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Understanding the essential role of a PMO
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Understanding the essential role of a PMO

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Understanding the essential role of a PMO

In the ever-changing world of project management, the PMO (Project Management Officer) plays an essential role within an organization, responsible for supporting and improving project management. In this article, we'll explain what a PMO is, and why it's so important to the success of projects Definition of a PMO. A Project Management Officer is responsible for overseeing, controlling and supporting the execution of projects within an organization. The PMO has a central role in project management, providing processes, methodologies, tools and resources to ensure that project objectives are met. Find out more about PMO methods and tools, and the 5 essential roles of the PMO. To understand the essential role of the PMO, read our article. PMO responsibilities. The responsibilities of a PMO can vary depending on the organization and the maturity of its project management. Here are details of some common tasks: Process development: the PMO defines project management standards and processes to ensure consistency and efficiency in task execution Resource management: the PMO is responsible for the resources [...].

2024-03-11T16:00:03+01:00June 1, 2023|Headlines|0 comment

Is project management the poor relation of consulting?
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Is project management the poor relation of consulting?

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Is project management the poor relation of consulting?

To begin with, what is project management consulting? Project management consulting is a profession that encompasses many issues. Companies, both public and private, hire consultants to help them manage their projects. Although everyone is familiar with the concept of project, few people really understand the ins and outs of this profession. What do project management consultants do? Project management consultants can intervene in various situations. They can help a company in difficulty to understand the reasons for its problems and to put in place solutions to remedy them. Their main mission is to bring a project back on track and to complete it successfully, even if this means modifying the initial plan. A standardized project management method or a case-by-case approach? The work of consultants can also be more global. By tackling organizational problems that affect the whole company. In these cases, it is no longer a question of solving a specific problem but of reviewing the general functioning of the company. It is then necessary to ask the right questions in order to find solutions [...]

2024-01-09T15:17:39+01:00March 20, 2023|Headlines|0 comment

State of agile 2023: things to remember
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State of agile 2023: things to remember

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State of agile 2023: things to remember

This 16th edition of the annual State of Agile survey is marked by a profound influence of post-covid practices. We learn that the emergence of hybrid work environments (telecommuting, flex-office, back to the office early 2022...) and hybrid events have influenced agile methods. We decided to take the logic of the report and synthesize it to give you the essential information to remember. State of Agile trends According to 89% of respondents, the values to have for a successful agile team would be empathy, a clear company culture, good tools and responsible leaders. We also learn the main reasons for adopting agility in 2022 (several answers possible): We also learn how agile projects are prioritized among most respondents. (multiple responses possible): Companies and their experiences with agile Agile is no longer just for development teams. 2022 has seen a growing number of teams adopt agile as part of their day-to-day missions. This is the case in more and more marketing, R&D, HR teams (Editor's note: it was in 2022 that the marketing team of Blue Soft adopted agility in its processes). Agility [...]

2024-01-09T15:18:47+01:00February 27, 2023|Headlines|0 comment

PMO Community of Practice, a new challenge for Blue Soft Consuting
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PMO Community of Practice, a new challenge for Blue Soft Consuting

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PMO Community of Practice, a new challenge for Blue Soft Consuting

In September 2022, Blue Soft Consulting set up its first PMO community of practice. The aim is to provide a space for employees to exchange ideas with other teams interested in the same theme. It also aims to standardize PMO practices across the Group and its subsidiaries. A PMO community of practice driven by its members First and foremost, this community was created by a group of consultants who wanted to have a forum for discussing their ideas. They also wanted to share their processes, experiences, successes and learnings with other employees interested in the same topic. "It's a group of people working on the same subjects. They will share a common vocabulary and develop around the theme of PMO," explains Dalyl Hadj Bouzid, project management consultant Daylight Consulting and leader of the PMO community. Today, the community includes around twenty employees from Blue Soft and its subsidiaries, all of whom are interested in PMO activities. The PMO community of practice offers two activities: First and foremost, regular exchanges on a dedicated Teams channel. This is a channel where all participants can help each other out, ask questions, contribute [...].

2024-01-09T15:18:58+01:00February 20, 2023|Headlines|0 comment

Controlling deadlines for successful project management
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Controlling deadlines for successful project management

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Controlling deadlines for successful project management

According to a study conducted by the Standish Group, an independent international IT research consultancy, only one third of projects meet their cost, time and functionality objectives. For projects that do not reach their deadline objectives, the average overrun rate is close to 80%. Dominique Causse and Mikaël Carduner, expert consultants for Blue Soft Consulting - Daylight, tell us more about the factors impacting and the points of attention. All this with the aim of controlling deadlines for successful project management. Controlling your deadlines for successful project management: the 3 mistakes not to be made for a successful project There are three causes that can significantly impact the deadlines of a project. At the level of the organization and the environment in which a project or a program evolves The factors of the control of the deadlines are mainly based on the managerial culture. In particular, the project management culture from which the policies, methodologies and maturity levels expected of the entire organization in terms of project management are derived. At the level of project sponsorship, this is cited "as one of the primary causes of failure or success of projects".

2024-01-09T15:40:42+01:00September 26, 2022|Headlines|0 comment

3 questions to the director of Blue Soft Consulting, Anne-Lucie Philonenko,
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3 questions to the director of Blue Soft Consulting, Anne-Lucie Philonenko,

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3 questions to the director of Blue Soft Consulting, Anne-Lucie Philonenko,

Teaming up and staying the course Formally established at the beginning of 2022, Blue Soft Consulting now brings together Daylight Consulting, Ileo Conseil and Ileo Niort. Anne-Lucie Philonenko is at the head of this new division of more than 115 consultants, which she is leading with determination on the path to new and numerous collaborations. Anne-Lucie Philonenko, is consulting first and foremost a human affair? In any case, that's what it should be. There is no transformation, no introduction of new technology, no reorganization, no new perspectives, without the human being being at the origin of the success or failure of a project. But every transformation is a leap, a jump towards what we don't know, at least in part. It is a source of doubt, anxiety and sometimes affliction. Not to recognize this is a fundamental mistake. That being said, change, as a cycle, is inevitable. Knowing how to welcome it and move forward with it is certainly the best way to go about it, whether it is a matter of growth for the organization or evolution for the people involved. Consulting aims to provide the knowledge necessary to lay a solid foundation on the one hand and to help create the framework of an ambition or program on the other. All major projects [...]

2024-01-09T15:45:53+01:0025may 2022|TheGroup, Headlines|0 comment

Aurore, the research program that accompanies you in your project management processes
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Aurore, the research program that accompanies you in your project management processes

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Aurore, the research program that accompanies you in your project management processes

Created in 2010, the Aurore research program was intended to enrich the expertise of our consulting firm by capitalizing on research and development activities specialized in project management. Today, the program offers its partners a real heritage thanks to the various research projects conducted in recent years, a history to be developed. The Aurore program is unique in France In 2010, research centers dedicated to project management were already identifiable on the international market with laboratories bringing together researchers on this same theme. However, this was not the case in France. It is therefore with the objective of proposing a French research program dedicated to project management that Daylight, the transformation consulting firm of Blue Soft Consulting, started looking for academic partners to create a unique program. Today, the Aurore program is an original and singular structure. Established in an applied research approach, the value of the Aurore program is to bring a "toolbox" to partners and practitioners. Research and Development (R&D) would have no reason to exist without business support. It is therefore thanks to the interactions with the consultants of the [...]

2024-03-11T09:54:01+01:00March 10, 2022|Digital|0 comment

Management Profile: Anne-Lucie Philonenko, Blue Soft Consulting
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Management Profile: Anne-Lucie Philonenko, Blue Soft Consulting

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Management Profile: Anne-Lucie Philonenko, Blue Soft Consulting

On the occasion of the International Women's Rights Day, we have chosen to highlight the portrait of one of our managers, Anne-Lucie Philonenko. Director of our subsidiaries Iléo Conseil and Iléo Niort, she shares her career path, her experience and her vision, as a woman and a manager, in this interview. The beginning of a woman manager's career path "30 years ago, the professions addressed to women were mainly communication or business engineering. I first worked in a private bank for 5 years as a communications manager. The experience was a unique learning experience; this company being composed mostly of men, I understood that it is only hard work that leads you to success. Well surrounded, I always had confidence in myself and never questioned my skills. Later, I landed in the IT world by chance. As a communications manager for two years, I found this sector fascinating and decided to take a little more interest in it. I then moved into the consulting business in strategic positions. My biggest difficulty in my role as a director was to be considered as a "boss".

2024-01-10T09:49:00+01:00March 8, 2021|Human wealth|0 comment

Kanban or Scrum methods: why choose?
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Kanban or Scrum methods: why choose?

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Kanban or Scrum methods: why choose?

Are you torn between Scrum and Kanban? You are not alone. These two agile methods, although complementary, are often confronted and are the subject of many questions within organizations that work in agile mode. So what are they? What are the differences in the approach? Which one is best suited to your organization? Why not a mix of both? That's what this article is all about. Kanban and Scrum: definitions The Kanban and Scrum methods have become the true standard-bearers of agility. It is therefore appropriate to recall the specificities of each. What is the Scrum method? Among the many agile methods based on the Agile Manifesto, Scrum is a method that focuses on collaborative project management and a short development cycle with a single goal: to optimize team productivity. In short, here are the six main pillars of Scrum: Iteration: we work on a short period of time (between one week and one month) marked by a series of activities concluded by a delivery. Incrementality: we work task by task in a progressive way. Adaptation: short cycles facilitate pivoting within the project. Transparency : communication and follow-up must be transparent to ensure that the project is carried out in a timely manner.

2024-01-10T09:47:40+01:00February 23, 2021|Digital|0 comment

IS mutualization and regulation: Blue Soft Consulting has been supporting Klesia since 2016
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IS mutualization and regulation: Blue Soft Consulting has been supporting Klesia since 2016

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IS mutualization and regulation: Blue Soft Consulting has been supporting Klesia since 2016

In 2012, the Klesia Group was born from the merger of two players in the social protection sector. Since 2009, the European Solvency 2 directive has sought to make the insurance industry more secure, by requiring it to have a high level of equity to cover exceptional claims. For many players, this can only be achieved by joining forces. With this operation, Klesia has the necessary size and solvency to be a leading player in social protection, for many sectors of activity. Any merger calls for a pooling of means, resources and tools. The Klesia group quickly took action on several facets of its information system to bring coherence to the whole group, streamline flows and pool efforts. In a multi-project context, our subsidiary Ileo, a consulting firm specializing in insurance, supported the deployment of an insurance management ERP that has become a market benchmark. Rather than creating an "in-house" ERP solution, Klesia relied on Cegedim, a publisher specializing in the health and provident ecosystem, to build a solution that could be adapted to other market players. An innovative idea based on the sharing of production fundamentals, but one that required the utmost rigor at every level. For the recipe [...]

2024-01-10T09:35:27+01:00November24,2020|Customer Cases, DevOps, Digital|0 comment