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Agile strategy management from implementation to governance with people focus
This paper presents three real life case stories that show how weakly-established organizational structures and objectives make communication and people enter into conflict instead of working…
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The mindset behind estimating and planning for agile
In the late 1950s Peter Drucker coined the term "knowledge worker" and spent the rest of his life examining an age in which an unprecedented number of people use their brains more than their backs.…
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Strategies for project sponsorship
Although a great deal of progress has been made in training and development opportunities for project managers in the last decade, there has not been significant improvement in the rate of project…
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Economic crisis? Support organizations, promote project management
In response to the current worldwide economic downturn, organizations in all industries are significantly cutting costs--often to the point of preventing future growth. This paper examines why…
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The Noah's ark: choosing the right sponsor for your project and aligning your project to the organization strategy
Project sponsors can make-or-break a project's success. Without effective executive support, project managers cannot obtain the resources they need to often realize what seems like impossible…
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Creating project-based organizations to deliver value
Although project-based organizations (PBOs) focus on implementing projects to perform their primary activities, many PBOs fail to effectively generate strategic advantages from their projects. This…
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Confronting project management's critical marketing challenges
Over the past several years, through PMI-sponsored studies and in PMI-published documents, the subject of selling project management to executives has emerged as one of the key concerns dominating…
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Supersizing PMO performance
Many technically competent project management offices (PMOs) fail to maximize the value they can provide to their host organizations. Such PMOs-because they often focus only on technology, data, and…
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Be a Positive PM Change Agent
Project managers are always struggling to find better ways to support stakeholder acceptance and use of new products and/or services. If a project's end product will truly add value and is aligned…
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