Project Portfolio Management

The PMO is under constant pressure. From maintaining standards for project management practices to planning and delivering projects – the PMO needs to be in constant sync with strategy and business outcomes. This PMO blog category provides numerous recommendations from experts to encourage top down and bottom up planning, improve processes, promote stakeholder satisfaction, and ultimately eliminate silos to advance the PMO function. Get expert advice on the pros and cons of adopting a continuous planning model. Experts will also share real-world advice on choosing your next Project Portfolio Management tool and how to #BeThatPMO your business needs.

Expectation Management: The Art of Under-Promise and Over-Deliver

At its very core, project management entails setting up goals and then making sure they are met. There are a lot of ways to ensure that you deliver what you promise, but one of the most important is managing expectations. First things first, you’ll want to understand the expectation management definition. Simply put, expectation management...

Software for Project Tracking

As experienced project managers know and new project managers learn – sometimes rather painfully – developing the most comprehensive plans and robust schedules is obviously crucial, but it is certainly not the full story. Once a project is underway, it is vital to continuously assess project performance and health. That is where software for project...

How Data Analytics Can Improve Your Project Outcomes

Using Data Analytics to Improve Project Outcomes: Tips & Advice The use of analytics in business has blossomed with the growth of the internet and digital technologies. Now there is software designed to track everything, from sales and customer engagement, to the pathways that lead consumers to businesses, to how the public reacts to different...

Managing project risks to increase project success

Every project involves risk. Even the smallest projects require investments of time and money, and when projects fail, these investments are lost. At the enterprise level, when project time is measured in thousands of hours and financial investments are often in the millions, the risks are tremendous. Understanding the future events that could put a...

What is Project Scope Management?

The project scope statement is one of the most basic cornerstones upon which every project is built. Basically, the statement lays out what needs to get done, under what conditions and how completion will be measured. Though that might all seem perfectly logical, unfortunately, project scope management also seems to be one of the most...

Work-Life Balance: Are You Getting it Right?

The holiday season is most people’s favorite time of the year, despite the much worse weather. This is because finally, after probably months on end of hard work, they get to take a proper break, with at least four (and hopefully many more) consecutive days to just kick back and relax, whether with family and...

Keep Remote Workforces Up to Date with Planview AdaptiveWork Go for Zoom

If you use Zoom to hold meetings or to coordinate with your colleagues then we have some big news for you! We’re happy to announce that Planview AdaptiveWork Go has an application in Zoom’s App Marketplace with a native integration to the Zoom platform. Whether you have a free or paid Zoom account, this integration...

Boost workplace collaboration and improve customer satisfaction

Even if your customers are happy today, wouldn’t you like to make them happier? Highly satisfied customers are critical to the long-term success of almost every business. They’re important not only because they tend to make more (and larger) purchases, but also because they can become ambassadors for your company, sharing their positive experiences through...

Marketing Project Management: Best Practices

Project management hasn’t always been a top priority in the marketing world, but it certainly has useful applications, which is perhaps why the topic of marketing project management has become more popular in recent years. The processes and products of project management lend themselves well to marketing, which requires logical progressions and coordination of resources...

What is a Gap Analysis?

Gap analysis is a methodology used to identify whether your business or project is performing as it should be and how to bridge the “gap” between where you are and where you want to be. It can be very useful for identifying areas which are underperforming or deciding on the best places to invest or...