Ensuring a Successful PPM Tool Implementation
People, process, technology: if you haven’t got these operating in harmony, you will be operating at a disadvantage. And if you’re managing a portfolio of initiatives or project and you still don’t have a portfolio and project management (PPM) tool, you are most certainly at a disadvantage as you’re lacking critical visibility and wasting valuable time chasing or re-entering information.
People, Process, Technology
In Jim Collins’ book “Good to Great” he recommended businesses prioritise getting the right people ‘on the bus’ before deciding where they are headed. I’d say even before getting on the bus you need to decide where you are going — no point having a party bus designed for Las Vegas if you’re headed out into the desert sand-dunes. As someone […]
Project Health Check
How healthy are your projects? We recommend you use these questions to review individual projects. Where the answer is so-so or less, identify what actions you can take to improve this and in turn improve the expected successful outcome of your project. You can also fill it out for multiple projects and identify themes in […]
Smartsheet for Project and Portfolio Management
So why do we really recommend it? Having run projects and programmes for over 20 years and used my fair share of software over that time, I was pretty blown away when I first started using Smartsheet to manage a project I was leading. So much so that I now help companies around the world […]
