Transforming the Culture with your PMO

®Gantthead.com, June 2009

"One would think that transforming the culture would be a primary focus for any Project Management Office (PMO) implemented to help organizations deliver projects successfully, consistently, and predictably, but too often this is not the case. Too often the culture is not understood as the key to execution that it is, and those leaders who do give priority to transforming the culture may not know how to translate that priority into action with a PMO." John Schlichter, Gantthead.com

Companies caught in continuous cycles of less-than-stellar project performance often throw more people, tools and methodologies at the problem only to find those things simply make the problems go faster. The biggest hurdle to any project is something we call the Prime Constraint™ -- the ability and readiness of an organization to absorb change. Gantthead.com is an excellent resource to learn about change, project culture, and the many attributes that touch PMO strategies. If you’re a project professional and not a member of Gantthead we encourage you to do so. It’s free and regularly provides great insights.

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