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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.
Even if your customers are happy today, wouldn’t you like to make them happier? Highly satisfied customers are critical to the long-term success of almost every business. They’re important not only because they tend to make more (and larger) purchases, but also because they can become ambassadors for your company, sharing their positive experiences through...
Project management hasn’t always been a top priority in the marketing world, but it certainly has useful applications, which is perhaps why the topic of marketing project management has become more popular in recent years. The processes and products of project management lend themselves well to marketing, which requires logical progressions and coordination of resources...
Gap analysis is a methodology used to identify whether your business or project is performing as it should be and how to bridge the “gap” between where you are and where you want to be. It can be very useful for identifying areas which are underperforming or deciding on the best places to invest or...
In brief, project management objectives are the successful development of the project’s procedures of initiation, planning, execution, regulation and closure as well as the guidance of the project team’s operations towards achieving all the agreed upon goals within the set scope, time, quality and budget standards. Projects are temporary and, in a sense, unique endeavors....
Project management terminology is constantly evolving to adapt to the hyper-fast pace of change in the world around us. This can often create situations where we’re stuck wondering to ourselves, “How does the Delphi method work?”, “Where did the Kotter Change Model come from?” or “Exactly what is a Scrum Master?” While some terminology changes...
Status meetings can often seem like time-consuming rumble strips, which only serve to slow a project down and drain it of enthusiasm instead of the desired opposite effect. One way of shifting the format of your status meetings to something more energizing is by altering its dynamic. Brainstorming is a technique used to generate ideas...
The important role played by ethics in project management is something which is quite often overlooked when considering the responsibilities of a project manager. Not only is a PM responsible for the various budgets, deadlines and deliverables of the project but they should also be highly aware of both the company’s code of conduct as...
Productivity is influenced by a huge number of factors such as experience, skills, technology at hand and how clear task scheduling is. Some of these factors you can change and others you can’t, but one major element which can improve productivity which you can control is the workplace design of your work space. While the...
There’s an endless supply of stress management tips for project managers. And while this advice is well-intentioned, most of it isn’t that helpful – because it’s not aligned with the day-to-day reality that project managers face; a reality that isn’t characterized stress/no-stress, but by a continuum of stress. In other words: there’s really no such...
There are several good glossaries that define and standardize key project management terms, including versions from the PMI, APM, CIO.com, and many others. However, like language itself, lexicons are dynamic and organic – which means that they shift over time to capture new thinking, and just as importantly, shed expired notions. With that in mind,...
