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.
This is the fifth and final post in our series on doing more portfolio management with less project data. You’ll find the whole series here. Data needed at each level of portfolio management. The only required data are the three items in the orange Beginner box. How much further you go depends on your people,...
This is the fourth post in our series on doing more portfolio management with less project data. You’ll find the whole series here. Data needed at each level of portfolio management. The only required data are the three items in the orange Beginner box. How much further you go depends on your people, your portfolio,...
This is the third post in our series on doing more portfolio management with less project data. You’ll find the whole series here. Data needed at each level of portfolio management. The only required data are the three items in the orange Beginner box. How much further you go depends on your people, your portfolio,...
This is the second post in our series on doing more portfolio management with less project data. You’ll find the whole series here. Data needed at each level of portfolio management. The only required data are the three items in the orange Beginner box. How much further you go depends on your people, your portfolio,...
It’s a familiar refrain from the project and portfolio managers we talk to: “These portfolio views are amazing, but there is no way we have the data to use Enrich Analytics.” We LOVE hearing this, because we can respond with good news: You probably have enough information to leverage our tools and gain big insights...
Enterprises are shifting to a business agile approach that drives flexibility throughout the project lifecycle, and enables team to respond quickly to opportunities, changes and obstacles. However, to make an agile methodology and mindset work outside of a limited IT project framework, enterprises must re-invent a competence that may have worked fine in the past,...
In 2013, American Airlines merged with US Airways creating a “new” American,, the world’s largest airline. This new airline had 120,000 employees and was facing a big overlap in technology, programs, and processes. In a recent webcast, The Journey to the New American Airlines, Woody Green, manager of IT Finance at American Airlines, goes in-depth...
Enterprise-level service providers and vendors know that collaborating with customers is not a nice-to-have that elevates customer experience from good to great: it’s a fundamental requirement that distinguishes project success from failure. Indeed, an overwhelming number of churns and cancellations can be traced back to errors, omissions and breakdowns in customer collaboration. As such,...
We’ve all experienced it many times—and we dread experiencing it again. No, I’m not referring to traffic jams or flight delays. Yes, those are tedious, but we’re talking about something even more deflating: when workplace collaboration descends into chaos. Here are the top 7 reasons why: 1. The Loop is Too Small This happens when all...
Why do some enterprises with an enviable range of strengths and successes, nevertheless suffer from, and subject their workforce to, bad project management software? Is it psychological? Emotional? Is Dr. Phil needed to unravel this scenario? Is an intervention required? It’s none of the above, which is a relief for CEOs and other executives out...
