Ultimately, program managers are judged on results. Creating a positive program culture that facilitates excellent project management should produce excellent results. Having the correct program manager attributes, knowing how to manage stakeholders, implementing the most effective program process strategy, deploying … Read More
Finish What You Start
Business Cases
A portfolio can include multiple programs, and/or the projects within a single program can be a portfolio. A portfolio is just a logical grouping of projects under a common leadership structure. Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solutions, like WorkOtter, are inputs … Read More
Decision Making
Our four part guide to the Attributes of the Effective Program Manager: Part 1 of 4: The Program Manager’s Role Part 2 of 4: Relationship Building Part 3 of 4: Effective Questioning Part 4 of 4: Decision Making Part 4 … Read More
Effective Questioning
Our four part guide to the Attributes of the Effective Program Manager: Part 1 of 4: The Program Manager’s Role Part 2 of 4: Relationship Building Part 3 of 4: Effective Questioning Part 4 of 4: Decision Making Part 3 … Read More
Relationship Building
Our four part guide to the Attributes of the Effective Program Manager: Part 1 of 4: The Program Manager’s Role Part 2 of 4: Relationship Building Part 3 of 4: Effective Questioning Part 4 of 4: Decision Making Part 2 … Read More
Tags: Best Practice, program management
Seeking Clarity
Company culture, organization culture, program culture, and project culture: when all these cultures exist in harmony with one another, you have the greatest opportunity for effective project delivery because you have intense clarity. Earlier we defined clarity as “freedom from … Read More
Tags: Culture Change, Issues, Process, Reporting, Status Reports
What we say
WorkOtter was founded by Big-5 management consultants in 1998. Prior to WorkOtter, we were engaged by companies of all sizes to improve their project, resource, and portfolio management capabilities.Our engagements began with process improvement and ended with selecting leading project … Read More
Low Cost, Low Expectations – Right?
97% of surveyed companies believe that project management (PM) is “critical to business performance and organizational success.” 94% of surveyed companies agreed that PM enables business growth. “The use of commercially available PM software drives higher levels of portfolio performance … Read More
Tackling IT Project Challenges
“What kind of project manager or consultant are you?” This question got us thinking about how we approach our own projects and those of our clients. When we built WorkOtter we were a two-man startup trying to change the world … Read More
Tags: Project Management
Projects Build the Cities of the Future
Whether you loved to build with Lego and create towns, carefully crafted cabins with Lincoln Logs or dreamed of futuristic cities with out-of-this world technology, everyone has given thought to the cities of the future in some way. Population growth, … Read More
