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... in the mid-1990s. Based on the growth patterns that resulted from the 98 Creating the Project Office • Understands the current organizational context as a basis for making changes • Researches project ... own way. The charge-to-overhead approach would constitute a service tax assessed to all projects, whether the project man- agers wanted the service or not. Under the...
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... suffering because of the problems and asked them to get together for a discussion. She put together a presentation that clearly stated the nature of the problems and their impact on the businesses. ... others to do the same. • Get explicit commitments from people to support the goals of the program— then they are more likely to follow through. • Take action, first to articulate...
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... and yet others at a unit level. Regardless of who does the work, the PMO assumes responsibilities for success on projects and manages the project managers. Chief Project Officer. The chief project ... formal groups. The titles tacked onto the project office concept illus- trate the variety of approaches. The Titles A project office is not always called a project office...
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... though the PSO is inwardly targeted, and the PMCOE is aimed at scanning the outside en- 88 Creating the Project Office FIGURE 4.2. CHIEF PROJECT OFFICER. CPO Strategic project planning Project reviews Priorities ... alike—even if they are part of the same cate- gory. The functions described separately may fuse together into different forms. For instance, the staff funct...
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... dev- astating. They needed to have their own act together first before marketing them- selves and the project office concept to others. If the answer to the first question was yes and the second question ... employing their best communications and selling skills (core to a good project leader, by the way) to get the organization’s attention. They tried these ideas to get the wo...
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... this. In the case where the project office is in the line organization and does not have project leaders within the office, but distributed out in their functional areas, the project leaders themselves ... more project offices are formed, the PMSIG developed a sub- group called the POF (Project Office Forum), made up of the heads of many of the smaller (and larger) pro...
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... managers on these topics first, then roll out the training across the organization. The project office may also want to offer, or broker, consulting to help people implement the steps learned in the training. ... but it is built with every contact; the more personal and respectful the contact, the more trust. 132 Creating the Project Office • Adapt. Adjust to changes, wh...
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... au- thenticity and integrity. Processes are the methods and tools to get the job done. 140 Creating the Project Office FIGURE 6.4. WORKING TOGETHER: THE PESSIMIST’S VIEW. The movie The Good, the ... Bad and the Ugly is about another triad: Blondie (the Good) learns the name of the grave under which the gold is buried, Angel (the Bad) rounds up everyone in search of...
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... on to the next step—capture a project list and apply the criteria. Using electronic media, the project managers used the criteria from the spreadsheet in Figure 6.7 to self-score their projects ... meeting. The project office facilitator drove the process and kept the managers on track to achieve a plan they would all support. One man- ager openly questioned if the othe...
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... was invested in the projects, with over 60 percent going toward improving the social welfare of the population and the remainder aimed at infrastructure projects. The key strategies for the program ... management by projects philosophy was ap- plied, aimed at completing projects on time, within budget, and to specified re- 158 Creating the Project Office 167 CHAPTER SEVEN IMPL...
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