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.
Teams that are brought together can’t be expected to immediately gel and perform at the height of their abilities. As a project manager, it is your role to ensure that positive team development occurs so that they can reach maximum productivity. Along with the competencies required for performing your own tasks, developing a team requires...
Delivery timelines are a part of every project plan and serve as essential milestones both to guide a project team and for determining project health. They are also a signifier of the implicit agreement between you and the client or end-user, you say something will be delivered by a certain time, so they presume that...
Marketing compliance refers to the adherence of your marketing team to the industry and governmental regulations that apply to their activities. Regulations are put in place to ensure that all participants in the domain abide by the standards of proper and legal practice, so marketing compliance also means that you value your customers and want...
One key area of importance for Planview AdaptiveWork is our focus on employee engagement. We believe that when employees and teams are focused, active and able to see how their work fits into the big picture, they’ll become more engaged, driven and productive. The opposite of employee engagement is playfully portrayed, to the theme of Netflix’s...
New technology can be a complete game-changer when it comes to how you run your organization and roll out projects. Unfortunately, especially with tech that’s unproven, even a solid business case can get significant push-back from executives who are resistant to change until they get hefty proof of ROI. The problem with waiting until the...
Innovation-driven firms are always on the lookout for effective new ways to communicate the nuances of their product pipeline and competitive position to management, analysts, and the product teams within R&D. While the pipeline charts offered within Enrich Analytics have become a go-to best-practice for our clients, we noticed a few companies building radial charts...
In marketing operations, a process is a collection of similar tasks which are aligned towards a singular set of objectives. It will have inputs, throughputs and outputs and generally a number of different stages which are followed and information components which are included. For example, a marketing campaign management process might go through these following...
Not every project is destined to be a roaring success, in fact some are doomed before they even get the go-ahead from above. It’s an unfortunate fact of life that we can’t know how things will change or turn out when we set out on a certain path. The best we can ever do is...
The rivalry and conflict between marketing and operations has been in existence ever since business moved beyond a sole trader model, such as when prehistoric siblings Ubb and Asha decided to take their stone tool making side-hustle full time. Ubb, the marketing whizz, soon got annoyed that their glacial production pace meant they weren’t able...
Your pile of unread messages is teetering on the verge of collapse. Your phone is blowing up. The day is packed. Finding composure in the storm is tough, but as a leader, you have no choice when communicating with your teams. Hitting the right note is a constant challenge. Team coordination has largely shifted from...
