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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.
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...
Reboot and Reimagine: Adapting Your Enterprise’s Approach to Embrace Ongoing Change Environmental concerns, economic strife, the pandemic, and global trade wars – business leaders are juggling ongoing uncertainty and volatility. As a result, they must ensure their organizations are ready for continuous change. This requires shifting focus away from rigid operational processes that were built...
Amid trying times the dreaded cost-cutting edict will rear its ugly head and often translate into arbitrary percentage cost cuts across all departments. But blanket cutbacks are rarely smart because cutting costs is only one part of a solution; you may also want to pivot your investments to spend less in some areas while still...
As new technological tools enable organizations to collect and process more information than ever before, measurement and data analysis has become a major focus in nearly every industry. Project management is no exception—today’s enterprise project managers are expected to identify, monitor and report on a variety of metrics for every project. With so much data...
Depending on the field you are in, there can be many different types of workflows which will be more or less applicable in various situations. At the end of the day however, they all boil down to basically the same thing, workflows are processes of sequential steps or events which see tasks completed and responsibility...
