by PMO Advisory | Jan 7, 2016 | Talent Management
These are for excellent tips when you are working with people remotely. But I think there is something more fundamental. When people are remote, they are generally devoid of “high context” environment in which you can easily see each other’s body...
by PMO Advisory | Dec 30, 2015 | Talent Management
Dave Nevogt, co-founder of Hubstaff writes: Team management is not a skill that comes naturally to most people. It has to be learned, and there are usually plenty of mistakes made along the way. In my case, I fumbled around for about 10 years, lost a bunch of...
by PMO Advisory | Dec 29, 2015 | Talent Management
We recently came across a great article, “Connect Agile Teams to Organizational Hierarchy”, written by Pieter van der Meché and Jutta Eckstein for InfoQ. Meché and Eckstein brilliantly say: “Many agile teams suffer from the mismatch of agile and...
by PMO Advisory | Dec 2, 2015 | Talent Management
We often hear “people are our greatest assets”. Yet, when belt tightening occurs, training is one of the first “luxuries” on the chopping block. Training is often one of the last to recover even when things are going right for the organization....
by PMO Advisory | Nov 19, 2015 | Talent Management
Talents are always finicky. Jack Welch (former CEO of General Electric) and may of his followers place greater emphasis on hiring and retaining “A” players. But I often think the mind and soul of companies are in the classic “B” players. Let me...
by PMO Advisory | Nov 17, 2015 | Talent Management
This article is an excellent starting point looking for red flags, but these are just tactical flags. Project managers leading large and complex initiatives must look for more signs that are more strategic. Three important and strategic ones that all project managers...
