When it comes to resource management and capacity planning, organisations, regardless of size, scope, or activity face critical challenges...
Do program managers have executive skills?
The debate on whether program managers would make effective senior executives is one that has gained attention in recent years. We thought...
Leadership needed for risk management
PMOs are often asked to provide leadership and best practice in risk management. They do this by blending corporate standards, best...
Mature portfolio management offices—a key to success
The 2010 KPMG Project Management Survey cited the main reasons for project failure as: scope changes (40%) resource competition (36%)...
Assessing project portfolio value and risk
Working with senior stakeholders to optimise the value of a portfolio of projects is a complex process influenced by the innate bias in...
Valuing project procedures
I am frequently asked to quantify the value of improving an organisation’s stakeholder management capabilities or how to establish the...
Portfolio Management 101: selecting the right projects
According to the UK Office of Government Commerce (OGC) guide to Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices (P3O) an established structure...
Decision management in programs and Agile projects
This article follows on from Agile, programs and benefits management. In 1990, management guru Henry Mintzberg defined a strategy...
Managing risk in project portfolios
Many organisations choose to run groups of related projects as a portfolio, aiming to create synergies and savings by managing them...
Review: Program Management by Michel Thiry
I wasn’t looking forward to reading this book. Not because of the content or author; it's just that when I get home from work the last...