Project Portfolio Management

The PMO is under constant pressure. From maintaining standards for project management practices to planning and delivering projects – the PMO needs to be in constant sync with strategy and business outcomes. This PMO blog category provides numerous recommendations from experts to encourage top down and bottom up planning, improve processes, promote stakeholder satisfaction, and ultimately eliminate silos to advance the PMO function. Get expert advice on the pros and cons of adopting a continuous planning model. Experts will also share real-world advice on choosing your next Project Portfolio Management tool and how to #BeThatPMO your business needs.

7 Characteristics of Capacity-Centered Organizations

What would it mean to your company’s innovation speed if you could shift your decision timelines from months/weeks to days? Or if you could speed time-to-market with better ability to see and optimize resources? What if you could be confident that resources are working on the highest value work in the portfolio? According to the...

Meetings Killing Your Black Friday Vibe?

This is the time of year for giving thanks and passing the turkey around family and friends. Others see this time of year as a chance to get a head start on holiday shopping and scoring deals for the gear they’ve been eyeing all year. While many are enjoying this season, project managers and PMO...

Thanksgiving Project Prioritization Playbook

Thanksgiving is about more than just football and turkey, but since that is what’s top of mind this time of year let’s keep that in mind as you prioritize your projects for next year. Prioritization of projects is an essential part of PMO value contribution. Unless your PMO has more resources than it knows what...

Fight against today’s engagement crisis

One key area of importance for Planview AdaptiveWork is our focus on employee engagement. We believe that when employees and teams are focused, active and able to see how their work fits into the big picture, they’ll become more engaged, driven and productive. The opposite of employee engagement is playfully portrayed, to the theme of Netflix’s...

Seven Virtues of Portfolio Management

They were righteous and glorious, organized and well-informed. Their projects were always on time, on budget, and in scope. Soon, their skills spread to their personal lives. Giving regular status reports to family members while doing laundry and creating Gantt charts to plan get-togethers became the norm. Was it wrong to bring such talent and aptitude...

7 Foolproof Tips for Gaining Visibility into Demand

A long-held axiom is that knowledge is power. Nowhere is this truer than when trying to determine how to resolve persistent resource overloads. But it’s hard to know how to address the constraints of your workforce if you don’t understand the scope and volume of work that’s competing for their time. This is why gaining...

Q & A with Justin Rowe, Practice Director at Lewis Fowler

Recently, in our webinar, “The 7 Deadly Sins of Project Management” we learned from Justin Rowe, Practice Director at our consulting partner, Lewis Fowler. In the presentation, Justin discussed the sins of project management as well as how to recognize and correct them. This resulted in mass attendee participation in questions, many of them very...

7 Deadly Sins of the PMO

Forgive me, for I have sinned. It started from decisions that no one could explain, direction no one understood. Innocent project managers were drowning from decisions made around them. Some disappeared and were never seen again. They had influence and experience, along with a false sense of security.  Nothing was what it seemed.  A Project Management Office that...

5 Benefits of Understanding Resource Capacity

A compelling statistic emerged from the 2016 Resource Management and Capacity Planning benchmark study. Of organizations that considered themselves lower maturity when it comes to capacity planning, only 31% typically even consider capacity when deciding to take on new projects. In stark contrast, 72% of mature companies consider capacity most or all of the time....

Innotas Expands to Europe

Until now, Innotas was mostly available to English-speaking customers, primarily in North America. However, we know that our friends in Europe and the Middle East, indeed, all over the world, face the same project and portfolio management challenges our U.S. customers face. While we were able serve many customers in the European markets, many were...