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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 great subsidiary benefits that an organization receives over the course of a project, which is often forgotten when crunching the figures of costs and profits, is how much team members improve their skills and abilities. Mentoring in project management is a subject that has always been around but until recently has been...
According to PMI’s most recent Pulse of the Profession survey (PDF), organizations have been wasting up to 12% of their annual project investment due to poor performance for the past five years. While PMs may strive for 100% success, it’s no secret that sometimes projects fail. But a project failure doesn’t have to be the...
Holding a management role, no matter how many reports you have or how big your team is, means that you’re going to have to make decisions. Making them isn’t really the problem, however, it’s knowing how to make better decisions and to consistently make the best choice for your project that matters. Though it might...
Writing a project plan is one of the most basic of project management skills, but it doesn’t mean that it’s necessarily one of the easiest to master. Taking it as a guiding document that will define the timing, costs and scope of your project it is also rife with risk and opportunities for disaster. For...
Whether you are looking to prepare your organization for change or ways to fast-forward your PPM’s on-going digital transformation, the Gartner Program and Portfolio Management Summit is the place for guidance, insights and tactics to inform today’s PPM leader. As a five-time sponsor of the Gartner PPM Summit, Planview AdaptiveWork has seen it evolve into...
Cybercrime is becoming one of the biggest threats facing international business, with one major survey showing that 43% of businesses had been affected by it and the global cost of cybercrime is projected to rise to $6 trillion by 2021. Naturally, with it posing such an intense threat to businesses, project managers cannot just ignore...
Change management is not just an important methodology in project management, it is essential. While other popular management methodologies, such as Agile, Waterfall or PRINCE2 all have their own merits and are perfectly applicable to the right situations, change management can and should be applied across all organizations. The ability to adapt to new technology...
Sports and fashion are not always regarded as the best proving grounds for business models and new approaches, but sometimes they can be the perfect petri dish for innovation and disruption. The belief is that talent always wins, but in many cases, teams and companies can overcome a deficiency with an emphasis on ingenuity and...
If you want to change a habit that gets in your way, get ready to battle your own brain. The mind that creates good habits is the same one that thwarts them. Imagine an automatic response that you want to change. Say, for instance, obsessively checking email throughout the workday instead of setting aside blocks...
Knowing how to instill employee loyalty in your team is vital for a project to succeed. It means being able to keep your team together and focused on tasks, as well as inspiring confidence in leadership decisions and a willingness to give their maximum effort to see the project through. Employee loyalty also means that,...
