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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.
I’ve been writing, speaking, and advising for some time now about the importance of resource management and capacity planning, but I realize it is time to step back and define what this truly means in layman’s terms… First, some foundation. What is resource management and capacity planning? When we refer to resources in this context of...
Collaboration is defined as “the cooperative arrangement in which two or more parties work jointly towards a common goal.” This certainly has a pleasant ring to it. Just look at the delightful phrasing: cooperative arrangement, working jointly, common goal. In light of this, who wouldn’t enjoy collaborating? Unfortunately and surprisingly, the answer could be your...
When enterprise organizations look for ways to improve their project performance and gain a competitive advantage, one of the first places they are likely to look is workplace collaboration. In only a few years, enterprise collaboration has gone from being a relatively obscure concept to one of the most important issues on the minds of...
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin The speed and agility of today’s business climate continues to impact growth, creativity and sometimes leads to chaos. One only needs to study the advancements in healthcare, retail marketing, on-line insurance...
We first established you can achieve greater business agility through updated plans (see Part 1: Why Companies Want to Improve Plan Accuracy). Then, we confirmed that technology is key into implementing continuous planning (Part 2: Thinking Beyond the Annual Plan). What about enterprise planning software? In Part 3, I want dive into what to look for...
It’s not difficult to find cloud-based project management software vendors touting their product’s “exceptional” integration capacity. However, enterprises that put this claim to the test often end up with a different verdict: instead of exceptional, they’re obliged to label the integration as exasperating. While this scenario is frustrating, costly and surprisingly common, it’s not inevitable....
While the centuries-old phrase “no news is good news” still has some value today, there are situations when this guidance isn’t just inapplicable, but it’s categorically dangerous. And in enterprises around the world, the best – or rather, the worst – example of this involves conventional project management software. Here’s the thing: most employees don’t...
Project status reports are a constant fact of life for any project manager. Most PMs find themselves creating at least one project status report per project, per week, but that number can multiply quickly if a manager needs to report more frequently, or report separately to different groups of stakeholders. Unfortunately, when it comes to...
Search through Google for project management advice, and you’ll discover an abundance of articles, reports and books that promise to uncover secrets and reveal little-known facts. Indeed, it’s all so elevated and esoteric, that you may start to wonder if you accidentally Googled “pyramids” instead of “project management.” Yes, some of the content is eye-opening;...
Just as athletes have their favorite plays and musicians have their favorite melodies, project managers have their favorite work management tools – and for the most part, Gantt Charts are not among them. In fact, Gantt Charts probably don’t crack the top 50. Gantt Charts and Old World Scheduling Principles More than 100 years ago...
