Your path to business agility
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.
We’ve all done it, kept our inbox overflowing with projects and tasks that need to be addressed and completed. Maybe you have assigned certain emails flags to note to yourself that some are more pressing than others. Perhaps you even have an entire color coded system. Either way, this way of keeping track of tasks...
Whether you’re a college grad jumping into the workforce for the first time or a seasoned professional taking on an unexpected opportunity, entering a new field is both challenging and exciting. There are new people to meet, new rules to follow, a new language to learn, and never enough time to get your bearings. If...
Project management is an increasingly popular field of study at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. One reason so many students and professionals are earning a project management degree is that it can open an amazing variety of options for a future career. Whether you’re an undergraduate student who is just beginning to explore the...
As the agile methodology becomes more and more popular, business teams are adopting certain aspects of the approach in order to benefit from the speed and flexibility provided by agile. What was once known as a novel approach to software development is now a wide-ranging global business strategy, taking on dozens of different forms as...
The more time you spend in the world of project management, the more guide to project management methodologies you’ll need to learn. Just as a master carpenter might own hundreds of specialized tools, compared to the basic hammer and saw that a novice woodworker might need, an experienced project manager should be familiar with a...
In the past, professional services organizations (PSOs) have used conventional professional services automation (PSA) solutions to address specific revenue-generating functional areas such as invoicing and timesheet compliance. However, as they grow many PSOs are discovering that their technological infrastructure limits their capacity to optimize the project delivery processes and meet customer success goals. As highlighted...
As if it weren’t already competitive enough, the marketing industry has grown tougher than ever in recent years. The pressure is increasing for marketing firms as well as in-house marketing departments. Teams are looking for ways to differentiate themselves in the rapidly-changing worlds of mobile marketing and social media, while simultaneously trying to cut expenses...
It might be tempting to think that as project management continues to grow in importance, and as project methodologies continue to improve, project managers around the world will eventually reach a universal agreement on the best way to manage a project. In reality, however, we will never see a single “PM methodology” or similar concept...
here are numerous project management methods out there, most often with single-noun names (think Scrum and Lean) that don’t really give away much about what they actually mean for a project manager. Considering this vast array of potential, choosing the right project management methodology for you, or even just the project at hand, comes down...
There are many advantages to be gained from being a successful networker within the project management field, with the most obvious ones being two-fold. The first is because an extensive project management network can help you to find solutions or get new ideas to improve your chances of project success. The second is that rising...
