When I started out in project management I remember clearly being told that the lifecycle of a PMO was 7 years. It’s often seen as overhead, and certainly I’ve known organizations where the PMO team was caught in reshuffles and redundancies in a way that other teams were not. At least, getting people to believe…
Gate reviews or stage reviews are part of the PRINCE2® process, including the Infrastructure and Projects Authority’s Project Roadmap.
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Project communications are hard. There are multiple stakeholders, different views on how things should be done, different channels to use, and no one has the time to do anything any longer. I believe that project managers have had to move into the space that used to be filled by internal communications or change managers. Those…
You sent the email. You explained the requirement. Everyone nodded in the meeting. And yet, two weeks later, people have interpreted the message differently. Communication models aren’t just academic diagrams: they give project managers different lenses for diagnosing why communication isn’t landing. And given that project communication is a huge part of most people’s jobs,…
What is a ROM estimate? A rough order of magnitude estimate is used to give you a very high level view of potential project costs. Ideally, you’d be able to provide a definitive estimate, carefully created from loads of input from subject matter experts and plenty of research on past projects and their budgets. But…
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