If you want a successful, high value project, isn’t it better to take action to ensure its success and value in the beginning…
A recent CIO article from Hakan Altinepe, titled “Product Funding and the Burden of Agility” explores the differences between traditional project-based funding and Agile “product-based” funding…
Who should own the resource management process in an organization? There are a number of considerations, and perhaps the first question to ask is: What should the role consist of?
Is it good to have lean processes? Absolutely! But don’t be misled into thinking this supersedes the need to prioritize.
Resource planning is the single most important thing you can do to improve project throughput, boost productivity, and increase value delivery.
One often overlooked method for improving resource optimization is to employ systems thinking…
It’s hard to dispute that people are the fuel on which an organization runs. They’re what’ll carry you from an idea or a goal to a winning product or service.
I often refer to a brilliant statement from artist Hans Hoffman: “Simplicity is the art of removing the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”
In essence, the question is, regardless of delivery approach: How do we make sure we have the capacity to deliver on our strategies at the right time?
With all the well-publicized challenges inherent with project-based work, could there be greater benefit to operating in “product mode” by organizing ongoing business capability-focused teams around products and product lines?
At this year’s Resource Planning Summit in Nashville, speakers were on hand from leading organizations to talk about good practices in resource planning that have helped them succeed,
This article highlights ten key elements of any good prioritization model.
PMO Strategy and Driving Strategy Execution
Management legend Peter Drucker said, “Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.”
Former Beatle Ringo Starr sang the iconic line, “You know it don’t come easy”. He could’ve easily been singing about bringing projects to the finish line successfully.
Resource Capacity Planning: Thinking Beyond Project Management
When I talk to certain people about resource capacity planning (you know who you are), their mind immediately goes to technology resources, not people.
How Will Artificial Intelligence Impact Project Management?
It was with great interest that I read a recent article in the UK-based Project Manager Today about… well… project managers tomorrow. Specifically it was about “how project management roles might change in the future.”
