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.
Vendor relationships have a mutual correlation to your organization’s success. If you do well, they do well and if they don’t perform as you need them to, then it will cause you major headaches. Just because you’re doing business with a vendor, doesn’t mean you’re necessarily getting the most out of the relationship. Minor delays...
With 87% of Millennials stating in Gallup research that personal development opportunities are a key factor in their professional satisfaction it is clear that a dedicated project manager should be focusing on providing those for his workforce. While previously, sending employees away on a vaguely work-related seminar once every two years might have passed for...
Having strong vendor relationships goes a long way to achieving success. Good vendor management is all about ensuring communication and supply lines are clear and maintained, so that your vendors are happy and you get the goods and services you need, when you need them. Keeping relationships healthy benefits both parties and means that you...
There are often times when escalation of an issue to a higher-up stakeholder is the right call, but project managers are often reticent to do so, for fear it might reflect badly on their ability to handle situations. This is an unhelpful attitude, both for the project manager and the project as recognizing when something...
With the broad lexicon of management speak, speakers, even those who consider themselves completely fluent, can often get terms mixed up. Most commonly this is when two terms that are often used in the same context are used interchangeably and are presumed to mean approximately the same thing. This is the case with risk management...
Managing a project may seem easy, but learning how to manage project budgets takes a special mix of education and experience. A project that falls out of scope can not only put the project in danger, but risks the reputation of you, your team and the company you work for. When it comes time for...
Any project manager wants the enterprise they work for to be successful, but they can’t be successful without software that works to its peak ability. For this reason, it’s essential to ensure that software and product updates are efficiently and seamlessly integrated so they can utilize updated, streamlined features. SaaS project management, or the delivery...
Winston Churchill once said: “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” At the end of the day, change creates opportunity. The problem is in our attitude towards change, whether we treat it negatively or we welcome it and accept it. The majority of people become used to their “stream of...
Although the primary job of a project manager shouldn’t be to play referee, when team members are closely collaborating, there is always potential for conflict. As ideas are shared, priorities laid out and responsibilities established, every now and then a project manager can expect some push back. Understanding the main causes of conflict between team...
Warning! The Zombie-PMO apocalypse is here. Executives are expecting more from PMOs than ever. They must drive digital transformation and fuel growth strategies by delivering complex programs across the organization at speed. But there is one problem…PMOs are finding it very hard to adapt. PMOs can no longer focus on standardization, governance, or control when...
