Learn they key aspects of being part of a project management office including strategy, reporting and PMO tools.
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…
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…
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…
Bill Dow explains PMO lifecycles from building it, running a PMO and then shutting it down in this video interview from the PMO Conference.
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!
An interview with Todd Williams, author of Filling Execution Gaps, on how to implement strategy in your projects.
Following organisational process in can sometimes lead to a lack of progress in project management. Chris Hammond offers some great advice on how to win the process versus progress battle.
What would a leave result mean for project managers in the UK referendum on the EU? I discuss the implications on our projects and teams in this article about Brexit projects.
There are a lot of project management certifications out there. So many that it’s making it hard for project managers and HR departments to know what to look for when someone applies for a job. Jerry Ihejika has an idea about how to sort out the educational mess we are in and to bring some standardisation to what it means to be a project manager.
The UK Government has done a lot to improve the perception and delivery of major public sector projects. Find out how their improvements to governance structures have had a tangible effect on making sure projects hit their targets – and calling out those project leaders who haven’t managed to achieve what they set out to do.
Find out how project management in the UK has changed and why the 2012 Olympics was a turning point for the profession. What do British project managers have to be proud of and how do we address the challenges of fragmented professional representation?
On Monday I attended the Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit in London. Richard Hunter from Gartner was one of the speakers during the opening keynote and he said that when the Standish Group’s first Chaos report came out in the 1990’s it flagged project management as the largest risk facing businesses at the time….