1. Key considerations- why a PMO in the first place, reporting structure, underlying theme.
Why are you considering a PMO? Usually something painful drives the creation, or reevaluation, of a PMO. Projects may be failing; failure can be described as being way over budget, not completing, and/or not achieving desired results. There may simply be too many [...]
My last two posts, “What is a Project?” and “Innovation Requires Selling Value”, are basic nuts and bolts views of the PM world that could be the bookends of my topic area. One is simply challenging typical views of what a project is and the other challenges PMOs to take on value selling innovation which, in [...]
Sales. Most project managers and consultants cringe at the word. They do not want to appear to be “salesy”. In fact, everybody “sells” and if you’re not selling then somebody is beating you to an opportunity by outselling you. Value assessments are fairly short projects designed to sell medium to large enterprise systems. Value assessments [...]
What is a project? What is project management? Fascinating questions, since answering and discussing them will be the purpose of this blog.
My view is that a project is created if resources and dollars are required for an activity outside “normal” processes of a business, organization or entity. Projects are anything having to do with improvement and change, [...]
Watching recent Presidential candidate debates made me wonder about the management of candidates election campaigns. These massive project management efforts are a curious combination of sales, marketing, operations, and finance within a wildly fluctuating and changing environment. Whether they call it a PMO or not, there is a centralized inner circle deciding which projects to start, which ones [...]
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