Climate change has arrived, and the question now becomes: What can project managers do about it? There is no single correct answer to this complex question. But there are solutions both big and small that can help make a difference.
Project teams want to know their work matters. Successful project leaders do more than assign and monitor tasks; they find ways to motivate and engage team members. They show why the work is important, interesting and impactful. They answer the “what” and the “so what” questions.
When it comes to organizational change management, a one-size-fits-all approach doesn't work. Here we look at four common situations companies find themselves in—and how that drives the necessary tactics to achieve success.
Is benefits realization a significant challenge in your organization? Perhaps it’s time to question your approach, to acknowledge that the process might be fundamentally flawed and results in a false sense of understanding what’s happening.
Organizations and people are innovating, adapting, and pivoting in the post-Covid economy. Some companies are pivoting from short-term survival to long-term resilience and growth. Most consumer-facing businesses are in a difficult position: they will face the dual challenges of both recovery and reinvention — while change is still spinning around us. The need for new propositions with ‘pivot potential’ will be vital to thriving in the post-Covid economy. This will be an interactive session and will include case studies and research backed content.
Kevin Korterud In this high-demand/low-availability labor market, we all have to start re-thinking about how to staff one of the increasingly most pivotal roles in large, complex technology deliver ...
Why Be Authentic Authentic leadership should be clearly defined to understand the relationship between it and the inclusion and understanding of various individuals and their differen ...
By asking this, I wish to learn - via real life examples - what servant leadership is REALLY about. ...
I left off last week’s blog by pointing out that a very common strategy for standing up a new Management Information System (MIS), one that entails problem or information deficiency analysis, se ...
Playing a board game without all participants having a consistent understanding of the rules is a frustrating, time-wasting experience. The same is true when a team starts to work together for ...
Sometimes, i feel that risk management leads to operation inefficiency in the IT services & consulting domain. When the top\middle management is ready with risk mitigation, the employees tend to ignor ...
Image: Inc. Magazine In this two-part series of posts, I would like to point you to an excellent post made right here on Projectmanagement.com by Bruce Harpham. It’s entitled Climate ...
I was working in a matrix organization for some time; where getting the right resources was always a challenging issue. Managing resources is also an equally difficult one. Organizational process asse ...
Accreditation offers periodic self-evaluation, assessment and improvement opportunities for the educational institution. Higher education institutions should handle accreditation projects with utmost care—and use it as a chance to refine their plans to offer the best services for their students and community.
To be relevant and valuable, PMOs need to speak the language of their stakeholders—and that’s often not happening. When it comes to your PMO communications, it's likely that you're providing too much information—or not enough.
The webinar Project Manager Expertise, Experience, and Career Development received so much feedback, we didn’t have time to cover everything! The discussion continued afterward, and here Timothy covers some additional questions and answers that came out of his presentation.
This month we are bringing you real-life stories on how citizen development can be a superpower for organizations across the globe embarking on their digital transformation journey.
Whether you're a new or a seasoned project manager, it's easy to fall into some traps when you're too busy, too preoccupied or too insecure. Watch out for these five pitfalls...and learn how to avoid them.
Question: Recently, the Project Management Institute adjusted its Talent Triangle®. I’m not sure how I can quickly adjust my finances to take classes for extra PDUs. After working so hard to earn my certification, I don’t want to lose it. Any clever ideas for how I can meet the requirements with little or no associated costs?
The process of change management has been simplified in many ways, reducing the amount of overhead required to approve change requests. But there is still going to be disruption to the team, and that’s going to impact the ability to deliver. Here we identify the factors that need to be considered.
If a PMO is going to deliver the best possible value to the organization—both through its own actions and by enabling success in project delivery environments—having the right metrics applied in the right way, and leveraging the right responses, is critical.
In this webinar, a multi-criteria decision-making process is developed in a complex project environment. This process is adapted to project characteristics, project environment, project life-cycle, project management goals, stakeholders’ objectives, project team, and corporate strategies. The strategic analysis factors are investigated in a systematic approach to make a strategic decision at several key-steps in the project life-cycle.
This Webinar defines and explains how Agile and Waterfall methodologies can be merged to complement each other. The lynchpin that makes the merger possible is the OKR (Objective and Key Results).
In this webinar, Mark explores how to take the essential principles of project management and apply them to just about any project, no matter how esoteric or unconventional. Join us and you'll learn practical techniques to adapt project management to virtually any situation that you might encounter. You will learn the techniques that work, where the limits lie in how to apply them, and what to do instead.
With rising environmental concerns and global warming, there is an increase demand for electricity and other alternative energy sources around the globe, to deliver clean, reliable and affordable energy. Energy industries encompass a broad group of sectors - oil and natural gas, coal, nuclear, wind, solar, hydro, geothermal etc. Each of these industries contain very different types of organizations, and what constitutes risk in wind projects is far different than in nuclear. But they all share a similar challenge; to produce more energy at a lower cost with fewer emissions.
Project portfolio management (PPM), when tailored to context, improves the effectiveness of senior management decision making on selecting, prioritizing, funding, monitoring, and adjusting projects. Such portfolio-level approaches can improve alignment with an organization’s strategy and enhance return-on-investment (ROI). Although the construction sector is strongly project-based and represents a major segment of the global economy (13% of GDP $ 10 trillion in 2018 projected to $14 Trillion by 2025), little is known about whether and how Project Portfolio Management (PPM) can provide benefits in this important sector. The research team from Australia and the United Kingdom investigated approaches to strategic alignment and PPM through inquiring into project-based practices of organizations in the construction sector. We found that PPM approaches are used in the case firms investigated, despite the fact that the terms ‘portfolio’ and ‘portfolio management’ were not always used. Our findings also show PPM approaches being tailored to suit the construction context.
The daily standup is a key Agile practice. Since the latest Scrum Guide release, it has changed and become less rigid than before, no longer relying on the key three questions. In addition, for teams running Kanban, the daily standup can take on a different form.
During this webinar, we will talk about Servant Leadership, its characteristics, how to apply it, and how it can be used within the PMO context. We will also discuss the practicality and feasibility of implementing it across industries.
There is a missing skill in how project managers approach problems especially in the pharmaceutical industry. Most project managers do one of two things before solving a problem. The first instinct is to review the problem regardless of how it is presented then jump straight into a solution. However, this can lead to solving the wrong problem and only realizing the wrong problem is being solved after it is too late. This leads to restarting the entire problem-solving life cycle or implementing a solution for the sake of “just doing something”.
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