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Managing Multiple Projects: Statistics

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This wasn’t a survey about project portfolio management at the PMO level. 16% have workloads prioritized by the PMO 17% have workloads prioritized by their manager And if you don’t have those in place, or another way, then the only option is to try to work out what is the most important work yourself. A project manager says.

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How to Get Projects From Strategy

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If you are in a PMO , you might have this challenge. This can either be stated in the level that must be achieved e.g. 95% of flights having an on-time departure per day, or an improvement that you desire e.g. to reduce ground time by 10% on 2017 times. An older version of this article first appeared on the 2080 blog in 2017.

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Online Training: RapidStart PMO Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

RapidStart PMO: Online Project Management Training Review. The paid course covers everything you’d need to get a PMO up and running in a few months. There are two workstreams within the RapidStart methodology: Workstream 1: Designing, launching and aligning the PMO. Then it talks about aligning the PMO. What’s Covered.

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5 Simple Reasons Why Processes Don’t Work

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Fix by: Work with the PMO to review the processes. If there is a risk that the process doesn’t work as expected you should be monitoring that (it’s most likely a task for your PMO) and ensuring that any subsequent issues with the process are captured and dealt with. So you still do them, pointlessly and with bad grace.

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2017 Project Management Conferences You Won’t Want To Miss

Rebel’s Guide to PM

January to March 2017. 12th International Project Management Conference: Tehran, Iran, 12-13 February 2017. They expect over 1600 researchers, project managers, and practitioners to attend the 2017 conference. PMI Sweden Passion of Projects: Malmö, Sweden 13-14 March 2017. SPMI Symposium: Singapore, 16-17 March, 2017.

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Project Management Trends [2022]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

And my own research during winter 2017 shows that getting people involved in projects is still the most challenging part of getting work done. It’s a way of automating repetitive tasks and it’s having a bit of an impact on the PMO community. Think about how your PMO teams are rewarded. In other words, it shifts behavior.

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ClickUp vs. Monday: In-Depth Software Comparison

ProjectManager.com

ClickUp is a San Diego-based productivity platform that was founded in 2017 by Alex Urukowski and Zeb Evans. If you’re not ready to make a decision, let’s take a moment to compare ClickUp vs. Monday and see how the two software products stack up against one another. What Is ClickUp?