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MoP™: The Portfolio Definition Cycle 22 Aug 2013 | 10:32 am
This is the second in a short series on Management of Portfolios. The first part, about the foundations of any portfolio management initiative, can be found here. The thing that makes a portfolio dif...
What is Management of Portfolios? 14 Aug 2013 | 10:28 pm
This is the first part in a short series about Management of Portfolios. Management of Portfolios (MoP™) is one of the sets of guidance on projects, programmes and portfolios from the UK’s Cabinet Of...
Why projects and strategies must be linked 9 Aug 2013 | 10:25 am
PMI’s latest research, Why Good Strategies Fail: Lessons for the C-Suite, was recently published. The report was developed with The Economist Intelligence Unit and it looks at the gap between strategy...
5 benefits of performance management on the bottom line 1 Aug 2013 | 06:33 pm
Performance management is one of the greatest catalysts to the successful organisation and management of a workforce. In today’s tough economy, businesses in all sectors are looking to increase produ...
What’s the difference between an operations manager and a project manager? 1 Aug 2013 | 10:21 am
What’s the difference between an operations manager and a project manager? Whichever camp you fall into, chances are you have to work with both. There’s a good description of the difference in Karen R...
A Project Manager’s Summer Holiday Reading List 25 Jul 2013 | 10:43 am
Are you getting ready to go away for the summer? Do you have space in your case for something to read on the beach? These days, you don’t even need to pack ‘real’ books. You can stuff your e-reader wi...
3 Innovative Ways to Turn Around a Failing Project 23 Jul 2013 | 12:16 pm
No project manager likes to be on a failing project or to take over a failing project – unless they like the Superman complex of coming in to try to save the day. But it’s a reality of the project ma...
How to Use Social Media to Collaborate 17 Jul 2013 | 11:38 am
As a project manager, keeping everyone on the same page can be a challenge, particularly when the team members are working remotely from around the country or globe. Email and voice conferencing are s...
Using backwards induction to achieve your project goals 12 Jul 2013 | 10:20 am
I first read about backwards induction in Keith Murnighan’s book, Do Nothing! It’s a really easy technique to achieve leadership goals and it can be easily adapted for projects. Here’s an introduction...
4 more types of project sponsor 9 Jul 2013 | 06:01 pm
In Strategies for Project Sponsorship, Ron Rosenhead, Peter Taylor and Vicki James describe several characters that you may come across when working with project sponsors. Last month I looked at 5 typ...
