Service Delivery
You're in Services - So Why Are You Selling?
In a professional services role, you might find yourself doing more “selling” than you anticipated when you started on your career path....
PMO
Deciphering Agile Project Management
What are the differences between Agile and Kanban (and when should you use each)?
PMO
What is EPPM and why is it becoming more important?
ePPM is the acronym commonly used for Electronic Project Portfolio Management. More and more companies are constantly striving for faster innovation and...
Service Delivery
Cautionary Tale of Project Management Resource Capacity Planning: #1 Reason for Project Failure
In a recent survey, 94% of Enterprise IT project managers and PMO leaders and 77% of project and PMO managers working in the professional services industry...
PMO
3 Ways Your PMO Can Drive Business Transformation
Are you working too hard for too little results? We recently worked with two experts, Christopher Eskilson from Project Management Update and Peter Taylor,...
PMO
How to Improve PMO Resource Planning
A step by step guide to prioritizing your people PMO resource planning is an ever growing concern for any project management office (PMO) leader. You are not...
PMO
Gantt Charts - Reimagined
We are thrilled to share the latest updates to our innovative PPM tool with you! Among other updates we have overhauled the beloved Gantt chart for improved...
PMO
How to Build Your Skills Database
According to the latest research from the Resource Management Institute in their Survey, Skills Tracking and Management, it is apparent that many PMO leaders...
PMO
Key Elements to Modern Capacity Planning
There is a science to getting capacity planning right, so what elements are key to a successful planning procedure? Learn the five key elements of...
Service Delivery
The Business of Professional Services: Is it helping or harming your organization?
In the recent TSIA webinar, The State of Professional Services 2019 , featuring Bo Di Muccio, Distinguished VP of Professional Services Research...
PMO
Resource Planning - Top Questions from the Audience
We recently explored the topic of resource planning in our webinar Prioritize Your People – Best Practices for Allocating Resources and while we shared...
Service Delivery
Growing Revenue in a Fixed-Fee World
Professional services is increasingly moving to a fixed-fee model for their implementation and continued services business. Let’s talk first about...
PMO
The 5 Most Important Business Benefits of a Successful PMO
For any Program Management Office, it is extremely important that you are able to show how your PMO delivers tangible and meaningful business benefits. Here...
PMO
Do Resource Managers Get the Respect They Deserve? The Empowered RMO
A new survey uncovers the maturity of the discipline and how employers view resource managers The Resource Management Institute (RMI) ran a first-of-its-kind...
Service Delivery
Professional Services Automation: What It Is, and How It Can Level Up Your Consultancy
If you work in the professional services industry, you already know how hard it can be to keep track of time and resources spent on a project, to attribute...
PMO
How PPM Can Help Your Company Navigate Industry Disruptions
Companies who simply try to weather the storm when faced with disruptions instead of learning, growing, and adapting will soon find it impossible to compete...
PMO
The Scary Truth of Spreadsheets
Spreadsheets are everywhere. They have infiltrated PMOs of all sizes and are wreaking havoc on projects managers costing them precious time and resources to...
PMO
Where Do Resource Managers (RMs) and Their Employers Agree? Three Need-to-Knows for Your PMO
New survey clearly shows that RM leaders are both well-respected and in short supply. What do RMs and employers say about the burgeoning field of RM...
PMO
The Profession of Being an RM or RMO Leader – It’s not as easy as you think!
Five takeaways from the newest 2018 Resource Management Institute Survey by Jathon Strauss As a research- and customer-driven company, we have to spend a lot...
PMO
Demand Management: How Project Portfolio Management Can Help You Get it Right
Steps to Effective Forecasting Demand management starts with aligning the available capacity of resources to the amount of incoming workload. This process is...
PMO
Five Ways Capacity Planning Will Prove Your PMO’s Value
Protect your bottom line by spreading resources wisely from the top down, across the enterprise In the Q&A sessions of our webinars we get many questions...
PMO
Four Inhibitors to Successful Resource Management
Resource management (RM) is probably the hottest topic in the PSA/PPM space right now, for a very good reason. It’s common knowledge, succinctly stated...
Service Delivery
ASC 606: It's coming for you
If you are a professional services organization (PSO) worried about the new rules for revenue recognition caused by ASC 606, you probably should be. Back in...
PMO
Three Ways to Transform Your PMO Into a Strategic Powerhouse
It’s proven that managing portfolios better creates cost efficiencies and helps companies complete more projects to specifications and to budget...
PMO
Why Stellar UX Ensures Project Management Technology ROI
You can’t reduce Project Administration and Reporting Times by 75% if no one is using your PMO tool. Depending on how mature your IT Project...
PMO
The Top Five Basics for Managing Agile PPM
In May a research firm released a project portfolio management (PPM) market forecast for 2016 to 2024. The reason that I am not covering their report in...
PMO
Three Project Management Lessons Learned from the London Crossrail Project
I just read an interesting article about London’s Crossrail project which connects London’s west, east and centre via a 118-kilometre light rail...
PMO
Calculating the Return from your Project Portfolio Management Investment
Whether implementing a Project Portfolio Management tool across IT, Professional Services or your PMO the investment can be significant. The great news is...
PMO
Three Requirements for Effective Resource Demand Planning in a Digital Age
The main differentiator in successful agile project management (PM) is resource demand planning. In this article we discuss how project resource planning...
PMO
5 Key Reasons Why You Need a PMO
Ever wondered what it takes to build a great project organization? Well a PMO is a great place to start, helping you to standardize processes and drive up...