The Better Project Delivery Blog
For almost a decade, I’ve seen and heard from business, PMO and project management leaders the challenges they face in their organizations. A lot of those challenges are tied to the disconnect between...
Movie trailers spark our imaginations. We envision a world that’s been taken over by aliens, or has succumbed to evil superpowers, or that we ourselves are transported back to a simpler time and place...
Tacking is a sailing maneuver that allows sailboats to move forward, despite opposing headwinds. A skipper pushes the tiller, which turns the sails from side to side so that they fill with wind and pr...
One of the privileges I have as founder of The PMO Squad is to attend and speak at PMO and project management events. The past 30 days have been a whirlwind as I’ve flown from one side of the continen...
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step,” says Lao Tzu. True, but the problem with that “one step” is that this first step is usually the hardest one to take! Why? Because it requires you ...
When it comes to government programs, the  Honoring Investments in Recruiting and Employing American Military Veterans Act of 2017 (HIRE Vets Act) is relatively new. As its name implies, it was enacte...
Formula 1 cars are highly optimized in order to reach speeds of 220-230 MPH. That’s why engineers are constantly looking for ways to improve a car’s performance, whether it be the materials they are c...
The project economy has arrived, so says Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez in his Harvard Business Review article by the same name. He postulates that projects have displaced operations as the economic engine o...
“Trusting the PMO Squad to manage our most ambitious and impactful project in 10 years was not easy, but they were key to producing success.” Â
Jason Prentice, Spectrum TechnologiesÂ
Thanks Jason, w...
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Some may also call it lazy, but whatever you call it, it is a tremendous waste of time. Here’s how it works. At your...
There’s a saying in sports that goes, “We didn’t lose the game, we just ran out of time.” Is that how this year is looking for you? The year began with plenty of time on the clock, but now that the la...
The end of this year is fast approaching. There’s a nip in the air, football on TV, and vibrant colors on the trees. If you’re smart, it also means that you’re looking at your financial statements and...
