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.
Whether it’s time to paint your living room or restructure your company, knowing when to make a change is not always obvious. But one thing is for certain: It’s never easy. Consider the widening debate over what to do about daylight savings. When the clock jumps forward in the spring, we sorely miss that lost...
The weeks, months or even years in which a project is planned and executed constitute a wealth of work and documentation, including contracts, planning, communication, deliverables and reporting. By the time you reach the end of a project life cycle, you’ll find that there are several further steps required just for closure. The closure phase...
There are significant differences between the roles of a marketing manager and a project manager. Marketing managers are better known for deciding on creative direction and transforming a client’s needs into an effective and persuasive campaign, whereas a project manager is focused on building a capable team that can ensure completion of deliverables on budget...
Though a majority of Americans expect corporations to do their part to make the world a better place, philanthropy still takes a back seat to making a profit for many companies. But some of today’s most innovative organizations have made investing in social good intrinsic to their corporate brand and success. The best have proven...
When journalist Clive Thompson wrote a book on the art of coding, he felt he had no choice but to learn the craft himself. The first thing that struck him was the tech industry’s obsession with efficiency. When in doubt, he learned, automate it. And soon he began seeing ways he could streamline everyday tasks. ...
The benefits of fostering a high-velocity corporate culture may be obvious, but a surprising number of companies have trouble moving quickly enough to beat, or even keep up, with the competition. Businesses have to be fast to maintain relevance. First movers in any field have the easiest time establishing brand recognition and customer loyalty before...
Leadership skills are practiced when we step forward and make decisions about how something should be done or where it is going. In project management, this is most likely going to be with your project team, or at least a certain section of it. Knowing how to practice leadership skills goes beyond just decision-making however,...
Gantt charts have been used for over a century to give a clear visualization of a project’s status and progress, it is one of the most widely used project management tools and one of the first things any budding project manager will learn to create. One of the other many benefits of Gantt chart usage...
Accelerating a business often comes down to addition by subtraction. Encouraging more quick face-to-face conversations while killing off the marathon meetings. Increasing focus by eradicating the interruptions and distractions. Boosting the fun by doing away with boredom. Here are four ways to turbocharge your company. Encourage more human interaction—within limits Though emails and messaging...
So often, we think of productivity as an accumulation of accomplishments: How many things did my team get done today? How many items can I cross off my to-do list? But the correlation between the number of boxes you check and how much important work you actually did can be tenuous. Maybe it’s time to...
