In order to keep up with market changes, organizations must figure out a faster way to deliver new features. The lean lab methodology is a proven delivery method, allowing teams to fail fast and identify winners quickly. Lean labs offer the team an opportunity to learn from mistakes, become more efficient, and show business value quickly.
Too many teams don’t perform retrospectives—the inspect-and-adapt part—of the agile approach. Sometimes, people think the retro will take too long, or that they won’t learn enough fast enough. The problem? Teams do the same thing over and over again—and nothing changes.
The wave of big data and other data-science-related knowledge is turning into a flood. The economy is rapidly transforming into a knowledge-based one. In fact, the four largest companies based on market capitalization—Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon—are all data-driven organizations. How will this data science storm affect project, program and portfolio management?
As the New Year approaches, it is a hectic period of work completion and initiation for many organizations. But strategic planning and project delivery should be a continuous, ongoing process based on specific customer needs and market realities, not a calendar on the wall.
No matter how well a person or company is vertically entrenched in their specific field, most lack consistent knowledge and experience across the board in all aspects of the real estate industry. That is why best practices for project, program and portfolio management are the perfect cornerstone to support successful operations.
Portfolio modeling is an important stage in strategic planning. Yet it’s rarely done well, widely misunderstood, and frequently ignored. Let's take a look at the modeling process, important factors to consider, and potential benefits.
Artificial intelligence is not far from becoming a mainstream part of how businesses operate. That’s going to be disruptive, and project management may be impacted more than most areas—and not in the way many of us fear.
Design thinking is a systematic approach to problem solving centered on customers and the capability to create a better future for them. In the portfolio management context, design thinking is applied to the design of business prototypes or corporate strategies and promotes innovation.
What one topic at the Gartner PPM Summit did virtually everyone seem to have an opinion on? How PPM professionals should deal with agile and other non-traditional approaches to managing work.
With so many different types and levels of tools available to project managers today, how do you decide which tools to use and who needs to interact with them?