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.
While clans on Game of Thrones wage war to win the Iron Throne, another skirmish for supremacy is taking place on the enterprise landscape. Except in this battle, executives are pitted against a powerful enemy that makes White Walkers seem cute and cuddly by comparison: communication overload. As our GoT-inspired Infographic reveals, 81 percent of...
In 1880, Frederick Taylor became a foreman at the Midvale Steel Works after turning down Harvard, and he quickly grew convinced workers weren’t getting anywhere near enough done. His radical new approach to ramping up productivity was called “scientific management,” but it’s better known simply as Taylorism. And we’re still dealing with the consequences today....
Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s…a Super Project Manager! True, they don’t wear capes or leap tall buildings in a single bound. But today’s Super Project Managers are fearlessly fighting back against the sworn enemies of project success: lack of visibility, misallocated resources, poor collaboration, disconnected teams—and the list...
If you and your team are new to using Clarizen’s suite of project management tools, you may have some questions. If that is the case, you’ve come to the right place. Here are some of the top questions that new Planview AdaptiveWork users ask, answered by the professionals at Planview AdaptiveWork. What Can Planview AdaptiveWork...
Baseball teams rise and fall on a pitcher’s skill at mixing up speeds and locations from the mound. When choosing a pitch, it’s crucial to predict how the batter will respond. The difference at the office is that you’re all on the same team. When you propose something new, it’s helpful to think through how...
For the majority of organizations, the journey to business agility has been somewhat successful, but not nearly as transformative and rewarding as they had hoped and expected. As such, some organizations are wondering if agile is here to stay. The answer is yes…and no. Yes, agile will be around for a long, long time because...
For individual employees, the effort to separate signal from noise—to eliminate distraction and focus on what matters—may feel like little more than a daily annoyance. But for businesses, distraction at scale become a bottom-line problem. Work takes longer. Creativity suffers. As employees and teams struggle to find their focus—and struggle even more to maintain it—organizations...
As the technology industry faces a growing reckoning of public trust, the all-hands meeting has become a Silicon Valley staple. From Google to Facebook to Uber, CEOs open themselves up to tough questions from employees, especially in times of crisis. At least, that’s what appearances would suggest. Unfortunately, these confessionals often come off as choreographed,...
Generally, if someone is coming to your organization for a service it’s because they can’t do it themselves. This automatically puts you in the position of “subject-matter expert” and paints a clear picture of the disparity in knowledge between the two of you. Unfortunately, however, this information gap is often left unaddressed, which can lead...
Though in project management, like in most professions, practice makes perfect, it is often the simplest project management mistakes which can keep causing problems. This can easily happen when trying to find the incremental gains that will give you an extra two percent productivity but losing sight of the basics that costs you 20 percent....
