Your path to business agility
Sometime between the First Age of Middle Earth and 2001, a Hobbit named Frodo, a wizard named Gandalf, and a bunch of other characters headed off on a quest to find the “One Ring that Ruled them All.” Thankfully, project management isn’t quite as daunting as Lord of the Rings. For example, there are no...
With apologies to the glass-half-full optimists among us, the fact is that many workplaces today are marked – or at times, marred – by what can be called low-performance teams. Unlike their high-performance counterparts, members of low-performance teams are not necessarily comprised of toxic troublemakers; who, if not always easy to remove, are certainly easy...
Prioritizing project work is a challenge experienced by virtually every project manager, in every industry. In enterprise organizations, the difficulties can be especially daunting, given that the project manager may be dealing with hundreds of tasks and sub-tasks, and coordinating the efforts of dozens of internal and external stakeholders. Despite the challenges, project prioritization must...
When a problem or opportunity is identified, a business case is created which lays out how it can be solved or exploited, how much it will cost, how it will be done and what the likely outcomes of it will be. One piece of information which is often relegated to the back of everyone’s collective...
Ask anyone involved in project management and they’re sure to be very well aware of the value of project management training. That may be a given, but at an executive level, the people who would be signing off on the expenditure for such training may need more convincing. The advantages of project management itself have...
In every business, there’s always room for improvement. Successful organizations interested in taking the next step usually begin by looking in the obvious places: what costs can be lowered, which products and services can be enhanced and how can the customer base can be expanded? Those are important questions, to be sure, but they’re not...
Project managers of a certain vintage may find themselves, as I sometimes do, reflecting on the old days – as in a bygone era when rotary phones ruled the earth, when personal computers were neither very personal nor computed all that much, and when project management software was little more than clunky gaant charts and...
When Waze, the traffic and navigation app, came out in 2009 I did not understand why it was needed. At the time, there was an abundance of personal navigation devices (PND) that were by far more efficient than traditional paper maps. I could not understand why another such device was needed, let alone one that...
Businesses are quickly discovering the benefits of virtual teams–that is, teams where nearly every member works from a remote location. These teams reduce cost, create a much bigger pool of potential applicants and allot for a flexibility that’s difficult to find elsewhere. Additionally, virtual teams come in many shapes and sizes. In many cases, there...
Modern employees in many countries, particularly in the UK and other developed nations, are understandably concerned about the stability of their employment. This is related to a number of factors, including the growing global economy and associated outsourcing of jobs, as well as advances in technology that stand to make certain jobs obsolete. As a...
