Organizational Change Management: A Primer

June 14, 2012 | by Allen Young

This blog was updated July 2025. “Change Management” can mean differing and multiple things to many firms and the people who work for them. To the software developer, it usually means managing version control and scheduled promotion of new or modified software components from a test, quality assura

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Bringing Multiple PMOs Together with PPM

June 8, 2012

Companies experience revenue growth in a number of ways -- by increasing market share, offering new products and/or mergers and acquisitions. While growth is always a positive thing, there are some organizational side effects. New departments, business units, functional groups, and the like will be

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Resource Coordination: Never Again Hear “What Do I Do Now?"

May 24, 2012 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Coordination of many resources over many efforts (whether project or operational) is required to ensure that an organization functions properly.  That’s why resource coordination is one of the main functions of the PMO. Through Project Portfolio Management (PPM) techniques, the typical enterprise o

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The Backbone of Projects: True Communication

April 13, 2012 | by Alan Fein

Most project managers are keenly aware of the importance of communication management in the success of our projects. If perhaps not the most important, communication is certainly the ultimate discipline in project management; no communication, no project. However, there is one component of communica

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2012: The Year of Post-Merger Integration?

January 6, 2012

2011 was touted by Forbes Magazine as the “Year of the M&A” and the past year’s business news showed that they were not far off the mark. If you work for a company that has been in on this trend, congratulations – and now your real work begins! “Post-merger integration” activities include re-e

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