Archive for July, 2011

1. Link The first part of this article explained the need for developing a concept of a “project management organisation” which integrates the different management focus of each of the four domains: portfolios, programmes, projects and operations. From one point of view, this allows the distinction between portfolios, programmes and portfolios to be ignored so...
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1. Starting Position Statements in articles and on the Web have (too) often prompted me to get on my hobby-horse about the difference between projects, programmes and portfolios. I now realise I have been flogging a dead (hobby-) horse. But there is still a valuable truth in those distinctions if we approach them from a different...
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In Part 1 of this posting I ran through a list of questions that I had put forward during a training class that I ran entitled “Establishing the PMO”. Here we will look at a selection of answers given to key questions together with an indication of the position of the respondent on the business. Where...
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On my previous blogs, I talked a lot about how to move your course-end “Smile” sheets to “Smart” sheets.  Smart sheets collect the basic level 1 & 2 data, but also predictive level 3 & 4 data from individuals after the training. After about 90 days, we go back to these individuals and validate...
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As readers will be very much aware there is an increasing interest in the establishment of a “Project Management Office”.  This is happening in organisations operating in diverse fields from IT to Construction to Pharmaceuticals to Financial Services.  In a previous Blog, I discussed (from the perspective of an uninformed and objective observer) just...
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I was doing a presentation throughout Europe and the Middle East this past May about risk management and PMO.  It was titled—Risk Management Best Practices for Establishing and/or Sustaining a PMO.  I was struck about the lack of focus on risk management by PMOs.  I had representation from many geographies and industries and only...
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‘We don’t need no education; we don’t need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in the classroom, teachers leave them kids alone. Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!’  So goes the lyrics from the classic Pink Floyd song Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 (R. Waters)  But we all know that we do need...
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In March and April of this year, ESI International conducted a global survey on the State of the PMO in 2011.  We are pleased to announce that the winner of the prize draw for the Ipad2 is Mr Henny Portman who is the author of books and articles regarding project management.  He is  a...
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