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Real-life tips for managing Red projects and getting back to Green

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Managing stakeholder expectations Stakeholders tend to not like Red projects as they bring a lot of attention from senior leaders and the PMO. If you’re running over budget, you need approval to increase your budget. Update your budget documentation, schedule and other project artifacts.

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How to Create a Powerful PMO Mission Statement

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There’s a lot riding on getting your PMO mission statement right. After all, the mission statement is what will guide the PMO as it strives to achieve its goals and objectives. Creating a powerful PMO mission statement doesn’t have to be difficult – but it does require some thought and careful planning.

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How to create a project budget

Rebel’s Guide to PM

What is a project budget? A project budget is a financial document that lays out what you think you’ll spend on a project. ” The project budget might be phased over multiple quarters or years. What does creating a project budget involve? What is included in a project budget?

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7 Top Microsoft PPM Software, Apps & Tools

ProjectManager.com

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. That said, there are limited portfolio management capabilities.

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How To Build A Project Scorecard

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One way to do it would be something like this: Project quality: audit results, project benefits, quality targets Project budget: Earned Value measures, project running costs Project delivery: milestones, customer satisfaction Project team: staffing levels, resource allocation, staff satisfaction or engagement.

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Portfolio Management: The Career Move You’ve Been Looking For?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Monitoring and controlling the complete set of projects in the portfolio , with a special focus on resourcing across the business and managing the budgets. While you can incorporate some of these elements into your job if you manage a PMO or a large division, its going to be far more effective if you have the support of the exec.

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Strategic Project Portfolio Management [Book Review]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It sounds simple – we all know we should do it, but it’s hard to know where to start for a new PMO. It’s everything a novice PMO Manager needs to know to support her project managers at work. Reading this was a pleasure; I’m sure I’ll refer to it again in the future – and if you work in a PMO, you should too.

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