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First appeared on projecttimes.com: The PMI PMBOK defines Project Management Office (PMO) as “a management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources, methodologies, tools, and techniques”. In practice PMOs are rolled out in any number of flavors across organizations and industries. There is no standardization, and the level of authority and autonomy varies […]

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From ProjectManager.com Blog: Projects are all about delivering a product or service. Whether you’re working in project management, manufacturing, supply chains or inventory management, you need to deliver something valuable to your customers. This is why lead time is so important. There are…Read More

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From projecttimes.com: “If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on it, I would use the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.” – Albert Einstein Decisions solve problems and are the forerunners […]

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From projectmanager.com blog: Project management is a highly complex field. There are many things that a project manager must understand to be successful, such as the project management knowledge areas, methodologies, reports and tools that exist. To help you simplify things a little,…Read More

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First appeared on projectmanager.com blog: Fast, cheap or good — choose two. Are you tired of hearing that? One of the biggest challenges of every project manager is project constraints. They limit a project, and they can quickly endanger your project’s success. Hence, it’s important…Read More

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From projectmanager.com blog: Is your organization failing to close the gaps between strategy and project execution? Fortunately, there are strategies (and tools!) you can use to help you close those gaps, yet it isn’t easy. And you’re not alone in this challenge. PMI’s…Read More

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From projecttimes.com: Many teams work on software development projects: developers, testers, designers, and so on. Specialists have their own tasks, which they must complete by a certain date. How do you coordinate the actions of all teams? How to make sure that the design work goes according to plan and the product will achieve its goal? A […]

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From projectmanager.com blog: Lean management originated in Japan, where it grew out of the Toyota Production System. This led to lean manufacturing, but today lean is used in more industries, such as project management, software development, construction and more. Lean principles come from…Read More

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From projecttimes.com: With 2 plus decades experience in the project management and organizational development world, I am incessantly amazed on how a project is so closely linked the Project Sponsor, instead of the organization and the business goals it is set to achieve or influence. When the “why”, purpose of a project has been well documented and […]

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From projectmanager.com blog: It’s been around for three decades, but Six Sigma can still be somewhat of an enigma. It can mean different things within various organizations or circumstances, but there is a way to broadly outline this business process improvement methodology and…Read More

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