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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.
Projects come in all shapes & sizes. Sometimes they are in the form of inbound requests for new marketing material, in the shape of IT implementations, or involve client-specific deliverables. Sometimes these projects are enterprise-wide transformations of processes & systems to support cross-functional initiatives and large portfolios of projects (both internal and customer-focused) along with...
5 questions and answers from an on-demand webinar with Santander UK Santander UK, one of the world’s largest retail and commercial banks, has been on an Agile and digital transformation journey for some time. I recently hosted a webinar with Joaquim Cols, Director of Operations for Santander Technology UK, where he described the bank’s progress...
In enterprises, few things — not even the much-loved coffee machine — are permanent and unchanging year after year. Over time priorities shift, customers onboard and disengage, employees come and go (hopefully more of the former and less of the latter!), and once-promising technologies are replaced by something far better. And one of most vivid...
Though there are considerable differences between the roles of project managers and those of marketing operations managers, their worlds are always destined to intertwine when it comes to the field of marketing. So, what are the big distinctions between the two roles and what’s the best way for them to collaborate and benefit each other?...
We are honored and pleased to announce for the second consecutive year, Planview AdaptiveWork has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Based IT Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) Services, Worldwide. Ability to Execute, Completeness of Vision The distinction is based on an evaluation of our organization’s completeness of vision...
I was recently listening to an episode of the Project Management Office Hours podcast, and they were discussing the upcoming publication of Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Seventh Edition of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) Guide. PMI’s flagship publication is a fundamental resource for effective project management in any industry, and I believe this...
You’ve likely heard the adage ‘change is the one thing you can always count on,’ and this especially rings true in the business world. Regardless of the industry, companies will continue to be affected by different changes due to global competition, new legislation, or other factors. These changes and the uncertainty surrounding them will make...
The world is full of uncertainties and uncharted territory lies just around the next corner for many companies. It just so happens that we have been in uncharted territory for several months as the world comes to grips with the COVID-19 global health pandemic. Shifting resources to support operations in the current climate quickly became...
