Have you ever found out about a project in your organization’s project portfolio that impacted you, yet you were not contacted or involved? Have you ever had a stakeholder run…

Too many project priorities? Having more than one priority is the quickest way to diminish all of your priorities, especially your top priority. According to Dictionary.com, the word “priority” was…

A project portfolio requires contributions from several, sometimes hundreds, of people. Your perspective of your project portfolio team matters. Making one shift can unleash the potential of your team and…

Are you finding it challenging to find and retain the talent you know you need to succeed in delivering valuable project management office (PMO) services? Do you wish you had…

Project portfolio success is not determined by money alone. The budget for your new project portfolio designed to deliver your organization’s top strategy has just been approved. Congratulations! If you…

We manage so many things when we manage project portfolios. It is important to understand the difference between outcome management, project management, and solution delivery. The process of turning an…

This is the second in a series of articles designed to help you determine how well projects in your portfolio are being managed. Part one of this series provided three…

Ever wonder which project portfolio manager skill is essential? If you are a project portfolio manager (PPM), you are talented. PPMs must be objective, credible, multi-taskers, great with ambiguity, authentic,…

Is your scope definition gathering dust? You have just been selected to manage that big, important corporate project. Now that you’ve defined your project’s scope, what do you do with…

The word ‘track’ originated in the 15th century; usage of the word ‘track’ started to take off in the 1950s at a time when the world was recovering from many…