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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.
One of the things that makes enterprise project management so interesting is that there’s always something new to learn. Whether it’s a new project management methodology, a new technological tool or a new strategy for running a meeting, successful project managers make it a point to pick up a new skill or competency every year....
How often does the first draft of a project plan capture every single detail? How often does a project proceed from start to finish without a single change in scope, timing, staffing, or budget? If asked, most project managers would say “never.” In fact, one could argue that the key to success in project management...
How does one measure success in business? There are dozens of ways, but when it comes right down to it, profit reigns supreme. Along the way, however, companies set and meet a plethora of goals and the small successes lead to larger ones. When it comes to project management, it’s important to quantify relative success...
By now, we’ve all heard about the importance of collaboration on project teams. Organizations that haven’t implemented an online collaboration solution are already falling behind competitors who have taken advantage of the increased engagement and efficiency that collaboration provides. As helpful as internal collaboration can be, though, it’s not a complete answer. Businesses that want...
Social networks are here to stay, so any business which isn’t already using them to their advantage should be taking a serious look at how their business communication could be improved by getting involved. Facebook, for example, may often be seen as a frivolous time-waster but with 1.59 billion users, it can be the best...
Stakeholders are the most influential people in a project, yet engaging their interest can be challenging. For project managers to make big moves, adjustments or decisions within a project, they need stakeholder support. Therefore, it is vital that stakeholder management is part of project methodology, so that the PM has the backing they need to...
Minimalism has been rejuvenated in the past couple of years, mainly inspired by Marie Kondo’s take on decluttering one’s home, with Kondo herself and many other commentators exploring how every aspect of one’s life could be improved by adopting a minimalist approach. This is not a new theory of course, with minimalism in art first...
A marketing workflow is a set of repeatable steps and processes that are connected to a single marketing task. These standardized workflows are then easy to use as benchmarks of productivity, as well as being easier to roll out to all teams once they have been finalized, meaning that one team’s innovation or improvement will...
Being asked to estimate how long a task or project is going to take is an understandable query from any client or stakeholder. People need to plan, and those plans need to be built around an accurate work estimation. But just because it’s so commonplace, doesn’t mean everyone’s very good at it. For a variety...
Online project management tools and software have been absolute game-changers for project teams and their managers since they began to be widely adopted. But, as with many elements of the tech revolution, one ground-breaking innovation is immediately followed by dozens of imitators looking to ride the coattails of the original’s success. So how can a...
