Honestly, as most Star Wars villains and heroes tend to rise from the shadows or are catapulted to prominence because a pure and noble need has arisen, so too is the EPMO concept awakening. (Awe, come on! Who doesn't love a Star Wars reference!?) This paradigm is a...
Within the realm of DX initiatives, even at the very best of times, it is complicated to organize both external and internal resources for a program. Not to mention when these resources are on-site and coordinated through a solid cadence of meet-and-work, keeping...
A shift, even if temporary, in how digital transformation initiatives are run, has been made. How organizations look at these programs is with a worldview that was thrust upon us recently, yet at Platinum PMO, we believe it could be a change for the better. A...
With everything going on over the course of the past few weeks and months, due to the Corona Virus, the world feels like everything is shaking, and uncertainty is now a part of almost all of our daily activities. Including significant project work. For large...
I began my career in Information Technology (IT) decades ago. IT was still called Data Processing when I started. As time passed, I became a little disappointed in the name change to IT, since after we began to refer to the processing of data as IT and not Data...
Within the challenging landscape of today's business world, one thing is sure. Things are continually shifting, and the digital economy is dictating the path forward. The DX, or Enterprise Digital Transformation space, is on those same shifting sands. What worked five...
Why do Enterprise Digital Transformation projects overrun their budget, or not produce the desired benefits realization? When I began my career in doing DX initiatives, changing business processes, and utilizing ERP solutions was almost three decades ago. At the time,...
I am pretty passionate about methodology and Agile methods in particular. Agile is the future; that's for sure, but not pure Agile in very large-scale Digital Transformation projects. It won't work, couldn't work due to the nature of the program. You cannot...
“Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking, and it’s greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this. Our greatest hopes...
Netflix, the great pastime and harbinger of the binge-watch, recently added the BBC show, Sherlock Holmes. In watching it, I found some parallels of common personalities, personas, and challenges within large-scale digital transformation projects. I see them both in...