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There are 3 basic types of Project Management Office (PMO) organizations. They vary in the degree of control and influence they have on projects within the organization.

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Processes on Demand, by BOT International, is a robust suite of PMO tools – project management templates and software integrated together – to enable [tag-ice]structured project management. The toolset is focused on Project Management Office (PMO) functions to provide a structure for organizing projects enterprise wide.

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Television is one of many possible project communications vehicles. Everybody loves it. I do, too absolutely! It has become a basic appliance necessary in every household in the world. Why? Because what appliance can make you happy, sad, angry, fall in love, experience all sorts of emotions there all at the same time? It has become the window to the world, and you can go places with just a push of a button. It has connected billions of people who would otherwise be different from each other. It has evolved from that black-and-white box to something as extravagant as a flat-colored screen.

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There are many project management templates out there in the marketplace. Project Management consulting firms, training companies, large government organizations, and educational institutions are among those who produce and often sell project management tools and templates. These are generally geared toward implementing particular methodology and addressing a particular common problem space. There also are template providers – firms who produce many templates to service the open market. Some of these might be free, but generally the best cost some money. Here is a list of the more notable template providers I have found. The list gives a flavor for what is out there to support project management processes.

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Do you know who your project stakeholders are? Effective communications and expectation management starts with understanding the needs of various project stakeholders. To aid in identifying project stakeholders, eight categories are described.

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I recently read a forum entry where someone was looking for advice on PM tools and PM software used across the globe for IT needs. The person mentioned that their company had some general tools like Critical Path, PERT etc., and various models for Estimation. The question was “What would be best software to support all these tools + models and standards like CMMI or ITIL, then support for SEI – indicator template for measurement analysis, Risk Management alerting + Alerting on Change management etc. Also requested were opinions on using lines of code as a metric.

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