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.
A healthcare PMO today must have a strong constitution. Not only are they faced with challenges unique to healthcare, PMOs are also going through the trends mentioned in our recent post, “Conquer Your Business Transformation.” These include realizing Agile-at-scale, embracing the changing world of work, and creating an innovation culture. During the recent Planview Horizons...
Marketing technology is upending the way, and the speed at which marketing teams work with each other; customers, vendors and other teams in their organization. New platforms and technologies are opening up exciting new possibilities for marketers to communicate and engage with prospects and customers more effectively. What’s more, marketing professionals can now almost instantly...
By now, everyone knows that introducing agile methodologies into business operations usually translates into faster deliveries, greater productivity and increased adaptability and responsiveness to change. Everywhere you look, diverse teams in almost every industry are successfully leveraging agile practices to beat their deadlines and achieve their goals. Yet in the world of IT infrastructure and...
Project portfolio management is all about taking a broader view of the projects undertaken by your organization. While there are natural similarities and overlaps with project management, the core objectives of project portfolio management are to improve how projects are executed across the whole organization rather than focusing on delivering one single project. Project portfolio...
Let’s start with this: agile marketing doesn’t mean conventional marketing with an agile flair — or worse, getting rid of plans and managers, and letting chaos reign until a combination of urgency, anxiety, dread, and sheer self-preservation forces people to agonizingly churn out deliverables and get stuff done (and then go on sick leave or...
Communication in the workplace can be a minefield with the ability to either elevate or sink productivity, depending on how good it is. So, it’s quite understandable that it’s one of the most important project manager skills. Getting positive results from direct reports can often require a delicate mix of encouragement and pressure, the right...
Having effective leadership skills means being able to get the best out of your team and guide them to deliver on your goals and objectives. For successful project managers, this most often doesn’t mean adopting one specific management style, but rather being adaptable and adjusting their approach depending on the team and context. Some organizations...
Growth is supposedly the goal of all young businesses, later being leveraged into profit as processes are streamlined and cost-bases regularized. However, like any successful seed, growth at all costs and at any time can leave you dying on the vine rather than blossoming in the sunshine of success. Companies face many challenges when seeking...
The year was 2001. Seventeen software developers gathered together at the Snowbird ski resort in Utah to ski, network and discuss ways to improve what had been until then, standard processes for software development. The soon-to-be founding fathers and mothers of agile development were tired of the late deliveries, blown budgets and unsatisfied customers that...
Remote workforces are increasingly becoming the norm, with more than eight million Americans now working from home. Though remote work can create some obstacles for the traditional way teams and offices work, it also presents new opportunities to enhance business agility for those who are willing to embrace it. This has been greatly helped by...
