Ex-Military Transition Top Tips: Company Values
The ethos of the UK Armed Forces is built around a shared set of values, standards, and personal qualities. It’s natural to wonder as you face your transition journey whether your values are genuinely shared or even understood by civilian employers. © Ministry of Defence 2020. These images are licensed under the Open Government Licence […]
Implementing Scaled Agile and Portfolio Release Management within Financial Services
Our client, a global financial institution recently set out to transform its existing release management process. Their goal: to improve operational efficiency and increase the speed of releases across a broad array of high profile applications at the bank. These applications include those responsible for managing $13T worth of assets daily, meaning that quality and […]
Are Megaprojects ready for the 4th Industrial Revolution?
MP Blog Agile Are Projects and Megaprojects ready for the 4th Industrial Revolution Complex projects and megaprojects are increasingly shaped by new enabling technologies and new demands from businesses, including how people are treated when working on these endeavours. This is often referred to as the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). We examine whether project leaders […]
PMP Certification: Is it worth it?
MP Blog Project Management Certifications PMP Certification: Is it worth it? If you’re a practicing project management professional, chances are you’ve heard of the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. After all, the accreditation is one of the most widely recognised and sought-after certifications in the industry. However, is gaining PMP certification worth the trouble? Table […]
Transitioning from Waterfall into Agile
In refining our clients’ businesses for enhanced business agility, we’ve often butted heads with implementing Agile processes into established Waterfall methods. This was the case for our Energy client working on projects in hydroelectric power. For this particular project – referred to as “Project X” for confidentiality – we struggled with the typical challenges of […]
Agile Transformation Pilot
Our client, a luxury automaker, wanted to get the most out of agile ways of working for their IT department. The team desired the ability to both respond to disruption and reduce their time to market. Their goal was to achieve value in small increments and unlock experimentation without a large, upfront investment. The Background […]
Improving Risk Culture
Risk management is a key component of every organization’s strategy and operations. Companies make important risk-based decisions every day. At the forefront of such risk decisions are financial institutions. Improving risk culture allows a company to both raise awareness on how to better manage risk, and also to bridge the gap between management operations and […]
Managing your Stakeholders and Keeping them Engaged
Home > Blog > Project Management Delivery > Stakeholder Management At every phase of a project, from its initiation to its close, stakeholders have a major impact. They can undermine a project, influence its schedule, wreak havoc with budget, expand scope, and take focus away from deliverables. Therefore, it’s crucial for a project manager to […]
Advanced PMO Setup
MIGSO-PCUBED was brought in to help a Global Automotive Manufacturer set up a Program Management Office supporting enhanced consistency, transparency and predictability for their feature development teams as they drove a critical new feature to market. The Background MIGSO-PCUBED, a long time partner for the client providing project management consulting and PMO delivery services had […]
PMO
Guide PMO: your guide to the Project Management Office Table of Contents MP Blog PMO If you are in project management you have likely come across the term PMO. It stands for Project Management Office. Odds are your organization already has one in place, as nearly 75% of organizations now do. As specialists in PMO […]
How to set up a project management office
Home > Blog > PMO > PMO Setup No matter how effective your project and program management efforts are, they can always be improved upon. When something isn’t going right in a project — progress is delayed, there’s a lack of visibility into project status, scope is out of control — a project or program […]
6 Ways to Improve Remote Project Management Offices
Home > Blog > PMaaS > Remote Project Management Offices An increasing number of teams work remotely today for many reasons. Even though there are collaboration tools like Slack, Office 365 / Teams, and Atlassian, remote work can still be challenging. However, your teams must have the ability to work virtually to maintain business operations […]
