Your path to business agility
Recently, a client shared a story about presenting some very intriguing ideas from a crowdsourcing challenge to decision makers and being met with “Yes, great ideas, but we can’t decide which of the good ones to pick or what to invest without knowing a lot more.” In that organization, like many, moving fast and choosing...
It’s not trying to optimize resource utilization, manage customer expectations or handle change requests; although these are certainly thorny issues. No, the number one challenge in project management is — always has been, and always will be — getting the project plan right the first time. As such, enterprises that want to improve project performance...
Do you know whether your organization has enough resources to get work done? And are these resources focused on the right work? When it comes to forecasting and optimization, having the right resource management tools in place is critical to understanding utilization of resources to meet existing demands, and pursue new projects while accelerating project...
Anyone who’s tried to kick a bad habit will know the struggles of addiction. Whether it’s caffeine, Instagram or smoking, there’s always that part of your brain that wants to go back to the comfort of what you know best. With spreadsheets it’s the same deal; they’re cheap and accessible, you’ve probably been using them...
Variance analysis is a common tool in financial analysis, helping teams compare the cost forecasts and schedules to actual values. In portfolio management, variance analysis is used not only for cost and schedule comparison, but also to track changes in project and portfolio forecasts of value over time. We’ve written about these features in the...
For the PMO, saying “yes” to the hundreds of requests that flood their pipeline is not a long-term, scalable strategy. Sure, in the short-term, you may end up making a few people happy, but without proper project prioritization it will likely be challenging to manage that much incoming demand across the entire portfolio. Organizations often...
As a PMO leader, have you ever looked at a list of projects in your company? I mean, really looked at them? The projects typically describe what is to be done, not necessarily the value of doing them. Corresponding project charters and business cases often dive into a lot more detail regarding execution and may...
How does a 150 year old consumer packaged good company reinvent itself in an industry that’s seeing an influx of new disruptive startups emerging? We had the opportunity to chat with Jeff George, VP, Americas R&D at Campbell Soup Company, who leads the company’s innovation program. George, who will be speaking at Spigit’s upcoming Ignite...
Have you ever planned a road trip? You must know where you are starting your journey from and where the final destination is before you can start laying out your path and the stops along the way. And once you create that roadmap, you must be willing to re-route based on new information. Sometimes there...
A digital project manager is a project manager who makes full use of available technology, such as project management software to coordinate and monitor the activities and objectives of their team. They differ from more traditional methodologies by focusing on speed of execution and the ability to track progress and pivot resources in the necessary...
