Doing More With Less
By Jonathan Propp

Many technology markets are recovering from the recession, but companies find themselves unwilling to hire additional resources. Engineering leaders ask me, “How do I get more out of my existing resources?” In this article, we discuss the wrong and right ways to do this.

1. No Peanut Butter!
The “Peanut Butter Spread” refers to the investment approach of trying to do a little of everything and spreading it across the product development organization. This is by far the most common mistake we see, especially as companies have retrenched due to the recession. A 2011 Economist article reported that 53% of workers reported being asked to take on more responsibility since the recession started.
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Innovative way forward to effective business solutions.
By Deepak Karanjikar

Irrespective of your industry sector or day-to day management methodologies the Effective Project management is a value driver for performing better.In last 50 years the industry has moved from engineered –to-order products to Assemble-to-order business scenarios. The value is in tailored Tools which will match the concept of FTU (Fitness- To –Use ) than FTS(fitness-to-specifications).

The ground reality today, majority of corporations simply assess the performance of individual project implementation groups by determining how closely they adhere to schedule and budget. Our recent study showed that more than half of all companies do not have criteria to define project success, and a larger percentage still around 60 percent, do not track the benefits of those projects.

Wherever implemented successfully, PMPackage created a stronger sense of the relationship between project execution and organization benefit as it was able to intelligently scale projects while still delivering real value. Case study and more...




To Business managers: Empower your pilots.
By Mahesh Washikar

If you are a business manager and are responsible for multiple projects then compare your situation with an air traffic control system. You are a person in an air traffic control tower. You are controlling, monitoring and are responsible for multiple airplanes (projects in your organization or department). Pilots operating those airplanes are your project managers. To operate your airport (your organization or department) smoothly you should be getting relevant and important information in a timely manner. Your job is to control, monitor and guide different projects to achieve your organization’s business objectives.

Should it not be as simple as that ?
In many organizations project execution structure is not setup properly to achieve this kind of smooth operation.
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