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.
Watching Back To The Future again recently, I was horrified to realize that, at the end of the movie, the professor and Marty use their time machine to travel from 1985 to…wait for it…2015. They traveled 30 years into the future, and I’ve aged 30 years since last seeing the movie. Robert Zemeckis’s vision for The Future doesn’t...
Digital business is changing the rules. It is causing disruption in all industries, and forcing businesses to transform to survive. Many industries are having to shift from selling products to being focused on enhancing the customer experience with a combination of products and services. These digital-led services will become the driver for revenue growth in...
Portfolio management is different from project management in that it encompasses the entire lifecycle – from ideation through the realization of the benefits it set out to provide. Portfolio management includes project management as a phase of the project lifecycle which focuses on, and is best at, the execution phase of a project. But as...
Create a culture that encourages an open dialog around why projects slip, should have never started, and the value of new investments and opportunities.
Fall and winter is high season for conferences, and we’re excited to be sponsoring five different events across North America and Europe between now and March 2016. We recommend all of these conferences as excellent opportunities to network, learn from your peers, and share your own wisdom on innovation and portfolio management. Boston, October 6-7: 8th...
As a business leader, your job is to set strategic initiatives and grow the business. The conundrum is how to reconcile capacity and demand to determine what your organization can accomplish while adapting to constant change. Here’s some information on solving resource capacity problems. In a recent study, a group of 480 leaders and executives...
The greatest dilemma of all time is alive and well. No, not if the chicken or the egg came first. The question is, “Do I get a solid process in place first, or buy a tool to help manage the process first?” Without a process, there is nothing for a solution to support, yet without...
Vote for my PanelPicker Idea titled "Timeless Lessons from the Rise and Fall of Napoleon" at SXSW Interactive 2016.
Whether your PMO is brand new or has been around for years, the vision is one of the key components. Without it, each person is beating to their own drum and moving in a different direction. Powerful and guiding, a clear vision will align everyone to make sure we’re all moving towards the same goals....
Project Portfolio Management (PPM) software will bring several benefits to any organization, regardless of size, industry sector, or maturity. PPM software will increase your visibility into the work your resources are executing, enable you to prioritize new work that is being requested, make your organization run more efficiently and ultimately increase the ROI of your...
