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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices

CIO

Scope management: Define scope, create work breakdown structure (WBS), gather requirements. Time management: Plan and develop schedules and activities, estimate resources and timelines. Costs management: Estimate costs, determine budgets. Quality management: Identify quality requirements. Budget for surprises.

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What is a project management office (PMO)? The key to standardizing project success

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Project management office (PMO) definition A project management office (PMO) is a group, or functional unit, that sets, maintains, and enforces the practices, policies, and standards for structuring and executing projects within an organization.

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Wagely, an Indonesian earned wage access and financial services platform, raises $5.6M

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Chief executive officer Tobias Fischer was former regional lending program manager at Grab Financial Services Asia, while chief technology officer Sasanadi Rukua served as vice president of engineering at Tokopedia. Minu, a Mexico City-based, pay-on-demand startup, lands a $14M Series A.

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Upcoming Webinar: Scrum In Construction

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This free webinar explores how and why construction projects done with Scrum are safer, come in under budget, and finish early. From mega-projects and infrastructure to commercial buildings and residential construction, Scrum projects are safer and consistently come in under budget and early. Then you‘ll want to attend this webinar.

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What Is Project Portfolio Management?

Ivanti

Inefficient project management can cost organizations hundreds of billions of dollars per year. And while there are many factors that can contribute to loss of project budget, one of the main ways is very early on – by funding the wrong initiatives. PPM Drives Business Growth by Managing Project Demand.

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From Mainframe to Modern: How to Navigate legacy OMS Technology Transformations

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Rapid Value-Delivery, but with a “Agile-Fall” Approach The Challenge : Likely you have a program management office that is not fully comfortable with just “going for it” in a pure Agile way. Think about it in terms of one capability group in the above map you created.

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Book Review: Doing Agile Right – So It Doesn’t Die On The Vine

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They create a high-powered program management office to drive the change. This office generates detailed budgets, milestones, and execution roadmaps, complete with Gantt charts and stoplight reporting systems, to ensure conformance to plans. These leaders frequently tell the teams not only what to do but how to do it.