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Category Archives: Learning and Development
The Republican Party: Three Problems In 2013
The Republican party has a big problem, a really big problem. The 2012 Presidential elections dealt the Republicans a crushing blow. The loss in the popular vote was greater than expected, but the loss in the electoral college was devastating. … Continue reading
PMO Genius: 8 Lessons Learned About Outsourcing
In our last “PMO Basics,” we covered the reasons and methods for building a lessons learned file. Today, we’re going to apply lessons learned to Outsourcing. Why single out outsourcing? There are several good reasons. First, the recent wave of … Continue reading
PMO Basics: Building Your Lessons Learned File
Ask different project managers and get different reasons why project management and the PMO is important. For me, communication provides PM’s greatest value, and building a lessons learned file is one of the most valuable (and overlooked) communications practices. Project … Continue reading
PMO Genius: Top 10 Ways To Deliver Influential Presentations
If you run a PMO, you need to know more than just project management. You need to be able to influence the top decision makers in your organization, and drive change. Some of this influencing is informal, and achieve in … Continue reading
Posted in Best Practices, Learning and Development, Project Management Office
Tagged corporations, Influence, Meetings, PMO, Projects
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Genius PMO: Five Steps Turn Your PMO Into An Innovation Center!
I often quote TED talks in my Blogs, and today is no exception. Steve Johnson gives a great talk about where great ideas come from. Johnson links the explosion of ideas that defines modern culture to the creation of the … Continue reading
Genius PMO: Five Steps to An Honest Project Team!
Every profession has unspoken agreements and dark little secrets. In the world of project management and PMO’s our objective is to make projects more “transparent” and measurable, so that projects can be more successful. You might say that one of … Continue reading
Genius PMO: Tracking A Project’s Financial Benefit Is Pure Genius
At the Wednesday (11/30) meeting of the NYC chapter of the Project Management Institute, Marc Resch gave a compelling presentation on the importance of cash flow models. In a very short time, Mr. Resch covered a lot of important territory. … Continue reading
Genius PMO: Make Every Project Manager A Genius (Part II)
In our last blog we talked about developing genius solutions to problems, by using the TRIZ method. TRIZ is an acronym in Russian. In English, it translates into Theory of Inventive Problem Solving. This was developed by a Russian engineer, … Continue reading
Genius PMO: Make Every Project Manager A Genius (Part I)
If your Project Management Office (PMO) was staffed only by geniuses, you might get more work done. In the real world, we work with a staff that has limitations… limits on what they know, how much they can figure out … Continue reading
Building Your PMO: The Alpha & Omega of Project Management – Part II
In our last blog we talked about the two most important project phases for a new Project Management Office (PMO) to focus on, the beginning and end. The last blog spoke about the “Alpha,” the start of a project, and … Continue reading
Posted in Best Practices, Delivering Services, Learning and Development, Project Management Office
Tagged Metrics, PMO, Projects, Quantify, Track, transform
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