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- A checklist for determining whether your project management office will accomplish anything useful today
- Project Management Offices PMOs recently became standard fixture of the corporate landscape. Corporations with them spend lavishly to keep their project managers up on the latest trends. Corporations without them spend lavishly to attract the regions best and brightest project managers to a promised land where project...
- Tags: project management, Project Management Office, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- Project Rankings
- I have worked with several clients (IT Managers, CIOs) that have maintained a list of their top projects in order to provide direction to their organizations and to report up to their senior management. I have repeatedly seen these managers use duplicate values when ranking their projects i.e. Project A=1,...
- Tags: Project
- Discussion threads 2005-11-09
- What shall we name for our department?
- my current department call "QA", working on Project Development Process Management, we maintain our process management framework, and push guidelines/template; We also can push new tech/tools, like drive automation testing, research and decide to buy which auto testing tools....; we also maintain training, for train PM/DM/QCM on project management and...
- Tags: cherry_wangjing@..., project management, Project Management Office, QA, training
- Q&A 2004-12-22
- The ideal PMO model is a balancing act
- By Ted StephensAmong corporate IT executives, there is a growingconsciousness of the need for a project management office PMO to provideproject management guidance to the organization. Too often, IT organizationstend to choose between the extremes of two PMO models: one emphasizing asupport role and one emphasizing a supervisory role. In...
- Tags: project management office, project management
- Technical articles 2004-11-29
- Evolving the Project Management Office: A Competency Continuum
- Many organizations today have recognized the need for a Project Management Office PMO to achieve project management oversight, control, and support. The PMO's role is to help both the project manager and the relevant organization to not only understand and apply modern project management practices, but also to adapt and...
- Tags: Project Management Office, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2004-09-22
- Help your clients establish a project management office with this download
- As more organizations are taxed with putting together ambitious IT projects with limited resources, more people are turning to project management to make the most efficient use of resources. In some cases, it’s appropriate to start a project management office PMO so that things such as project management methodologies, assessment...
- Tags: Paul Baldwin, project management, project management office
- Technical articles 2003-05-12
- Evolution of the PMO: Promoting consolidation
- Some project management offices PMOs are annoyingly clumsy at times. Just trying to launch a PMO with suitable governance can be tedious. A huge motivational factor for implementing a PMO is the amount of pain that the organization feels over failed projects. If most projects end successfully without the benefit...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Jason P. Charvat, project management office, project management
- Technical articles 2003-04-08
- Learn more about PMOs with this eight-part series
- Among IT professionals, IT consultants tend to be more well versed in project management techniques and processes than, say, your garden-variety network administrator. Not surprisingly, organizations will often call on consultants to help establish a project management office PMO.With that in mind, project management guru and TechRepublic columnist Tom Mochal...
- Tags: Paul Baldwin, project management, project management methodology, project management office
- Technical articles 2003-01-24
- Rounding out the PMO with other product and service offerings
- Consultants are often brought on site to help their clients realize the full benefits of established project management processes. After all, consultants are often the ones who have the most experience working within multiple organizations on a variety of projects and project structures.Here’s a rundown of some of the additional...
- Tags: project management, Project Management Office
- Technical articles 2003-01-06
- Defining and supporting project management methodology
- A Project Management Office needs a methodology to carry out its tasks for your clients. Here's a look at your first steps to developing and supporting a project management methodology.Editor’s note:This article originally appeared on our sister site, TechRepublic.com.Organizations that have a project management office PMO usually make the PMO...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Project Management Office, Tom Mochal, project management, project management office
- Technical articles 2002-12-26
- Leverage the PMO to consolidate project status and metrics
- In addition to helping coordinate projects, Project Management Offices also have to determine their own success. Here's an explanation of an approach that might work for your clients who have established PMOs.One service that is typically associated with a Project Management Office PMO is the delivery of common, consolidated reporting...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Tom Mochal, Project Management Office, project management
- Technical articles 2002-12-23
- The PMO should perform audits and assessments to validate progress
- While it's easy to tell if your client is using a new technology that you helped implement, it's not so apparent whether they're following the project management processes you helped put in place. Here's how to make sure everyone is on the same page.It’s one thing for a project management...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Tom Mochal, audit, project management, Project Management Office
- Technical articles 2002-12-17
- Build project management skills through training and coaching
- A project management office PMO can be a valuable component in any client's organization. Once this PMO is in place, ensuring that the employees understand project management processes is where consultants can have a major impact.Training is one of the premiere services offered by project management offices PMOs. In fact,...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Workforce management, Tom Mochal, project management, project management office, training
- Technical articles 2002-12-09
- Defining and supporting project management methodology
- A project management office needs a methodology to carry out its tasks for your clients. Here's a look at the first steps you need to take to develop and support a project management methodology.Organizations that have a project management office PMO usually make the PMO responsible for project management methodology—the...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Tom Mochal, project management, project management office
- Technical articles 2002-12-02
- Deploying project management in a client's organization
- Any change in an organization is likely to be met with resistance. Establishing a project management office could touch off a revolt if not handled correctly. These suggestions will help you ease your clients into a new way of approaching projects.Project management methodology is a framework that allows project managers...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Project Management Methodology, Tom Mochal, project management, project management office
- Technical articles 2002-11-25
- You must build a PMO that makes the most sense to your organization
- Project management offices PMOs aren't one-size-fits-all. The PMO you establish for one client will look markedly different from the next. Always start by defining how the PMO will operate within the organization, and progress from there.There are almost as many varieties of project management offices PMOs as there are companies....
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Tom Mochal, project management, Project Management Office, project management office
- Technical articles 2002-11-18
- Establishing a Project Management Office
- One of the lasting changes that Y2K brought was the establishment of Project Management Offices in many organizations. Take a leadership role and introduce your clients to the PMO and the efficiencies it can bring.To fulfill their duty to ensure that their clients can make the best use of their...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Tom Mochal, project management, Project Management Office
- Technical articles 2002-11-12
- Most organizations don't have a project management office (PMO)
- Project management offices PMOs are a growing trend in IT, indicating a need for better tools and budgeting for projects in the IT industry. In a recent Polling Place Quick Poll, we asked members if their organizations currently have a PMO.
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, TechRepublic Staff, project management, Project Management Office
- Technical articles 2002-08-21
- How to launch a PM office in a small company
- A small company is implementing a project management office. Tom Mochal offers advice on the value of a PMO in a smaller organization and provides tips on how to set it up.TechRepublic columnist Tom Mochal receives dozens of e-mails each week from members with questions about project management problems. Mochal...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Tom Mochal, project management, project management office
- Technical articles 2002-03-27
- Establish a project management office for object-oriented application development
- Have you taken on the task of resuscitating a failed object-oriented application development project? Creating a project management office to act as an umbrella for integrating and unifying OOAD activities may just save the day.By Ken RobbIt’s likely that at some point in your consulting career, you’ve been brought into...
- Tags: UML, Tools & Techniques, Guest Contributor, OOAD PMO, RUP, project management office, project management
- Technical articles 2001-04-23
