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15 Free PMO Templates for Excel and Word

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A PMO, or project management office, can be an internal department or an external group or agency that defines and maintains the standards for a company’s project management. However, all three can use PMO templates to support project programs and portfolios. Learn more 3.

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How to Build and Implement a Project Strategy

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Project strategy is also useful in sharing the details of a project plan with stakeholders. To effectively plan and manage your project strategy, you’ll need a Gantt chart. Beyond organizing tasks and adding milestones, resources and costs, users can link all four types of task dependencies to avoid costly delays.

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How to create a project budget

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If you are planning a budget for a project proposal i.e. pitching to someone else for them to secure your services to deliver a piece of work, then read this article about preparing a budget for a proposal. What is included in a project budget? I find this helps me establish what’s in the project budget and what isn’t.

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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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Measuring the Project Management Maturity of Your Organization

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It helps to complete projects on time, manage risk, achieve project goals, deliver more benefits and handle change with minor disruption. These responsibilities usually fall under the purview of a project management office (PMO) and can be facilitated by using project management software.

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12 Ways to Manage Project Quality Without Drama

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Also, if you have internal auditors or a Quality Assurance function, or someone in the PMO who can do an informal (or formal) project review, book that in as well. Quality assurance reviews, peer reviews, health checks and quality audits might sound scary for project managers – they’re not.

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Project Estimating: The Only Guide You Need

Rebel’s Guide to PM

ROM stands for rough order of magnitude and it’s used to give you a very high level view of potential project costs or duration. Companies have different determinations of what range ROM should cover, so your finance team or PMO might have a particular range in mind. If you have a project estimation tool, use that.

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