Your path to business agility
Becoming a project manager is not something that a huge number of kids dream about while growing up. That could be down to a lack of project managing superheroes or just the fact that, outside of the profession itself, not many people really know a good deal about it. This means that you could be...
The world is changing. It is using digital to compete, gain market share, and grow the business. The way you interact with your customers is changing. The way your workers are working is changing. The way you are doing business is fundamentally changing. If it isn’t, then you are already behind your competition. 84% of CEOs...
In the first workshop of this series, we covered how your organization’s current annual planning and demand management processes can act as starting points in your journey toward continuous planning. Part two allowed us to analyze how you can best fuel your decisions with data. Now, let’s explore how the right project management software can...
The launch of my upcoming book, Project to Product (pre-order here), will be on October 20th, and I’ll be previewing it at one of my favourite events of the year, DevOps Enterprise Summit, Las Vegas (October 22-24). In the lead up to the launch, I will post a series of blogs related to the genesis...
As one of the largest public universities in Indiana, Purdue University strives to demonstrate unyielding and uncompromised integrity in support of the highest standards of excellence. The Project Management Office (PMO) at Purdue University takes this into consideration with every decision it makes as it leads projects and supports the ways projects are managed in...
Whatever the eventual outcomes of the prolonged Brexit saga that Britain is currently engulfed in, for the moment at least, employment in the UK is as healthy as it has ever been. The employment rate, with 75.6% of the population having jobs, is the joint highest since records began in 1971. Likewise, the unemployment rate...
Project management is a skill that will never become outdated. Regardless of how much workplace culture has changed over the years, organizations still need their tasks managed efficiently, and that’s unlikely to change any time soon. However, advancements in management technology, shifts in occupational culture, and deeper insight into psychology in the workplace have effectively...
“By shifting their emphasis from command-and-control project reporting structures to strategic portfolio analysis, PMOs assist their business partners by providing insight on portfolio strategies to facilitate improved selection of critical initiatives.”[1] In the first workshop in this series, we discussed how your organization can shift toward continuous planning, using your current annual planning and demand...
A part of every team’s natural life-cycle are the comings and goings of team members. Team members can leave for any number of reasons and others may need to be brought in either to fill gaps left by those departing or to increase your capacity. Problems can arise however, when these happen mid-project, meaning that...
As we have looked at previously, project stakeholders come in all shapes and sizes, can be internal or external and have varying levels of impact on your project’s progress. One thing that is for certain though, is that if your project starts to hit roadblocks such as persistent delays or cost overruns, your project stakeholders...
