Learn they key aspects of being part of a project management office including strategy, reporting and PMO tools.
Austerity, explained Andy Murray, Director of Outperform, is a government policy of deficit cutting, lower spending and a reduction in the amount of benefits and public services provided. Murray was speaking at The Austerity Debate, a discussion at the historic Lloyd’s Register building in the City, about how project management is being affected by the…
In this video I talk to Josh Nankivel from pmStudent.com, about new trends in project management (and some pitfalls), specifically around collaboration tools and social media. A transcript follows below. We’re on the bank of the Potomac River, in National Harbour, Maryland, just down from Washington, D.C. Josh Nankivel: Hello everyone! This is Josh from…
I joined in with Managing and Saving Programs in a Changing World, an audio/Webex conference with LeRoy Ward, Executive VP at ESI, recently. It wasn’t radical – the ESI approach to managing programs in a changing world is obviously to be great at the basics – but it was a good revision session and a…
A new study* has shown that nearly half of Project, Programme and Portfolio Management Offices (PMOs) rate themselves as Fair or Poor in terms of effectiveness. I think that’s terrible, especially as it was the PMO team or those close to them who responded to the survey. As the purpose of having a PMO is…
Last week I wrote about the challenges facing project management as a result of evolving business practices. So, how is project management responding to these challenges? Frankly, I don’t think that we are. 71% of projects fail each year Projects achieve 93% of what they set out to deliver… … and take 84% more time…
At the APM conference last month I spoke about the challenges facing project managers working in a 21st Century business environment. I first got interested in this as a topic when I started working in healthcare about 18 months ago. The speed of advancements in healthcare technology is incredible, and every week there’s something new…