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.
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...
In many cases, project management and getting a business off the ground go hand-in-hand. Even in instances where your business is already up and running, business owners can learn a skill or two from project managers. From communication skills to negotiation skills, here are a few key project management skills that every business owner can...
You’ve dealt with them for years in your current role, you’ve watched what they do, and you’ve thought to yourself that project managers seem to have it pretty good. They have a prominent role in most organizations, they earn a healthy share of the credit when a project goes well. What could be better? To...
G2’s Winter 2021 Grid Report for PPM Vendors & What It Means We are delighted to announce that Planview AdaptiveWork has been ranked as a “Leader” in G2’s Winter 2021 Enterprise Grid® for Project and Portfolio Management Software. Click Here to View the Enterprise Grid “Leaders” represent products that receive the highest aggregate Satisfaction and...
2020 has been a year like no other. Organizations worldwide and in every industry made things happen practically overnight that would otherwise take years (if they were possible at all). So, after a year that saw more change than ever before, we thought we’d recap some of the most important lessons 2020 has taught us...
Though there is something to be said about the ability to wear multiple hats in the workplace, some things are really best left to the experts. This is the logic behind the outsourcing of all kinds of work, from digital marketing to – yes – project management. But sometimes it’s hard to identify exactly which...
Personal recommendations are everything in business. They are endorsements from people who have tried your product and service and were so satisfied they wanted to share that positivity. In an ultra-connected online environment they have also taken on a huge role in our decision-making process, with 68% of people doing more business with a firm...
The digital revolution is changing every aspect of the workplace, but few jobs will be reshaped as fundamentally as those in the project management office. The research firm Gartner predicts that by 2030, as much as 80% of the traditional work of the PMO (data collection, tracking, and reporting) could be performed by AI. The...
