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Resource Management: Foraging and Collecting Data

This is part two of our series on Resource Management best practices.  In part one, "Learning to Crawl," we helped you determine if resource management is right for your team or organization. Now to start building - it's time to gather the…
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Resource Management: Learning to Crawl

This is part one of our series on Resource Management. What is resource management, and how do we develop resource management best practices in our businesses? The journey into resource management often starts with one, or several, of the…

The "Missing link" - Advanced Relationships with Clarizen Document Publisher & Periodic Project Report

  Document Publisher Periodic Project Report (PPR) Document Publisher lets you dynamically create reports in the Microsoft Word (.docx), PowerPoint (.pptx and .pptm) file formats based on Clarizen data. As a one time…

Which Project Tools & Processes Correlate Most With Project Success?

Which Project Tools & Processes Correlate Most With Project Success? Download Our Latest White Paper Kolme Group conducted a study with over 60 Project and Portfolio leaders at the 2018 PMO Symposium to try to answer this fundamental…

PPM Product Comparison Matrix - White Paper

Got PPM Questions? We have Answers - PPM Comparison White Paper + Free Consultation At Kolme Group, our forte is helping you select and implement the right Project and Portfolio Management tools for your organization. Our PPM Analysts stay…
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Avoiding the Timeclock Blues: Gamify Time Tracking

It’s Monday morning, and you are about to send a status update to your project team and sponsor. You pull up your project tracking resources and…nothing. Now, you’ll spend the next few hours emailing, texting, pinging, or calling your…

Gartner PPM Summit 2019 – Keynote Opening Recap

Hello from London! Last week, Kolme Group EU team members attended the Gartner Program & Portfolio Management Summit 2019. This year’s two-day summit had a variety of interesting sessions related to this year’s hot-topic: Digital…

Time Tracking: Should We or Shouldn’t We?

Time tracking in today’s professional business world may be similar to playing a tense game of Frogger. You know you need to cross the road but no matter which way you leap, there is a high probability that you will encounter obstacles that…

A Quick Overview of Clarizen Portfolio Optimization

Clarizen Portfolio Optimization (CPO) is a free "add-in" for the Clarizen One PPM platform, which some of our clients have expressed interest in. So, we decided to take a deeper look at this add-in and how it can be used to support your portfolio…
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Kolme Group Expands to Europe; Leverages Global Talent

PHOENIX, AZ (Monday, May 6, 2019) - Competing in a global market is no small endeavor, but Arizona based Kolme Group, LLC. have found their niche supporting project and portfolio management (PPM) initiatives for global enterprises. This April,…

Webinar - Survey on how PPM processes and tools impact project success

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.…

PMO Symposium 2017 - Project Leaders + Coordinator (art and science)

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…

PMO Symposium 2017: Transient Advantage by Dr. Rita McGrath

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…

PMO Symposium 2017: Caterpillar's Agile Journey

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.…

From PMO Symposium 2017 - Opening Plenary Recap

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.…