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Combining Agile Marketing and Project Collaboration

Whether launching a new product or nailing down all the deliverables for a customer conference, marketing professionals are managing multiple projects for spreadsheets and emails to continue to be efficient. As a marketer myself, I can relate to the struggle. In the past, I have coordinated events and have often compared it to herding cats....

Nine Tips for Continuous Application Portfolio Management Improvement

Dramatic short-term cost reductions is usually what comes to mind when discussing Application Portfolio Management (APM). Yes, APM is about pinpointing which applications you need, which ones you don’t, and how to safely remove redundant applications. But what if a well-executed APM program could still deliver incremental value while paving the way for longer-term benefits?...

Optimizing Your Resources: Learn from the Military [Infographic]

Do you ever feel like you’re being asked to do battle with more and more projects with fewer and fewer resources? Don’t fall on your own sword! Look to the great military strategists – from Sun Tzu (500 BC) to Napoleon – for how to wage war with limited resources, and learn from these resource...

Four Keys to Demystifying Resource Management

Before I share the final piece in the “best-of” 2014 series for IT and EPMO professionals, here’s a quick run-down of the resources covered so far in this series: The 2014 State of Resource Management and Capacity Planning Report “Four Key Strategies on Managing Resource and Capacity for Enterprise Initiatives” 13-minute video “Why Resource Management:...

Too Busy to Improve Billable or Field Utilization? $6,000,000 a Year Busy?

During a recent Field Services conference, I asked the audience to make the following calculations: Multiply the Average Billable Hourly Rate (or Cost) per person and the Average Number of Hours that person should be “off bench” per year. (When we looked at industry averages, we came up with $200/person X 2,175 and came up...