Development of Automated Cross Program Dashboards
Our client, a leading Automotive OEM, faced with a large portal of product deliveries with multiple planning timelines, was looking for a way to centralize program level information. This would allow the client the ability to quickly access the data necessary to provide for increased decision making ability and enhance engineering teams efficiency. MIGSO-PCUBED has […]
PM Retrospective on London 2012 Olympics
This article is part of a series of retrospectives looking back at MIGSO | PCUBED’s 25 years of operations in the UK. We caught up with Mark Sorrell, Nickolle Paschal and Monica Pal – some of the team that worked on our London 2012 Olympics engagements between 2005 and 2013 – for a quick Q&A […]
PMO Best Practices
Home > Blog > PMO > PMO Best Practices Large, complex programs are inherently difficult. Keeping a large team on task, often spanning multiple departments, countries, and hundreds of resources, requires huge amounts of discipline and dedication. A great program management office (PMO) can be the make or break mechanism to ensuring project value is […]
PMO Maturity Model: Is your PMO Ready for what’s Next?
Home > Blog > PMO > PMO Maturity Model The PMO – the project, program, or portfolio management office – often gets a bad rap. When you say “PMO”, some senior executives may think of the good, but most shudder with the thought of administrative overhead moving paper around and policing to ensure compliance. Not […]
PM Framework Improvement for In-Flight Controls
Our client, a leading air traffic control agency, was on a journey to improve the maturity of their portfolio and program management practices. With greater capability, the client would be able to better deliver against a portfolio of initiatives including both major capital investments and large business transformation programs. MIGSO-PCUBED was engaged to support the […]
Littoral clean-up days
Following a “Littoral clean-up day” initiative launched by our Cherbourg hub, the Aix-en-Provence team partnered with a local association – Palana Environnement – to organise a day out to collect waste on the coastline. Collaborators and their families from Aix and even from Toulouse met at the Etang de Berre near Marseille. Pablo, president of […]
Lean Project Delivery Assessment for Increased Productivity
Our client Safran, a leading Aerospace & Defense supplier to two of the industry’s heavyweights – Airbus and Boeing – was facing one of its greatest challenges in recent years: to increase productivity by 50%. They had to hit a new rate of delivery, producing 12 units per month, up from the eight they had been […]
What Makes a Great Project Portfolio Manager?
Home > Blog > Portfolio Management > Project Portfolio Manager As highlighted in our recent article on 2020 portfolio management trends, the field of Portfolio Management, specifically Project Portfolio Management, has changed a lot in the past eight years. And then again it hasn’t. To learn more, Jami Anderson, MIGSO-PCUBED Marketing Manager, caught up with […]
The 4 Trends Shaking Up Project Portfolio Management
Home > Blog > Portfolio Management > Trends in Project Portfolio Management As we enter a new decade, the field of Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) is evolving just as quickly as the organizations that use it are. New trends are emerging that influence how practitioners go about their business of managing their portfolios day-to-day. […]
Portfolio Management
Guide What is Project Portfolio Management? Table of Contents MP Blog Portfolio Management Simply put, Project Portfolio Management (or just Portfolio Management for short), means overseeing a set of related projects or programs within an organization from conception to delivery. Just as program management refers to managing a set of projects, so too does portfolio management refer […]
Leveraging Agile to Recover a Struggling Program
In delivering working software early and frequently, agile approaches have proven to be successful mainly within the software industry. Within that context, the present debate is largely on how to adopt more agile ways of delivering and how to transform one’s delivery organization to be more flexible and adaptable and move away from traditional, sometimes […]
5 Steps to Introduce Portfolio Management to Executives
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