It has been difficult to pick up any literature on business strategy and business growth recently without seeing the word "innovation" splattered all over the headlines and content. "Innovation" is such a catchy word these days because the idea inspires people; it connotes taking the innovator to a new height of success. Likewise, there are some companies whose names seem to … [Read more...] about How To Establish an Innovation PMO
Best Practices
Application of “Design Thinking” Principles to the Complete Definition of Project Business Requirements
"Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later" Sounds like a hit song or a cry that something may have gone wrong with the relationship at hand. Turns out that "Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later" describes a number of consequences of project scenarios with which we all are familiar. It was an expression I coined one time in response to a PMO Manager with whom I worked who wanted to proceed with a … [Read more...] about Application of “Design Thinking” Principles to the Complete Definition of Project Business Requirements
Benchmarking to Improve the Performance of Your PMO
In recent blog posts, I have discussed how individual project and program managers can improve their capabilities and performance through some simple, yet very tangible and actionable, everyday tasks in the project process. I want to turn now to "benchmarking", an area which can be applied to improve performance on several "scales", whether it be overall performance of a … [Read more...] about Benchmarking to Improve the Performance of Your PMO
Change Creates Opportunity: Is Your PMO Ready?
I once worked with a college professor whose reference books on his desk had notations in the margins which consisted of columns of scribbled, handwritten dates such as "8/25/1982." When I questioned him about the notations, some of which consisted of five or six dates in a column in the margin, he said that many of the "topics" and "subjects" were really recurring themes in … [Read more...] about Change Creates Opportunity: Is Your PMO Ready?
What Will be the Role of Social Media (and Open Leadership) in the Modern Program Management Office?
I was in a group roundtable discussion at the last PMI Tulsa Chapter meeting in which we discussed the various "generations" that are presently in play in the workforce, and the implications that this wide variation of working styles has for project work. One project manager brought up his work with virtual teams on projects. While he had formed an opinion of his team … [Read more...] about What Will be the Role of Social Media (and Open Leadership) in the Modern Program Management Office?
