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    Solving Resource Capacity Problems

    As a business leader, your job is to set strategic initiatives and grow the business. Learn how to solve common resource capacity problems.

    Better Resource Capacity Planning

    Innovation demands better resource capacity planning and management. If you’ve experienced having "too many projects for our resources", don't miss this.

    Cast Your Thoughts on the State of Project and Portfolio Management for 2017

    We’ve been benchmarking project and portfolio management through an annual survey for three years now and have seen some surprising and not so surprising insights come out of it. When asking 100+ project and portfolio management professionals, it is always interesting to see how project management changes over time and how among all the changes...

    Meetings Killing Your Black Friday Vibe?

    This is the time of year for giving thanks and passing the turkey around family and friends. Others see this time of year as a chance to get a head start on holiday shopping and scoring deals for the gear they’ve been eyeing all year. While many are enjoying this season, project managers and PMO...

    All I Want for the Holidays is Effective Collaboration

    Hobart Alter once said, “If it’s fun, it never works. And if it isn’t fun, it’ll never work.” Similar thoughts were shared by Andy Jordan (named in top lists of most inspiring and most influential people in project management) in our recent webinar– All I Want for the Holidays is Effective Collaboration. During this webinar, Andy...

    The Holiday Hangover

    This time of year, it seems everywhere I turn all I see is red and green. And I’m not just talking about holly and garland, but project status reports. Unfortunately for me, it’s more red than green this time of year. While we rely on red and green (and yellow) to gauge the health of...

    Is Your PMO Naughty or Nice?

    With Christmas around the corner, you must be wondering if you are on Santa’s nice list or whether you will be receiving coal under the Christmas tree this year. Your project management office (PMO) is no different. Many project managers are still using spreadsheets and other basic project management software, avoiding a project portfolio management...

    Portfolio Management - Linking Strategy with Execution

    In our current intensely competitive environment, organizations confront the inevitable choice of achieving and thriving versus declining and even dying. One result of this competition is the tremendous increase in the amount of good ideas as evidenced by the bold initiatives ranging from driver-less vehicles to an entirely new economy based on apps. Regardless of...

    Seven Virtues of Portfolio Management

    They were righteous and glorious, organized and well-informed. Their projects were always on time, on budget, and in scope. Soon, their skills spread to their personal lives. Giving regular status reports to family members while doing laundry and creating Gantt charts to plan get-togethers became the norm. Was it wrong to bring such talent and aptitude...

    Q & A with Justin Rowe, Practice Director at Lewis Fowler

    Recently, in our webinar, “The 7 Deadly Sins of Project Management” we learned from Justin Rowe, Practice Director at our consulting partner, Lewis Fowler. In the presentation, Justin discussed the sins of project management as well as how to recognize and correct them. This resulted in mass attendee participation in questions, many of them very...