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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.
In a large organization, project teams operate in smaller silos that involve a segment of the company. But with so many moving parts in an enterprise, it’s easy for these teams to lose sight of how they factor into the larger business strategy.
Here’s what a meeting should be: a productive session where team members get together to share ideas and solve problems, culminating in decisions being made and action items being assigned. Here’s what more and more meetings are starting to look like: Only a few team members show up on time, a few ask if they...
As we’ve covered before, project management and product management are two different things. Yet sometimes their duties overlap – the development of a new product may well mirror the processes that go into completing any other kind of “project.” Digging into those overlaps can teach us a lot about each field. Today, we’re talking about...
A shared services mandate challenged a major university to merge three central IT organizations into one. To meet service delivery goals, they had to redefine and implement their IT operations and internal processes. In addition, they needed more than 800 employees to adopt them! Working with IT, the PMO started with demand management and has...
Sleep is one of the most underappreciated factors necessary for a productive professional life. In fact, plenty of entrepreneurs and politicians even see it as the enemy, cutting into valuable work hours, while in some professions, going sleepless is a badge of honor. Though some might find bravado in refusing to listen to what your...
Every organization, no matter its industry or location, is under constant attack by cyber thieves and hackers. These bad actors are relentless, and a successful attack can result in a data breach that costs an enterprise its trust and reputation and millions of dollars in damages. So it’s no surprise that a recent survey paints...
The best marketing project managers will tell you that their success is highly dependent on a few things: good communication, good data, and good tools that make it all possible. With new SaaS startups popping up daily, choosing the best marketing project manager tools can pose a challenge: Which solution is the best fit for...
Could your work intake and demand management processes use some sprucing up? Have no fear, the Savvy PMO is here! This blog series is for you whether you are inundated with work requests, need a more streamlined process, require better scoring and prioritization, or have other challenges with demand management. Using a formalized demand management...
Changing Times Whether it’s time to paint your living room or restructure your company, knowing when to make a change is not always obvious. But one thing is for certain: It’s never easy. Consider the widening debate over what to do about daylight savings. When the clock jumps forward in the spring, we sorely miss...
Micromanagement can be a common condition among all managers arising from personal stress with the results of a project, uncertainty about a team’s capabilities, a desire to prove “who’s the boss” or any number of other reasons. However, micromanagement is very inefficient, as it decreases the team’s confidence in their own abilities and takes the...
