Strategic Planning

According to Gartner, by 2017, senior executives in most of the largest companies in America will rely on EPMOs to implement company-wide strategies and remain innovative. Today and tomorrow’s PMOs…

Planning and managing a project involves many elements that cannot be all included in one article. However, they can be grouped into three major categories: Product, People, and Process. Product:…

Identifying available project management methodologies (PMM) is one thing; assessing which one works best for a particular project is much more complicated. While there is no “best” methodology that works…

Think of project management methodologies as blueprints, step-by-step instructions that guide your team to build a successful project. With so many different project management methodologies like Agile—and, in some cases,…

Mastering transformational change isn’t easy for any project manager, it takes intentional effort and coordination. Although change management and project management can be mutually exclusive disciplines, the combined efforts of…

Many projects are not completed on time and budget or do not deliver the intended business benefits and value even when they finish on time and budget. The data about…

Often businesses start out with a fairly clear vision, and that vision can be accomplished in several ways: sometimes through some great streak of luck, but most likely with the…

Learn about your business processes and what they say about your business. Each company starts out developing processes that are determined by various limiting factors; as a company grows, hopefully,…

In environments where everything is a top priority, nothing is a top priority. A key responsibility of senior leadership is ruthless project prioritization, leaving no doubt as to the organization’s…

Progressive elaboration is a key concept in the discipline of project management. Projects are always evolving and often require a detailed project manager to revisit baselines and modify them with…