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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.
The following content is based on the whitepaper, “Bigger Than a Breadbox: 10 Tips for Better Project Estimates, Part 2,” written by Jerry Manas. For your reading convenience, we’ve decided to give it everlasting life here on the blog. It is impossible to talk about project management without talking about risk. After all, projects are,...
The following content is taken from the whitepaper, “Portfolio-Driven Performance: The 7 Process Areas That Drive IT and Business Results,” written by Jerry Manas. To make it more easily accessible to you, we are giving it everlasting life here on the blog. For part three of this blog series, we’re going to analyze how that...
Risk assessment is an important part of every project plan and the quality of these assessments defines how well prepared your project is for the likely problems that can arise. Most PMs will have their own favorite risk assessment techniques that they use for every project or their organization might prefer certain formats over others....
With global e-commerce trade booming and the world’s first trillion-dollar companies being tech-based, it’s no surprise that a divergence has occurred between the “traditional” project manager and the new kid on the PM block, the digital project manager. Though there is naturally a lot of crossover between the standard project management roles, a digital project...
It’s been said that it is not the destination that matters, but the journey. While there is a great deal of poetic truth in this perspective, many enterprises are simply unable to be philosophic about their digital transformation journey. That’s because they can become lost somewhere on the road to transformation and change—without a good...
Silos have been talked about for decades in the business world and recognized as a huge hindrance to organizations, especially those trying to scale up their operations. A silo mentality is where different teams or departments don’t communicate or cooperate, so an organization can end up with the various cogs of its machine trying to...
The following content is based on the whitepaper, “Bigger Than a Breadbox: 10 Tips for Better Project Estimates, Part 2,” written by Jerry Manas. For your reading convenience, we’ve decided to give it everlasting life here on the blog. In the first three parts of this series, we’ve discussed the negative effects of project estimation...
The following content is taken from the whitepaper, “Portfolio-Driven Performance: The 7 Process Areas That Drive IT and Business Results,” written by Jerry Manas. To make it more easily accessible to you, we are giving it everlasting life here on the blog. In part one of this series, “Using Portfolio-Driven Performance to Improve Project Delivery,”...
The following content is based on the whitepaper, “Bigger Than a Breadbox: 10 Tips for Better Project Estimates, Part 1,” written by Jerry Manas. For your reading convenience, we’ve decided to give it everlasting life here on the blog. Much like a GPS uses satellite information on traffic patterns to calculate the remaining time on...
The following content is taken from the whitepaper, “Portfolio-Driven Performance: The 7 Process Areas That Drive IT and Business Results,” written by Jerry Manas. To make it more easily accessible to you, we are giving it everlasting life here on the blog. Today’s organizations face enormous challenges to get more done without spending more. Rising costs...
