We have now seen the launch of the Program Management Professional certification. What is it? Where does it fit? What is its value, and is it something that we should be including in our development plans?
The Quest For Good Governance: Building Better Sponsors
Many organizations don’t have a project management problem — they have a project governance problem. Throw all the process, tools and training at the project managers that you like. Projects won’t get better until the governance improves.
Managing Resource Capacity: How Do We Know We Are Full?
How do we choose resources for projects? Is it a case of ‘lining up the usual suspects’, or are other processes at work? One of the greatest challenges for any organization is maintaining sufficient understanding of resource workload and when limits are being reached.
Managing For Quality: It’s Not As Hard As Everyone Makes Out
Quality is one of those challenging subjects in project management that people seek to innately avoid. And yet the idea of managing quality can be simple, accessible and readily easy to apply.
The Metric Colours
We live in a world obsessed by metrics. While the desire to measure the delivery of our projects has increased, the ability to do so has not actually kept pace. Nowhere is this more true than in how we report project status.
Risk: Just A 4-Letter Word?
Risk management is one of the most critical practices in project management. Yet it often gets ignored in actual practice. What does good risk management look like, and why don’t we do enough of it?