SOLUTIONS MADE SIMPLE

During a recent podcast episode of Great Practices entitled Changes and How to Manage them with your PMO, Larry Mohl, Chief Transformation Officer at Rali, shared the change management framework he has been assembling for decades. He highlighted four Change Ability factors from this framework...

How would you feel if you spent the last 12 months managing a project and absolutely nothing changed upon completion? Your team spent Herculean effort to get it done, and you put in long days and sleepless nights. But, upon reflection, there wasn’t even a glimmer of something new,...

You’re cruising down the highway towards your favorite vacation spot. You can’t wait to unpack the car and spend time with the family, and for everyone to unwind. That’s when you notice it. For several hours, you kept a steady pace of 75 MPH, but are now down to 60 MPH. A few...

Inflationary times, like the world is currently experiencing, erode the value of money. As inflation goes up, buying power goes down. That means the same amount of money at the beginning of the year will buy less goods and services at the end of the year. Put another way, you’ll need to...

Project Management professionals can invest countless hours and thousands of dollars as well as enduring tremendous stress trying to earn a PMP or other project management certification. The application process can be tedious and time consuming. The test is challenging and stressful. You've been...

Successful Project Delivery is essential to maintaining a successful business. The PMO Squad has worked with clients of all sizes and across various industries. In many engagements we consistently hear that teams are working on "projects" but when we inquire about how the projects are going we...

Financial advisors recommend holding a certain percentage of stocks vs. bonds based upon where you are in your financial life. If you are in your mid-20s and just starting out in your career, they may recommend an 80/20 split favoring stocks. Closer to retirement? Perhaps a 50/50 split is more...

You are at lunch with your manager. You catch up on in-flight projects, share challenges of working with certain team members, and talk about your career with the company.

As you say goodbye, and, unbeknownst to you, a large piece of spinach is stuck in your teeth. Do you want your manager to:

...

Project management is a critical process in any business, and setting up a project management office helps to build consistency leading to successful outcomes. In order to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget, many businesses set up a project management office (PMO). But what...

When we think about the PMO Leader we often focus only on the PMO and often ignore the Leadership.  The PMO is surely important as a function.  It has a significant place in the organization and when run well it should help to drive organizations forward.  How often though are they...