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Technology. It’s everywhere. Technology is being used to transform how people live, connect, and do business. It’s a commodity that can be bought and sold—the ubiquity of which is changing how IT services and sales are being conducted.
Whether you’re a project manager or a C-level executive, PMO failure can spell disaster for a business, and possibly even your career. Failing project management offices translate to wasted resources and missed opportunities for a business—and if someone is trying to assign blame for project failure, you could be put directly in the line of fire.
Any CIO worth their salt will keep track of the latest technology trends analysts are discussing and exploring. Over the past year, those who listened to prophecies about the Internet of Things and Big Data Analytics have started to reap the rewards these new technologies are beginning to bring to the business arena.
There are many reasons a PMO either thrives or fails, but the most common reasons for failure are often not process or technology issues, but rather related to “people issues” in an organization. Ultimately, a PMO’s success rests in the hands of its team members, spanning across all levels of the org chart –...
Over the last six months, there has been a buzz building in IT circles about bimodal IT. Creeping onto the agenda of Gartner events, trade conferences and boardroom catch-ups, we’ve even started to hear the phrase on the lips of Changepoint customers.
In a large organization, project teams operate in smaller silos that involve a segment of the company. But with so many moving parts in an enterprise, it’s easy for these teams to lose sight of how they factor into the larger business strategy.
Here’s what a meeting should be: a productive session where team members get together to share ideas and solve problems, culminating in decisions being made and action items being assigned. Here’s what more and more meetings are starting to look like: Only a few team members show up on time, a few ask if they...
As we’ve covered before, project management and product management are two different things. Yet sometimes their duties overlap – the development of a new product may well mirror the processes that go into completing any other kind of “project.” Digging into those overlaps can teach us a lot about each field. Today, we’re talking about...
A shared services mandate challenged a major university to merge three central IT organizations into one. To meet service delivery goals, they had to redefine and implement their IT operations and internal processes. In addition, they needed more than 800 employees to adopt them! Working with IT, the PMO started with demand management and has...
Even if it is only a conversation, in the new decade, your organization is likely on the path to Agile maturity. From enabling customer value delivery at speed to empowering organizations to adapt to changes in the marketplace with strategic insight and visibility, Lean-Agile practices offer significant value for modern organizations. Implementing these practices, however,...
