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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.
Here’s the deal: no-one sets to have inefficient business processes or standards. They occur naturally over time, either as practices become bloated with input and oversight, losing their initial purpose or they simply become outdated. Even if they weren’t intentional, operational inefficiencies are most likely costing you time and money right now, in some cases...
We’ve mentioned waterfall charts in several blog posts, notably posts that focus on scenario and variance analysis. Because we have a number of different ways to generate waterfall views within Enrich Analytics, creating a video that describes ‘all the waterfalls’ has been on our to-do list for some time. You can see the video for...
It can happen to even the best of project managers. One moment it’s all smooth sailing, deliverables coming in on-time and everything nicely to budget, then crash, it all hits the proverbial fan. Disagreements break out, contractors go missing, deadlines get missed and stakeholders are far from pleased with the turn of events. Knowing how...
If you’ll recall, we previously got you set up to translate your organization’s strategy into a top down vision with metrics in the blog, “Failing to Deliver Strategy… Slowly.” In addition, you started to create a plan to deliver iteratively and measure against the metrics allowing future work to be defined based on the results...
Project management mobile apps are supposed to seamlessly compliment the principal desktop version, and make life simpler, easier, less stressful, and more successful for the workers who use them on a daily basis. At least, that’s the idea. However, the reality in many enterprises is quite different. That’s because these apps are often viewed as...
As a project manager, your primary goal is to achieve project success as defined by your project plan and set objectives. How you do this is up to you, but it should be reasonably obvious that the team you have around you and how they perform will be the conduit for that success. There are...
We can all agree that the recent innovations in the field of communication have brought radical changes to today’s business landscape. By enabling instant transmission of text and numbers and establishing a constant stream of information between remote or co-located colleagues, streamlining communication among project stakeholders has become easier than ever before. Communication is Vital...
We’re in the age of digital transformation, and with that, the pace of innovation is greater than ever before, customer expectations and demands are higher, and the competition is more intense. The success of an organization hinges on its ability to collectively deliver on strategy, yet many struggle to do so, as they are bound...
For many certified Project Management Professionals (PMPs), the quest for professional development units (PDUs) is something between an unwelcome task and a dreadful obligation. Of course, it’s not that PMPs are anti-learning. Rather, it’s that they’re so busy doing their jobs, that the deadline to obtain the required amount of PDUs to renew their certification...
If I asked you to fill in this blank: Portfolio management uses many ________ charts. You’d probably shout “bubble!” without hesitation. Indeed, frontier charts, pipeline charts, and risk vs. reward charts all effectively employ scatter and bubble charts to describe your portfolio. But the humble bar chart is no slouch when you’re looking for portfolio...
