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.
Conferences provide an opportunity to network with your peers, learn about best-practices, and realize that we all face common challenges when making tough portfolio decisions. Once upon a time, portfolio and resource planning conferences were a seasonal affair, with options available throughout the fall. Now there are events year-round; even if they are all on...
Product managers have an increasingly difficult job. They not only need to listen and understand customers, operations, markets, sales, and engineering, but they then must make difficult decisions that require communicating and guiding the organization to embrace trade-offs made across conflicting priorities. Product managers carry this responsibility from idea to delivery, bringing cross-functional teams together...
When it comes to choosing new project management software, enterprises typically rely on scorecards, content (e.g. reports, white papers, articles, blog posts, videos, etc.), case studies, peer reviews, comparison matrices, demos, data sheets, and other tools to evaluate potential solutions. Naturally, all of these are key pieces of the decision-making puzzle. However, there is a...
Meeting the demands of ever-changing priorities within a government can lead to inconsistent processes, departments with limited visibility into what is being worked on, and no ability to monitor investments. New Zealand Government, like many other government agencies, was tasked with overcoming these obstacles to develop and manage project and investment portfolios to grow the...
It’s not always easy to have the same ethics at work that you have in your private life. For a start, in your private life, in general at least, you are accountable for and represent yourself, in the workplace however you may be expected to represent a whole corporation, which could run to thousands of...
Most businesses want PPM solutions that can be deployed in the IT organization run by certified, full-time product managers and can be deployed within IT, product development, or professional services departments. The bottom line is to drive the right projects and initiatives for on time, on budget delivery. But what about the accidental project manager?...
The best sports managers in history have all been those who had an intuitive grasp of the resources they had available to them. They had a deep understanding of what each team member could do and who could make a difference at crucial moments. This resource management can also be the difference between achieving consistent...
No matter if you are a project manager just starting out or if you are a seasoned PPM veteran, each project or program that you manage is a reflection on yourself, and the results you deliver in your projects can have a significant effect on the future direction of your career. Success of a project is...
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Hodges-Mace was founded in 2004 and is a major provider of employee benefits communication, management and enrollment products and services. It delivers custom solutions to over 1,000 clients and is focused mainly on large employers based in the U.S. We talked with them recently to find out about how Planview AdaptiveWork...
Evaluating and choosing new project management software can take anywhere from a few weeks to several months. But once a decision is made, there’s another key challenge to overcome: onboarding users. To help enterprises take the shortest path to value — and enable their users to embrace rather than reject the new project management...
