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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"PM Is In the Culture Development Business" Says Tom Peters

July 1, 2011 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Our Director of Client Relations, Johanna Mickel (pictured below) kindly sent me her notes from the speech by Tom Peters that rounded out last week's Gartner Summit ... and I was pleased to find that Peters -- despite keynoting back-to-back conferences on the technical aspects of PPM, governance and

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Project Managers, Take A Bow

February 28, 2011 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

If there were an Oscar for "Best Actor in the Project Recovery Category," that award would go to the Project Manager. The results of a study on troubled projects, released last week by PM Solutions Research, show that, while companies on average annually face the potential failure of projects valu

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Burning Questions for 2011

January 12, 2011 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Chatting with my boss the other day, the term "burning questions" came up more than once, which struck me as significant. I jotted it in the margin of my notes and later, in the search field of my browser. To my surprise, Burning Question turned out to be the title of a new book about marketing. W

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Cyber Monday: Tech Flops and Turkeys at Work (the Theme Song)

November 29, 2010 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Since today is the relatively new "holiday" Cyber Monday (on which I for one will be buying exactly nothing, techno or otherwise), I thought it might be fun to check out a few technology topics that might be of interest to project managers. Here's a rundown: From TechRepublic's aptly named "Sanity

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