutting Down. Proper briefs?

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2019 Technical Review PMO Consulting 291

Planview

JUNE 1, 2021

At the same time, our traditional planning processes cannot keep up or sustain us anymore: The annual plan is most on-strategy the day you finish it. Every quarter that goes by, the plan becomes less relevant. It’s difficult to react swiftly to change when your plans and budgets are set in stone. What needs to change?

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Cadence Logistics Lean Agile 148

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Bitte beachten Sie, dass ich Grammarly verwendet habe, um Tippfehler und Zeichensetzung zu korrigieren: While the cross-team big room planning is very useful, in my experience, SAFe is top-down. A dependency board used to be a good way to figure out what dependencies to eliminate; now, it only encourages people to “plan better.”

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Lean Software Review 2022 Technical Review 175

Planview

JANUARY 2, 2020

We learned more about some of the biggest struggles financial institutions face with a focus on capacity planning, funding models, and digital transformation. Teams are now empowered to use Lean and Agile methodologies and enterprise Kanban to continuously improve their unique workflows. Measuring Performance and Success.

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2019 Agile Lean Governance 103

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.

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PMO Lean Governance Government 60

The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Baseline An original plan for measuring performance and tracking changes. Capacity Planning To identify the number of resources (e.g., Change Management The approach to plan and implement strategies that guide individuals and organizations through a change (e.g., identify items such as benefits and costs).

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Development Team Review Project Life Cycle Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 148

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 3, 2018

My own personal themes are around remaining comfortable with high levels of uncertainty and therefore having much more flexible/looser plans for the business. A well-documented plan? How you anticipate setbacks and deviations from plan. XP, scrum, lean, etc.) Make them look good, and in turn, they’ll make you look good.

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2018 Artificial Inteligence Consulting Underperforming Technical Team 300

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Please note that I used Grammarly to correct typos and punctuation: While the cross-team big room planning is very useful, in my experience, SAFe is top-down. A dependency board used to be a good way to figure out what dependencies to eliminate; now, it only encourages people to “plan better.” But you can see why SAFe liked Lean UX.

Lean 144

Lean Software Review 2022 Technical Review 144

Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This year’s RICS project management conference has the theme ‘Remaining Lean and Agile in a Changing Work Environment’ I’m not sure if they are partnering with the APM as in previous years but the agenda is already up on the site and looks interesting. PMO Conference UK: London, UK, 13 June 2018.

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2018 PMO 2016 PMI 234

Kiron Bondale

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

This makes it impossible to accurately estimate capacity during iteration planning and usually contributes to a team missing their iteration commitments resulting in delivery delays. Portfolio plans are useless, portfolio planning is indispensable. Agile delivery is not a silver bullet.

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Agile Governance Government Finance 153

Meisterplan

MAY 8, 2018

Over the course of my career, I have been a project team member, a project manager, a PMO, and a senior manager. How we can make plans that actually work. But too many people are leaning on agile as an end-all be-all solution when, in fact, it’s only part of the answer. We want to make plans that work. Guess what.

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Planning Lean PMO Agile 40

Planview

MAY 20, 2022

You’ve initiated your project, created an in-depth plan, and secured stakeholder buy-in. Except that, as every PMO knows, project execution is the most challenging stage of the project life cycle, and it’s only gotten more difficult in a world of hybrid and remote work. Plan for Change. Now it’s time to execute.

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Executing Project Life Cycle PMO Lean 88

Planview

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This aligning business with IT topic goes further than the PMO function and includes Finance and business units (Technology being the key one). What was the biggest issue Santander encountered when incorporating the PPM solution with your existing PMO? Could you tell us how you use reporting for different stakeholders?

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Agile Cadence PMO Governance 99

Planview

MARCH 21, 2019

In this blog series, we are providing an overview of the seven planning types to help you deliver on strategy with a dynamic and continuous approach. In part one, we started with the basics of strategic planning and the need for a flexible and long-term approach, so you can zig when the market, competition, or internal issues zag.

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Planning Initiating Defining Budget 110

Planview

MAY 30, 2019

In a recent webcast, Planning Deconstructed , Heather Westomoreland , Planview Planning Capabilities Product Manager and Angie Sarmiento , Planview Solutions Marketing Manager discuss continuous planning and the steps organizations can take to have a more proactive role in creating, executing, and managing different planning types.

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Planning Agile Transportation Executing 106