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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.
Guest Post by James D. Burbank, BizzMarkBlog Those who consider themselves voracious consumers of business-oriented publications and online articles have probably noticed an extraordinary amount of text being dedicated to millennials, their traits, their wishes and dreams, and their place in the modern world of business. If we are being honest, one does not even...
Company Overview Santa Claus, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, Santy, or simply “Santa” is a figure with legendary, historical and folkloric origins. In many Western cultures, he is said to bring gifts to the homes of good children on the 24th of December – the night before Christmas Day. Santa’s workshop is the workshop where Santa Claus is said to make the toys and...
Let’s start out with this: there’s really no such thing as multitasking. Our big, beautiful human brains, for all of their abilities, cannot pay attention to more than one cognitive task at a time. What’s more, a number of studies and experts (including this one) point out that when we rapidly flip back and forth...
I know you have been waiting eagerly for the final three steps on how to prepare a plan to introduce a new product. While the first 4 steps focus on the theoretical planning stages of the plan, these 3 steps have everything to do with execution. And what is a good plan without a clear...
We all know that a project manager is the person who plans and executes a project, but what are the top traits of successful project managers? Whether your opinion has been formed by years of experience or the collective opinions of your clients and colleagues, your list likely includes a good mix of personality traits,...
What are the top qualities of an effective project manager? From setting clear expectations to having a comprehensive project management solution, we know a thing or two about what transforms a person from an ordinary project manager into an effective project leader. Being a project manager requires planning, organization and a strong dependency on the...
Quite possibly the hardest part of any customer-based role, Project management included, is having to deal with clients who may be rude, angry or perhaps constantly changing their mind. Being able to deal with such clients, in an effective and resolute manner, is essential to the ultimate success of your projects. Even if you don’t...
In the real world of project management — the one where waterfall diagrams don’t always fall, and critical paths aren’t always critical — I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that issue management skills determine project success as much as anything else. Show me a good project manager, and I’ll show you a good...
Many organizations aspire to adopt agile processes such as Scrum, Kanban and even a combination like Scrumban to take advantage of the numerous benefits that they offer to an organization. Those benefits include, but are not limited to, quicker return on investment, better software quality, and higher customer satisfaction. As part of this shift, organizations...
As a project manager, you can feel certain on almost every new project that something will go wrong along the way. You may not know what exactly it will be—unavailable resources, scheduling conflicts, changes in requirements or something else—but chances are that at least one part of your project plan will break. What separates average...
