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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.
To properly mitigate risk, a project manager must know how to effectively manage it. The inability to ascertain hazards can cause a project to careen off the rails rather quickly. Risk management strategies is a process that begins at the conception of the venture and is followed throughout the life cycle of the project. Although...
As a project manager, how you schedule time is of critical importance. Time management strategies can include everything from the 20/80 rule to understanding your employees, shrinking tasks, assessing dependencies and tackling the tough responsibilities first. Managing time while also balancing a million other jobs is why project management is such a multi-faceted position. If...
Despite widespread agreement on the importance of workplace collaboration tools, some organizations have been slow to take steps that would facilitate greater collaboration across their project teams. The most effective way to increase collaboration, of course, is introducing a cloud-based collaboration solution like Planview AdaptiveWork. While adding an online collaboration tools might involve some initial...
Whether you are studying for project management certification, have had the role of project manager thrust upon you (funny how that happens, isn’t it?), or have been in the project management field for years and could use a refresher, here is a reference sheet that covers the basic financial terms and concepts on the project...
As common as the term might be in today’s business environment, many professionals are still not sure exactly what is meant when people talk about or refer to “resource management.” While the term may be used broadly to refer to all organizational resources, including people, money, physical assets and even information, most enterprise organizations use...
There is no shortage of so-called time management strategies. In fact, there is an excess of them. But quantity does not necessarily mean quality, and this is certainly one of those cases – because the overwhelming volume of time management advice is somewhere between painfully obvious and staggeringly impractical; specialty for managers. Best Time Management...
Project team collaboration capabilities have been massively enhanced in recent years through the advent and increasing improvement in project management software. While these technologies have improved the speed and efficacy of collaboration, the core elements that make a team a cohesive and successful unit are based on traditional project management techniques dating from the beginning...
A successful project manager always strives for a recurring set of workflows, tools and business relationships, but they also have to remain skilled enough to manage ad hoc requests. These quick, turn-around projects typically present themselves out of the blue, and can pose incredible disruption to the everyday work process. The key to managing requests...
Project management, like any rapidly-evolving discipline, has taken on a variety of forms in recent decades. While it was once restricted to technical projects in fields like software development and engineering, project management methodology is now applied in dozens of industries, including marketing, logistics, scientific research, professional services and even creative design. To support these...
There are a wide variety of documents that a project manager has to familiarize themselves with throughout the course of their career. Some of them will only apply to specific projects or when dealing with certain industries. Others however are nearly universal across all projects, such as a project plan or the project charter. Another...
