by PMO Advisory | Sep 25, 2015 | Project Management
These are 8 excellent tips, but I think there is one that is very important. Make sure you close the communication loop and seek active validation. In outsourcing engagements, especially offshore outsourcing, diversity in culture, tradition, and skills play a big...
by PMO Advisory | Sep 24, 2015 | PMO
PMO is a persistent entity, and it’s viability is more than just addressing the questions in this article properly. This is not to suggest that these are the wrong questions; they are excellent questions – how to align with strategy, ensuring scope is...
by PMO Advisory | Sep 23, 2015 | Technology
I agree with the author that project data and key metrics are relatively an untapped area.s Partly because of poor data and metrics, especially around a concrete set of business outcomes or benefits, it is often difficult to say whether complex projects are successful...
by PMO Advisory | Sep 22, 2015 | Career Development
This is an excellent list of skills, some learned and some arguably born with. But being an effective project manager is more than these skills. There are fundamental knowledge required to do the job of managing project, programs, or portfolios. These includes...
by PMO Advisory | Sep 21, 2015 | Agile
This article is another example of applying good business sense to enterprise projects. Flexible techniques focusing on collaborative design and requirements, joint development, validating in near-real-time, and receiving timely feedback are all hallmark of efficiency...
by PMO Advisory | Sep 8, 2015 | Project Management
Managing projects and programs are complex endeavors. The failure rate and scale mentioned in the article is likely to be small. Just think of Obamacare Website when it first went live in October 2013… It failed so spectacularly that all the ineptitude of...
by PMO Advisory | Aug 31, 2015 | Project Management
This is an excellent article, especially the advise on portfolio management. To CFOs, project portfolios are like financial portfolios with similar goals and objectives. The differences are in the tactics and execution. But here, I have a one more advise for CFOs,...
by PMO Advisory | Aug 28, 2015 | Agile
Agile is having its moment, but I started wondering if the differentiation between “traditional” or “waterfall” and “agile” is real or just simple adaptation of management techniques. For example, if you are building a house and...
by PMO Advisory | Aug 26, 2015 | Technology
I wonder about this problem too, but the author provided four good answers. Here, I would like to add a fifth: there is no perfect tool. Every tool on the market that I experimented with, and believe me, I have tried many, fails in some critical way. Nearly all tend...
by PMO Advisory | Aug 24, 2015 | Scrum
Scrum is wonderful as agility in the right context is wonderful. But to suggest that Scrum’s success rate is 39 percent versus 11 percent for waterfall is misleading. From a best practices perspective, Scrum projects should have these attributes: 1) can be...
