Since the authors of the “Manifesto for Agile Software Development” developed “an alternative to documentation-driven, heavyweight software development processes,” project management practitioners have adopted elements of Agile frameworks, but many …
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Lean-Agile PMO
In today’s “right now” business environment, “hurry up and wait” annual planning cycles won’t do! To be fit for purpose, PMO processes deliver value faster than the competition—continuously, and certainly …
How to plan a complex program
As a program is a group of related projects, planning a complex program requires the planning of all projects that compose the program. It is important to have a process …
One simple question sure to start an honest risk discussion
How do you successfully and honestly prompt your stakeholders to open about their risk perspectives and perceptions? There has been, in recent years, a lot of discussion about how valid …
Why the structure of your Project Management Office (PMO) matters
Project Management Offices (PMO) are not new, but how we look at them has evolved like everything else in project management. In recent years, a push, mostly in Europe, towards …
Revisiting the removal of the Delphi technique
With the sixth edition of PMI’s body of knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) came some needed changes in terms of knowledge areas and processes as well as some surprises. One of the …
4 Steps to help organizations view risks as opportunities
A lot of people, including myself when I started working more in risk management, have a hard time with considering risk as a positive event. This comes from years of …
4 Essential tips for creating a project charter
Creating a project charter (following the PMI standard) is one of the first two things that you should accomplish during the initiating phase of the project lifecycle. Identifying your stakeholders …
Why every project manager must understand change management
Being effective in project management requires project managers to understand change management. If you are a Project Manager right now looking for the next course or discipline to pursue, I …
6 Simple steps to add projects to your project portfolio
The success of knowing how to add projects to a portfolio requires some steps. Is your project portfolio in a spreadsheet, disconnected from the business value it is intended to …