by Mounir Ajam | Sep 26, 2012 | Organizational Project Management, Project Management Maturity
What are the possible PMO functions? In the context of this article, a PMO can be a project or a program management office. Today, we discuss eight possible functions along the PMO Continuum. In the previous article we established: The PMO, typically, is for the...
by Mounir Ajam | Sep 22, 2012 | Business and General Management, How to differentiate, Organizational Project Management
What is a PMO? Is it a Project Management Office, Program Management Office, or something else? How to differentiate between the different types of PMOs? In this article, we are shedding some lights on the emerging (or growing trend) of something called PMO. This is...
by Mounir Ajam | Sep 18, 2012 | Human Aspects of Project Management, Organizational Project Management
This article is a follow-up on two prior posts that we published recently. It is also in response to various online exchanges on the topic of Accidental Project Manager. The previous articles were: Are you an accidental project manager? and Are you an accidental...
by Mounir Ajam | Sep 15, 2012 | Human Aspects of Project Management, Organizational Project Management, Project Management Humor
If you read our last article and you are reading this article now good news and welcome back to a fun article. So, are you an accidental project manager? In the last article we talked about the accidental project manager and we explained that the term is not offensive...
by Mounir Ajam | Sep 12, 2012 | Human Aspects of Project Management, Organizational Project Management, Project Management Humor
Are you an accidental project manager? I hope that no one gets offended by this term since the use of this term in our view is not offensive at all, rather it reflects a common reality. It is for those non-project managers who are asked and expected to manage...