Project kick-off meetings are filled with excitement and enthusiasm – everyone is eager to get the new initiative underway and the anticipation of reaping the project’s rewards energizes your team as well as your stakeholders. But kick-off meetings with the executive group can sometimes lead to unexpected challenges. They may ask for changes to your…
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5 Ways Consistency Contributes to Project Success
Executing just one project successfully can sometimes be a challenge. As a trusted project management consulting partner for businesses in a number of sectors, we know that driving a rolling list of projects to successful completions is even more demanding. It requires strong skills, full buy-in from the entire project team, unfailing support from sponsors,…
Use Portfolio Templates to Improve Your Project Process
As part of our project portfolio management consulting work, we’ve seen time and again that the implementation of portfolio templates can deliver big benefits. However, many organizations haven’t yet tapped into the full potential of the template approach. Some businesses aren’t sure how portfolio templates might work in their environments. Others fear that creating even…
Project Management: Improve the Customer Experience
Project teams often focus their full attention on driving each initiative to a successful completion, but there’s another aspect of project management that can’t be overlooked: the customer experience. Your customers should have a seat at the table as your group goes moves each project from concept through completion—planning activities, scheduling work disruptions, allocating funds,…
Remote Project Management: Make Flexibility Your Strength
For organizations unaccustomed to supporting a dispersed workforce, the lack of a single shared job location can create worries about weakness. Will communications break down if we can’t talk face to face? How can we solve problems and brainstorm if we aren’t together as a group? How will scattered team members get the latest information?…