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In the portfolio of solutions and services we provide program and project management team plays an important role in the organization. Basically the project managers and the PMO team is providing governance to the whole execution of projects through the execution of processes and the projects itself. We started an improvement plan to evolve about … Read more
I’m working on a set of accounts and solutions for my company, handling a portfolio at country level. My team is composed by account managers where that handle the day to day relationship with customers, write offers, deliver services with the support of service managers, handle projects directly or with a PM…They do a lot … Read more
This maturity model is very well known by the project/program/portfolio community and one of the questions I would like to ask, is: once we have done an assessment of the situation we have in our project, program or portfolio, where should I start with? We all have limited resources and we cannot fix all. The … Read more
With SalesForce recently implemented as CRM solution in the organization, I have seen the two major teams complaining about the situation: Business department (sales), argues that the solution itself is not useful, and that it does not cover all sales needs of the sales people. IT organization, argues that the capabilities that exist in the … Read more
The sample below comes in the managing successful programmes book. The diagram describes a simple example showing outputs, transition management and benefits realization. Benefit baseline measurement, done during the development of the blueprint to understand how we go from the situation “as-is” to the desired state “to-be”. Output, the project has been delivered. which is … Read more
A Program is controlled from different axis and these controls are required by different stakeholders. To attend all of them in a efficient way requires understanding of all this. Program control is a process composed by activities where corporate group ask about the evolution of the program in one area (Finance, legal, quality assurance…). This … Read more
Programs are primary driven to deliver benefits, this is done by projects that create outputs, which builds capabilities, which transition into outcomes that serve the purpose of realizing benefits. I created this template based on the principles mentioned on the Managing successful Programs, so I can use for guidance during the execution of the programs: … Read more
In the improvement program I’ve worked, we have done a set of improvements and definition of processes for the different areas of the business we decided to work on. Every aspect of each process has their details, and they also are linked with the others. I created this chart to represent how they are going … Read more
Programs evolve as all in life, mainly because the different phases of a program requires different skills, teams, and resources. We go from a high degree of ambiguity in the inception phase, progressing and gaining shape during the definition, moving to a delivery mode during the execution and “get the job done” during the closing. … Read more
Cranfield University did a research related to behavioral attributes of the leaders when working on programs. The summary table of this research is added to the Managing Successful Programs book. Attitude and aptitudes of leaders are summarized in a scale from 1 to 4, where 4 represents more awareness and capacity to lead the complexity … Read more