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Agile Program management is an approach through which multiple projects are managed simultaneously, in an effort to help organizations achieve strategic priorities. These aims could include increasing revenues, improving customer satisfaction, reducing customer churn, accelerating the speed of product development, enhancing brand awareness, improving employee engagement, and the list goes on. However, there are scenarios...
Among the most important – and indeed, also the most challenging – aspects of project and program management is developing, executing and optimizing a resource management plan. What is a Resource Management Plan? A resource management plan is typically composed of multiple documents, and addresses the following core objectives: Centralizing and streamlining demand intake. Optimizing...
When a good idea surfaces within an industry, it’s only a matter of time before people outside the industry take notice and start looking for ways to apply the idea in their own work. The concept of project management itself is a perfect example—while it was once confined to a few fields such as engineering...
On the business landscape, perhaps no other concept has undergone as much change and evolution in recent years as project management. Indeed, with so many organizations – from small firms to large enterprises – running multiple projects these days, the question “what is project management?” might be better phrased as “what isn’t project management?” Still,...
If you are frustrated with trying to clearly understand the differences between project management vs. program management, then be assured you are not alone. There are a couple of reasons for this ongoing confusion. The first is that many professionals work on both projects and programs – if not necessarily simultaneously, then concurrently (e.g. after...
Over the last year, restaurants (like most companies) have been forced to think creatively about how they continue to serve customers without physical interaction. In the UK, many of our favorite food outlets, from the delicious pizzas of Franca Manca to the high-end Indian delights of Dishoom, are creating bespoke packages to enable us to...
'Hindsight is 20/20' isn't just a common phrase – it’s a poignant description of the year we’ve been through. Use the opportunity of this year’s hindsight to leverage inflection points that will help your business become a strategic powerhouse.
I am excited to write about a new strategy to help organizations adapt more effectively to the intensified digital-first world. From improving time-to-market to operating more efficiently as an organization, software-driven innovation has never been more critical to business success; software has gone beyond accelerating everything we do to actually being what we do. That’s...
As a project manager, it’s impossible to underestimate the importance of cost estimation when it comes to successfully completing a project. Before even approaching a project, it’s important to get a handle on cost estimation to help keep you on task and in touch with project constraints and limitations. Why Cost Estimation in Project Management...
Sprints are the cornerstone of the Scrum project management methodology. Sprints are the units of time in which teams determine and prioritize certain tasks from the product backlog, assign ownership to them and define the timeframe for their completion. After the sprint is completed, the next step is the Scrum sprint review, which gives the...
