by PMO Advisory | Oct 20, 2015 | Talent Management
The tendency to train in a mechanistic way is high. There are 3 basic reasons, even though most knows it does not work as well as say customized courses. 1) Custom training is more expensive, even though I feel the upfront cost is more than offset by the value of...
by PMO Advisory | Oct 14, 2015 | Project Management
A newly launched site, ProjectJournal.co.uk, is a site dedicated to project management professionals. Designed to help in all aspects of a project from portfolio management to commercial development and operations to finance, Project Journal fills a void in the...
by PMO Advisory | Oct 14, 2015 | PMO
This is wonderful suggestion – booking your PMO for a maintenance check. Naturally it depends on the type of services that your PMO provides. It’s worthwhile to create a capability heat map to see where it is and where you want to go. This way, not only...
by PMO Advisory | Oct 13, 2015 | PMO
This article explains the need to measure value and not just activities It reminds me of a story that I read somewhere. A guy was walking home after dark and saw a crew of workers working on pothole repairs. They were working under a street light, and the guy...
by PMO Advisory | Oct 12, 2015 | Project Management
These are some excellent ideas on using mind map to declutter the busy minds of project managers. But there is only one big problem from my experience. As mind maps are often unstructured in the overall context, I find it hard to re-read my own my maps. For example,...