The project management office – or PMO – is generally considered the proper project management infrastructure for project-centric organizations. Does your organization run and manage individual projects to get internal and external customers work done? Or do they just assign people to develop software and work with clients in planning, risk and issue management? If they run mostly projects than […]
Scope creep is highly pervasive! Once you’ve got it, you can’t get rid of it! The solution is pre-emptive action. Scope and cost creep are probably the most influential factors in project cost/time blowouts, and yet there are effective ways to minimise the risk of creep at the very start of the project. Scope and cost creep usually have their […]
I have had a several conversations recently, both with colleagues and other project management professionals, around the topic of how to become a program manager. Here are some of my thoughts on the career progression to program management. Program management is a natural progression for many experienced project managers. Being a successful program manager, however, is more than having a […]
As project managers, we often tend to think and act like we own the projects we manage. In reality, we don’t. Usually, a number of players have an ownership stake, with the sponsor having the final say. All those players, in John Kotter’s words, form the “guiding coalition”. The more focused and organized that group is, the greater the chance […]