How Project Sponsors Drive Portfolio Success
Strong project sponsors are essential after portfolio reviews, navigating tough decisions and aligning projects with strategic goals to ensure prioritisation decisions drive meaningful outcomes.
Strong project sponsors are essential after portfolio reviews, navigating tough decisions and aligning projects with strategic goals to ensure prioritisation decisions drive meaningful outcomes.
An early project portfolio review ensures your initiatives stay aligned with strategic goals, reducing risks and maximising value. By evaluating progress at the 30% mark, leaders gain critical insights and opportunities to make impactful adjustments before it’s too late.
Much like an air traffic controller keeps the skies safe and efficient, managing a project portfolio requires constant vigilance for shifting benefits, scope creep and changing project interdependencies.
While a project review zooms in on specific tasks and milestones, a portfolio review takes a broader, strategic view, focusing on overall performance and long-term success.
Discover the hidden traits of exceptional project managers: situational awareness, empathy, and systems thinking that elevates project outcomes beyond the basic
Every project will have red and green flags. Identifying them is critical as is healthy dose of instinct and critical thinking skills to understand what the flags are signalling.
Is curiosity a leadership superpower? Asking ‘why’ and getting curious when you want to foster successful teams certainly is.
Effective risk-based project management strategies will help you make informed decisions when things are urgent, ensuring quality and successful project outcomes.
It’s possible to master the golden triangle of speed, cost and quality in project delivery by embedding quality assurance from the start of your project.
Project managers tend to focus on immediate risks that need urgent attention, but it's the ‘everyday’ risks that can benefit from process improvement.