Good organisational governance – make it happen!
When an organisation manages numerous projects and programmes within one or more portfolios, ensuring that an integrated and efficient portfolio, prog ...
Milvio DiBartolomeo
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Milvio DiBartolomeo has a proven track record in ICT project, programme and portfolio management in the Queensland public sector, Australia. He has worked on a number of transformational change initiatives across the programme and project lifecycle as a business and process analyst, software tester and project manager. He practices what he preaches having successfully implemented staged funding release by gated review technique to protect public sector investment and redesigned the project governance structure to minimise senior management time commitment for a Queensland Government department. He has extensive PMO experience as a Portfolio Manager, Capability Support Manager and now as a Workforce Delivery Manager. With a lifelong passion for learning his credentials include practitioner level knowledge in Better Business Cases, Managing Benefits, MoP, P3O, MSP, PRINCE2, PRINCE2 Agile, AgileSHIFT, ICAgile, ISTQB software testing and ITIL. He also released his first white paper called “Project Optimism Bias in Capital Investment Decision Making” through APMG-International.
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Project Management Swiss Cheese Model
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Remote project management and teams
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4 min
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Managing project crises using the Cynefin framework
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5 min
Credentialed, experienced and competent project portfolio management professionals know that projects rarely go according to plan. This is why plannin ...
Emotional Intelligence in Project Management (by Milvio)
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4 min
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Artificial intelligence - the next frontier of project management
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3 min
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Stakeholders ... the very essence of any project
2019-11-30
3 min
Leading change means actively engaging stakeholders - both those structurally impacted by the change and those who will ultimately use the product or ...
The 7 habits of highly effective project managers
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8 min
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Traditional vs Digital PMO
2019-09-30
5 min
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One P3 lifecycle to rule them all?
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5 min
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How to adopt Agile successfully?
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Old skool project management
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Risk management the key to project success
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4 min
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The DNA of a project manager
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7 min
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The RACI Model – not just another authority matrix
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Learning from experience
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Everything and the kitchen sink
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The 6 hats of project management
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5 min
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