5 Considerations for Managing a Project Portfolio
This article by Jaime Capitel of ITM Platform reviews 5 key considerations and knowledge areas under which the main criteria for managing a project portfolio can be grouped.
PMO
Learn they key aspects of being part of a project management office including strategy, reporting and PMO tools.
The 7-S Framework: Project Management Remix
Learn more about the 7-S framework and how it can help your projects stay aligned with your organization’s goals.
Why There’s No Such Thing as an IT Project
Learn why IT departments risk accidentally (or deliberately) blocking business change and how other teams risk missing the technical implications of what they want to do, such as data security. Technical project teams are key to driving forward business transformation, and only when ‘the business’ works together as one will we see the best benefits being realised from change. How do you think about your IT team?
Why is it a project manager’s job to fix companies?
Projects are the future, a good portfolio office can influence and shape strategy and project management is the only way to holistically deliver improvements. If you have sat through any project management conference presentations or talked to someone evangelizing about the role of the PMO then you will have heard this stuff before. At the…
6 Challenges in project management today
PMI has released its Global Megatrends 2022 report, which is an analysis of the global forces significantly impacting society and the project management profession today. The report helps project professionals understand the world’s rapid transformation and the global context in which they work so they can use projects to solve complex problems. “The world continues…
How to Plan for Next Year
Take some time now to plan your career for next year. Learn how and get a free career planner template that walks you through it step by step.
Future Trends in Project Management: The Debate
Recently I spoke with Lela Machaidze on Clubhouse about future trends in project management. Here are the notes from that discussion. Lela: For the last decade, there have been a lot of changes in the PM profession. The trend that is here to stay is remote work and digital teams. That’s echoed in the PMI…
How to be a PMO Leader: Book Review of Leading Successful PMOs
Project managers have to be project leaders as well, at least some of the time. But what happens when you want to take the next step and lead a PMO? Peter Taylor’s book, Leading Successful PMOs, explains. He discusses the PMO that he led at Siemens. It was a three year journey. They began with…
The Death of Project Management
This is a guest post by Bryan Barrow. After several years we seem, at last, to be over our fixation with zombies. Again. It’s not the first time and it won’t be the last time that the zombie movie genre comes around, each time bringing a new generation into its cold, dead clutches. I am…
Project Leadership In Uncertain Environments with Carole Osterweil
It seems like more and more of the projects we’re working on as project managers are tricky in non-conventional ways. The environment is shifting as we’re trying to do the work. Or the political situation changes. Suddenly what you thought you were delivering is actually not that after all. It’s not just me feeling like…
PMO Lifecycles: Interview with Bill Dow [Video]
Bill Dow explains PMO lifecycles from building it, running a PMO and then shutting it down in this video interview from the PMO Conference.
PMO Conference 2018: Video Diary
Find out what happened at the PMO Conference, and watch my video diary from the day. Here are the summary takeaways from the event, and details on how you can download my key takeaway slides!