Your path to business agility
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.
In the 2016 Professional Services Maturity™ Benchmark survey, Service Performance Insight affirms that human capital alignment – i.e. the ability to attract, hire, retain and motivate a quality workforce – continues to be both a critical objective and a key challenge for organizations. Obviously, both Human Capital Management (HCM) systems and organizational policies are...
In the past, organizations generally did two things in order to plot a course towards customer satisfaction: monitor project plans (e.g. milestones met, deliverables accomplished, schedules followed, budgets adhered), and track customer feedback. However, in recent years customers have developed their own customer satisfaction playbook – and it doesn’t end with plans and feedback. Naturally,...
You open your email to find 427 new messages. While scrolling through subject lines to determine the “most urgent” messages, a text message chimes on your iPhone. Moments later, your landline rings and while on the phone, you get three IMs from co-workers with urgent questions. Meanwhile, you have two reports and a presentation to...
Every day, more businesses recognize the benefits of Planview AdaptiveWork’s innovative, user-friendly project management solutions. From software developers, to healthcare systems, to online marketing firms, organizations around the world are getting their work done smarter and faster with Planview AdaptiveWork’s suite of project management tools. Whether you’re already a customer or are thinking about making...
There’s one thing that sales and marketing professionals neglect at their peril: end users are the ultimate authority when it comes to determining whether product promises are justified – or jokes. And one of the most vivid illustrations of this principle has to do with so-called “killer” project management mobile apps. Why so-called? Because...
Collaboration is one of the biggest topics in project management today. From software developers and accounting firms to creative marketing agencies, companies are discovering that online collaboration tools can help their teams work faster and better. Clarizen, an industry leader in project management software, offers one of the most comprehensive and easy-to-use online collaboration tools...
In the serious and structured world of project management – where buying staples has an audit trail and lunch is seen as a deliverable – it’s strangely common for project mangers to find themselves thrust into portfolio management. There they are, happily rolling past milestones and religiously reading the Planview AdaptiveWork blog (right?). And then...
If data is the new oil in today’s rapidly changing workspace environment, then collaboration is the new capital – because aligning teams to rapidly and intelligently get things done isn’t just a question of success: in the long run, it’s a matter of survival. Of course, most organizations are already well aware that collaboration is...
A few decades ago when the world was rooting itself in what was dubbed the Information Age, there was a widespread expectation that the business landscape was heading towards an era of unprecedented stability. After all, organizations weren’t interested in information for its own sake. Information was just raw material to be amassed, manipulated and...
When Forrest Gump spoke philosophically about how “life is like a box of chocolates, because you never know what you’re going to get,” he meant it in positive and inspiring way. However, if Forrest were a project manager or worked in the project management office (PMO) – instead of co-founder of the enormous multinational...
