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.
Does this sound familiar? A key task in your project is dependent on the completion of an earlier task by your organization’s IT or development team. However, IT and development are using their own tool to track their requirements and progress, and neither you nor anyone on your team have access to that tool. As...
For most organizations, growing revenue and managing operational spend are top priorities. With digital disruption occurring in everything from banking, shopping, to healthcare, today’s organizations must focus on new customer-oriented strategies when it comes to planning and execution. Put simply: managing the customer experience is forcing enterprises to beef up investment in new technology, which...
Cross-functional teams, at least in theory, are good things for any organization. When employees are able to break out of their departmental silos and work closely with colleagues from other areas of the business, they have access to more information and a wider set of capabilities. When things go well, these teams are able to...
Employee engagement should be a top priority for every employer in 2017 and beyond. A growing body of research indicates that despite the critical importance of employee engagement in long-term organizational success, few companies have found the magic formula for keeping their workers happy and motivated. In fact, a recent employee engagement survey indicated that...
When it comes to the annual IT planning process, IT organizations are facing a real struggle. In fact, 85 percent of IT leaders say changes are being made to the annual plan several times a year, according to a recent CIO.com poll. (See my previous blog titled “Evolving Your Planning Process for the Digital Economy”...
Large organizations cannot afford to treat their projects as isolated efforts. With dozens or even hundreds of projects underway at any given time, a strategic approach to portfolio management is the only way to avoid duplicated efforts, conflicting agendas and problems with resource allocation. Despite the obvious importance of portfolio management, many companies have difficulty...
For today’s enterprise project manager, data is everything. Team members need detailed information on their assigned tasks and the resources available in order to do their work, and senior leaders need accurate reporting in order to determine whether a project is on track to meet its objective. Project managers themselves need to gather and process...
Enterprise project management is intensely demanding work. Keeping track of dozens of project tasks, team members and other stakeholders can be overwhelming, even when a project is progressing well. Fortunately, if you develop the right approach to your work, you can stay on top of any project, no matter how large or complex. Let’s take...
By now, most enterprise project managers have become accustomed to the challenges of managing large, diverse and decentralized project teams. While working with stakeholders in different cities or countries once posed a significant obstacle, modern project management and collaboration tools now enable teams to work productively across geographic and cultural boundaries. Another aspect of large...
Mark Twain once said “the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter; it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightening.” Well, if Twain could see today’s business world — where instead of Huckleberry Finn navigating the Mississippi River, we have cross-functional teams navigating complex projects...
