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Different companies have different cultures, but timesheets are almost universally abhorred by the work force — and yet they continue to stick around. Why? Because timesheets are acutely intertwined with traditional IT budgeting processes. While workers may be peeved at the inconvenience of timesheets, leadership is looking to them to answer vital questions. Questions like:...
In my last post, Everything You Already Thought You Knew About the Cloud (But Were Afraid to Ask), I talked about how, contrary to what every article, blog, analyst, journo, talking head, TV show, tweet, and… well, basically every single thing in the world would have you believe, not every single company has every single...
When it comes to the annual IT planning process, IT organizations are facing a real struggle. In fact, 85 percent of IT leaders say changes are being made to the annual plan several times a year, according to a recent CIO.com poll. (See my previous blog titled “Evolving Your Planning Process for the Digital Economy”...
Large organizations cannot afford to treat their projects as isolated efforts. With dozens or even hundreds of projects underway at any given time, a strategic approach to portfolio management is the only way to avoid duplicated efforts, conflicting agendas and problems with resource allocation. Despite the obvious importance of portfolio management, many companies have difficulty...
For today’s enterprise project manager, data is everything. Team members need detailed information on their assigned tasks and the resources available in order to do their work, and senior leaders need accurate reporting in order to determine whether a project is on track to meet its objective. Project managers themselves need to gather and process...
Are you ready for 2017? Not if you plan on doing everything like you did in 2016. Generational shifts changing the workforce and the digitization of every industry has created an ever increasing pace of innovation … and disruption. What does that mean for organizations? The rules are different. The work place has changed. You...
Enterprise project management is intensely demanding work. Keeping track of dozens of project tasks, team members and other stakeholders can be overwhelming, even when a project is progressing well. Fortunately, if you develop the right approach to your work, you can stay on top of any project, no matter how large or complex. Let’s take...
By now, most enterprise project managers have become accustomed to the challenges of managing large, diverse and decentralized project teams. While working with stakeholders in different cities or countries once posed a significant obstacle, modern project management and collaboration tools now enable teams to work productively across geographic and cultural boundaries. Another aspect of large...
Mark Twain once said “the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter; it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightening.” Well, if Twain could see today’s business world — where instead of Huckleberry Finn navigating the Mississippi River, we have cross-functional teams navigating complex projects...
As a project manager, balancing and prioritizing is half the battle. You have to be able to assign tasks to team members in a way that makes the most of everyone’s limited time. This can be difficult, however, when your project stakeholders seem to want every single task to be a number one priority. When...
