Category Archives: Project Management Office

PMO Genius: Developing A TAR Pilot Project

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Chris Niccolls

Project managers are taught that the most expensive method of resolving a dispute is litigation. Yet the number of corporate lawsuits keeps rising, as does the number of documents in each lawsuit. If you’ve never worked with a legal review … Continue reading →

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PMO Genius: How To Smartsource Outsourcing Programs

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Chris Niccolls

In the last blog, we discussed the limits of cost based outsourcing: after initial savings three is little or nothing left for the next contract, “fractures” in processes develop between the client and the vendor that damage productivity and a … Continue reading →

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PMO Genius: Time To Open The “Office of Email”

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Chris Niccolls

Not too long ago we looked at Atos, an $11 Billion IT firm that decided to kill email. They did considerable internal research and concluded that rather than contributing to profitability, email is a massive drain on profitability and needs … Continue reading →

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PMO Genius: How To Negotiate like a PAWN Star

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Chris Niccolls

Project management is all around us. We see it all the time, but it doesn’t necessarily register as project management. One of the most common elements of project management…. Or just plain old management… is negotiation. Very few of us have been … Continue reading →

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PMO Genius: Top 10 Ways To Deliver Influential Presentations

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Chris Niccolls

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 →

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4th Sigma: Decompose Now And Projects Won’t Go Bad Later!

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Chris Niccolls

Long time readers of this Blog are familiar with my “4th Sigma” series on building simpler, easy to implement process improvement. I’ve argued against training for (and using) all of the tools that Six Sigma offers. It’s not that the … Continue reading →

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PMO Genius: 8 People Projects For 2012!

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Chris Niccolls

Will 2012 be the year of people projects? Over the past few years, changes in the economy have driven changes in business models. However, this has largely been a reactive change, without a clear plan for changing staffing in the … Continue reading →

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PMO Genius: Increasing The Maturity Of Your PMO

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Chris Niccolls

PMO projects fail. A lot. Why? Basically, it comes down to someone not delivering what they said they would. That individual may not think I was his fault. He might have recommend a firm to provide a product or service, … Continue reading →

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Genius PMO: Plan Projects for the New Post Office

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Chris Niccolls

One of the big changes we can expect in 2012 is the restructuring of the US Post Office. The post office is one of those things that you expect to always be there. You drop off a letter in the mail … Continue reading →

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Genius PMO: Let’s Kill Email! Lessons From A Leading Technology Firm…

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Chris Niccolls

In case you haven’t heard the big news yet, Atos (a multi-Billion dollar IT firm) announced that it plans the global elimination of email from all of its offices. Now that’s a big, bold move! A move that is going … Continue reading →

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