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.
No IT team can afford to rest on its success. Year after year, as projects grow in complexity and budgets become more restrictive, even high-performing IT teams may find themselves under pressure to do more with less. If you are wondering how to increase the productivity of your IT team, these five tips can help...
Is it time for a change? If your organization is using outdated enterprise project management software—or not using project management software at all–you can dramatically improve your efficiency and project outcomes by moving to a better solution. Enterprise project management solutions continue to evolve, providing new functionality and greater flexibility than ever before. Searching for...
Increasingly, complexity is the name of the game in project management. For enterprise-level service organizations, challenges come from both inside and outside the business. Particular projects carry inherent complexity, while the evolving nature of project management continually expands the methodologies, techniques and tools at managers’ disposal. So how can project managers keep projects on track...
No two organizations are alike. Even companies in the same industry, with similar numbers of employees and who offer similar products or services, can have radically different approaches to staffing and managing projects. Unique requirements in areas like system integration, or complex relationships with business partners, can create even more differences between outwardly similar businesses....
For a project manager working with a trusted team, the switch from other working styles to an agile methodology can seem daunting. While older project management methodologies are on their way to being phased out, it doesn’t mean that becoming business agile has to come as a challenge. Here are a few ways to get...
Transitioning to something new can be difficult, which is why many businesses are finding that rather than shifting to an entirely new project management methodology, the path of least resistance lies in a hybrid stage between different methodologies. The common mix that forms a hybrid methodology project management approach is between Agile methodologies, such as...
Identifying project management problems is one thing, but what about solving them? No one wants to work with someone who simply raises issues without suggesting the best ways to fix them. That type of negative approach can slow down a career in any field, but in project management, it is simply not acceptable. Today’s enterprise...
At first glance, the differences between marketing and project management might seem too great for them to be able to gel together effectively. Marketing is supposed to be innovative, inspiring and full of outside-of-the-box thinking, while project management is all about making sure things get done and then writing reports about what got done. However,...
Marketing and project management might not seem like natural bosom buddies, one priding itself on its ability to be creative, innovative and to do things outside the norm, while the other tries to systematize, analyze and generally keep everything as regular as possible. However, with the growth of Agile methodologies and project management tools that...
Not only can implementing a new project management methodology vastly improve an organization’s efficiency, but it can also increase their capabilities. The trick, of course, is choosing the methodology which is most likely to fit the organization’s culture and business needs. If you’d like to get up to speed on common enterprise project management methodology,...
