By Rens Nooyens Where portfolio turns strategy into reality, how to deal with the increasing demand for agility? These five portfolio principles have served their value in my past two decades in project portfolio management: 1. Start with the end in mind: be...

Introduction In this article, we’ll explore transformation vs continuous improvement and how each change method affects business success. In an ever-changing world, you have to choose your change! In today’s fast-paced business environment, companies must change...

In my last blog, I spoke about the idea to extend our options to attract experienced Project Managers by creating a networked organisation. Add freelancers to The Independables pool of resources to extend our offer to our customers. In this blog, I will highlight a...

Before we officially started The Independables over a year ago, we created a business plan to think through our services and offering, financials, and of course, our growth model. In that growth model, we, like most people setting up a new organisation, envisioned a...

How many projects can a project manager handle without losing overview or impacting the output quality negatively? Many project managers have one assignment at a time. This allows for in-depth focus and 100% attention for this project. The amount of work to be...

The last few years we have experienced several crises in a row: pandemic, war, supply chain disruptions, shortages, high-energy prices, increasing food prices. Today, we stil feel the impact of the (past) crises and need to adjust to this new reality. And a next...

The success rate of business transformations is low, according to different studies (for example: McKinsey – 27% of transformation projects succeed). There are different success factors (and factors, when not addressed seriously, will cause failures), but what is the...

PMO stands for Project Management Office. It represents an entity that supports the project organisation with all kinds of project related activities. A PMO can be set up with limited responsibility, like taking minutes, archiving documents, apply naming conventions,...