June 13, 2019 - Valerie Zeller
The Mighty Five Ways PMOs Can Drive Sustainable Competitive Advantage : # 4 - Enterprise Collaboration and Innovation
Innovation is rarely birthed or deployed in a silo. The fuel of innovation, or the creative process in general, is the cross-pollination of ideas and unique integration of processes. Companies with the greatest competitive advantages are always…
June 7, 2019 - Valerie Zeller
The Mighty Five Ways PMOs Can Drive Sustainable Competitive Advantage : #3 - Business Strategy Execution
Project leadership can drive long-term impact in a company’s level of competitiveness along two axes.
We discussed the first 2 weeks ago : as a change agent for corporate evolution and transformation. The second axis deals with ensuring…
June 4, 2019 - Gina Pham
Save the Date: Gartner Program and Portfolio Management Summit 2019
Sciforma is a proud Silver Sponsor for this year’s Gartner PPM Summit (2019). We are looking forward to 4 days in Washington DC to meet the project management leaders and community on June 17 to June 19.
With this year’s theme: Rapidly…
July 11, 2019 -
Why even the best PPM software needs the human touch
Big data is everywhere - and when used correctly, it can offer the PPM world innumerable insights. However, while big data is the big buzzword out there, successful projects and portfolios were executed way before computers. Extra data is great,…
July 9, 2019 - Gina Pham
Gartner Program and Portfolio Management Summit Recap: Rapidly Transform Project and Portfolio Management for Continuous Change
A Business Conference for Project Portfolio Management Leaders Three weeks ago, Gartner hosted their annual Program and Portfolio Management Summit in Washington DC. Each year, this event brings forth many project management leaders who are…
July 9, 2019 - Gina Pham
Gartner Program and Portfolio Management Summit Recap: Rapidly Transform Project and Portfolio Management for Continuous Change
A Business Conference for Project Portfolio Management Leaders Three weeks ago, Gartner hosted their annual Program and Portfolio Management Summit in Washington DC. Each year, this event brings forth many project management leaders who are…
June 27, 2019 - Valerie Zeller
The Mighty Five Ways PMOs Can Drive Sustainable Competitive Advantage : #5 - Talent, Skills and Capacity Management
This is the last blog post in our " 5 ways PMOs can drive competitive advantage" series.
Today, let's discuss talent, skills, and capacity management
One of the longer-term concerns that continues to trouble executive leadership is…
June 13, 2019 - Valerie Zeller
The Mighty Five Ways PMOs Can Drive Sustainable Competitive Advantage : # 4 - Enterprise Collaboration and Innovation
Innovation is rarely birthed or deployed in a silo. The fuel of innovation, or the creative process in general, is the cross-pollination of ideas and unique integration of processes. Companies with the greatest competitive advantages are always…
May 14, 2019 - Valerie Zeller
The Mighty Five Ways PMOs Can Drive Sustainable Competitive Advantage : #1 - Change Management
Project delivery organizations rightly focus on projects that make an immediate impact, or projects with short ROI break even points, or projects that are expected to deliver strategic benefits for multiple years. But, PMOs and project leadership…
April 30, 2019 - Valerie Zeller
3 Critical Success Factors for Improving Project Selection
Projects which are aligned with key business initiatives, objectives and/or metrics have a much greater chance of success. It makes sense. If there is not a clear line of sight between key business strategies and objectives and your…
April 25, 2019 - Valerie Zeller
Four Tactics to Improve Project Cycle Times
In our previous post, we discussed the link between resource management proficiency and project cycle times and recommended that cycle-time improvement initiatives start with a focus on improving resource management.
In this post, we…
May 31, 2019 - Valerie Zeller
The Mighty Five Ways PMOs Can Drive Sustainable Competitive Advantage : #2 - Institutional Learning
Project leadership can drive long-term impact in a company’s level of competitiveness along two axes. We discussed the first one last week : as a change agent for corporate evolution and transformation. The second axis deals with ensuring…
May 14, 2019 - Valerie Zeller
The Mighty Five Ways PMOs Can Drive Sustainable Competitive Advantage : #1 - Change Management
Project delivery organizations rightly focus on projects that make an immediate impact, or projects with short ROI break even points, or projects that are expected to deliver strategic benefits for multiple years. But, PMOs and project leadership…
April 30, 2019 - Valerie Zeller
3 Critical Success Factors for Improving Project Selection
Projects which are aligned with key business initiatives, objectives and/or metrics have a much greater chance of success. It makes sense. If there is not a clear line of sight between key business strategies and objectives and your…
April 25, 2019 - Valerie Zeller
Four Tactics to Improve Project Cycle Times
In our previous post, we discussed the link between resource management proficiency and project cycle times and recommended that cycle-time improvement initiatives start with a focus on improving resource management.
In this post, we…
April 18, 2019 - Gina Pham
PMI Montréal Symposium Recap: The Project Management Agora
Two weeks ago, PMI Montreal hosted their annual symposium and celebrated their 10th anniversary in an inspiring 2 days of learning and networking with other project professionals in the local Montreal area--with over 450 attendees each day. PMI…
March 26, 2019 - Valerie Zeller
Better Resource Management : A Strategy for Improving Project Cycle Times
Why is it so important to improve project cycle times?
Before we get into process remedies and solutions, let’s review why it’s so important to optimize project cycle times. Projects are the agent of change in an organization. You can’t…
