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.
Renowned educator, author, orator, and Presidential adviser Booker T. Washington reflected that “success is not so much to be measured by the position one has reached in life, as by the obstacles one has overcome while trying to succeed.” This is valuable advice that organizations can take to heart as they encounter — and strive...
In a recent Planview AdaptiveWork virtual summit called Embracing Uncertainty (which is available on-demand), guest speaker Brian Hopkins, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester, highlighted three core factors that will enable enterprises to emerge from the coronavirus crisis stronger and better: adaptability, resiliency, and customer engagement. Below is a deeper look at Brian’s timely...
In a memorable scene from the 1990s blockbuster Apollo 13, a NASA Flight Director warned his pessimistic team that when it came to bringing home a stranded shuttle crew: “failure is not an option”. In true movie magic fashion, this motivational commandment ultimately led to a breakthrough that turned a nearly-certain tragedy into an astonishing...
The success of your organization’s project portfolio is dependent on several factors, including the alignment of portfolio attribution. Having a standardized view of portfolios is essential in order to make effective business decisions that deliver better business outcomes.
With advanced technology, complex workflows and comprehensive policies dominating the work landscape, it is difficult — but vital — to remember that in essence enterprises are not made of artificial things. They are made of real people. And that is why any attempt to embrace uncertainty must focus on alleviating the very human reason why...
If there is a defining characteristic in today’s business landscape, it is uncertainty. This does not mean that strategies and plans are redundant. Rather, it means that organizations must have a core set of tools that enable them to expand their line of sight, so they can adapt quickly whenever needed and move ahead —...
Every business is facing challenges today that are testing them at all levels of the organization. As we enter the fifth month of the coronavirus global pandemic, we thought it was time to take a step back and reflect on what has already been learned to help us all benefit. So we hosted a virtual...
Desperate times call for practical measures, isn’t that how the saying goes? Sure seems that practicality is the name of the game these days, as the world decides what is and isn’t essential. What is essential in your life? Chances are, your answers have changed drastically in the last month or even within the last...
Today was the first day of our virtual summit on Embracing Uncertainty: How enterprises can thrive on continuous change. Business challenges come in a variety of shapes and sizes these days — uncertainty from the broader economy for industries that are particularly hard hit to those seeing increased demand for their products. This summit is...
For several years, organizations have focused on becoming more agile. This does not necessarily mean diving into a world characterized by Scrum, sprints, stand-up meetings and other hallmarks of agile project management. Rather, it means shifting from a command-and-control approach to a sense-and-respond approach, in order to more quickly adjust to all manner of change:...
