A project’s purpose is to deliver value to its stakeholders. And a PMO should strive to deliver value to the organization. The value provided by a PMO office can take different forms depending on the organization’s needs, and it will evolve and change as the organization grows and changes. Kim helps you look at those needs and provides insight for consideration before launching your Project Management Office.
In what may be a nod to the reality that there may be no pure “waterfall” or “agile” in the world, PMI released a “micro-credential” for Agile Hybrid Project Pro. It looked intriguing, so I dedicated an afternoon to going through the course and exam to see what it was about and if it is worth the investment.
Who Is Kolme Group and What is Kolme Univeristy Hi! I’m Kim Essendrup, one of the founders of Kolme Group and co-host of the Project Management Happy Hour podcast. At Kolme Group, we’re really proud to be a Preferred Implementation Partner for the Planview...
If you are a Project Management Leader, you have probably got a mess to clean up. Maybe things keep going off track, maybe you have no easy way to measure what’s going on, or maybe you are just tired of struggling through portfolio reports at midnight when you yell,...
What is Kolme Univeristy As a Planview Partner, the Kolme Group offers project managers a way to gain insights and the Planview AdaptiveWork skills needed to manage this scalable project management software platform, Kolme University. As Planview AdaptiveWork...
Planview AdaptiveWork has a useful functionality for the AdaptiveWork platform that opens the door to some really powerful financial functionality. We’ll teach you a solution that uses a custom Invoices Module to track actual costs to your project – and integrates that into your projects’ Timephase Financials using this feature.
Seth Norburg of Caterpillar spoke at a "lightning talk" during the PMO Symposium '17 short-format breakout session. In his session, he discussed how they split project management duties, in all projects, between what they call a Project Leader, and a Project...
Dr. Rita McGrath kicked off the PMO Symposium '17 with a talk on the 5 Components to 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...
One of the most talked about sessions at the PMI Symposium '17 was delivered by Seth Norburg, Program Management Supervisor at Caterpillar. In his session, Seth walked through the Caterpillar Equipment's Agile Journey and what it was like introducing Agile...
Hello from Houston! Another fascinating discussion at PMO Symposium 2017 with the theme: What Is Organizational Agility? Mark A. Langley, CEO of PMI, opened up the morning session by talking through some of the key points of PMI's Thought Leadership study on the...