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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.
Technology has made a lot of things in life easier, but how has it affected project management? To put it simply, it has changed it in every conceivable way. Advances in software, hardware, communication technology and other areas have transformed the world of project management over the last 20 or 30 years, and things are...
In today’s complex, technologically advanced business environment, project managers have a distinct advantage. In the past five years alone, there has been a solid increase in technologies that were built to enhance and reorganize project development with greater synchronicity, making a project manager’s job simpler, more intuitive and more easily adaptable to the ever-changing technological...
The most successful project managers know that to keep a team on track they must find the most operative way to continuously measure their performance and more importantly—their effectiveness. Just as there are an endless variety of projects and tasks, there are countless ways in which you can choose to measure team performance. Measuring team...
While not necessarily the most awesome part of a project journey, the importance of progress report making is undeniable. They cut through the haze of project progress and give the project manager clear visibility of what’s actually happening. They are like a glass-bottomed boat cruising along the course of the project, letting you see every...
The primary objective of project management is to assess a job and break it out into digestible tasks to accomplish a set goal. The ability to manage a project and see it through from conception to completion is generally a skillset that is learned through experience. A successful PM has the ability to look at...
While a great manager can carry a lot on their shoulders, in reality very little can be achieved without a high performing team to help them achieve project success. To paraphrase the saying: no manager is an island. But what does a high performing team look like and what are the team characteristics that you...
When talking about project management, various definitions are used to explain several stages and procedures. Take for instance, Project Phases vs Project Life Cycle. Is there any difference between these two singular definitions and if so, what are their distinctive characteristics? A project is more or less like a person. We tend to measure the...
There’s no question that reducing repetitive work boosts productivity for organizations. Even as the digital transformation increases complexity for businesses, it’s also driving the elimination of repetitive work across many industries through wider use of automation, which increases overall productivity, efficiency and even morale. So how exactly can you start cutting down on repetitive work...
The critical path method is a common and extremely useful method for calculating the optimum order of completion of vital interdependent tasks. As projects can be large and critical paths unwieldy, a question that’s often asked of the method is can a project have two critical paths? In fact, it can have even more than...
Technological advances are certainly changing everything about the way things are done in the world, whether that’s a good or bad thing is a matter of personal opinion. For project managers however, it is simply not possible to avoid incorporating technology in the workplace, just as it’s not possible to go back to smoking in...
