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.
Communication has always been a vital part of any manager’s skill set. From resolving conflict and promoting team unity to delegating effectively and ensuring team members are aware of their responsibilities, among many other key functions, being able to get your message across concisely and in a professional tone can go a long way towards...
Digital disruption is everywhere. It has infiltrated not only the ways in which people work, how organizations deliver products, and what is required to remain competitive in today’s market, but it has also vastly altered customer expectations and demands. Gone are the days in which customers merely anticipated the next product release—those days have been...
The holiday season is something nearly everyone looks forward to, some festive joy among the dreariness and shorter days of winter, a chance to see friends and family, overindulge in food and at the very least just relax. One cohort of society, relatively minor though it may be, which does not look forward to the...
Having 1 on 1 meetings with employees can be one of the best ways to utilize personal engagement to improve work satisfaction and productivity. These interactions can take the form of performance reviews or just more general updates about how things are going for the team member. Though the potential benefits of 1 on 1...
“A unified approach will enable every manager and worker to see what work should be done and what is required to achieve it, which is key to fostering not only alignment but engagement.” – Mark Smith, CEO and Chief Research Officer, Ventana Research Throughout this blog series we have: explored the obstacles and challenges C-level...
Project managers must become master jugglers to be adept at their role, from trying to stretch personnel to fill gaps or switching a work schedule back-to-front due to supplier delays. A large amount of this juggling is also down to having a slow and confusing approval process. Task strands can get held up, not able...
Automation has been an ever-increasing presence in nearly all industries and, as such, project management has seen significant changes happen in recent times, with many more due to come about over the next few years. Apart from fears over job security, there is also the worry that creativity and automation don’t mix well together. The...
Just because work has always been done a certain way doesn’t necessarily make it the right way. In fact, bad habits in the workplace might be far more common than you think, and they could be costing your project time, productivity and even final success. If you think your project might be being held back...
Your organization is transforming. Maybe you’re part of a newly-minted project management office (PMO). Or perhaps you’re a tenured PMO leader and looking to refine your skills. You’re valiant and ready to spearhead the challenges ahead for developing process and governance. But they have given you a butter knife for the proverbial “battle” to slay...
How to improve work performance is understandably a prominent thought in every project manager’s mind on a nearly-constant basis. Work performance will ultimately determine if a project gets completed successfully, on time and within budget. Poor performance can happen for any one of a million reasons but getting great work performance from your team is...
