Project Management

Today's thought from INSIGHTOVATION® - July 19, 2016 Stay ahead of your business cadence. Are you still analyzing the first half of 2016 to see where you are vs. the business goals?  If so you are already behind for the year.  That analysis should have been done starting...

Writing a resume or job description? Preparing to interview a product manager candidate or be interviewed for a product manager job? I was recently asked to identify characteristics of a great product manager. If functional expertise is a given, then what are the characteristics that take a product...

My friend Mark Mitchell, of Whizard Strategy recently wrote a blog post on 'How to make your CEO a fan of marketing' and shed light on the number of CEO's who mistrust their CMOs.  He quoted John Wanamaker who famously said, “I know half the money I...

Is Everyone Fighting for Resources? 6 Steps to Better Portfolio Management 1. Have a standing cross-organizational portfolio team: A Portfolio Analysis and Recommendation Team - 'PART' with a structure, process, cadence,  measures, metrics and portfolio goals will create an efficient and credible environment for portfolio issues to be...

Product and innovation managers! You are falling short of your goals, yet you are effectively and efficiently conducting your gated projects and you are analyzing and optimizing your portfolio scenarios. Your problem may not be your skill and capability level at these processes but instead, after...

Why identify your project types? Recognition that most organizations have a mix of different types of projects being worked on by product managers, R&D, engineering, marketing etc., is important to an organization’s productivity.   Each project has a different role, scope and goal for the organization (although in...