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.
The end of the traditional Project Portfolio Management (PPM) world is near. It has been predicted that agile programs and product management will replace project management as the dominant approach for effective enterprise change and outcomes by 2023. Further, 80 percent of organizations will have an enterprise PMO focused on integrating products and programs in...
Making a business case for something involves creating a plan that will solve an issue that your organization currently faces. It basically goes along these lines: The problem/opportunity: Describing what can be changed Analysis of the solutions: A run-through of how it can be changed Recommendation: The option you believe is best to deliver the...
Large organizations often count their active projects and initiatives in the hundreds, with different departments and business units pursuing a wide variety of objectives. With so many simultaneous activities underway, it can be easy for a company’s short-term operations to fall out of alignment with its long-term goals. In order to better organize and direct...
Big projects involve big risks and big rewards—that’s why project managers are drawn to them. Leading an enterprise project to a successful conclusion can improve your reputation, increase your earning potential and put you in line for even more important projects in the future. A high-profile failure, on the other hand, is a career setback...
IT portfolio management is gaining importance as enterprise IT departments continue to grow in size and significance within their organizations. In addition to traditional responsibilities like managing networks, supporting user devices and maintaining websites, more and more IT departments are being tasked with developing new products and new workflows to help companies compete in the...
Like most disruptions, it began with a problem hiding in plain sight. We were all paying too much for eyeglasses. Then, in 2008, four graduate students, one wearing a pair of frames held together with a paperclip, decided to bring eyewear to the internet. They faced serious challenges. None of them knew anything about e-commerce,...
“Jack be nimble, Jack be quick…” the famous children’s rhyme explains the agile approach to management perfectly. Over the past 30 years, agile innovation methods have revolutionized the way in which a business democracy functions and has greatly increased the success rates of projects and systems. The idea is to be fast and easy—the very...
When it comes to project management, the words probability and possibility sound phonetically similar but could not be more different. These terms are all too often considered synonyms or are confused, at the project manager’s own peril. Consequently, the designation is something every project manager should familiarize themselves with, because each impacts risk management and...
As we finalize our six-part blog series on how to become agile, let’s take a look back at the previous five blogs and provide you with a brief summary of their key points. Throughout this series, we’ve discussed the five ways to become agile, addressed the primary issues and roadblocks, as well as the critical...
The words may vary depending on the source, but the basic message is the same – K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid) means simple is better. A complicated plan will be difficult to manage and a complicated design will be complicated to develop, use, document and support. A complicated project environment is a nightmare! One of...
