Project & Program Management

A couple of interesting links.

This first one is a Gartner report that says it looks at a few vendors providing project and program management tools. However once getting into the detail you will find that this is a list of a few interesting tools that may assist in terms of increased productivity. Particularly in respect of task management, assignments, and email.

The second link is also a Gartner report, which looks at Project and Portfolio Management Offices. In particular it pushes the Gartner PMO Maturity Model. A pretty good (albeit heavily theoretical) take on how PMO's should fit with an organisation's process maturity. Generally, insurance companies tend to be somewhere between the lower end and the middle of the maturity model... (gross generalisation, of course).