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,...
by PMO Advisory | Oct 9, 2015 | Technology
Small-Medium Business are not immuned to the project failure – relative or absolute. Challenged by time, resources, and funding, they often cut corners. Some they can get away, but some they cannot. Thus, I think the project management function is an inherent...
by PMO Advisory | Oct 6, 2015 | Communication
This article contains 3 excellent points on project communication – something that I am learning to perfect everyday. I had a similar experience with students. We are now one month into the semester, and some of the students are still confused about what they...
by PMO Advisory | Oct 5, 2015 | Technology
To keep things simple, I view the big picture of project success as 33% largely successful, 33% complete failures, and 33% somewhere in between where the projects are generally completed by severely breached one of its constraints such as schedule, budget, scope,...
by PMO Advisory | Oct 2, 2015 | Career Development
Personally, I look at project management as a basic life skill, so fundamental that I doubt any productive person can truly shy away from practicing most of them. It may not be 100% at the same time – such as managing a large and intense project – but they...
by PMO Advisory | Oct 1, 2015 | Career Development
Are project managers simply “doers” or are they more than that – say becoming a “thinkers”? As doers goes, the rules are relatively simple. Plan carefully and execute diligently by following some rules, guidelines, and processes. If this...
by PMO Advisory | Sep 28, 2015 | Project Management, Technology
The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing how we perceive the world and work within it. We went from the paper & pen Franklin organizer in the 1980’s to PDA (remember Palm and Handspring) in the 1990’s to now the ubiquitous smartphones and apps with...
