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Posts tagged: Project Management Office
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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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PMO Meeting Recap: When is Agile Right?
Jul 02, 2015 | Project Management Insights, Blog, PMO, Meeting Recap, Agile, PMO Group, Project Management Office
A popular question among PMOs is whether or not to go the Waterfall or Agile route. How do you know which one is better than the other? The real question to ask yourself is which methodology suits your organization’s needs. This was the topic of discussion at last Friday’s PMO meeting in which Bryan Pederson, Portfolio Manager at Merrill Corporation asked the question: When is Agile Right?
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Project Management Office Meeting: Triple Constraints
Jun 02, 2015 | Meeting Recap, Project Management Office
As a project manager, one of the most challenging tasks is managing the three most important aspects of a project: Scope, Time and Cost. Which one has the most flexibility? Which cannot be compromised? Juggling these three project aspects commonly referred to as the “Iron Triangle” can be a difficult task. At Friday’s PMO meeting, Jodi Curtis facilitated a great session that revolved around the topic of Triple Constraints!
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