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.
Becoming a project manager is not something that a huge number of kids dream about while growing up. That could be down to a lack of project managing superheroes or just the fact that, outside of the profession itself, not many people really know a good deal about it. This means that you could be...
The world is changing. It is using digital to compete, gain market share, and grow the business. The way you interact with your customers is changing. The way your workers are working is changing. The way you are doing business is fundamentally changing. If it isn’t, then you are already behind your competition. 84% of CEOs...
In the first workshop of this series, we covered how your organization’s current annual planning and demand management processes can act as starting points in your journey toward continuous planning. Part two allowed us to analyze how you can best fuel your decisions with data. Now, let’s explore how the right project management software can...
“By shifting their emphasis from command-and-control project reporting structures to strategic portfolio analysis, PMOs assist their business partners by providing insight on portfolio strategies to facilitate improved selection of critical initiatives.”[1] In the first workshop in this series, we discussed how your organization can shift toward continuous planning, using your current annual planning and demand...
A part of every team’s natural life-cycle are the comings and goings of team members. Team members can leave for any number of reasons and others may need to be brought in either to fill gaps left by those departing or to increase your capacity. Problems can arise however, when these happen mid-project, meaning that...
As we have looked at previously, project stakeholders come in all shapes and sizes, can be internal or external and have varying levels of impact on your project’s progress. One thing that is for certain though, is that if your project starts to hit roadblocks such as persistent delays or cost overruns, your project stakeholders...
The Critical Path Method has its roots in efficiency developments researched during World War 2 by the US Navy among others, with it finding its most important use on the Manhattan Project which developed the first nuclear weapons. Far from that history, critical path in project management is now primarily used by PMs to calculate...
UK companies with more than 250 employees will soon be required to publicly share the wage gap between the pay of their chief executive and that of their average employee. This can be seen as another part of the UK government’s consistent drive for greater corporate accountability in the wake of the mistakes of the...
Since the Industrial Revolution it has been those at the coal face who have most feared the ever-encroaching push of automation. From looms that could do the work of nine linen spinners up to more recent advances such as robots performing repetitive tasks on production lines in automotive plants, the war of man vs. machine...
The holiday season, whether during the summer or at the end of the year, can wreak havoc on you and your team’s productivity and have negative impacts on your project. Be they missed deadlines, rushed work, instruction confusion or any number of other potential problems, planning around holidays is a minefield of risks for your...
