What makes a PMO successful? (Part Two)
Metrics What can you measure to demonstrate the value of the PMO to the organization? Don’t leave this for others to decide – take the lead and propose metrics that will allow you to show how the PMO is contributing to organizational success. For example: a reduced number of or less severe cost and […]
What makes a PMO successful? (Part One)
The following series is by friend and colleague, Tom Carter, PMP Frequently when meeting with organizations about starting or improving a Project Management Office (PMO) I am asked, “What makes a PMO successful?” While there are numerous contributors to success, there are three that I believe are essential: Alignment of management expectations with the: PMO […]
Agile for Executives
This is a webinar that my colleague Lalig Musserian and I did a webinar on the benefits of Agile for Executives. There is an overview of Agile fundamentals but it is largely focused on what the C-suite needs to know. Learning outcomes include: Understand Agile Methods and how they can help an enterprise Understand how […]
A Virtual Discussion on What You Need to Know About Taking the PMP exam
This is a discussion on what it takes to get certified as a PMP.
I was a Project Manager before Agile. Am I now a dinosaur?
For those who wonder “How can the team get any work done without a project manager to drive them?”, the answer is that Scrum is a very different approach and in Scrum, the team is self-organizing.
Investor’s Business Daily on Lessons Learned
When conducting a post-mortem, gather all relevant players in a room for no longer than two hours, says Jim Stewart, co-author of “How To Facilitate Productive Planning Meetings.” If the session lasts more than two hours, people get antsy and attention wanes.
Video on Facilitating Meetings
A few months back, my friend and colleague Rich Maltzman and I published a book called ‘How to Facilitate Productive Project Planning Meetings.” (Available in paperback and Kindle). Since then we’ve been getting endless requests to speak on the (we naively believed) humble topic. I presented yesterday at University of New Hampshire and Rich and […]
Announcing My Debut Book On Project Planning Meetings
My new co-authored book, “How To Facilitate Productive Project Planning Meetings,” will be available on November 20, 2018. https://tinyurl.com/ycn37yb2 As per the book blurb: “Project planning often tends to be done piecemeal or not at all, often leading to missing and/or incomplete information and correspondingly poor results. This practical guide to facilitating planning meetings will […]
First Impressions on PMBOK Sixth Edition
Note – This is not an in-depth discussion of the differences between PMI’s Project Management Body of Knowledge Fifth Edition and Sixth Edition (released 9/6/17). As indicated, it is a first impression after a read-through. Summary: If you remove the Agile references in each Knowledge Area, this edition could just as easily be called PMBOK […]
Information on PMBOK Sixth Edition
Jim Stewart, PMP, CSM | LinkedIn In case you haven’t heard, the Sixth Edition of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) is due to be released on September 6, 2017. PMBOK Sixth Edition will have Agile in every Knowledge area and a 190-page Agile Practice Guide will also be available for $49 (but free […]
Leading Organizational Change
Author: Gina Abudi, MBA, President of Abudi Consulting Group, LLC and Author of, Implementing Positive Organizational Change: A Strategic Project Management Approach Too often organizations tend to jump into a change initiative without doing upfront planning for the change. I have heard the following from clients, “The change is not a big deal – let’s […]
