Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2021

If that’s you, be on the look out for these kinds of job titles, as you can probably enter project management higher up the ranks: Project manager Senior project manager Program manager Business change manager Organizational change manager Delivery manager PMO manager. Government jobs typically pay better than working in education.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 2, 2023

There are lots of online courses that make it easy to take a short certification program. Any project management course at university level should cover the interpersonal and fusion skills that are required for success as well, such as leadership, communication, people management and teamwork. How much can you earn?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 7, 2023

But they are not the regulatory environment, government standards, or external environmental policies or regulations. In particular, look at what governance approaches and organizational standards you have to stick to when managing the project. If you are studying for your PMP exam, check out the training course I recommend.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

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. Have as many layers as fits within your PMO methodology.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2023

For example, they can review product descriptions to check they are written appropriately, they can review risk responses to ensure they will adequately address the risks – and of course, provide feedback to the team so they can take appropriate action if something isn’t right. When does assurance happen? Do you need an assurance committee?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Fix by: Work with the PMO to review the processes. That could be as easy as an email explaining what screen is changing in the software tools you use or a full-on classroom course. Big complex projects need big, complex structures to support them with all the governance, oversight, and process that implies.

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The Lazy Project Manager

MARCH 2, 2020

Ellis – Colin started his career as a project manager in 1997 and worked his way up through program manager and PMO manager to eventually head up large project departments in the private sector and government in the UK, New Zealand and Australia.

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The Lazy Project Manager

JANUARY 27, 2016

As has been already discussed the reality out there in ‘PMO land’ is that there is not a plethora of wise and experienced PMO managers, directors, leaders, heads, etc., and so it is sensible for anyone who is engaged to help an organisation set up a new PMO or advise on improvements to an existing PMO to reach out for some help.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2019

If you are looking for a starting point for a Gantt chart, GanttPRO has a bunch of templates you can use covering product launches, event planning, maintenance schedule, marketing, retail, creating a course/education programme, and more. Once you’ve started customising it, you’ll need to create an account if you want to keep it.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Lean portfolio management is a process by which strategy is aligned with execution using a lean approach and agile portfolio operations and governance. Of course, you have to find those inefficiencies first. Execute Lean Governance. The Ultimate Guide to Project Management Office (PMO). What Is Lean Portfolio Management?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 24, 2020

Project Management Office (PMO). Sometimes an organization will have a segment devoted to developing a set of standards and policies to govern their project management and to make sure those standards and policies are being followed. The PMO also will archive the project for historical data, collecting and analyzing its results.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 11, 2022

If you are setting up a PMO for example, you’ll want your project managers to use something more formal. Equally, on a large project, you’ll benefit from having more sections and more governance than what this status reporting template can offer you. Get my short online course about project reporting.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 24, 2020

How do you balance the need to collaborate with the governance and control that’s required in a project environment? How can you use social practices to mitigate the requirements and constraints for governance? I know that’s one of your hot topics given your professional interest and research into PMOs and sponsors.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 27, 2020

He started his career as a project manager in 1997 and worked his way up through program manager and PMO manager to eventually head up large project departments in the private sector and government in the UK, New Zealand and Australia. Colin joined us on one of the Rebel’s calls last year. Stenbeck, PMP.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

E – Project Management Terms Earned value management (EVM) A way to measure project performance, and is commonly used in government projects. Here’s how EVM can be applied over the course of a project’s duration. Project plan A formal and approved document outlining the course of the project from start to finish.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 26, 2019

If you are setting up a PMO for example, you’ll want your project managers to use something more formal. Equally, on a large project, you’ll benefit from having more sections and more governance than what this status reporting template can offer you. Get my short online course about project reporting.

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NimbleWork

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Galen Low Galen Low, a client services professional and agile project delivery specialist, has over 13 years of experience shaping human-centered digital transformations across sectors like government, healthcare, and retail. He is the co-author of The Project Management Communications Bible and The Tactical Guide for Building a PMO.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Quick win for PMOs: Ask who wants to get certified next year and make it happen. There are plenty of low-cost training options and courses delivered virtually that will help your team earn their credentials. Perhaps that’s why so many people want to take their development into their own hands, earn a certification and get a new job.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 3, 2018

I'd like to receive the free email course. External factors around projects are constantly changing at a breakneck speed which makes it challenging to definitively control the outcome without frequent course correction. Brain Sensei’s Complete PMP® Exam Prep course can be taken anytime and anywhere. Please try again.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 25, 2022

They will articulate the project objectives and goals to the PMO and anyone else who will listen! The role is predominantly assurance and governance, approving deliverables and making sure the work moves through any gate reviews and governance points as necessary. Of course, factual discussions are a must,” he says.

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Project Bliss

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The Portfolio Manager may also establish portfolio governance standards and procedures for approvals, reporting and other needs. PMO (Project Management Office) Manager / Director. Like the Portfolio Manager, the PMO Manager establishes processes and procedures for the PMO. You’d be managing a team of project managers.

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The Lazy Project Manager

JUNE 22, 2017

A Chief Projects Officer (CPO) is typically responsible for providing governance over an organisation’s internal projects – external, or customer facing projects can be also covered but that is entering a slightly different world – with a focus on: Ensuring all projects support the current strategic objectives. Reports to the executive team.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 31, 2016

I took my APMP course recently and there were a bemusing amount of training providers to choose from. So how do you pick the right course for you? CourseConductor.com is a new customer review website that is positively disrupting the way professionals find project management training courses globally. So why did you set it up?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 23, 2022

Of course, the word productivity is an emotive one. For example, prior to the pandemic, structuring teams around specialist skills, building an amazing planning and resource allocation process (PMO), and putting in place as much automation as possible would for many be the holy grail of productivity.

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The IIL Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Senior management must realize that they must actively function as project sponsors and serve on governance committees. They must also realize project governance is NOT the same as functional governance and must be willing to understand and accept new levels of authority, responsibility and decision making.

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Planview

JULY 5, 2019

The past four blogs in our series are based on the whitepaper, The Agile PMO: 5 Steps to Driving Agility at Scale and have centered around how the PMO can guide the enterprise towards greater agility. It requires that the PMO start embracing agile. Part 2: Agile Transformation Requires Just Enough PMO Governance.

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WorkOtter

JULY 12, 2023

The points below will assist you in carving out a PMO strategy that’ll make a difference for you. Understand the Advantages and Usefulness of Roadmaps First things first, you need to get to know the benefit of a project management office (PMO) roadmap. As a rule of thumb, make sure that you are setting S.M.A.R.T.

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Planview

MAY 29, 2020

Does your PMO generate portfolio dashboards for stakeholders and executives? Does it help your PMO be seen as a value driver? The Savvy PMO recognizes this and makes access to highly visual, useful data an imperative by providing comprehensive portfolio dashboards. In a 2019 Deloitte survey of 1,000 U.S. Real-time Analysis.

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Project-Management.pm

JULY 19, 2017

Go with PMO: Portfolio Management Office (PMO) has played a crucial role in the world of portfolio management; it helps portfolio to be more coordinated and aid in improving task management as a whole. Portfolio Governance Management. Visit our dedicated webpages : What is Portfolio Management? Portfolio Strategic Management.

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Project Accelerator News

JULY 26, 2024

We invest a lot of time, energy and budget on the “self-care” of our IT projects, in terms of robust governance, strong PMO (Project Management Office) and world-class processes, etc – but do we pay enough attention to our individual or team’s self-care? Of course, this needs to be delivered with rapport, empathy and respect.”

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House of PMO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The PMO Conference 2025, celebrating 10 years of bringing the PMO community together, is set to take place in London this June and its going to be our best yet. A Day Designed for PMO Professionals If you work in a PMO, lead a PMO, or support projects, programmes, and portfolios this is your day.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 4, 2022

We’ll be looking at Milestone planning, dependency management, multi stakeholder management, governance across multiple projects. So let’s talk about Project governance. Combining project governance is actually very similar. So what do we mean by governance? formal reporting is another governance function.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

AUGUST 8, 2019

Back in 2015, we took a look at the five advanced training options for people working in PMO. Four years on and a few things have changed in the PMO field. There is now another PMO certification option available alongside P3O from AXELOS and the PPSO ones from BCS, both of which feature in the last article. Business Analysis.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 19, 2017

A lot of my focus ended up working with the PMO to improve the process of identification of risks and opportunities, trade-off analyses, decision making, and stage-gate reporting for improved performance in environment, safety and inclusion of external stakeholder needs. Figuring out exactly what people want.

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LiquidPlanner

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

More often than not, you won’t be able to pick your team, establish the processes, or develop the PMO. Over the course of my career, I’ve had the good fortune of initiating a program one time. Evaluate the governance framework. The remainder of the programs I inherited during the planning or the benefits delivery phase.

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Project Bliss

MARCH 27, 2017

Determine what deliverables you’re team will have along the course of the project. As the project manager, you may report to stakeholders, governance bodies, and anyone else who needs project information. This could be seen as more of a Portfolio Manager or Project Management Office (PMO) Manager role. Reporting.

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LiquidPlanner

JUNE 6, 2017

PMOs and process specialists spend months developing standard processes, methods, and templates to achieve predictable results. Believe it or not, the PMO doesn’t create a new template or a new process out of sadistic pleasure. As humans, we do this all the time and course correct.

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