A Century of Scientific Management
Did you know Project Management is having a birthday? Well, sort of a birthday. It was 100 years ago, in […]
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Training & Certification
How do you handle the “pains in the necks” on your projects?
I recently was asked “How do you handle the “pains in the neck” at the office, home and social environments.
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Why should project managers speak another language?
Unfortunately, in many countries, especially English-language ones, foreign languages have not been taken seriously by educational institutions, parents and children.
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Energizing Agile
We’ve all heard about Agile, the good and the bad. While to some Agile is relatively new, I started being
Is working from home the fast track toward the door?
Is working from home the fast track toward the door? What remote workers need to know about staying in the
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Corporate development & finance – Business value from the corporate perspective
Now it is time to explore how these services and capabilities are viewed by the enterprise in terms of true business value and competitive advantage. Corporate development concerns itself with the management arm of the enterprise, setting the strategy and priorities, and ensuring that the enterprise wide investments are aligned with future strategic goals.
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Enterprise Architecture – Linking Teams to the Enterprise
Now that the linkage between the delivery and operations of the service has been established and the PM understands how the service enables a capability, it is time to make the connection between the delivery team and the organization.
I believe that helping the PM understand EA and its links to Business Architecture (BA) will help to crystallize the role that their delivery team plays in the broader scope of the enterprise.
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Services Management – The life-cycle of a Service
Linking Project Delivery in the early stages to business value can be challenging at best, due to changing strategic goals of the enterprise. Also, understanding the full life cycle of the delivered service, including the total cost of ownership and the end-to-end life-cycle of the service can be a difficult task to assume and communicate.
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How to Align Project Work with Organization Strategy
Author: Mitch Rosner In the UCSC Project Leadership and Communication course, I was asked “what are project management leadership and
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Roma’s Rambles about Project Leadership and Communication Best Practices
Author: Ruomu Zhu What are project management leadership and communication best practices for aligning project work to the needs of
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Should I Propose a PMO to Leadership?
Author: Shuna Wu Would I propose a PMO to my company? The answer is Yes! As a program manager, I
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