by PMO Advisory | May 25, 2018 | Management, Portfolio Management, Program Management, Project Management
What is the Difference Between Project, Program and Portfolio Management? I often get this question – what’s the difference between project, program, and portfolio – the triple P’s in PPP management. So here is the short answer. Portfolio management concentrates on...
by PMO Advisory | May 9, 2018 | Leadership, Project Management
Of all project manager skills, the ability to make important business decisions is perhaps the most valuable. However the professional life of a project manager can include significant periods of isolation wherein they are where the buck stops in decision making. As...
by PMO Advisory | May 7, 2018 | Career Development, Program Management
In 2018 the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced it will recognize “Project Manager” as an occupational category for the first time. This announcement speaks to the important role project management plays across the...
by PMO Advisory | May 3, 2018 | Career Development, Leadership, Project Management
The role of a mentor is to encourage the personal and professional development of a mentee through the sharing of knowledge, expertise and experience. The challenge for the mentor is to nurture or blossom the qualities required to enable the mentee to succeed from...
by PMO Advisory | Apr 13, 2018 | Communication, Project Management
Project managers often have a touchy relationship with bad news – both as a recipient and as a disseminator of bad news. On the one hand, project managers inherently know that it is better to receive bad news early and hopefully, there’s time to think through and...