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Measuring the value of a program management office

Many organisations have contemplated or implemented program management as a means of managing interrelated projects with varying degrees of success. PM Oracles explains how to measure the value of a program management office.

November 19, 2015

Program Management

Project maturity required to save WA

Panellists discuss ‘Western Australia in Decline – Project Management to the Rescue?’

March 31, 2015

News

Resources, capacity and the portfolio manager

Organisations must optimise their resources to mitigate project delivery delays and overruns, quality issues, and, in the long term, negative bottom line impact. Adele Bernard on capacity planning and resource management for a portfolio of projects.

September 5, 2013

Portfolio Management

Mature portfolio management offices—a key to success

While not a magic bullet for problems that plague failed projects, a mature portfolio management office will make significant improvements to the project performance, Guy Wilmington explains.

March 4, 2013

Portfolio Management

5 steps to build change management capability

Elissa Farrow has had a long history of working with organisations to grow their internal capability around project, program, benefits, portfolio and change management. Here she shares five steps to build it.

November 29, 2012

Blogs
Change

Who keeps your project on track?

The way projects operate can sometimes look chaotic from the outside. Hell, it can look chaotic from the inside too. That’s where project governance comes in, notes editor Adeline Teoh.

November 19, 2012

Blogs

Governance and stakeholder management maturity

Ethical management and corporate governance are about balancing the competing needs of all of the organisation’s stakeholders, balancing long- and short-term goals and being socially responsible. Lynda Bourne explains how this indicates stakeholder management maturity.

November 14, 2012

Stakeholders

Implementing an enterprise project management tool

Enterprise project management, also known as portfolio project management (PPM) tools have many functions, but how many of them do we really need? Martin Vaughan suggests an approach that will make tools useful rather than baffling.

August 27, 2012

Blogs