Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 24, 2024

But have you ever learned how to use a RAID log properly? It was something touched on in various training courses I’d done over the year, but I’d never had training on the ‘how’ of RAID logs. This course is great for: People who want to work as a project/PMO analyst who would have responsibility for updating logs in their day job.

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Project Risk Coach

JANUARY 18, 2021

I highlight 10 of the 40 PMO problems and provide ways to manage them. 10 PMO Problems and Solutions 1. No project sponsor or project charter for the implementation of the PMO. How to manage: Typically, a senior leader in your organization must make the decision to implement a PMO. How will you communicate?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 24, 2020

Let me guide you through how to assess the state of the project you’ve inherited. Get this free printable checklist about how to take over a project from someone else. For other areas of governance such as reporting and approval levels, talk to your PMO and get these in place. How do you spend it? First, don’t panic.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 5, 2022

If you are in a PMO , you might have this challenge. So how do you get to a place where people can deliver on the strategy that has been set? Morgan, Levitt, and Malek discuss this in their book, Executing Your Strategy: How to Break It Down and Get it Done. This is how it works. People do that. Identify strategic themes.

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Project Risk Coach

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Let's look at how to develop a project risk management plan. Here are some questions that we should answer in our plan: How will you identify risks? How to Get Started As you start, it's a good idea to see whether organizational risk management assets are available. How will you identify and manage risks?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 16, 2024

When you’re a project management office (PMO) or program or portfolio manager, you’re going to have to deal with multiple projects in various stages of the project pipeline. By following these project pipeline management stages a PMO, program or portfolio manager can better deal with the complexities of juggling multiple tasks.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Your project management philosophy is essentially your guiding principles for how you approach your work. It could be aligned to a methodology or a tailored approach that sums up how you like to lead. How to come up with your personal project management philosophy. What is a project management philosophy? Define your goals.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 30, 2024

PMO Professional Services: A project management office (PMO) can be embedded or independent, such as a PMO as a service (PMOaaS). Common embedded services are similar to those of the independent variety, only in-house, but they can also include IT support, human resources and project managers.

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WorkOtter

JULY 11, 2024

Creating a strategic PMO doesn’t require rebellion, here are some steps to take to bridge the gap between project management tactics and company goals. Project managers (PMs) and the leaders in the Project Management Office (PMO) are crucial resources in any efficient business. Step 1: Get outside the silo.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2024

Project Management Office (PMO): A PMO is responsible for defining and maintaining the standards for an organization’s project management. How to Create a Project Strategy An organization must conceive a project strategy before identifying projects that will help achieve its long-term goals.

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The Lazy Project Manager

APRIL 6, 2021

Project resource management by PMO has changed significantly in the last 20 years. This article would help you understand how a value-driven resource management can become a major game-changer for the PMO and become a profit centre for the business. How Value-Driven Resource Management can be a Game Changer for the PMO?

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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. This gives you some assumptions to work to and a way of explaining how you came up with the estimate. Essential read.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Each of them has pros and cons depending on your portfolio management or PMO needs. The scoring model is defined by the program , portfolio manager or PMO in collaboration with cross-functional teams. So based on this method, you’ll prioritize projects depending on how quickly they can return the investment made. Scoring Model.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2023

In my experience, assurance is carried out by the PMO or another project manager whom I have invited to do a peer review. For big projects and programs, you might find it useful to have a risk and assurance committee, or some kind of separate PMO-led project assurance function. When does assurance happen?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 17, 2022

A reader got in touch to ask me how I manage my personal project To Do list. “I I struggle with how to manage my project-related tasks, beyond dealing with the crisis of the day.”. The question of how to manage multiple projects at the same time comes up a lot. How to work our what’s a priority. Quick Answers.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 26, 2021

And that means learning how to include your projects and your project management skills. Let’s look at how to do that. How to include work projects on your resume. Recent graduates with a project management degree and people looking for their first role need to be a little more creative with how to how they can do projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

He is the author of Reinventing Communication by Routledge, a book on how to design, lead and manage high performing projects. and how to apply it can be extremely beneficial: that’s what I would advise for people wanting to have a year of managing successful projects. He runs the online training site, OnlinePMCourses.com.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 28, 2019

How to spot a zombie project. Read next: How to Save a Failing Project (ebook). Government PMO,” says Derek Huether, an enterprise Agile coach and trainer. “But this PMO was managing software applications, both in development and in operation. . ” How to get that zombie project finished.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

How to move into portfolio management If this sounds like it could be the next step in your project management career, first, you need to be in a business that puts emphasis on portfolio management. Executing Your Strategy: How To Break It Down and Get It Done Executing Your Strategy is by Mark Morgan, Raymond E.

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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. Read next: How to create a project budget What should you do if your project is Red? That’s why it is important for the PMO to set up RAG status definitions.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 22, 2018

So, how can you build a PMO you can be proud of, one that thrives? Why Are There So Many Troubled PMOs? No one intends to build an impotent PMO, but it happens. The PMO lacks power and effectiveness. Therefore, people see the PMO as a hindrance, not an enabler. Click here to discover 40 reasons PMOs fail.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Project management, PMO work, in fact most management and office-based jobs are perfectly suited to remote work. If you want to become a remote employee on a more permanent basis, you have to ask for it, so let’s dive into how to ask to work remotely. How to convince your manager to let you work remotely.

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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. When done, put aside a good amount of time for learning and training the team on how to use the tool.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 15, 2021

A reader got in touch to ask me how I manage my personal project To Do list. “I I struggle with how to manage my project-related tasks, beyond dealing with the crisis of the day.”. The question of how to manage multiple projects at the same time comes up a lot. Read next: How to Manage Expectations on Your Projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

If you aren’t using PRINCE2®, or if you want some general guidance as well about project closure documents and so on, read this next: How to close a project. Your next steps Read more on how to close a project. Get a project closure template from your PMO and start looking at what is required to fill it in.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Learn how to help your team manage risk so you can split the work between you. Boost your skills: Make sure everyone on the team knows how to manage risks and what the process is. Boost your skills: Start by understanding how to manage a change as laid out by your Project Management Office.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

How can you check what you’ve got and what needs to be done next? Let me guide you through how to assess the state of the project you’ve inherited. Here are the instructions on how to write a project overview statement. For other areas of governance such as reporting and approval levels, talk to your PMO and get these in place.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Related PPM Content Project portfolio management templates are only a small part of project portfolio management. To learn more about the best ways to manage multiple projects, check out the recent posts below.

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Project Risk Coach

JANUARY 31, 2022

Some Project Management Offices (PMOs) never get off the ground. So, how can you build a PMO, one that thrives? Why Are There So Many Troubled PMOs? Many PMOs fail to realize their potential. People have ways of undermining the PMO's effectiveness. Let's look at eight tips for implementing a PMO.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In this article we’ll look at how to segment costs, how to find out the cost of things, and then how to structure your budget. The Project budgeting process: How to structure your project budget Top down budgeting is where the sponsor gives you the total amount available and you work out how you are going to split that.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 14, 2025

But when a portfolio manager or PMO wants an instant status report to get an overview of all those projects, they need a dashboard. But thats not all. Real-Time Project Portfolio Management Dashboards Roadmaps offer an overview of all the projects in a portfolio or program on a Gantt chart.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 3, 2018

This article, How To Make 2018 A Successful Year for Your Projects , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. You can scroll down and get the highlights, and then read all the advice in the How To Make 2018 A Successful Year for Your Projects ebook. Would you like to make 2018 a successful year for your projects?

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Let’s look at how to actually define risk categories and how they can help Tom (and you). How to Define Risk Categories. Your PMO may also have a standard risk breakdown structure (RBS) that provides categories and sub-categories of project risks. The post How to Actually Define Risk Categories appeared first on.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 14, 2024

Many teams use external facilitators (sometimes from the PMO) for particularly difficult conversations or where the outcome is unknown, but in a project environment the team is likely to look to you, the project manager, for this role.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 5, 2024

lasso ref="amzn-engaging-stakeholders-on-projects-how-to-harness-people-power" id="24690" link_id="299279"] Benefits of creating a stakeholder register A stakeholder registry lets you easily recall who your stakeholders are and what their roles are in relation to your project or program.

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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.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 22, 2024

Securing the right resource (and enough of it) is a huge headache for PMO leaders and project professionals. Resolve by setting criteria on how resources are assigned – by the PM, product owner, team leader etc. and define how leaders can secure resources. Resource allocation should be done consistently.

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