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6 Top Oracle PPM Software, Apps & Tools

ProjectManager.com

Project Portfolio Managers: These professionals oversee a collection of projects within an organization, ensuring that the right projects are chosen, resources are allocated efficiently and strategic objectives are met. They need tools to enforce best practices, ensure consistency and manage projects effectively.

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The PMO Game Changer: A Value-Driven Project Resource Management

The Lazy Project Manager

What is a Value-Driven Project Resource Management? Project resource management by PMO has changed significantly in the last 20 years. It is no more a mere spreadsheet for allocating resources to the projects and plug the holes. How Value-Driven Resource Management can be a Game Changer for the PMO?

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7 Top Microsoft PPM Software, Apps & Tools

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They assess and prioritize projects based on their strategic value, available resources and potential returns. They enforce project management standards, templates and best practices, ensure consistency in project execution, track performance against key performance indicators (KPIs) and ensure projects align with corporate strategy.

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9 Types of Artifacts in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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. You might not have agreements and contracts on your project because it obviously depends on if you are buying anything.

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Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) Estimate and How to Calculate It (with example)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Break the project work into chunks. 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. Just take the parts you do know and apply some professional judgement.

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How to Manage Your Project Pipeline With Software

ProjectManager.com

Projects have a beginning, middle and end. That’s called the project life cycle. 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. What is a project pipeline?

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5 Tips for Working With the IT Helpdesk

Rebel’s Guide to PM

That effort stops when you leave the project. For projects with an IT element, the IT bits will be picked up by an operational team. You should be involving them in the project life cycle, from solution design to delivery and all the bits in between, but they won’t be the first line support for your end users.