Schedules are meant to be dynamic: they should have the flexibility to adjust to the changing project scenarios. Schedule logic is the driver that determines how dynamic and flexible a schedule is. Let’s explore an assessment to confirm your schedule is not ‘missing logic’. A helpful measure of the effectiveness of project schedules is the […]
Time To Give Your PMO A Health Check?
You regularly assess the performance of projects, but as a Project Management Office team, how often do you assess your own performance? It might be time to give your PMO a health check. In this article, we look at why you would want to do that and when is the right time. We also look […]
5 Difficult Conversations for PMO Leaders To Have
Difficult Conversations For the leader of a Project Management Office, much of the working day is taken up with operational issues and ensuring that projects, programs and portfolios are operating as they should. From time to time you’ll have to face difficult conversations to ensure that you can still deliver those projects, programs and portfolios […]
What Sort Of PMO Are You?
However, there are 5 types of PMO that we see most commonly. They were also identified in a study by PMI® called PMO Frameworks (available free on the PMO Thought Leadership page of the PMI website)
A Brief Introduction to Agile Management of Software Projects
Are you using Agile management of software projects? Most software projects are behind schedule, over budget, and “to add insult to injury” they often don’t even meet customer objectives. But why the poor project management performance? The culprit is they are plagued with changing requirements. There is hope for software project management though in software […]
The Underlying Threats To Effective Project Management
How to create a more effective project management environment. The successful implementation or improvement of project management practices requires management to drive change. This is due to the environmental and procedural changes inherent in a transition to a project-based business model. And as with any corporate initiative, management support is essential in setting expectations, measuring […]
Achieving Project Success Through Best Practices
Businesses today strive for project success through best practices. Many businesses do not rely on one strategic project, but many parallel initiatives that must combine to meet business objectives. With decentralized and global work forces, projects must coordinate the efforts of multiple cross-functional teams operating in different environments and geographic locations. More often than not, […]
Project Initiation
Many decisions are made during the life of a project, but the decision that has the greatest impact of all is the first; this is the decision to execute the project. Here we explore the analysis in the project initiation phase that should proceed this most important of project decisions. Yes, careful analysis of a […]
How To Do More With Fewer Resources
You won’t be alone if you’ve heard the senior management mantra of “do more with fewer resources” when it comes to managing projects. It’s a feature of today’s business practice: we need to be able to turn out the same quality results with fewer resources, and perhaps even do a bit more than we used […]
Do Projects The Right Way
Do projects the right way. You know the story all too well. There is an immediate need to be filled, and a project is promptly launched – but with no time for analysis or planning. The modus operandi is “just get it done.” The project manager puts together a team, quite often lacking key team […]