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.
Though it has been proclaimed that Britain has defied the worst predictions of Brexit naysayers, with employment in the UK at record levels not seen since records began in 1971, the hidden truth may be that the focus should be on job quality rather than quantity. While the newspaper headlines and figures touted by politicians...
The career path of project managers is generally quite similar: a PM starts off with small-scale projects with a correspondingly small team, with success and experience those projects and the team you are in charge of get larger and larger, with similar results being expected on a grander scale. This is known as scaling up...
It’s the holiday season! This can mean one of two things. 1) You’ve already checked out and are in “vacation mode” or 2) you’re absolutely slammed with work that always appears right at this time of the year. Whether you have ample free time or not nearly enough, you’ll still want to find time to...
Behind every project success there’s also an excellent team and though your team may only just be “doing its job”, the difference between doing that job well, compared to averagely or poorly can be the difference between stunning success and major failure. When things work out for the former instead of the latter it’s natural...
With its Horizons conference in October, Planview pulled together a large cohort of its customers for two days to discuss the challenges and goals ahead for project management professionals and their organizations. During the event, I had the opportunity during one of the keynotes to present some of the views of 451 Research on how...
As a project manager you can often be expected to negotiate, review, execute and terminate contracts. There can be any number of reasons for these contracts, from agreements with vendors to outsourced assistance to the understandings with clients or end users. Though they can be such a large part of the job, contracts and project...
You’ve probably been hearing a lot lately about Lean and Agile or Agile transformation. Makes sense, as today’s ever-changing marketplace is causing an enterprise-wide shift within companies—a shift to deliver faster. This new focus on delivery is leading organizations to change how they are structured. They are moving toward either dedicated teams or a hybrid...
A lot has been written about working with millennials over recent years as they have begun to dominate the workplace. Pew Research has estimated that in 2017, 35% of the US workforce was made up of millennials, making them the largest single cohort, with that number only set to grow, especially in leadership roles. This...
FThe world of project management is often renowned for its use of jargon and “management speak” and not in a good way. While we feel it is often given a bad rep, simple terms to explain complex processes just make sense, it also means that any budding PM or even an experienced one, still needs...
The technological advances of the past two decades have rapidly transformed the way the world works, especially in terms of communication, robotics and finance. However, there is one domain of technology that threatens to completely upend the status quo across almost every field of human endeavor: artificial intelligence. Fear has been running high among many...
