Planview

AUGUST 22, 2024

Unlock the strategies to overcome key PMO hurdles—mastering resource management, driving change, and streamlining processes—with expert insight from Athena Smith, Senior Director, Portfolio Management. PMO Strategies Does your PMO have a traditional project focus, a more product-oriented approach, or a blend?

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Project Intake Template for PPM Managing a portfolio means choosing the right projects to initiate. ProjectManager’s PPM dashboard provides real-time data for more insightful decision-making. Learn more 2. Related PPM Content Project portfolio management templates are only a small part of project portfolio management.

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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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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. In this article, we go a step further.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2024

Project managers are constantly making requests to the project management office (PMO). It’s used by PMOs to manage the requests they get from the many projects they’re overseeing. The process usually begins when a project initiator completes a project intake request form. That’s normal.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 10, 2023

It sounds simple – we all know we should do it, but it’s hard to know where to start for a new PMO. Moore explains that estimates are biased towards the initial values because people don’t adjust their estimates again after making that initial decision. He recommends being pragmatic with monitoring.

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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. There may be good reasons for investing in ethical or green projects throughout the year, for example, if your company has a commitment to spending, say 20% on environmental initiatives. It’s not difficult to see the problem. Step 5: Repeat.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 5, 2024

Once your initial list is created, regularly review and update it based on changes in interest levels among stakeholders over time as well as any new contacts that may start in the business. You might want to leave sensitive stakeholders off the list if it’s better their information isn’t shared.

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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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House of PMO

MARCH 12, 2025

Why the PMO Competency Assessment is More Than Just a Score Working in PMO todayrequires a broad range of knowledge, skills, and behaviours. To be successful, PMO professionals must demonstrate competence across multiple disciplines, from governance and stakeholder management to strategic alignment and delivery oversight.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 12, 2022

PRINCE2® requires at least two management stages: one to initiate the project and then however many you need after that to do the rest of the work. The phases of a typical predictive lifecycle are: Idea or concept phase Initiate Plan Execute Close. The PMO will specify the route your project has to follow. Then communicate it.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 14, 2024

For example: A Digital Project Manager will oversee projects to do with online initiatives, digital marketing, software, apps and so on. 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.

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Initiate a Project Steering Committee Sometimes, the person responsible for project management (e.g., PMO Director or Project Services Manager) fails to involve stakeholders in evaluating project management. The post How to Initiate a Project Steering Committee appeared first on Project Risk Coach. What's working well?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

For example: A Digital Project Manager will oversee projects to do with online initiatives, digital marketing, software, apps and so on. Instead, people with PMO job titles are in a crucial support function. Here are some common job titles you’ll find within the PMO. PMO Manager: The person who leads the PMO team.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2025

By systematically capturing and applying these insights, organizations can continuously improve their project management approaches, increase efficiency and drive better outcomes in future initiatives. Once the lessons learned are taken into account, then they can be applied to the next project. What Is a Lessons Learned Meeting?

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As you are initiating your projects, start identifying your stakeholders. I invite key stakeholders to my initial project meetings as we are developing the project charter. I recently spoke with a project manager who works in a Project Management Office (PMO). 10 Ways to Engage Project Stakeholders Identify stakeholders early.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 18, 2021

The first category is documentation that relates to strategy and project initiation. Here are some of the typical reports produced on a project: Quality report Risk report Status report Formal records for particular stakeholders eg a highlight report for a sponsor or monthly reporting for the PMO. Strategy artifacts.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Does your organization invest in a Project Management Office (PMO)? If you are reading this then you must be considering setting up a PMO or have concluded your approach to project management is not working and you are in the process of analyzing, dismantling and preparing to rebuild it. Hire the right people. What do you need?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 24, 2020

For other areas of governance such as reporting and approval levels, talk to your PMO and get these in place. Action if there is no budget plan or information: Back to the PMO or your Finance team. Action if you can’t find out: Talk to the PMO again. Go back to the PMO, they should be prioritizing initiatives.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 28, 2019

Having said that, the business case could be as simple as an email to an exec asking for permission to go forward with an initiative. Once the business case is approved, you can move forward into the Project Initiation phase. The most important document in the Project Initiation phase is the project charter. Project Charter.

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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. Let’s say that we’re in the Project Initiation phase. Break the project work into chunks. ROM example. Essential read.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 13, 2024

Having said that, the business case could be as simple as an email to an exec asking for permission to go forward with an initiative. Once the business case is approved, you can move forward into the Project Initiation phase. Once the business case is approved, you can move forward into the Project Initiation phase.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 18, 2023

There are plenty of different ways to spread what you have learned from your project around the PMO, project managers and teams. This is a good way to reach a wider audience with your lessons learned as you can invite members of other project teams or the wider PMO community to come along and hear what worked on your project.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Both being beyond the control of the project team, and even the organization that initiated the project, enterprise environmental factors can affect the outcome of the project, both negatively and positively.

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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

APRIL 21, 2021

A Bad Project Manager does not understand domain areas , and they do not take the initiative to build up their knowledge base. They run meetings inefficiently, which results in participant frustration and complaints to VPs of PMO. They constantly make excuses when issues arise on their projects.

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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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The IIL Blog

JULY 24, 2024

We used to tell students to initiate planning, scheduling, and budgeting activities after you get a scope statement or detailed statement of work. These new projects are strategic in nature, such as innovation, research & development, new product development and strategic planning initiatives. The PMO has to transform.

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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. It shows each project as it moves from one stage to the next in the project management process, from initiation to closure. That’s called the project life cycle.

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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. Sponsors like to have evidence that their initiatives really are going as well as you say they are! That’s why it is important for the PMO to set up RAG status definitions.

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Planview

JUNE 5, 2020

PMO leadership today is about more than being a purveyor of governance and delivering projects on time and on budget. The Savvy PMO fosters organizational agility, cultivates efficiencies, and drives growth strategies. Planview created the Savvy PMO Guide Series to give organizations actionable guidance on how progress PMO leadership.

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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. Define the Purpose of Your Project The first step is knowing the underlying reason for the project you plan on initiating. One must know the why of the project: why are we doing this?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Again, reuse documents that you have already produced to streamline the effort and ask around to see if your PMO or colleagues have templates that you can use. Set up a Terms of Reference for the project or include a section on roles and responsibilities for the team members in the Project Charter or Initiation Document.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 27, 2018

There are five phases of project management that see a project through from initiation to close. Project Initiation: How to Start Your Project Off Right. The first phase of any project is the initiation. Phases are broken down into smaller tasks, and the same is true for the initiation phase. What, you want to know more?

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