São Paolo, Brazil.—August 2008—Cadence president and CEO John Patton moderated the panel of research experts this week at the Project Management Institute’s Latin America Congress in São Paolo, Brazil. The “Complexity in Project Management and the Management of Complex Projects” panel marked the fourth in PMI’s Research Program Working Session, and conclusion to a year-long [...]
  Ask Cadence: Ep 27 - The Importance of OPM3
Continuing our discussion on the importance of OPM3 to modern project management, we sit down with John Patton and Scott Lisset of Cadence Management Corporation to discuss how companies can get started with OPM3, and where the new standard will have the most impact on project, program, and portfolio management operations.
Ask Cadence: Ep 27 [...]
 
The Project Management Center of Excellence: PMO Evolved.
In the mid-1990’s, there came about a well-defined bit of cost-cutting wizardry called the “Center of Excellence.” The COE was well-defined both because of the intent of its function in organizations, and because of its innate irony; you see, a decade and a half ago, the Center of Excellence involved lay-offs.
The COE was fashioned as [...]