Showcase your PMO and deliver more value to your organization with these five simple tips.
Showcase your PMO and deliver more value to your organization with these five simple tips.
Organizations overspend millions of dollars and realize significant delays each year rolling out strategic initiatives. Overspending dollars does not just negatively impact the expense side of the organization's ledger. Overspending also diminishes the business case of the strategic initiative. Rollout…
This month's leadership tip stresses the importance of returning phone calls and emails.
This month’s tip is on email etiquette.
Want to know what is driving your program performance metrics? Program and project metrics are fundamental to understanding if your program/project is achieving its objectives.
Communication plans are a great way to provide your program leadership team with current updates on planned communications activities for a program. Whether a large program or a small project, publishing when meetings will occur, when training sessions will take…
I will contend that many programs and projects struggle because program and/or project teams do not have a clear picture of the intended program outcome and their role in delivering the desired outcome. This is especially true with IT projects…
Most people who know me know that I try to ask very good questions…probing questions…questions that try and drive out a good understanding of an issue and its root cause so that it can be solved. So you can imagine…
One of my frustrations is when project team members have a defeatist attitude about certain tasks on a project. My parents always taught me, "If you think you can, or you think you can't, you are probably right. The next…
Portfolio Management January is a common time of year for organizations to establish their discretionary financial plan. One of the challenges with this process is determining how much work can get “crammed” into the financial budget. The discretionary budget is…
