‘Fractional’ is a bit of a management buzzword at the moment, but if you’re setting up a small Project Management Office, it could be a model worth looking at. This article is for you if you’re evaluating PMO resourcing options, in the role of a business owner, operations lead, or project manager asked to advise…
How does your PMO work? As a Project Management Office leader, or someone setting up a PMO, you need to know where the PMO sits in the company, how it’s organized, and what services it offers. This is your operating model. An operating model is different from your staffing model (you could have full-time, part-time…
Proactive planning before the holiday season will help you manage your project over Christmas and start January the right way. Here’s a checklist of what to do.
Project managers have been doing the job of the future for decades. Think about what you actually do all day. You don’t personally write the code, design the screens, or draft the contracts. You get the right people pointed at the right work, with the right information, at the right time. And then you make…
When I started out in project management I remember clearly being told that the lifecycle of a PMO was 7 years. It’s often seen as overhead, and certainly I’ve known organizations where the PMO team was caught in reshuffles and redundancies in a way that other teams were not. At least, getting people to believe…
Gate reviews or stage reviews are part of the PRINCE2® process, including the Infrastructure and Projects Authority’s Project Roadmap.
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Project communications are hard. There are multiple stakeholders, different views on how things should be done, different channels to use, and no one has the time to do anything any longer. I believe that project managers have had to move into the space that used to be filled by internal communications or change managers. Those…
You sent the email. You explained the requirement. Everyone nodded in the meeting. And yet, two weeks later, people have interpreted the message differently. Communication models aren’t just academic diagrams: they give project managers different lenses for diagnosing why communication isn’t landing. And given that project communication is a huge part of most people’s jobs,…
What is a ROM estimate? A rough order of magnitude estimate is used to give you a very high level view of potential project costs. Ideally, you’d be able to provide a definitive estimate, carefully created from loads of input from subject matter experts and plenty of research on past projects and their budgets. But…
Learn how to plan and execute a handover at work with these 10 simple steps.