“Any project management supervisor worth his or her salt knows that showing project data visually — usually in the form of a Gantt chart or birds on a wire timeline summary — is the linchpin of any effective plan communication strategy. Human beings are visual learners, after all; an effective graphic will always deliver more information more quickly than a spreadsheet or spoken presentation. In this article I examine why this is and show how to capitalize on it.

Visual Learning is Everything

Communication is at the heart of every successful pharma PMO. Nearly everyone at your company — from the C-suite and knowledge workers developing new drugs and therapies to other project and portfolio managers — needs regular updates about where discrete initiatives stand. This allows for contingencies to be created when slight slippages occur, as well as the identification of potential synergies between teams and departments.

These updates are made infinitely more valuable with an effective, understandable visual element. Done right, timeline summaries allow PMOs to deliver relevant information efficiently from a single project or an entire portfolio.” – Jay Leslie for MPUG.com, excerpted from his article, “Project Communications for the Pharmaceutical Industry” @ MPUG.com, click here to read the article in its entirety.

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