The 7 habits of highly effective project managers
In the international bestseller The 7 habits of highly effective people (Free Press, 1988), Steven R. Covey describes an approach to be ...
Milvio DiBartolomeo
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OGC Gateway Assurance Expert | Author | Agile, Project, Programme & Portfolio Management and Better Business Cases Specialist
Milvio DiBartolomeo has a proven track record in ICT project, programme and portfolio management in the Queensland public sector, Australia. He has worked on a number of transformational change initiatives across the programme and project lifecycle as a business and process analyst, software tester and project manager. He practices what he preaches having successfully implemented staged funding release by gated review technique to protect public sector investment and redesigned the project governance structure to minimise senior management time commitment for a Queensland Government department. He has extensive PMO experience as a Portfolio Manager, Capability Support Manager and now as a Workforce Delivery Manager. With a lifelong passion for learning his credentials include practitioner level knowledge in Better Business Cases, Managing Benefits, MoP, P3O, MSP, PRINCE2, PRINCE2 Agile, AgileSHIFT, ICAgile, ISTQB software testing and ITIL. He also released his first white paper called “Project Optimism Bias in Capital Investment Decision Making” through APMG-International.
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What is Agile Governance?
2022-05-01
5 min
For an organization to embrace a truly agile way of working, Agile must become a part of the organizational culture and mindset. It should include the ...
What is VUCA Prime?
2022-05-01
4 min
VUCA is a concept that originated with students at the U.S. Army War College to describe the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous nature o ...
Stakeholders ... the very essence of any project
2019-11-30
3 min
Leading change means actively engaging stakeholders - both those structurally impacted by the change and those who will ultimately use the product or ...
Risk management the key to project success
2019-05-13
4 min
Effective risk management begins with transparency of project information and status but somehow potential risk threats that may undermine the success ...
PMO – PMs are Opposed
2021-12-01
4 min
Deliberately or not, at any point in time, PMOs typically straddle the value pendulum of restraint (by protecting return on finite capital investment) ...
Using the five whys technique to avert project failure
2021-12-01
4 min
The real cause of a business problem impacting project delivery is often hidden behind more obvious symptoms. To effectively diagnose the root cause o ...
Assurance as a critical friend – “I’m the hand, not the head”
2021-12-01
5 min
A critical friend is typically someone who tells it how it is and judges the merits and faults of something. While friends, on the other han ...
What is PMO Lite?
2021-11-01
6 min
While there is no one size Portfolio, Programme, Project Management Office (PMO) model that fits all, any organisation can scale a PMO model to suit t ...
How to avoid the agile doghouse?
2021-11-01
6 min
For any organisation, in any industry or sector, there will always be drivers for change. What the adoption of an agile mindset does is enable a flexi ...
Is management by exception a pipe dream?
2021-11-01
5 min
Management by exception is a technique that is often touted to reduce the time burden on senior management within an organisation who are often member ...
The co-creation of value
2021-11-01
4 min
Value is subjective, with different people applying different criteria to assess whether they are realising value from a product or service. It is thi ...
Untold Truth about PPM tools
2021-08-01
5 min
For those accountable for changing the organisation, Project Portfolio Management (PPM) tools play a critical part to enable effective project, progra ...
Beyond the I-shaped employee
2021-07-01
4 min
In an era of adaptation and better ways of working in the context of continuous performance improvements, people in becoming more flexible have inevit ...
The darkside of robotic project management
2021-06-01
4 min
For most project portfolio professionals, the term robotic project management conjures discussion of the rise of cloud solutions, Internet of Thi ...
Portfolio Management and the Dakota Indian’s Dead Horse Theory
2021-05-01
4 min
The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, learnt through years of experience, says that when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best st ...
PMO as a critical friend
2021-04-01
4 min
The concept of critical friend refers to someone who is encouraging and supportive, but who also provides honest and candid feedback that ma ...
Good organisational governance – make it happen!
2021-03-01
6 min
When an organisation manages numerous projects and programmes within one or more portfolios, ensuring that an integrated and efficient portfolio, prog ...
Benefits realisation – Everyone is responsible
2021-03-01
4 min
Managing Benefits by Steve Jenner highlights that a common misconception about benefits identification, measurement, management and realisation is the ...
Senior Management Commitment
2021-01-01
5 min
Senior management commitment as an overarching principle and a critical behaviour across any organisation, in any sector or industry, cannot be undere ...
A hero’s journey to project management
2020-12-01
5 min
The #Hero's Journey is a classic story structure that's shared by stories worldwide. Coined by academic Joseph Campbell in 1949, it refers to a wide-r ...
Project Management Swiss Cheese Model
2020-12-25
6 min
In the Swiss cheese model, an organisation's defences when applied to project management are modelled as a series of protective layers, represent ...
Remote project management and teams
2020-03-31
4 min
Remote working is of course not an entirely new concept; most organisations today allow at least some level of work-from-home flexibility, more so tod ...
Managing project crises using the Cynefin framework
2020-02-29
5 min
Credentialed, experienced and competent project portfolio management professionals know that projects rarely go according to plan. This is why plannin ...
Emotional Intelligence in Project Management (by Milvio)
2020-01-31
4 min
Emotional intelligence is typically defined as the capacity to be aware of, control, and express one's emotions, and to handle interpersonal relations ...
Artificial intelligence - the next frontier of project management
2019-12-31
3 min
Artificial intelligence is increasingly finding its way into project management tools with technological advancements made to manage everything from s ...
Traditional vs Digital PMO
2019-09-30
5 min
A Portfolio, Programme and Project Management Office (PMO) has always served as a powerful catalyst for organisational change through programmes and p ...
One P3 lifecycle to rule them all?
2019-09-30
5 min
Given that the “one size fits all” model is no longer the best approach particularly in regards to portfolio, programme and project manage ...
How to adopt Agile successfully?
2019-07-26
5 min
When adopting agile across an organisation its important to recognise that agile has two sides. Most people would know these ...
Old skool project management
2019-06-21
4 min
Project success through the delivery of the agreed spending objectives was once ubiquitously judged on three criteria - time, budget and quality or sc ...
The DNA of a project manager
2019-04-30
7 min
The DNA of a project managerThe project management profession (where industry best practices, behaviours and values are taught, applied and pragmatica ...
The RACI Model – not just another authority matrix
2019-04-30
5 min
Most people would agree that for a programme or project to be successful there must be an explicit direction and management team structure consisting ...
Learning from experience
2019-03-31
4 min
When starting a project, and during its lifecycle, industry best practice project management methodologies and common sense advocate the need learn fr ...
Everything and the kitchen sink
2019-02-28
5 min
In project management, scope creep (or kitchen sink syndrome) refers to changes, continuous or uncontrolled growth in a project's scope, at any point ...
The 6 hats of project management
2019-02-12
5 min
Most people familiar with De Bono's Six Thinking Hats know it is a powerful technique for looking at decision making from different points of vie ...