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How To Create An Ideal Project Portfolio During Times Of Budget Restraint?

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  The current world economy is currently in an uncertain state. Economic growth is expected to be slower than the preceding years. The environments in which Projects operate in have to factor in these environmental risks. Considering the changing and evolving market forces organizations, need to proceed towards investing in projects quite strategically. Digital transformation is one tactical panacea for handling this innovatively. Companies have to work on their operational effectiveness, cut-downon their expenditure and at the same time strategically invest in the right initiatives. Integrated Portfolio Management can help organizations provide the visibility and remove the guesswork when investing in opportunities that would give them the highest return on effective business growth. And ‘GLMS Smart Solutions‘, ourl PPM Consultants, ensure to leverage technology to improve the efficient delivery of projects. They establish cost-effective solutions that are tailored to best suit a ...

What is Microsoft Power BI service?

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  Power BI is a set of software services, apps, and connections that focus on helping you produce, share, and consume business insights in the most efficient way possible for you and your company. The SaaS (Software as a Service) component of Power BI is the Microsoft Power BI service sometimes known as Power BI online. Dashboards in the  Power BI  service allow you to keep an eye on the pulse of your business. Dashboards show tiles that you may click to open reports for further investigation. Dashboards and reports are linked to databases, which collect all essential data in one place. Microsoft Power BI is a cloud-based set of business intelligence tools that may help you analyze and visualize data through interactive reports and engaging visualizations. All of your essential applications and databases are consolidated onto a single dashboard, allowing you to quickly generate, update, organize, and distribute sophisticated reports from any device. Get real-time actionab...

The Great handshake – DevOps and Agile

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  As enterprises move to getting more leaner,the need to change in the way they work with respect to process culture and tools is in the forefront. Traditionally Development and Operations teams worked independently and in silos. Each would follow a very heavy sequential waterfall type process. The challenge was the ability to effectively manage and meet customer and user demands. As Agile began to gain prominence, lateral thinking on similar lines evolved to bring development and operational teams closer together due to the emergence of DevOps. Organisations began to feel that they were better off workigng in a more lean way. Lean over Agile began to foster support. Value over process and tools... While Agile was perceived to be more outward looking,DevOps was manily focussed towards solving internal organisational problems. Interaction with customers, understanding their requirements, delviering solutions while getting their feedback. This approach was cemeneted into the approach...

The Art Of Blending Agile And WaterFall Methods

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  For improving business outcomes, organisations are following a myriad of methodologies. It may appear to be abnormal yet a feeling of competition between advocates of the waterfall and Agile is an ever ending discussion. Albeit AGILE is gaining prominence over in business today, yet one can’t help but adapt some of the qualities of waterfall. Asa manager, you may end up in a position where you ask yourself ‘Which approach would it be a good idea for me to go for – waterfall or agile?’ If you are using waterfall methods and you want to adapt the speed of development by the universality of Agile, then you might want to remodel your waterfall organization into agile.  But what if we tell you that, you can make agile work in your organization without sacrificing your waterfall methods. The predictability of planning with the Agility of Speed.  If you would prefer not to totally change to one methodology and dispose of another, you are certainly settling on an astute decisio...

The Biggest Mistake Most Businesses Make Is 'No Resource Management'!

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  Resource managers continually ensure to escalate the performance and managerial endeavours of an organization. They, without exception, make sure to succeed in tackling the regular tasks of assessing the capacity needs of their project portfolio, as well as assigning and tracking the progress and utilisation of resources. Although, being well adept in their field, the fabrication of resource plans, implementation of process around resource onboarding and offboarding, and examination and management of resource needs, for a full portfolio of projects can always turn out to be a gruelling task. These experts, regardless of every possible measure taken, face challenges.  So, what are the most significant mistakes most businesses make in ‘ Resource Management’? (I) Ignoring the Facts and Data Most resource managers work off gut feel, elevator conversations, and guesstimates that have no valid data backing. Data-driven decisions are key, they must collect facts and access data fro...