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.
The PMO’s job driving project selection and making smart resource allocations just got a little easier. We recently updated the eBook, The Top 7 Reports for IT PMOs, that provides a look at key reports you need to inform stakeholders consistently, confidently, and often. We’re excited about the new, interactive Gated Project Dashboard in Planview...
After years of stagnate IT project success rates, it looks like the tide is turning, according to the 2017 Pulse of the Profession report from the Project Management Institute (PMI) – a promising message for PMO leaders and C-level stakeholders alike. The ninth global project management survey features insights from 3,234 project management professionals, 200...
It’s common for the words communication and collaboration to be used together. However, while they pair nicely, they aren’t interchangeable, and a belief to the contrary is responsible for a large portion of project failure and customer unhappiness. Customer Communication IQ Let’s start with communication. Most enterprises do a good job when it comes to building...
If you visit the Planview AdaptiveWork campus in San Mateo, California and drop-in on any of my team meetings, you’ll see talented and hard working people, an employee-friendly work environment…and oh yes: a little red bus.No, we aren’t having show-and-tell. And while we do take breaks every now and then, the purpose is to stretch...
Every organization knows that customer collaboration is essential. Yet many organizations would frankly admit that their customer collaboration is broken, though perhaps they would point to communication issues or feedback troubles. Nevertheless, it all boils down to the same thing: Instead of cohesion and clarity, too many of their engagements are riddled with confusion and...
So, we’ve already talked about strategies for improving and strengthening your strategic portfolio management. And we’ve covered the importance of making tradeoff decisions when it comes to new initiatives. Clearly, creating what-if scenarios can help decision-makers at all levels determine the best path forward. But what about using meaningful key performance indicators (KPIs) for communicating...
As enterprises strive to apply business agile principles onto the work landscape and project management, they’re gearing up for a new world of speed, speed and more speed. However, before they fire up the booster rockets, these enterprises would be wise to call a time out and ensure that they fully understand and confirm that...
In the 1970s, the Bee Gee’s harmoniously asked “how deep is your love?” Well, fast forward about four decades, and there’s another depth-related question that is on many peoples’ minds, but this time it’s not about wild passion: it’s about work performance. “How deep is your work?” is the question that author Cal Newport tackles...
Organizations around the world are embracing workplace collaboration, encouraging their employees to break down departmental silos and share ideas and information across the enterprise. Generally, this is a good thing—increased workplace collaboration usually results in higher efficiency, improved quality of work and a better workplace morale. There can be a downside to widespread collaboration, though,...
In a previous post, we discussed making better strategic decisions by using holistic planning. Simply put: portfolio planning should always start by thinking first about your desired outcomes This means that any decision to take on any new work or reprioritize work is guided by the organization’s end goals (as illustrated in Figure 2 in...
