Why Marketing Is Interruption-Driven and How to Stop the Madness
Marketers take on a lot – and most of it is through email and desperately managed in spreadsheets. This interruption-driven day does not need to exist. Marketing has made great strides in automation around behavioral scoring, digital analytics and more. But the truth is that behind the scenes there still exists a fair amount of […]
Higher Ed Facilities Management: Do We Separate Projects From Maintenance?
The IT department has addressed this topic many times – do we separate how we manage large IT projects, such as an infrastructure revamp, from daily ticketing? After years of debate and various models, most Higher Ed institutes will suggest that having separate systems creates a lack of visibility for resource allocation and redundancy in […]
Greatest Risk to Your Projects – Your Other Projects!
Use Portfolio Management to Help Manage Risks to Your Projects’ Resources I will go out on a limb and state that – in most reasonably complex institutions, you probably cannot effectively deliver projects without also having effective project portfolio management in place. Most project managers and their traditional, proven project management methods and tools focus […]
Projects Begin & End – But a Project Portfolio’s Work is Never Done!
An effective project portfolio process starts long before projects are initiated, actively continues during projects, and even continues long after each project is closed. Too many project portfolios function only as pre-project approval processes and stop supporting effective project resource decision-making after each approved project actually begins. Imagine if your own stock portfolio only functioned […]