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Jun 2, 2014
I’m at the Gartner PPM and IT Governance Summit in National Harbor, MD, just outside Washington, DC and, looking back on the first day of keynotes and presentations, I recognize a familiar feeling: that it’s not so much that I heard anything new, as that Gartner analysts have a way of… Read More »
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May 14, 2014
One of the issues that surfaced in the newly-released State of the PMO 2014 research study was that PMOs have a public relations problem: they are delivering value (significant value: see the graphic from the study at right), but they have trouble communicating that value to executives. Two of the biggest challenges for PMOs, according to… Read More »
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May 2, 2014
The fourth iteration of our biennial study on The State of the PMO was released last week. The data holds few surprises, but confirms that the PMO as an organizational resource continues to grow in capability and influence.In particular, it's always interesting to note how PMOs in high-performing organizations differ from those in… Read More »
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Nov 8, 2012
There are some companies that apply several times for the PMO of the Year Award without ever making it to semifinalist status. The competition is steep, and the pool of competitors changes from year to year, bringing in each year larger and more noteworthy companies, making it harder to rise through the rounds of judging.… Read More »
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Nov 1, 2012
We had planned to showcase a profile of Verizon Wireless Marketing PMO last Thursday on International Project Management Day, but those plans were ... well, overcome by events. It’s doubtful that anyone on the east coast was reading project management blogs last week, anyway, even if they did have electricity. And the folks at… Read More »
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Aug 6, 2012
Like maturity (see previous post here), capacity doesn’t always come up as a significant factor in Organizational Change Management (OCM) discussions but in my experience it is equally as important. Capacity actually has to be considered from two perspectives: individual and organizational capacity. Neither is typically pliable, easily adaptable and ready for change.… Read More »
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Nov 29, 2011
This is the time of year when, although our personal energies may be focused on home and family for the holidays, our business energies leapfrog over the year's end: forecasts and budgets for 2012 loom large. What trends should we capitalize upon? What risks can we plan to dodge?Forecasting - both business and weather… Read More »
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Nov 2, 2011
Dell Services' Health Care and Life Sciences (HCLS) PMO stands at the juncture of an unfortunate trend and an undeniable reality: while health-care projects have a failure rate of roughly 30%, for each individual facing a health care crisis, only a zero-defects outcome is acceptable. The PMO of the Year Award winner has striven to narrow… Read More »
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