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.

5G and the Workplace: What Project Managers Should Know

Fact: the future is 5G. More and more mobile manufacturers and carriers are implementing 5G technology, which means very soon, it will become a staple of the workplace. This will be a big change for project managers and just about every professional, but it comes with a lot of benefits. If you’ve been wondering how...

Portfolio Management: How Many Projects is Too Many Projects?

It’s an easy trap to fall into. We all want to do more, make more, provide more for our clients, and show more to our bosses. But at some point, more very quickly becomes less, especially in terms of project management. There’s a good chance that at some point (or maybe every point) of your...

How to Combat Blame Culture with True Team Empowerment

Positive company culture begins from the top down. The way business executives behave trickles down to middle management, which trickles down to the company’s front line staff. Research shows that a toxic company culture can (and will) negatively affect your business’s productivity, employee retention and bottom line. One of the most common detriments to a...

Warning signs that your team is not as agile as you think it is

A team is agile when the right combination of individuals sway to the beat of the agile drum. Collaboration becomes communal, communication coherent and deliveries happen like clockwork. But, like clockwork, agile ways of working require precision and like-mindedness. All of the pieces should work in tandem, and everyone must meet expectations to be able...

From Planview AdaptiveWork CEO Boaz Chalamish: Planview AdaptiveWork is Committed to Maintaining Business Continuity During the Coronavirus Outbreak

At Planview AdaptiveWork, our focus has always been on people: helping them succeed by making work more manageable as businesses become increasingly complex at accelerated rates while markets continue to change at dizzying speeds. Naturally, inventing and innovating groundbreaking technology is a big part of our vision and story. But we have never lost sight...

Beam me up, Agile.

Imagine that your enterprise business is well… ‘The Enterprise’. Yes, that’s right the USS Starship Enterprise — as in ‘Beam me up, Scotty’. And like the Enterprise that we so fondly recall from years gone by, your enterprise is on a journey that will determine if it goes into warp speed or goes down in...

Become an Adaptive PMO: Advance Agility Across Planning and Delivery

What’s the top factor for future success according to nearly 4,000 project managers, PMOs, and executives? The answer may not surprise you: “Organizational agility.” The Project Management Institute (PMI) asked this question for the first time ever for its 2020 Pulse of the Profession® report, knowing that organizations are rewiring to innovate and deliver competitive products...

4 Types of Questions to Expect at Your PM Job Interview

Whether you’re just getting started as a project manager or looking to grow by switching companies, you’re going to have to face the dreaded hiring squad. Even if you’ve been working in a professional setting for years and years, being asked to prove your value in an interview setting can be very intimidating. Of course,...