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…
March 26, 2019 - Valerie Zeller
Eliminating PPM Project Waste Caused by Non-Value-Added Tasks : the Benefits of a Centralized Repository.
In our previous post we discussed how most PMOs or project delivery organizations may be underestimating the amount of total work that can be attributed to non-value-added activities like collecting, reconciling and formatting data for reports;…
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 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 25, 2019 - Valerie Zeller
Project Waste : A Counter-Intuitive but Urgent Approach to PPM Process Improvement
Sciforma is urging its prospects and customers to focus on something we call project waste. Before telling you why, first let’s define what project waste refers to.
Project waste refers generally to the time wasted performing all of the…
