ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Project Management Offices Also called a project portfolio management office, a project management office (PMO) is a department or team within or external to an organization that standardizes and oversees project management processes and methodologies across the organization. It’s a tool that provides reporting and analysis.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Project Management Offices: An internal or external project management office (PMO) sets standards, ensures project governance and supports project managers across the organization. There are resource management features to allocate, level and optimize resources and integrated risk analysis features to predict and mitigate risks.

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Project Risk Coach

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

First, organizations implement PMOs with a lack of clarity. Why does the organization need the PMO? What is the role of the PMO? How will the PMO engage with the senior leaders? Second, the PMO fails to ask for feedback and incrementally evolve. How PMOs Can Become Strategic Enablers 1.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 10, 2025

Project Management Office (PMO): The PMO ensures governance and alignment with organizational standards during project initiation. Project Management Office (PMO): The PMO provides governance, best practices and standardized methodologies for project planning.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 10, 2024

Project managers are constantly making requests to the project management office (PMO). A PMO is setting the tone for how projects are managed and should structure its activities as they demand projects. But there are only so many resources in which to do this and, therefore, the PMO must prioritize projects. That’s normal.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Usually, companies have a project management office (PMO) that will oversee the portfolio or program to ensure it meets strategic goals. These are high-level positions for people who already are tasked with managing projects, programs and portfolios as well as the aforementioned PMO. Let’s take a moment to define these positions.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This systematic analysis of external and internal environmental factors is part of the larger strategic management of a project. An EEF project management tool is a SWOT analysis, which can help identify enterprise environmental factors and determine their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Instead, people with PMO job titles are in a crucial support function. Here are some common job titles you’ll find within the PMO. They may do reporting, data analysis and other admin tasks. PMO Analyst: This is another relatively junior job title, for someone who works in a PMO. These are not delivery roles.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 14, 2021

Your PMO might have definitions for each of those to help you define and refine your estimating at the early stages of the project. If your PMO does not have standard categories like this, you can make them up. A definitive estimate is what you should end up with once your budgeting analysis is fully complete. Essential read.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 6, 2022

Not you as an individual, not you as a PMO, not you as a group of dedicated project managers. Your PMO should come up with (if they haven’t got it already) a list of the project prioritization categories. Or, to rephrase, you have a long list of work ideas that senior managers would like to get done as projects. You can’t do it all.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 14, 2024

He learned a lot about project management in the process and eventually went on to become a PMO Manager. Instead, people with PMO job titles are in a crucial support function. Here are some common job titles you’ll find within the PMO. They may do reporting, data analysis and other admin tasks.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 23, 2023

The project manager , another project manager, a PMO person, or a risk audit person could carry out the audit. Audits are part of internal controls on a project and fall under the governance arena, so if you have specific PMO team members who look at governance, they are the ones to ask. Who carries out the risk audit?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 10, 2023

Pre-requisite For Stakeholder Engagement Stakeholder Exploration techniques In this article, we will discuss, Part 2 of Stakeholder Engagement i.e. Stakeholder Analysis and Mapping. Stakeholder Analysis The definition we discussed in the previous article. Pro Tips for Stakeholder Analysis: Don’t do it alone.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 18, 2021

You’ll typically create them after you complete some kind of data analysis to help you absorb the information – and the best case scenario is that you’ve got the tools to update them automatically instead of every dashboard being a beautiful, but manual creation. Especially for people with short attention spans!). Agreements and contracts.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 21, 2021

They perform competitor analysis and evaluate alternatives. They run meetings inefficiently, which results in participant frustration and complaints to VPs of PMO. They do not have a clear understanding of various roles on the project. Good Project Managers understand and know the market and industry of their project. Jahn Karsybaev.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

I can see it being very helpful for executives, and also PMO managers trying to get leaders to understand that they can’t take on any more projects right now! Reporting is where Saviom really makes a dent in the market because of its powerful forecasting and analysis features. This helps with financial forecasting. Resource dashboard.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 9, 2021

Summary review of Sciforma: Sciforma is a PPM tool that has powerful portfolio management features and will level up your PMO. Portfolio simulation is a way of doing ‘what if’ analysis to allow you to see what would happen to the portfolio if you introduce other projects. Website: [link]. Sciforma Overview. This is a great feature.

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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 30, 2025

An effective Project Management Office (PMO) in an organization is a must nowadays. Therefore, weve compiled a list of 15 best PMO software tools. What is a PMO? A PMO has the following functions: Project governance includes establishing frameworks, methodologies, and policies to guide project execution.

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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 30, 2025

An effective Project Management Office (PMO) in an organization is a must nowadays. Therefore, weve compiled a list of 15 best PMO software tools. What is a PMO? A PMO has the following functions: Project governance includes establishing frameworks, methodologies, and policies to guide project execution.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

These could be project managers or PMO colleagues. If you want to move into program management, these 5 skills will help you prove you are capable of doing the role: Resource management Stakeholder engagement Data analysis and synthesis Data-driven decision making Change management. Data Analysis and Synthesis.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Check with your PMO. Your PMO should define exactly what ‘Red’ means and then you can check your project performance against those measures. That’s why it is important for the PMO to set up RAG status definitions. What is a ‘Red’ project? A ‘Red’ project is one that is challenged for some reason.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I've also had the joy and the pain of implementing three Project Management Offices (PMOs), two in Information Technology Departments and one Enterprise PMO. Through the years, I've noted many reasons that PMOs fail or struggle. It's rarely just one thing; it's usually a combination of things. Here is a list of causal factors.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 6, 2022

They do so by establishing project prioritization criteria that weigh the pros and cons of existing projects and potential projects and then make a decision based on their analysis. Each of them has pros and cons depending on your portfolio management or PMO needs. Cost-benefit analysis. Scoring Model. Project feasibility.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 12, 2024

Strategic workforce planning is used by an organization or its project management office (PMO) to achieve its long-term plans. Conduct a Skill Gap Analysis A skill gap analysis measures the difference between the skills that employers want or need against the skills that their workforce offers.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

It’s a way of automating repetitive tasks and it’s having a bit of an impact on the PMO community. Look at how you could adopt new tools with automation and AI features to speed up repetitive work and data analysis. A strategic shift for PMOs. Think about how your PMO teams are rewarded. RPA is Robotic Process Automation.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 4, 2021

It will be something we see more of and it will lead into other trends – for example, driving data analysis and giving recommendations for decisions. Elizabeth: There is a role for someone who can operate the software, perhaps that’s a role that would sit within the PMO. That’s something we’re seeing more and more.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 24, 2023

Your PMO might have definitions for each of those to help you define and refine your estimates at the early stages of the project. If your PMO does not have standard categories like this, you can make them up. Want to know more about analysis and estimating? Just take the parts you do know and apply some professional judgment.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 15, 2024

As a program manager, PMO or project team leader, you probably think about how to plan upcoming work. Don’t get analysis paralysis People are busy. A capability assessment or needs analysis like this gives you a consolidated view of where you are, helping you plan out where you want to be. Don’t send out survey after survey.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 24, 2024

The enterprise environmental factors in a project can have a serious impact on VUCA analysis and subsequent risk management. For project managers involved in multinational strategic projects, the list of skills might also include an understanding of local cultures, values, and politics that are evident during a VUCA analysis.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2025

Lessons Learned Categories: Organizing lessons into categoriessuch as planning, execution, communication, risk management and resource allocation helps structure the document for easy reference and analysis. This makes it easier to identify patterns and areas for improvement. However, documenting lessons learned is a collaborative effort.

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Risk categories are more meaningful when you perform a quantitative risk analysis resulting in quantified risk exposures (e.g., While quantitative risk analysis takes more time than the qualitative risk analysis, it provides a deeper understanding of the individual risks as well as the overall project risk exposures.

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

For example, once a project manager understands the importance of evaluating risks, he or she may perform their risk analysis using different techniques such as the probability and impact assessment. Someone like the PMO told them they had to use a particular method but they did not understand why. Second, principles are universal.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 13, 2024

It's written to explain why the project should happen, summarizes the problem the project is going to solve, reviews the cost benefit analysis of doing the work and sets out the project goals. But here is where my definition of project documentation falls down: the business case is normally written by someone other than the project manager.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 24, 2022

The PMO will want a copy and you should also send one to the project sponsor and any other senior stakeholders. Double-check that the PMO has the lessons too. You may want to do some vendor performance analysis on the suppliers you used to inform teams using those same suppliers in the future.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

These could be project managers or PMO colleagues. If you want to move into program management, these 5 skills will help you prove you are capable of doing the role: Resource management Stakeholder engagement Data analysis and synthesis Data-driven decision making Change management. Data Analysis and Synthesis.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 28, 2023

Check with your PMO. Your PMO should define exactly what ‘Red’ means and then you can check your project performance against those measures. That’s why it is important for the PMO to set up RAG status definitions. Use traffic light images to show status What is a ‘Red’ project? I would also add a recovery plan.

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

John is fortunate to work in the Project Management Office (PMO) with several senior project managers. The PMO Director continually reinforces the need to apply a strict code of conduct. stakeholder, project charter, risk analysis) used by the group. Ask the individual to explain their assigned task to you. Use their language.

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