Friday, April 26, 2024

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How to fail well...

Failure Is the new success. Here are five ways that you can embrace...

5 Skills Needed To...

Why do projects fail? It's a question that invites a lot of interest and...

Embrace the change: Getting...

New IT systems for a growing business can be an exciting prospect and...

Does a Project Manager...

What makes a successful project manager is a combination of their academic abilities,...
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PMOs as profit centres

In the midst of recession and poor...

New Professional Body for PMO...

The House of PMO, a new professional...

New Broom, Sweeps Lean! Four ROI, Efficiency and Productivity Hacks for The New IT Project Decision Maker

It IS tempting to make a grand, headline grabbing move to justify your organisation’s faith in you, investing in a new portfolio software application or churning your talent, for instance. When new to a role (in many business environments, not just IT Project Management), new managers tend to lean into making sweeping changes, it’s human nature. Often though, hindsight shows that making small tweaks could have been more productive. Rather than shake things up, it can be quicker, and less stressful to shape things up! If you’re new to a role, instead of slashing or splashing budget and drastically altering project team structure, how about looking at the small step changes you can make that can quickly unlock ROI. Less broom, more polish!

The Business Driven...

Terry Doerscher and Andy Jordan are long time PMO stalwarts. Together they have delivered numerous Business Driven PMO workshops across the States and now...

New technologies revolutionise...

Experts agree that as the world becomes fully connected, a non-stop, always-on communicative environment is changing the way we live and work, making project...

What you measure...

Communication occurs at many levels and the result of any one communication is based on what the receiver perceives as important. Asking questions can...

PMO Manifesto Launch

The PMO Manifesto, guiding principles for the PMO profession, is launched at Ticketmaster’s HQ in London on Thursday 20th February. The new Manifesto will invite...

How businesses will...

Within the next few years, businesses and the lives of their employees will transform beyond many peoples’ imagination. As we enter an age of...

Project Inventory: The...

An organisation will undertake a number of change projects at the same time.  In a large, global organisation there could be thousands if not...

PMO Flashmob

There's a new type of networking in town for people who work within PMOs - the PMO Flashmob. PMO flashmob is a monthly social meetup...

Push -v- Pull...

Everyone in business today is buried under an avalanche of data, adding routine reports to the data mountain may no longer be useful! Is...

The Global State...

The Project or Programme Management Office (PMO) has moved up the ranks in most organisations as more than just a warehouse of methodology, tools,...

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