Author Archive: mlkabik
The Six Sins of PPM
Avoid These Project Portfolio Pitfalls Implementing Project Portfolio Management can be a difficult task, but by making sure to avoid the pitfalls listed in this blog post by Jeff Monteforte you can give your organization a head start on success. Some of the warnings: don’t compare apples and oranges, leaving “certain” projects out of the [...]
10 Essential Steps to Portfolio Management
These 10 steps provided by Heather Champoux are quick and insightful ways of making sure your project portfolio starts and operates without a hitch. First making the caveat that certain assumptions are made for the steps to work (such as an onboard executive management, defined processes and a standard PPM Tool in place), Champoux goes [...]
PPM: Five Trends
Louise Allen and Carrie Nauyalis of Planview discuss in this article what they see as the latest five critical success factors in product and portfolio management. Drawing from a recent conference, Allen and Nauyalis include some that are expected – for instance, the importance of portfolio prioritization - are you doing work that has the [...]
Three Keys to Help Manage the Queue
Good project management is just as much about working on the right projects as it is having the right projects lined up for future work.
The ABC of ITIL – Top 10 People Issues
This article from Computer World UK takes a look at ITIL problems from the human side: how do people affect the success of ITIL? First citing that people often look at ITIL not as a means to an end (but the end itself), the article goes on to explain how there must be total buy-in [...]
Service Integration: What it is, Why you want it
So…what is Service Integration? This is a question that this post’s author, James Finister, gets asked quite often. Finister cites this definition as the most accurate description: “The management by a supplier filling some or all roles of the traditional retained service management organisation of e2e service levels delivered by multiple suppliers”. Recognizing the next [...]
Defining Effective ITIL Key Performance Indicators
From the PDF: In this article we will discuss an approach to defining effective Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in support of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). ITIL is a set of best practices improvement framework focused on the management of IT service processes. The purpose of ITIL is to promote quality and efficiency in [...]
“May You Live in Interesting Times” – The Impact of Cloud Computing
Cloud computing will have an increasingly profound impact on IT – which is saying something
Three years in a PMO: Lessons learned
NOTICE: THE AUTHOR HAS RESTRICTED ACCESS TO THIS ARTICLE SINCE OUR PUBLICATION. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE. In reflecting on three years of establishing and maintaining a PMO, the Project Management Cheerleader lists what works, what doesn’t, and what would have saved time. With insights into management involvement, feedback, and best practice updates, this blog post [...]
The Project is About the Product
Dave Gordon has an uncanny knack of explaining complex ideas in simple terms. For instance, Gordon sums out the problem with a common argument project managers make in regards to their experience with the particular product they are managing the project for – namely that they don’t need familiarity with the product in order to [...]
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