Our recent interaction with an embedded procurement team proves that saving money and “rationalizing” the vendor portfolio are only part of the picture for a procurement initiative. Procurement teams must be bound to performance metrics and incentives to keep projects performing well too!
DER Management delivered important value to our customers in 2007.
There’s been a disturbing trend in the professional development (read: education) marketplace where PDUs for renewing your PMP are being over-commoditised.
Our practice work in IT Project Management has included considerable time spent on benefits analysis and benefits realization. In this article I caution the reader concerning benefits capture strategies that contemplate recapturing staff hours.
We are delighted to share that at the end of 2006, DER Management has successfully completed management of project efforts totalling $21.4MM.
As an anecdotal piece, I wanted to offer a perspective on the general process of interviewing. Interviewing is often associated with job interviews, but it also takes place in other areas of projects, business, and most aspects of everyday life. The question is - do your tactics suit the need? And when should you play dumb?
An important development in recent years is that Project Management has become legitimized as an understood business practice for businesses and organizations that need continuous, active, repeatable management of effort. The Project Management Office (PMO) is an entity to support Project Management with oversight and process development. But the PMO can risk being swayed by the business to serve specific audiences instead of the overall business itself. This can undermine or contort the mission of the PMO.
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