Project managers should pay attention to the way they divide a team into subgroups — equally sized subgroups tend to perform and collaborate better than subgroups of differing sizes, according to a new study.[more]
New survey finds 80 percent of North American IT departments use Microsoft Project to manage projects, citing minimal training needs and low implementation costs.[more]
BPM Forum study finds most IT professionals cite environmentally responsible operations as a priority but lack resources to control energy consumption needs.[more]
Projects@Work is supporting an academic survey to help develop an assessment tool for determining an organization’s readiness to apply earned value management to its projects. Here’s how you can participate.[more]
Implementing a PMO is not a panacea to an organization’s project woes. Instead, it is PMO maturity that makes the difference, according to a new study. As a PMO matures and assumes more responsibility in areas such as portfolio and people management, organizational success metrics improve, elevating the PMO’s value to the organization.[more]
Federal project management is getting better (or worse) … two-thirds of CIOs say they have 'project manager’ somewhere on their resumes … and the pace of consolidation in the IT services space continues to gather steam. An occasional by-the-numbers look at project management-related trends.[more]
Though most U.S. and Canadian enterprises are not fully satisfied with their collaboration and communication technologies, their planned investment in this area signifies a growing awareness of the impact digital collaboration has on key performance factors.[more]
The percentage of women in the IT workforce is dropping … almost half of all project management offices do a poor job of training or none at all … and China is looking for a few (100,000) good project managers. A by-the-numbers look at project management-related trends.[more]
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