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How to get the best from your sponsor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project managers must take an active role in influencing and educating project sponsors in these best practices to get the leadership support the project requires. Our book is a step in reducing these factors by providing the best practices for sponsors and arming the project manager with strategies to influence.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here’s an introduction to these important groups as part of the governance framework so you can get yours set up and working on your project. A project board provides oversight and governance for the project. What you need is adequate governance for the project. What is a project board? Call your meetings anything you like.

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We are Not Alone: The Intersection of Project Management and Content Strategy

The IIL Blog

Align with the Business Need A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge ( PMBOK ), the bible for project managers, states that “projects are initiated due to internal business needs or external influences”. Determining whether the business needs a fixed-scope project, or a continuous improvement program is an important first step.

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Top 11 Cities for Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The Australian government has granted two initiatives close to Brisbane major project status. Over A$10bn has been committed by the Australian government to fund the upgrades. The majority of the work is government based and there is an exciting start up scene,” she adds. Source: PMI; figures relate to country).

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Project Leadership: What Does it Really Mean to Lead, Not Manage?

MPUG

Self – a project leader must govern themselves. Leading Up Governance is a key to the success of every project. This article introduces many of the ideas from my 2012 book, “Brilliant Project Leader,” published by Pearson. Client or sponsor – the people for whom we lead our project. In fact, I did.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Project Governance. Five Principles of Project Success , PMI, Northern Utah Chapter, Professional Development Day, 2012. Improving DOE Project Performance Using DOD Integrated Master Plan , Waste Management Symposium Feb 26 - Mar 1, 2012. Governance. Program Governance Roadmap. Principles of Program Governance.

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Sustain Your PMO: Nine Easy Lessons

The Lazy Project Manager

It addition it is noted in the PM-Partners: PMO Trends 2012 report: When a PMO is expected to work across the organisation at all levels, oversee significant investments and facilitate senior decisions – it is surprising that a high number of organisations either put the wrong person in the job or don’t support them when they are in place.

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