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Brandon Harville The enterprise project management office (EPMO) helps leadership decide where the organization places its money and its people. That mandate sits above any single division. It covers which investments get funded, whether those commitments still serve the strategy two quarters later, and what the portfolio is returning once the work is underway. Success in the…
Note: This is part two in our three-part series on strategy execution: PIVOT. Part one covered DECIDE, the funding decision itself. A funding decision is only ever correct on the day you make it. The market, the supplier, the competitor, and the regulator keep moving after that. Your plan? It starts drifting the moment work…
Ask any product development leader what went wrong on the last program that slipped, and the pattern is familiar enough that it barely needs describing: Read that as an industry condition, and the odds look stacked against you before a program starts. Read it as a record of decisions, and a different picture appears. The…
It’s safe to say nearly every delivery team is adding AI to move faster. But here’s the thing: most are adding it to a stack that already can’t agree with itself. Output climbs. Visibility drops. And all this happens right when leaders are being asked to prove what each release returned. Companies that are aligned…
Key takeaways: Something has changed in how serious software organizations operate, and it isn’t getting enough airtime. The decisions that shape what ships, what gets killed, and what gets pushed are moving from project managers to product managers. As Planview’s Chief Product Officer, Louise Allen, put it at Pendomonium recently: “Product managers are the cool…
Strategy execution has never been harder. Markets shift overnight, priorities change in weeks, and opportunities vanish if you can’t move fast. Speed and flexibility feel less like differentiators and more like survival skills. If complex approvals, disconnected tools, and reactive reporting are still slowing you down, you’re not just behind schedule anymore. You’re at risk…
What happens when your organization looks like a patchwork of teams running waterfall projects, Agile sprints, and hybrid workflows? The answer depends on how well your enterprise is equipped to orchestrate complexity rather than fight it. If you’re using spreadsheets and disparate tools to manage your work, you’re probably missing opportunities and drowning in chaos….
When markets shift overnight, being able to quickly adapt sets successful organizations apart from the rest. These are the organizations that can fundamentally rethink their strategies and rapidly pivot their strategic investments and resources to capitalize on new opportunities or defend against emerging threats. Consider this scenario: Your competitor launches a disruptive product threatening a…
Sometimes, running an enterprise feels a bit like trying to build a house during an earthquake. One day, you’re dealing with disruptive technology and changing customer needs, next, it’s budget pressures and fears of a recession looming. Just when you think you’ve got your footing, government policy changes abruptly and forces you to rethink everything….
We’ve been riding the waves of economic uncertainty for a while, but now it feels like we’re being pulled further out to sea. Between unpredictability on a global scale, changing customer behaviors, and the constant undercurrent of market volatility, many organizations are starting to feel the pressure chipping away at their bottom line. This is…
When an organization reaches the tipping point where innovation begins to stagnate under the weight of maintaining existing operations, it’s time for a new approach to value delivery. When priorities conflict and visibility is limited, even the most promising strategic vision remains unrealized. Instead, you’re left with wasted resources, missed market opportunities, and the erosion…