Project Portfolio Management
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.
How to Honestly Rate Your Meeting Productivity
It can be challenging for a project manager to rate their own productivity during a meeting, but the risk of avoiding self-reflection can be costly. Every month, people spend an average of 31 hours in unproductive meetings and the U.S. spends $37 billion dollars on salaries for wasted meeting time. Therefore, a project manager must...
How Savvy PMOs Drive Actionable Insights with Portfolio Dashboards
Does your PMO generate portfolio dashboards for stakeholders and executives? If so, do those portfolio dashboards offer the right insights and data to help inform and empower your business leaders to make quick decisions? Does it help your PMO be seen as a value driver? In a 2019 Deloitte survey of 1,000 U.S. executives, 67% revealed...
PMO Spotlight | Sam Fairfield at Businessolver
Welcome to the latest installment of our PMO Spotlight series, wherein we delve into our customer’s PMO to uncover the personal histories and unique viewpoints behind the customer use case. Sam Fairfield of Businessolver sat down with us to discuss his background and journey into a Project Management career, as well as Businessolver’s customer experience...
Planview AdaptiveWork Webinar Replay: How the Global Pandemic Will Forever Change the Way People Work
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey made headlines last week when he announced that all employees can choose to work from home even after the coronavirus shelter-in-place orders end (this week he extended the policy to Square, where he’s also CEO). Google and Facebook have told employees who are able to work from home that should plan...
No Time Like the Present: Finally Ready for a Single Source of Truth?
Almost daily, we hear from companies that they want to create “a single source of truth” for portfolio management at their company. Software providers list “single source of truth” as a key feature of their products. And, in the midst of our months-long shelter-in-place, leveraging the collective wisdom of the company to make critical decisions...
5 Reasons Your Product Group Should Choose an Adaptive PPM Solution
Successful project management is an art form. It requires a delicate balance of understanding which projects are most beneficial and which resources are available at what times.
Do’s and Don’ts for Agile Team Success
Some organizations are better prepared, equipped and determined than others to unleash their agile teams and put them in a position to succeed. They’re wisely doing the right things, and they’re just as wisely not doing the wrong things — which can be a tougher challenge and a greater accomplishment, since old habits die hard...
Best Practices In Using Planview AdaptiveWork Go to Manage Remote IT Teams
In recent weeks, organizations of all shapes & sizes were forced to transition part or all of their business operations to be conducted remotely. For most companies, this was a drastic transition which had to be done quickly & efficiently, and the challenge to execute this transition typically fell on the shoulders of each organization’s...
Parkinson’s Law: What It Is and How to Use it to Your Advantage
If you work in project management, without question, one of the biggest hurdles you face on a daily basis is time management. Your job is reliant on making sure tasks are completed within a timeline, which means efficiency and productivity are key. To be a successful project manager, you need to be continuously learning and...
