Let’s face it. It’s relatively easy to teach technical skills or business functions. What’s more difficult to teach are natural strengths. One strength is the
Decide how to communicate project priorities to your organization.
The use of remote workers and virtual teams has been growing steadily over the years and is a proven effective method for increasing engagement.
Now sit back IF YOU DARE, and enjoy a spine tingling duo of short but horrific tales of resource planning terror!
Someone needs to have a general idea of who’s scheduled to do what in the organization, at least for the near term future. Otherwise, how can you know whether you have the capacity to take on new work?
How do we ensure the organization is working toward the good of the customer as opposed to the good of their political status in the organization or their department?
Ongoing planning, active engagement, empowered teams, and heavy collaboration are not only key components of an agile mindset; they’re paramount to achieving good strategy execution.
Stay tuned…The 9th annual Resource Planning Summit will take place in June 2020, and once again, PDWare is proud to sponsor this premier event.
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.
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.”
