My feeling is that both have their difficulties and a lot depends on the type of person you are. I prefer project management because it offers more variety and interesting management challenges generally having to do with getting temporary teams to perform well. These same preferences would probably be viewed as negatives by others who […]
In November 2007 I did 20 posts on how to go about choosing the right PMO vision for your company. It is a step by step approach that starts with a few posts on how to agree on the problem to be solved. Thereafter, PMO models were considered based on value based criteria. The series […]
An article in “Business Week” on improving board performance discussed the case of an oil and gas company Board of Directors that complained about the preparation material they received from the CEO. They didn’t like it’s detailed nature and that it focused on the financial considerations of a project. The CEO responded by simply asking […]
Normally I love what Strategy+Business, an excellent on-line publication, writes. But an article on transformational change titled “Exercising Common Sense”, while full of good, common sense experience, left me amazed at what was left out. A quote late in the article will reveal the source of my critique:
The “program office for transformation should not be […]
My recent attempt at developing a compelling marketing offer for a PMO consultancy revealed that this process is not a one-time effort. It is a continuous improvement process that is truly an on-going project. In my role as Director Sales and Marketing I introduced the concept to the owner of the consulting company. We agreed that […]
I’ve mentioned an on-going marketing project for advanced PMOs in my “Vision Beyond the Vision” post in the “Choosing the Right PMO Vision” series; this project is developing, and continuously improving, a compelling marketing offer. The way to view this is to ask your customers what they hate about dealing with the industry you are in- NOT […]
Great post summarizing agile software development estimation methods at Leading Answers. We “user types” can learn a great deal from agile methods as they mirror lean and theory of constraints approaches. Particularly interesting are the group estimation techniques that enable estimates that are more likely to include assumptions and are more likely to result in […]
“Manufacturing Business Technology” magazine’s article on Business Process Management (BPM) maturity tries but misses by not providing a solution to the problem presented. They id the problem very well with a quote from Carl Frappaolo, VP of Market Intelligence for AIIM- “when you look at who’s performing business process management and who they report to, […]
Sometimes the conversations that we have on-line are revealing and illuminating. My recent discussion with ActiveEngine Sensei, who focuses on software development processes, allowed us to share lean, agile and best practice collaboration processes that drastically cut wasteful activity and accelerate business processes. He comes from a software development perspective whereas I come from a […]
My series on “Choosing the Right PMO” concludes with this post about the most important twin goals of an organization and therefore a PMO:
1. Execute strategies- the record is very poor here. Most companies do a very bad job of executing strategies. Strategies lead to tactics which lead to projects. If your project management is out […]
Innovation and executing strategies through projects
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