Project Management Offices exist at all kinds of levels in an organization. You may have one set up to support a particular large project, or a specific team. The PMO may be attached to a corporate division, or support the work of one country in a multi-national business. Or you may have an
How To Launch PMO Training for Executives
Frequently, we see leaders within an organization who mean well, but who simply don’t have the skills to be able to carry out their roles on projects. They might be senior managers who have a lot of experience, but who have never been in the role of project sponsor before. They might be board
How To Get Your PMO Involved in Strategic Discussions
How many times have you been in a meeting and felt you didn’t have the whole picture? Whether it’s a reference to a strategic decision, new plans for transformative change or something about the business landscape – it’s clear that they knew something that you didn’t. This kind of situation
PMI® EMEA Congress 2018
This years PMI® EMEA Congress will be held in the heart of Berlin, on 7th-9th May 2018 at the Berlin Congress Center. The Project Management Institute (PMI) is globally recognized as world leader in Project Management, with their accredited PDU’s designed to progress careers. PMI have over 270 chapters
Critical Path Breaks
A typical schedules critical path should consist of a continuous sequence of activities from project start or status date to the finish milestone. If not, your schedule may require review. An unbroken and continuous critical path from project start to project finish is an
Avoiding Schedule Risk
All schedules come with risk, so learning to address some of the more common risks associated is an important step to their mitigation. Your scope may very well be attainable, but your schedule may transform your otherwise reasonable project into an inevitable failure. Sources of
Schedule Risk and Path Convergence
Does your schedule include an activity that has numerous predecessors? If so, your schedule may require rescheduling to avoid excessive path convergence. An investigation of project risk should include a study on major path convergence junctures in the schedule
Late-Date Constraint Usage
Activity constraints define important dates in the life of the project. But too many constraints make a schedule rigid and not dynamic. Most scheduling software provides the scheduler an assortment of constraints to further define a date’s importance. These dates are typically important
What Does A PMO Do?
A PMO is a Project Management Office. It’s a function within an organization that defines the standards for project management. And it can do a whole lot more than that too. The main purpose of a PMO is to make sure that projects and programs are run in a repeatable, standardized way
Improper Milestones
Properly placed milestones can guide you through the schedule. But incorrectly placed milestones may misrepresent the reality of your true schedule situation. Milestones are major markers in the schedule. They either tell you where you’ve been or where you are