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Don't Forget to Manage the Organizational Change that EPPM Tools Create

November 12, 2014 | by Allen Young

Not to sound like a broken record, let me just repeat (and repeat) that organizational change management (OCM) activities should be injected into every EPPM tool implementation. In parallel with the vendor selection process, conduct an organizational change readiness assessment. Areas to focus on include: Sponsorship: Having an authorizing sponsor at the appropriate level is...

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EPPM and Decisionmaking: The Impact of Tools on Culture

November 6, 2014 | by Allen Young

In part 1 of this 5-part series, I highlighted several key points that companies should consider as part of the EPPM tool selection process that relate to organizational change readiness, including sponsorship and cultural factors.  Having helped several clients with the tool selection process as well as the implementations themselves, I can say with 100% certainty...

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Don’t Be a “Fool with a Tool”: Lessons Learned from the EPPM Tool Trenches

October 29, 2014 | by Allen Young

PC-based project management software tools arrived on the scene in the early to mid-1980s; the first ones had crude graphics and reporting that was limited by today’s standards. The real value-add was the relational database network used to track a project schedule. For the first time, project managers could create a series...

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Improving Project Management Yields Business Benefits ... And We Can Prove It

October 7, 2014 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Just released today, the 2014 Project Management Maturity and Value Benchmark study reprises one of PM Solutions' most oft-cited research surveys, this time after a gap of several years. The findings will be exciting -- though not unexpected -- to proponents of project management.First, let me just toot PM Solutions Research's horn about a...

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Value, and Corporate Values

October 2, 2014 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Johanna Mickel’s blog about a presentation at the Gartner Symposium tied in neatly with a theme that Allen Young had been expanding upon earlier on this blog: that of how you measure the value of project management processes (and of the PMO).  To recap, Johanna described Gartner analyst Donna Fitzgerald’s ...

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