Home » Blog
Join PM Solutions experts in discussing how to connect project performance and strategy execution
Project Management as a Service: Three Phases of Integration
Lacking flexibility and adaptability in project management is a major cause of unsuccessful projects, long timelines, and budget overruns, especially in times of change and major business shifts. A new, scalable solution is Project Management as a Service (PMaaS). PMaaS manages all of the challenges of staffing, resource allocation, and remote work communication. ...
Read Blog Post →
Don't Forget to Manage the Organizational Change that EPPM Tools Create
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...
Read Blog Post →
EPPM and Decisionmaking: The Impact of Tools on Culture
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...
Read Blog Post →
Don’t Be a “Fool with a Tool”: Lessons Learned from the EPPM Tool Trenches
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...
Read Blog Post →
Improving Project Management Yields Business Benefits ... And We Can Prove It
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...
Read Blog Post →
Value, and Corporate Values
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 ...
Read Blog Post →
Popular Posts
- The Project Management Maturity Model … Now with Agile/Adaptive Assessment!
- PM Solutions Celebrates 25 Years of Project Management Excellence
- Managing Project Managers Within and Outside the PMO
Popular Categories
- Agile or Adaptive PM (5)
- Culture & Change Management (75)
- Project & Program Management (82)
- Portfolio Management (50)
- Project Management Office (PMO) (107)
- Project Management Research (50)
- Resource Optimization (26)
search blog:
Sign up for PM Solutions'
Insights eNewsletter
Delivered every other month in addition to periodic research, white papers, and news alerts.