Project deliverables are the life’s blood of project management, so it only makes sense to do what you can to safeguard against the most common pitfalls. Whether you’re talking about internal …
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3 Ways an Agile development approach delivers value
Agile development has become a popular method of project delivery, with much being written about it today. Project Managers are becoming Scrum Masters, and teams talk about having daily scrum …
Why the confusion around Agile in the software development community?
Agile is a term that generates heated debates within the project management and software development communities. This is because not everyone really understands what Agile is, and many people use …
Program Management: Why you should have a strategic plan?
Strategic plans are often created for organizations and individual departments within those organizations. Often that is where strategic plans come to a halt. There are however times that strategic plans …
The principles of a business council
Interested in finding out more about a business council and its principles? For many years, the concept of finding a mentor, someone who can coach you through tough issues or …
3 Tactics remote PMs can use to improve stakeholder engagement
Here are three tactics remote project managers (PMs) can use to improve stakeholder engagement. Have you worked on a project where the team members aren’t participating in meetings, don’t show …
How Leaders Can Lead Other Leaders
Program Management presents unique challenges in leadership as the primary team members are elite leaders. Programs are responsible for managing multiple projects, and operational efforts, to achieve benefits not available …
Why is it so important to properly assign risk ownership
The topic of risk ownership always prompts lively conversation when discussed with any individual from my classroom to a client’s site. Who should be the actual risk owner? Should it …
Conquering agile with power and style
During some recent work with a client company that is new to the use of Agile frameworks for managing technology projects; the client’s author and a manager set up a …
How to transition from a PMO to an EPMO
According to Gartner, senior executives in most of the largest companies in America will come to rely heavily on EPMOs to implement company-wide strategies and remain innovative. Today and tomorrow’s …