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Project Financial Closure Checklist

Financial closure is the process of completing all project-related financial transactions, finalizing and closing the project financial accounts, disposing of project assets and releasing resources and...

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Stop Conducting Project Post-Mortems

Should project teams stop conducting post-mortems and wasting time by facilitating lessons-learned workshops? When this writer first heard these words, he thought it would've been considered blasphemy....

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PMO Perspectives

As we enter 2011, it's time for a refresher--it's the perfect time to explore the cross section of views and perspectives about PMOs. It's the perfect time to see what others are thinking regarding the...

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All Good Things...

Ending the project is about more than just post-mortems and parties (don't worry, you can still have those, too!). Here we explore why we want to ensure that the project adds to the overall...

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Learning Lessons Early

Lessons-learned sessions and post-mortems are important--but they don't always happen. Need an effective solution? Hold them repeatedly during the project.

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The PMO in Operations

The project management office has a different role in the operational team than in project teams. In general, there are two major reasons for having a PMO as part of the operational team--and it's up...

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The Professional Services PMO

One manager's clients asked him to assist with improving the effectiveness of their PMO. They made it clear that the office was only responsible for the professional services arm of the business--and...

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Who Owns Benefit Measurement?

How does your organization ensure that benefits realization occurs? For so many projects, there is never any measurement of whether projected gains were actually achieved. In this article, we look at...

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Project Governance: Overcoming Obstacles

One of the primary roles of the PMO is to provide a framework for ensuring proper governance over projects. Here we look at some of the obstacles and challenges facing the PMO governance function--and...

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Recovering from Project Failure

Major project failure can happen to anyone. What's important is to make sure that the organization can recover from such a situation, and that requires both advance planning (it's too late to start...

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The PMO Value Problem

Why do you have a PMO? The value of PMOs is not well understood. It's important to understand and explain their benefit--but how? This article offers some thoughts on how PMO leaders can demonstrate...

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PMO: Collaborate or Perish

When the dust settles on the question of how to make PMOs deliver successful projects, only one question remains: How effective was the level of collaboration between a project manager, other shared...

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A Different View on PMOs

A recent survey on PMOs identifies some interesting, and perhaps worrying, trends--from agile's influence to the percentage of PMOs who are reporting on their own effectiveness.

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Developing an Effective Closeout Survey

Given the fast-paced environment within which most project managers operate, it is only natural that the closeout phase of the project lifecycle is often addressed in a rush. A closeout survey using...

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Project Closeout Survey Template

What is the most neglected phase of a project? Get help with your closeout survey using this template in combination with one of the many online survey tools available. The survey is easy to implement,...

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The Strategic PMO: What About the PMs?

In recent years, more visionary organizations have made their PMOs more strategic, giving them greater accountability for business-critical functions. But where does that leave the more tactical...

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Why Sponsors Don't Want to be Sponsors...and What to Do About It

Absentee sponsors are a significant problem within the project landscape. Finding a good project sponsor has always been hard. Finding any project sponsor, however, often feels like it is becoming...

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Growing a PMO in an Operationally Focused Organization

How does a PMO succeed when the organization isn't focused on projects? Our writer shares an experience working with an organization in the position of not only needing an IT PMO that has more formal...

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How to Take Your PMO to the next Level

Get to know PMI's 2013 "PMO of the Year" as they share lessons learned in their evolution from Start Up to Best in Class. Leadership from Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) will highlightthe PMO Maturity...

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Balance Adaptive Planning with Long-Term Focus

A business that fails to embrace adaptive planning won't survive for long. But some organizations have become so focused on trends and market changes that they've lost sight of their core mission....

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