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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…