by PMO Advisory | Oct 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
Sam Skolnik for BNA writes: Congress is close to passing a bill that, for the first time, would institute a dedicated career path for federal contract program managers. The House passage last week of the Program Management Improvement Accountability Act, S. 1550, was...
by PMO Advisory | Oct 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
“Up to 46% of startups utilize agile, but despite big talk about agile’s effectiveness, the startup world is filled with failed technology initiatives. We only see the winners, which creates a survivorship bias that seems to equate “agile” with “technology...
by PMO Advisory | Oct 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
Product portfolio management is a business lifecycle function in an organization that deals with the planning, forecasting, and production of a product or products at all stages of product lifecycle. It integrates people, data, process, and business systems. PPM...
by PMO Advisory | Oct 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
Capella University published their listing of the 7 Top Paying Project Management Certifications, below we’ve excerpted from their article the top 3 below. Click here to visit Capella University and read the article in its entirety. 3. Certified Associate in...
by PMO Advisory | Oct 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
“A recent Forbes report says project managers must be skilled in both verbal and non-verbal communication. More specifically, they should be able to communicate effectively through telephone calls, instant messages, project collaboration tools such as Slack, web...
by PMO Advisory | Oct 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
“….Attorneys can learn much from these industries about best practices for planning, managing and utilizing resources. With LPM (legal project management), attorneys can offer flat fees while at the same time ensuring profitability. Read that sentence...
by PMO Advisory | Oct 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
“When it comes to ensuring risk management is supporting profitability, delegate ownership to a team member. This should be someone in the management team who has the ability and respect to step back and be the devil’s advocate. Operations directors work well....
by PMO Advisory | Oct 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
“A project management methodology is a set of ideas/solutions that if used correctly, should help us in finishing our projects faster and with less effort. We can find a considerable amount of such methodologies on the internet or in the books. The new ones are...
by PMO Advisory | Oct 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
“In a PMI presentation recently, Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez pointed out some interesting facts about short-term thinking. Managers, he said, spend about 90% of their time running the business. They only spend 10% of their time on project sponsorship, project work...
by PMO Advisory | Oct 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
Letmebooks.com recently listed what they called the “Most Famous Books for Project Management”, here is their list: Project management is the restraint of using recognized values, actions and strategies to supervise a project from beginning by conclusion....
