Project Portfolio Management

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.

No, Working from Home Is Not Remote Work…Here’s Why

For many existing in a standard, office-based work environment, “working from home” can often seem completely interchangeable with “remote work” but the truth is that the two terms are actually very far from being synonymous. As technology changes and planning and working with teams without any physical contact becomes more common, the entire dynamic of...

Start Viewing Your IT Department as a Strategic Partner to the Organization

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. We’ve discussed how portfolio-driven performance improves project delivery, how and why you must...

Six Techniques to Keep Teams Focused

Focus isn’t just the absence of distraction. It’s an immersive state in which meaningful work simply flows. Organizations that truly want to get stuff done will do everything they can to empower their teams to reach this state. Here’s six ways your businesses can stay focused on focus. Have a plan Meditation is all about...

How to Host Meaningful Meetings for Non-Managers

Getting the heads of different teams together to get updates on project progress and the state of play for each team is an important and relatively straightforward element of project management that is often made easier by the fact that everyone is speaking the same “management” language of KPIs, milestones and deliverables. Knowing how to...

How Risk Management is Crucial to Project Management

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,...

A Look into the Relationship Between Demand Management and Project Management

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 Techniques to Try in the New Year

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....

What It Means to Be a Digital Project Manager

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...

Enterprise Survival Guide to Digital Transformation—Infographic

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...

How to Improve Collaboration By Breaking Down Silos

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...