Digital transformations require focus and discipline to implement them successfully, and they are more likely to fail than succeed, according to Gartner who predicts that "by 2025, 70% of digital inve...
If you ask most business leaders how they expect a particular piece of work to be completed, they likely won’t have a strong opinion. Whether something is delivered using a waterfall project or an agi...
Our July Last Thursdays with SPM webinar featured Agile Evangelist, Fred Champlain, who led an engaging conversation with Debbra McGrath on the use of SAFe Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) to manage di...
Most organizations conduct at least some of their projects using both agile and waterfall techniques. Others haven’t yet committed to widespread use of agile, but they are at least using it in some of...
What's the easiest way to start with Gen AI? Many organisations start by experimenting. They set up incubation teams to experiment and monitor industry learnings, develop art-of-the-possible and share...
Coming off the tail of an exciting Knowledge 2023, June’s session of Last Thursdays with SPM featured Erin Roberts, Senior Solution Consultant, who delivered a comprehensive overview of Resource Manag...
In the last blog we looked at the idea of scaling agile to more strategic levels of the organization and discussed the benefit that business capabilities and value streams can bring. Not only does a v...
The cliché that the only constant is change could have been invented for today’s business environment. Continuously emerging technologies, global competition, ever expanding customer expectations, and...
In most organizations, there are multiple project management offices or PMOs. That may be as simple as individual PMO functions in different business areas – IT, product development, and so on. But in...
In the first blog of our PMO series we looked at the evolution of PMOs away from a traditional governance and reporting model to a more business-focused approach where the PMO is helping to enable str...
Historically, project management offices, or PMOs, have spent a lot of time looking in the rear view mirror. They have concentrated on providing consolidated reporting about what has happened in the l...
Our April session of Last Thursdays with SPM featured Greg Sahnd, Advisory Solution Consultant and Lilly Souksamlane, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, who introduced the new Enterprise Architecture Work...
One of the biggest challenges that organizations face when completing work – projects, epics, and so on – is ensuring that their teams understand why that work is being done. It’s not enough to tell t...
In our last blog on strategic goals, we discussed the idea of strategic portfolio management (SPM), which helps to streamline the strategic planning and communication process across organizations. Ser...
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