The Project Management Office (PMO)

The Project Management Office (PMO)

The Project Management Office (PMO) “Our leaders are great thinkers. We need to take those ideas, make sure they are grounded and able to be executed.   The PMO helps us do that.” – President of project services, global construction services provider, North...
Disrupting Project Controls – Fast Forward 20 Years

Disrupting Project Controls – Fast Forward 20 Years

Disrupting Project Controls – Fast Forward 20 Years Industry 4.0 is going to be very disruptive to manufacturing business. How could this impact on projects, and in particular the project controls function? Kevin Mattheys provides some thoughts on this topic....
Quantitative Risk Analysis for Projects

Quantitative Risk Analysis for Projects

Quantitative Risk Analysis for Projects This article is a continuation of a two-part series of articles on the basics of project risk management as published previously.  The two parts are as follows: Part 1:  Planning for project risk management (Steyn, 2018a); and...
Project Portfolio Management and Optimisation

Project Portfolio Management and Optimisation

Project Portfolio Management and Optimisation In this article, the primary focus is on the management and optimisation of the project portfolios to ensure that business needs are adequately addressed, and value is maximised. Introduction Organisations invest in...