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What is a project management office (PMO)? The key to standardizing project success

CIO Business Intelligence

Project management office (PMO) definition A project management office (PMO) is a group, or functional unit, that sets, maintains, and enforces the practices, policies, and standards for structuring and executing projects within an organization.

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Rare corpse flower blooms in Amazon’s Spheres and thousands line up to snap a pic and take a sniff

GeekWire

’ — Ben Eiben, Spheres program manager The couple eventually made it to Morticia 2.0’s GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Ben Eiben has worked on Amazon’s horticulture team for six years and is now program manager for the Spheres. ‘It’s our mascot for getting people interested in plants.’

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3 powerful lessons of using data governance frameworks

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s now clear that data governance is most successful when CIOs and CDOs do three things: Involve all key stakeholders in the definition of a data governance framework. The Data Governance Board, chaired by Wise, addresses data management and data policy issues for the wide range of agencies that make up the department. “We

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Microsoft finally gives AppGet developer the credit he deserves

The Verge

Our goal is to provide a great product to our customers and community where everyone can contribute and receive recognition,” says Andrew Clinick, a program manager responsible for the app model at Microsoft, in a blog post. Microsoft doesn’t dispute the claims. Support all types of Windows applications installers.

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Novanta’s Sarah Betadam on transforming the IT model status quo

CIO Business Intelligence

A self-confessed data analytics and research junkie, Betadam wrote a thesis presented to George Washington University a few years ago that outlines a contemporary model for IT program management that challenges many existing models, which she calls ‘overly subjective’ and less viable in today’s world.

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Can a 42-member AI task force get anything done? Hearing raises questions about Wash. state plan

GeekWire

He said it’s important to “ensure that we’re doing it in a thoughtful way that is being mindful of the people who are being impacted.” In a joint letter in advance of the hearing, on Jan.

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‘MeowTalk,’ an app that translates cat sounds, is a pet project for this former Alexa engineer

GeekWire

Javier Sanchez, a group technical program manager at Akvelon, with his cat Mittens. Javier Sanchez , a technical program manager at Bellevue, Wash.-based Photo courtesy of Javier Sanchez). Plenty of technological advances may be regarded as the cat’s meow. “Cats don’t care what you say.