Organizational Project Management

If there is one thing almost guaranteed to make a project manager cringe, it’s the idea of having to give a presentation to the executive or board of their organization. What is an executive-level audience looking for from its presentations, and how can you develop and deliver an effective presentation with confidence and credibility?

Projects should be all about delivering business strategy. And business strategy should be all about projects. So why does business strategy have nothing to do with the projects we do? In this article, one expert endeavors to address both dimensions. In doing so, he will try to help project managers establish an approach that can support bringing the domains of strategy and projects just a little closer together.

Predicting the future is a dangerous thing. And yet there is a need to understand where project management is going, and what it might look like when we get there. There is not one pre-determined future, however, but there are several scenarios that appear to be increasingly likely. An exploration into where project management might go from here.

Change is hard. Getting organizations to change successfully is one of the most difficult challenges facing leaders and project managers alike. One of the fundamental reasons is that there are forces at work within the organization that we do not explicitly recognize, acknowledge and address. How to think about the hidden forces that influence change.

Procurement is the bane of many project managers. While it should not be the case, wanting this to be so does not make it so. Procurement is an essential practice, but for many it is one that is riddled with delays, bureaucracy and red tape. How to rethink procurement in a way that can make projects more successful.

Organizations do projects. But do organizations have a project management capability? Is project success about who you select as project managers, or can you guarantee success regardless of who is assigned? An exploration of what it takes for project management to become truly organizational in nature.