German Companies have discovered efficient project management’s value. But what is often less considered yet by the corporate leaders is the right mix of the many single projects. In Computerwoche’s issue of 12. June 2012 the authors Marcus Berger (Director EMM Consulting) and Dr. Thomas Henkelmann (Director Consulting Sevices, TPG
Keep close contact to project managers, even to the work floor. Do not only concentrate on communicating upwards! Your program marketing is better if you can tell stories of it. If you are not inside the program you will lose oversight, get unconfident with the status, start beating subordinates without reason,
In recent time I’m frequently asked about the difference between project and programme management. In deed the boundaries in practice are often blurred, structures, roles and responsibilities are often not defined and practiced differentiated. That’s exactly where the pitfalls are for a programme manager to meet the stakeholders’ expectations, and
In many of my articles I described which mistakes, made already at the start of a project, merely by default lead to project distresses. But of course I have often seen also things that made even initiatives suffer or die which had been started in the best intend and with
This year again the Project Management Institute (PMI), being a leading professional institutions in project management, continues its research series with the actual report “The Pulse of the Profession”. This time the study’s and findings’ focus ist hat enterprises which consequently live the fundamental basics of project management achieve significantly
In its this year’s study the Project Management Institute (PMI) again assesses the actual status of project management maturity of companies and its relation to their results. It’s not astonishing the the report sub-titles this year again “The high Cost of low Performance“, because the statistic rate of projects that
I just found an exciting article from my PgMP colleague Michel Thiry which describes the positioning of Programme Management in the context of Corporate Strategy in a way that I could not do better. Feel the pleasure when reading and broadening horizons: http://projectmanager.com.au/strategy-and-the-role-of-program-management/
A start to understand the difference of projects and programmes: http://www.pmi.org/learning/library/10-steps-transition-project-program-management-9318 Learn more about it here in my forum at the tag “Programme Management” in the cloud at the right …
