Category Archives: KPI
Do you really need a Project Management Office? (PMO effectiveness metrics)
Why do you have a Project Management Office? What do they do? What value do they add to the company? Is that their opinion or the business’? If you have a clear definition of your PMO, go and ask some … Continue reading
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Preparing for a Project Sponsor Meeting
Sponsors are critical to almost all projects. They’re the people who get budgets approved, they’re the ones who provide the energy and impetus for getting the business ready for the project. Yet PMs often seem to treat them like they’re … Continue reading
Compliance versus Support – The Chicken and the Egg
To bring some structure and consistency to projects (and business processes in general), audits or QA checks/gates are often performed to assess current practices and to enforce consistency. But in one of the great ironies, it is often necessary to … Continue reading
Improve your PMO effectiveness by walking around
As a PMO member, probably one of the most productive things you could do for your customers is to get out from your desk and get into businessland. By physically staying in the PMO team area (and let’s face it … Continue reading
What makes a successful PMO?
Over the years we’ve seen some really good Project Management Offices, and we’ve seen a whole lot more which just don’t cut it. If you’re the manager of a PMO or a concerned team member, what are some of the … Continue reading
Project Performance KPIs – PMO Effectiveness
Rather than some tirade on why metrics are so great for projects, let’s just list some critical ones: Schedule – Planned vrs Actual – preferably via Earned Value Functional – % designed, implemented, tested, released Delivery on Time – Milestones … Continue reading
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