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.
Most enterprises will tell you that a successful cost management program is essential to their ongoing success, but not all project managers are adept at figuring out the basics on their own. At a glance, a successful project management program starts with project cost management, but what exactly does a successful cost management program look...
Branded3, a leading search marketing agency and Planview AdaptiveWork power user, leverages audience engagement to grow their client’s brands online. With a customer base that includes Vue Entertainment and Travelex, staying ahead of the curve is crucial to their success. Since their inception in 2003, the agency has more than tripled in size and expanded...
Everyone — from CEOs through to the interns — know that collaboration is essential for project management success. Indeed, most lessons learned (which are more like grim post mortems) of failed projects trace back to a familiar culprit: lack of collaboration. However, it’s just as important to avoid heading to the other end of the...
It might be the most exasperating problem in the world of work. Enterprises invest heavily in training, tools and technologies to accomplish what certainly sounds like a reasonable and realistic objective: improve collaboration. But instead of moving towards that goal, many enterprises find that when it comes to collaboration they’re spinning their wheels, or even...
While there are plenty of solutions that streamline the work experience, many employees nevertheless struggle to get in the flow. Indeed, whether it’s an unending barrage of digital distractions (even some birds don’t Tweet that much!), the scourge of collaboration overload, a misconfigured business agile approach where people are frenetically working faster instead of...
Of all the challenges that might arise over the course of a project manager’s career, few are more pressure-packed than taking over a project that another manager has initiated. Rather than having weeks or months to prepare and plan before any project tasks are due, you might find yourself thrown into the middle of the...
Your customers expect immediate responses to their demands. Your executive team expects a budgeted plan for costs, value, and capacity that can be measured with accuracy to speed up decisions when there is a need to adapt to change. Adaptive cultures don’t come easily. Does your organization have a mindset to drive innovation… fast? Maybe...
The PMO is highly valuable in any organization—or should be. Yet, many PMOs are unable to reach full potential due to challenges such as being placed too low in an organization or lacking mature tools and practices. Further, PMOs are often led by directors who focus on project pushing, yet fail to learn from past...
In previous posts, I’ve discussed how to prioritize your portfolio of R&D investments in great detail. Today, I want to focus on prioritization’s flashy sibling, optimization. Unlike simple prioritization schemes, optimization methods can handle multiple constraints to address competing portfolio objectives. So where a prioritization result may unduly favor later stage, less innovative projects, an...
We’ve offered Pareto charts within both Viewport and the Enrich Analytics Platform for some time now, but haven’t had a chance to pull together a video overview until recently. Clients who build Pareto charts regularly in Excel love the option to build them, with one click, inside Enrich. Pareto charts are very useful for understanding the...
