by PMO Advisory | Dec 23, 2015 | Project Management
How to overcome a Project Disaster? Steve Caseley and Chris Ward wrote an insightful article about the topic on Baseline and we would like to share it with you. They wrote: Sometimes a project hits a few speed bumps, and sometimes it suddenly crashes into a concrete...
by PMO Advisory | Dec 9, 2015 | Project Management
This is a nice article. Even though I agree that PM is a fairly stable profession, I franklydisagree with most of the predictions. Specifically: 1. I don’t think CPO is coming. PMIhas been talking about CPO easily for 20 years, and I do not know any. I knowpeople who...
by PMO Advisory | Dec 4, 2015 | Project Management
Recently, there has been an explosion of discussion on agile versus waterfall methodologies. Others enter the discussion such as lean or even DSDM (dynamic system development methodology). To me, all these methods have merits and can be ideal in the right...
by PMO Advisory | Nov 30, 2015 | Project Management
This is a timely discussion as scheduling is the heart of project management. But for reasons that are beyond the scope of this blog, newer software appears to move away from the rigorous scheduling requirements and shifted more toward collaboration and communication....
by PMO Advisory | Nov 12, 2015 | Project Management
The author covered five excellent lessons for project managers in healthcare. But based on my experience working with some of the largest healthcare policy and research institute in the world, i would say the most important lesson is customer focus. The entire...
by PMO Advisory | Nov 6, 2015 | Project Management
I would further add that documenting lessons learned is not good enough. There are tons of excellent documents that one should read, but do most professionals have the time? If an organization is serious about improving and avoiding past mistakes, then in addition to...