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Posts tagged: Project Management Office
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Project Management Office Meeting Recap: Building Effective Teams
Jan 30, 2018 | Meeting Recap, Project Management Office, Building Effective Teams
At last Friday's Project Management Office meeting, we had a great open discussion surrounding Building Effective Teams. A huge thank you to Amy Bofenkamp, Director Business Integration, and Jim Maahs, Sr. Project Manager, for leading this collaborative session and sharing their experiences with us.
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PMO Meeting Recap: Portfolio Performance Reporting - What does your organization need to see?
Nov 02, 2017 | Meeting Recap, Project Management Office
Performance reporting is a critical part of any organization. Accurate and timely information can help better evaluate the success of an organization’s project portfolio strategy, monitor their progress, and help set realistic goals for future performance. Learn more about what we discussed at last week's Project Management Office meeting!
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PMO Recap: Agile Tools: Comparing Experiences and Learning from Each Other
Aug 31, 2017 | Meeting Recap, Agile, PMO Group, Project Management Office
At last week’s Project Management Office group meeting, John Danzl engaged attendees to open up about Agile Tools: Comparing Experiences and Learning from Each Other.
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Project Management Office Meeting Recap: From Worst to First: The Cultural Change Journey
May 04, 2017 | Meeting Recap, Project Management Office, Cultural Change
At last week’s Project Management Office group meeting, Justin Elgard, IT Director at Express Scripts, shed some light on The Cultural Change Journey and shared some personal experiences on how culture can indeed change.
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PMO Meeting Recap: Starting the DevOps Journey
Mar 02, 2017 | Meeting Recap, Project Management Office, Devops, Technology Trends
As great as DevOps sounds, it can be very difficult to establish this type of environment within an organization because a change this big is hard. A special thanks to Jim Maahs, Senior IT Project Manager at Medica, for sharing his experience and knowledge on Starting a DevOps Journey with the PMO group at last week’s meeting.
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Project Management Office Meeting Recap: Strategies for Managing Team Conflict
Jun 02, 2016 | Project Management Insights, Meeting Recap, Project Management Office
Jean McMahon, Project Manager at Prime Therapeutics, offered some great suggestions for recognizing and handling conflict during last week’s Think IT Project Management Office Group meeting.
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PMO Meeting Recap: Influential Leadership
Apr 07, 2016 | Leadership, Meeting Recap, Project Management Office
During last week’s Project Management Office group meeting, the group agreed that leadership is over-glorified. Leadership doesn’t always have to mean that you are the one paving the way. Being the first one to follow the suggested movement can be another form of leadership.
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Program Management with an International Focus
Feb 04, 2016 | IT Leadership, Meeting Recap, Project Management Office
Managing a business has challenges on its own, but what about when you bring international aspects into the mix? We all know how different each culture can be and how challenging it may be to interact with other cultures successfully. So how do you find commonality within the business?
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Project Management Office Meeting: Project Mangers vs. Scrum Masters
Sep 29, 2015 | Project Management Insights, PMO, Meeting Recap, Blog Post, IT Leaders, Project Management Office
In a blended environment, Project Managers and Scrum Masters usually co-exist, which makes it even more difficult to differentiate their roles and responsibilities.
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Project Management Office Meeting: Reporting with Integrity
Sep 01, 2015 | PMO, Meeting Recap, Project Management Office
In last Friday’s PMO meeting, Steve Birch, Program Manager at Allianz, spoke on integrity and how it relates to project management reporting, especially when a project is off-track. Steve opened with three questions that every program manager should ask themselves before building a report. Why do we report? Who is the audience? And how do we report?
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