Dust Off Your Brain - It's the Finest PPM Software Ever Invented

January 3, 2013 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

In a conversation with colleagues the other day, it was noted that in many companies where project portfolio management (PPM) has been established, there is still frustration and confusion regarding analysis and reporting. The flow of data collected by the software and the variety of reporting optio

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First Runner-Up (Again) VSP "Sees" the Way Clear

November 8, 2012 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

There are some companies that apply several times for the PMO of the Year Award without ever making it to semifinalist status. The competition is steep, and the pool of competitors changes from year to year, bringing in each year larger and more noteworthy companies, making it harder to rise through

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Organizational Change Management: Cultural Resistance

June 25, 2012 | by Allen Young

As stated in my primer blog on Organizational Change Management (OCM), without OCM, when change confronts culture, culture always wins! In order to get the culture of a firm to embrace and institutionalize a significant change, several factors come into play that, depending on how they are handled,

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Organizational Change Management: Sponsorship is Job One

June 20, 2012 | by Allen Young

As my primer blog on Organizational Change Management (OCM) last week stated, sponsorship is priority #1 — without it, your change initiative will assuredly stall and will fail sooner or later. What exactly do I mean by sponsorship? Authorizing Sponsor This is the person (or group, in some cases)

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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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