by PMO Advisory | Oct 27, 2015 | Project Management
Tina Sieber for MakeUseOf.com writes: Are you longing to make changes in your life? If you’re about to start a new endeavor, whether it’s related to self development, a class you want to take, or ahome improvement project, we have some exercises that could increase...
by PMO Advisory | Oct 22, 2015 | Project Management
This is a timely article. Developing the right PM hygiene and routines can be invaluable, and the author is absolutely correct that they cross the boundaries of any methodologies. After all, project management, whether agile or waterfall, is about achieving goals...
by PMO Advisory | Oct 21, 2015 | Career Development
Helen Sabell for Vault writes: Most companies will need to meet various business goals and objectives at any one time. The most common approach is to group related activities into distinct or related projects. It is crucial that these projects are planned and managed...
by PMO Advisory | Oct 21, 2015 | Technology
The world of IT clearly has its challenges, but generally speaking, process is not one of them. This is especially true when the topic is enterprise IT in most established companies. All the “ilities” such as maintainability, upgradability, scalability,...
by PMO Advisory | Oct 20, 2015 | Technology
The updated GridSM report for project management, published today by business softwarereview site G2 Crowd, ranks 25 products to help purchasers with their software selections. JIRA and Wrike were named Leaders in the report, receiving strong customer satisfaction...
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,...
