Tough times may have led to a lot of staffing shakeups, plus put a damper on the size and scope of the projects teams are managing. If your PMO’s post-recession image needs some polishing, we’ve put together a roadmap to take you into a brighter future.
PMO Resolutions for the New Year
While your mind is on your own individual goals for the new year, why not also take the opportunity to look at where your PMO is and where you want to take it in the coming months? If you’re stuck for ideas, we’ve put together some resolutions you can use as a launch pad.
NFL Playoffs: Mirroring Your Strategic Project Initiatives
All football games are not created equal; some matter more than others. Consider regular season games compared to the playoffs. In the regular season, teams have a standard weekly preparation—they develop strategies for the immediate challenge ahead, and attempt to execute their plan each Sunday. Sometimes they win, sometimes they lose. And though each game is slightly different, the preparation and execution are relatively similar. As the season marches on, some teams get very good at executing their plan while others flounder. These weekly engagements are similar in concept to a company’s routine “utility” projects—those keep-the-lights-on projects that teams do time and again. Through the repetition of planning and executing these projects, teams get comfortable in the routine, with little assistance needed to get ready for the next week.
Look Back, Move Forward
Are you getting maximum mileage out of every project? If you don’t regularly evaluate past projects, you’re missing out on some prime learning opportunities. Once you’ve conducted an in-depth post mortem on a project http://www.duration-driven.com/2010/03/project-management-post-mortem-analysis/, step back a little further to see if you can spot meaningful patterns.
4 Tips For Sharing Bad News
Dear stakeholder: We have a problem. If you dread communicating project glitches to customers, take heart—telling folks your project is facing issues is rarely a fun task, but we have some suggestions on how (and why) to get bad news out in the open.
