Forward Progress
Facilitators use the consolidation technique to intentionally build up a series of small agreements, like a bricklayer laying a sturdy foundation brick by brick and layer by layer.
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How to Manage a Portfolio: All Together Now
Managing projects as a portfolio helps ensure alignment, just as flying in formation helps birds stay on course, avoid collisions, and conserve energy.
How to Manage a Portfolio: Put People First
Effective portfolio management puts people front and center. Here are some ideas to stay focused on people.
If Projects Were a Fleet of Ships
This picture shows one of my favorite analogies for how portfolio management, project management, and strategy development should fit together.
It’s All About Projects (Sticky)
I show clients how to create thriving projects and teams that get essential work done better. This blog is about projects and the teams that do them.
Projects Displace Operations
Use this article when you want to talk with your fellow leaders about why it’s important to invest in project management.
Nine PMO Success Tips from Senior Leaders
Successful project management offices (PMOs) are too rare. Here are nine tips from senior managers who have built a flourishing PMO that delivers real value.
A New Way to Run Projects
Hybrid project management is a new way to manage projects. It is a mashup of predictive and adaptive approaches.
The Role of a Change Sponsor
The roles of a change sponsor are summarized by ABC+ER.
Psychological Safety
Here are three simple ways leaders can help teams increase psychological safety in a work environment or facilitation.