From PMO to VMO

4 Adaptive Planning

Who among us hasn’t had, at some point or the other in our careers, the very demoralizing experience of working on or, even worse, managing a large project? Every organization has its share of large zombie projects that, once started, endlessly continue as if the zombie undead. They become an endless financial drain with very little business value return and eventually either crash and burn totally or end up as very expensive boondoggles. At the root of the issue is a rigid, compliance-to-plan mindset that causes spectacular failure on large projects. Perhaps to a lesser degree, smaller initiatives also suffer the detrimental ...