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.
As industry grew in the United States, sales became an integral element of business success. It wasn’t long before a science was developed to help define the foundation of the process. This is formally known as sales process engineering and is intended to design better ways of selling a product or service. The more refined...
Project kick off meetings can be an exciting time with a lot of buzz about how things are going to go down and optimism about how successful the project can be. All too often though a boring kick off drones on for far too long and any kind of enthusiasm has been drained from the...
Today’s PMO leaders are in the hot seat. With the changes digital business is bringing, PMOs are increasingly being challenged by executives to become more flexible, more scalable in getting work done and more involved in ensuring that projects deliver actual value. In fact, Gartner cites “Failure to Be Agile and Deliver Value” as the...
Whether it’s one of your classic favorites — or even if it’s not on your top 20 list — it’s nearly impossible to experience the holiday season without hearing “The 12 Days of Christmas” many (many) times. However, sometimes life isn’t full of wonder, joy and partridges in pear trees — like when project managers...
Jerry Manas, an internationally best-selling author, speaker, and consultant, knows a little bit about technology and the role it can play in helping organizations reach their full potential. In a recent whitepaper entitled “Charting Your Journey to Success in Today’s Technology Revolution,” he writes about the emerging concept of Work and Resource Management (WRM), which...
You wake up in a cold sweat and the clock is glaring 2:09am. Not again! All you can think about is the fact that you know your project is never going to finish, much less on time. If only you had set realistic resource expectations on the front end of the project, you would be...
If you or a “close friend of yours” (read: you) is deeply concerned about what was once an occasional fondness for spreadsheets, but has now twisted into something between an unhealthy dependence to a raging addiction, then be assured you aren’t alone. In numerous enterprises around the world and across every industry, dedicated and hard-working...
One-on-one meetings are intended to focus on employee development in an individual sense by taking the time out for a performance review. Unfortunately, these meetings often get postponed, skipped or labeled as a lesser priority because they are usually unproductive. When there are meetings scheduled too frequently or people are ill-prepared, there can be little...
It’s that time of year again—leaves are changing colors, the weather is getting colder, and pumpkin is once again the flavor of the season. With everyone gearing up for the holidays, this time of year can get rather busy. It’s always nice to take some time out from your day-to-day schedule, grab a warm drink,...
In my previous blog, The Workberg: Structured and Unstructured Work, I explain the concept of the Workberg to illustrate the different types of work going on in your organization. Above the waterline is where the formal, structured, process-driven projects get done. Meanwhile, below the waterline is where we find teams of people cranking out day-to-day...
