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Book The Pmo Manual   How to Design a Pmo That Works

Download or read book The Pmo Manual How to Design a Pmo That Works written by Pm Majik and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you need to setup a PMO? Perhaps you want to find out more about PMO's? The PMO Manual can help with these questions and many more. The PMO Manual covers all of the important steps of designing and implementing a Project Management Office (PMO). Even including a plan on how the information can be used to implement a PMO in 4 weeks. The book contains 26 chapters that cover all of the important aspects and useful checklists. This is designed so you can quickly learn what is needed and then complete the task. The book is based on over 25 years experience of designing and implementing global PMO's for multi national organisations. The PMO Manual - your very own PMO playbook.

Book The Complete Project Management Office Handbook

Download or read book The Complete Project Management Office Handbook written by Gerard M. Hill and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated and completely revised edition of a bestseller extends the concepts and considerations of modern project management into the realm of project management oversight, control, and support. Illustrating the implications of project management in today’s organizations, The Complete Project Management Office Handbook, Third Edition explains how to use the project management office (PMO) as a business integrator to influence project outcomes in a manner that serves both project and business management interests. Helping you determine if a PMO is right for your organization, this edition presents a five-stage PMO competency continuum to help you understand how to develop PMOs at different competency levels and associated functionalities. It also identifies five progressive PMO development levels to help you identify which level is best for your organization. Updates to this edition include: A refinement of the 20 PMO functions that guide PMO setup and operations A new section that provides an effective evaluation of PMO maturity indicators based on the prescribed 20 PMO functions presented in the handbook A new section on Establishing a Project Management Office that details a comprehensive process for determining the needs, purpose, and functionality for a new PMO Best practices that have cross-industry value and applicability The book includes checklists, detailed process steps, and descriptive guidance for developing PMO functional capability. The up-to-date PMO model defined will not only help you better understand business practices in project management, but will also help you to adapt and integrate those practices into the project management environment in your organization. For anyone associated with start-up and smaller PMOs, the book explains what can be done to create less rigorous PMO functional capabilities. It also includes helpful insights for those who need to specify and demonstrate "quick-wins" and early PMO-based accomplishments in their organization.

Book Leading Successful PMOs

Download or read book Leading Successful PMOs written by Peter Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many organizations profit hugely by utilizing a Project Management Office (PMO); it means they achieve benefits from standardizing and following project management policies, processes, and methods. However, building an effective PMO is a complex process; it requires clear vision and strong leadership so that, over time, it will become the source for guidance, documentation, and metrics related to the practices involved in managing and implementing projects. Leading Successful PMOs will guide all project based organizations, and project managers who contribute to and benefit from a PMO, towards maximizing their project success. In it, Peter Taylor outlines the basics of setting up a PMO and clearly explains how to ensure it will do exactly what you need it to do - the right things, in the right way, in the right order, with the right team.

Book From PMO to VMO

Download or read book From PMO to VMO written by Sanjiv Augustine and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By the end of this book, you will understand what is valuable, how to measure value, and how to optimize the flow of valuefrom idea to your customer." Evan Leybourn, co-founder and CEO, Business Agility Institute Agile methods have brought about dramatic changes in how organizations manage and deliver not only IT services, but their entire product and service value streams. As legacy organizations transition to newer, end-to-end agile operating models, the Project Management Office (PMO) needs to redesign its mission and operation to be more in line with these modern ways of working. That requires being more customer-focused and value-adding, and less hidebound, bureaucratic and tied to antiquated processes and mindsets. Visionary leaders are transitioning into enablers of this change, and maximizing value through the entire organization. Middle management, including program and project managers (PMs), are racing to maximize their professional relevancy in this new world. This book defines the role of the agile value management office (VMO), using case studies and a clear road map to help PMs visualize and implement a new path where middle management and the VMO are valued leaders in the age of business agility.

Book Delivering Successful PMOs

Download or read book Delivering Successful PMOs written by Peter Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delivering Successful PMOs is intended to be the companion book to Leading Successful PMOs (Peter Taylor) which was a guide to all project based organisations providing a common language to describe the variety of possible PMOs, explaining how to do the right things, in the right way, in the right order, with the right team, and identifying what made a good PMO leader. Delivering Successful PMOs takes this to the next level and provides a clear framework to conceive, design, build, prove and embody an enterprise PMO inside an organisation, dealing with the strategic intentions, the politics, the people and the projects. The book draws on the rare experience that Ray Mead, through his organisation p3m global(www.p3m.global) had in building an enterprise PMO for a major organisation (based in the Middle East) from the ground up - a ’greenfield’ enterprise PMO. Through this process he and his team have developed an invaluable methodology that is shared through this book alongside a real case study - this is not theory, this is not ’perfect’ world modelling, this is proven through practice and live application. Peter and Ray extend the guidelines from the first book and weave them in to the process of delivering a PMO that works for an organisation and delivers success - measured by improved project health, greater returns on investment, a better project management community, closer connection to business strategy and a more mature project organisation.

Book The Complete Project Management Office Handbook  Second Edition

Download or read book The Complete Project Management Office Handbook Second Edition written by Gerard M. Hill and published by Auerbach Publications. This book was released on 2007-08-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Project Management Office Handbook, Second Edition identifies the PMO as the essential business integrator of the people, processes, and tools that manage or influence project performance. This book details how the PMO applies professional project management practices and successfully integrates business interests with project goals— regardless of whether the scope of the PMO is limited to managing a handful of specific projects or expanded to oversee the total practice of project management within the organization. The book first considers the five stages of PMO capability, each benchmarking a particular level of capability achieved if functions are fully implemented. Each stage is also indicative of the organization’s maturity in project management, with the PMO’s role and responsibilities advancing from project management oversight and control at the lower end of the competency continuum to strategic business alignment at the higher competency stages. This revised edition then examines 20 function models that can be used to guide the organization through the deliberation and the development of PMO operational capability. These models suggest what project management capability can be realized through comprehensive implementation of each PMO function. Providing project and business managers with a starting point that enables them to achieve desired results from project management, The Complete Project Management Office Handbook is an important resource for everyone involved in making project management work effectively within the organization.

Book Managing Change in Organizations

Download or read book Managing Change in Organizations written by Project Management Institute and published by Project Management Institute. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing Change in Organizations: A Practice Guide is unique in that it integrates two traditionally disparate world views on managing change: organizational development/human resources and portfolio/program/project management. By bringing these together, professionals from both worlds can use project management approaches to effectively create and manage change. This practice guide begins by providing the reader with a framework for creating organizational agility and judging change readiness.

Book A Project Manager s Book of Forms

Download or read book A Project Manager s Book of Forms written by Cynthia Snyder Dionisio and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential project management forms aligned to the PMBOK® Guide—Sixth Edition A Project Manager's Book of Forms is an essential companion to the Project Management Institute's A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge. Packed with ready-made forms for managing every stage in any project, this book offers both new and experienced project managers an invaluable resource for thorough documentation and repeatable processes. Endorsed by PMI and aligned with the PMBOK® Guide, these forms cover all aspects of initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing; each form can be used as-is directly from the book, or downloaded from the companion website and tailored to your project's unique needs. This new third edition has been updated to align with the newest PMBOK® Guide, and includes forms for agile, the PMI Talent Triangle, technical project management, leadership, strategic and business management, and more. The PMBOK® Guide is the primary reference for project management, and the final authority on best practices—but implementation can quickly become complex for new managers on large projects, or even experienced managers juggling multiple projects with multiple demands. This book helps you stay organized and on-track, helping you ensure thorough documentation throughout the project life cycle. Adopt PMI-endorsed forms for documenting every process group Customize each form to suit each project's specific needs Organize project data and implement a repeatable management process Streamline PMBOK® Guide implementation at any level of project management experience Instead of wasting time interpreting and translating the PMBOK® Guide to real-world application, allow PMI to do the work for you: A Project Manager's Book of Forms provides the PMBOK®-aligned forms you need to quickly and easily implement project management concepts and practices.

Book Project Management Office PMO A Complete Guide   2020 Edition

Download or read book Project Management Office PMO A Complete Guide 2020 Edition written by Gerardus Blokdyk and published by 5starcooks. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why and how the use of the project management office is relevant for project-based organizations? Will the project fail if the change request is not executed? Are there management groups (existing or new) to which the PMO will send a representative? What kind of project management support/system are you using in your work today? How do you know that the already stated selected projects are given the best opportunity to succeed from the very start? This premium Project Management Office PMO self-assessment will make you the credible Project Management Office PMO domain auditor by revealing just what you need to know to be fluent and ready for any Project Management Office PMO challenge. How do I reduce the effort in the Project Management Office PMO work to be done to get problems solved? How can I ensure that plans of action include every Project Management Office PMO task and that every Project Management Office PMO outcome is in place? How will I save time investigating strategic and tactical options and ensuring Project Management Office PMO costs are low? How can I deliver tailored Project Management Office PMO advice instantly with structured going-forward plans? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed best-selling author Gerard Blokdyk. Blokdyk ensures all Project Management Office PMO essentials are covered, from every angle: the Project Management Office PMO self-assessment shows succinctly and clearly that what needs to be clarified to organize the required activities and processes so that Project Management Office PMO outcomes are achieved. Contains extensive criteria grounded in past and current successful projects and activities by experienced Project Management Office PMO practitioners. Their mastery, combined with the easy elegance of the self-assessment, provides its superior value to you in knowing how to ensure the outcome of any efforts in Project Management Office PMO are maximized with professional results. Your purchase includes access details to the Project Management Office PMO self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows you exactly what to do next. Your exclusive instant access details can be found in your book. You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria: - The latest quick edition of the book in PDF - The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in... - The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard - Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation - In-depth and specific Project Management Office PMO Checklists - Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT UPDATES Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.

Book The PMOSIG s Program Management Office Handbook

Download or read book The PMOSIG s Program Management Office Handbook written by Craig J. Letavec and published by J. Ross Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook developed by the Project Management Institutes Program Management Office Specific Interest Group (PMOSIG) provides practical guidance to the project Management and PMO community on a variety of topics in the areas of: PMO Strategic and Tactical Management, PMO Governance, PMO Services, PMO Set-up and Execution, and PMO Performance and Maturity. It features insightful contributions from more than 20 subject matter experts, successful practitioners, distinguished authors and thought leaders with a variety of backgrounds and experiences from around the World. The authors include best practices and case studies for successfully aligning PMOs to business objectives, and delivering benefits/ROI, as well as numerous proven tools, templates, policies, procedures, standards, methodologies and processes for successfully developing, and managing PMOs and for expanding their scope of services.

Book PMO Project A Complete Guide   2020 Edition

Download or read book PMO Project A Complete Guide 2020 Edition written by Gerardus Blokdyk and published by 5starcooks. This book was released on 2019-09-29 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What tools do you use once you have decided on a PMO project strategy and more importantly how do you choose? Is the PMO project scope complete and appropriately sized? How do you measure improved PMO project service perception, and satisfaction? Does PMO project create potential expectations in other areas that need to be recognized and considered? To what extent does each concerned units management team recognize PMO project as an effective investment? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?' This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make PMO Project investments work better. This PMO Project All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person. All the tools you need to an in-depth PMO Project Self-Assessment. Featuring 946 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which PMO Project improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: - diagnose PMO Project projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices - implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals - integrate recent advances in PMO Project and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the PMO Project Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which PMO Project areas need attention. Your purchase includes access details to the PMO Project self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next. You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria: - The latest quick edition of the book in PDF - The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in... - The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard - Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation - In-depth and specific PMO Project Checklists - Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT UPDATES Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.

Book Project Management Handbook

Download or read book Project Management Handbook written by Jürg Kuster and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical handbook offers a comprehensive guide to efficient project management. It pursues a broad, well-structured approach, suitable for most projects, and allows newcomers, experienced project managers and decision-makers to find valuable input that matches their specific needs. The Project Management Compass guides readers through various sections of the book; templates and checklists offer additional support. The handbook’s innovative structure combines concepts from systems engineering, management psychology, and process dynamics. This international edition will allow to share the authors' experience gained in many years of project work and over 2,000 project management and leadership seminars conducted for BWI Management Education in Zurich, Switzerland. This is an excellent handbook for practical project management in today’s world. Prof. Dr. Heinz Schelle, Honorary Chairman of the GPM (German Project Management Association)The authors’ many years in practical experience in setting up, implementing and managing projects shines through in this book. The book also reflects the current trend towards increased social competence. I am therefore pleased to recommend this book as a basis for certification in project management. Dr. Hans Knöpfel, Honorary President of the SPM (Swiss Project Management Association)

Book Green Project Management

Download or read book Green Project Management written by Richard Maltzman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of PMI's 2011 David I. Cleland Project Management Literature AwardDetailing cutting-edge green techniques and methods, this book teaches project managers how to maximize resources and get the most out of limited budgets. It supplies proven techniques and best practices in green project management, including risk and opportunity assessments.

Book Work Breakdown Structures

Download or read book Work Breakdown Structures written by Eric S. Norman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understand and apply new concepts regarding Work Breakdown Structures The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) has emerged as a foundational concept and tool in Project Management. It is an enabler that ensures clear definition and communication of project scope while performing a critical role as a monitoring and controlling tool. Created by the three experts who led the development of PMI®'s Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures, Second Edition, this much-needed text expands on what the standard covers and describes how to go about successfully implementing the WBS within the project life cycle, from initiation and planning through project closeout. Filling the gap in the literature on the WBS, Work Breakdown Structures: The Foundation for Project Management Excellence gives the reader an understanding of: The background and key concepts of the WBS WBS core characteristics, decomposition, representations, and tools Project initiation and the WBS, including contracts, agreements, and Statements of Work (SOW) Deliverable-based and activity-based management Using the WBS as a basis for procurement and financial planning Quality, risk, resource, and communication planning with the WBS The WBS in the executing, monitoring, and controlling phases New concepts regarding the representation of project and program scope Verifying project closeout with the WBS Using a real-life project as an example throughout the book, the authors show how the WBS first serves to document and collect information during the initiating and planning phases of a project. Then, during the executing phase, the authors demonstrate how the WBS transitions to an active role of project decision-support, serving as a reference and a source for control and measurement. (PMI is a registered mark of Project Management Institute, Inc.)

Book Applied Psychology for Project Managers

Download or read book Applied Psychology for Project Managers written by Monika Wastian and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an essential manual for project managers, project management offices (PMO’s), trainers and consultants, addressing the psychological side of project management. Written by leading scholars in organizational psychology and by top experts in project management, it covers all major psychological topics that are key to project success. The book features dedicated chapters on leadership and teamwork, including virtual and intercultural cooperation, commitment and motivation of project teams. It adds a psychological perspective to personnel management, decision-making, information and knowledge management and communication in project work. Power, influencing tactics and other aspects of stakeholder management are covered, as well as project coaching, innovation and creativity, self-management and the management of conflicts, risks and crises.

Book The AMA Handbook of Project Management

Download or read book The AMA Handbook of Project Management written by Paul C. Dinsmore and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-read for any project management professional or student. Projects are the life blood of any organization. Revised to reflect the latest changes to A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK(R)) and the Project Management Professional Exam(R), the fourth edition of The AMA Handbook of Project Management provides readers with a clear overview of a complex discipline. Covering everything from individual projects to programs and strategic alignment, it addresses: Project initiation and planning Communication and interpersonal skills Scheduling, budgeting and meeting business objectives Managing political and resource issues Implementing a PMO Measuring value and competencies. The book compiles essays and advice from the field's top professionals and features new chapters on stakeholder management, agile project management, program management, project governance, knowledge management, and more. Updated with fresh examples, case studies and solutions to specific project management dilemmas, it remains an essential reference to the critical concepts and theories all project managers must master.

Book The PMO Playbook  Effective Phase Exits

Download or read book The PMO Playbook Effective Phase Exits written by Leslie Magsalay-Zeller and published by Pooki's Mahi®. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The PMO Playbook: Effective Phase Exits has valuable information contributes to improving the execution of the portfolio roadmap. This book provides an overarching framework for effective phase exits accompanied with the detailed "how to" by each phase and by role enabling program managers to bring products to market consistently. It contains checklists, questions, and process flows as a reminder of what needs to considered. It also combines information for program managers, functional managers, executives, and customers into a single package they can apply directly. This book should be used with The PMO Playbook: Effective Phase Exit Templates. The author tackles the challenge of teaching the framework so those involved in bringing new products to market such as PMOs or senior program management professionals can plan and execute effectively. The PMO Playbook: Effective Phase Exits provides a baseline and framework to overcome the following challenges: o Strategy: Provides the vision, objectives, and context between a company's PLM (Product LIfecycle Management) framework, PLC (Product Lifecycle) process, roles and responsibilities as it relates to phase exits. o Roles and Responsibilities: Provides guidance for Product Team organizations and defines roles and responsibilities for individuals involved with product development and deployment (such as a Product Team, Product Approval Committee) o Phase Exit Review: Provides guidelines for the recommended Phase Exit Review process and outlines recommended review content for each Phase Exit Review. o Phase Exit Approval: Provides the guidelines for simplification of Phase Exit Review and Approval process. o PLC (Product Lifecycle) or PLM (Product Lifecycle Management): While this playbook makes references to a product lifecycle process or a product lifecycle management framework, it will not address it. Any references to a company's PLC or PLM are for context purposes only as it relates to phase exits. Whether you are currently a program manager or you are thinking of a career in program management, this book has the practical framework you need for new product introduction and obsolescence. It explains what is required for each process phase, who owns the deliverable and when and how often the PMO organization should check in with the executives.