At Kolme Group, we geek out over Project & Portfolio Management. In working with our clients, we’ve noticed a number of correlations between how Project and Portfolio Management tools, processes and data directly impact project performance. We took the opportunity of being a sponsor of the 2018 PMO Symposium to reach out to PMO leaders […]
Seth Norburg of Caterpillar spoke at a “lightning talk” this morning, a short-format breakout session. In his session, he talked about how they split project management duties in all projects between what they call a Project Leader, and a Project Coordinator. This is particularly interesting for teams that have both PM’s and PC’s, and are […]
Dr. Rita McGrath kicked off today with a talk on Competitive Advantage. In her keynote, she noted that the goal of strategy used to be achieving a sustainable competitive advantage. But the pace of innovation today makes any such advantage transitory at best. To illustrate this, she shared an interview with RIM CEO Jim Balsillie, […]
One of the most talked about sessions yesterday was delivered by Seth Norburg, Program Management Supervisor at Caterpillar. In his session, Seth walked through their journey introducing Agile methodologies to this 100 year old industrial giant. Mr. Norburg’s team was a central PMO which provided something like consulting support to local teams as they structured […]
Hello from Houston! This week, we are here for the PMI PMO Symposium. We will be sharing recaps from some of our favorite sessions this week, so stay tuned. Fascinating day today at PMO Symposium. The theme this year is Organizational Agility. Mark A. Langley, CEO of PMI, opened up our session this morning by […]