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The Project Management Blog

This morning, I was pleased to sit in on the Gartner Summit presentation of John Kocon, from Catholic Health Initiatives. CHI, you may know, was a finalist in the 2012 PMO of the Year Award competition. (Their PMO was highlighted previously on this blog, as well as in the 2012 PMO of the Year ebook.) I've... Read More »

Metrics continues to be an elusive yet hot topic as evidenced by the crowd that Lars Mieritz drew at this morning’s Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit session, which was aptly titled “On the Quest for PPM KPIs and Metrics.” Lars covered a lot of ground during the session, including the... Read More »

We're at the Gartner Summit today and it is exhausting and stimulating, as usual! Well, perhaps more than usual. This is the 10th iteration of this event, and it just keeps getting better. With 1100 attendees, representing firms from (in order of abundance) financial services, government, healthcare and manufacturing, the intensity of the crowd is... Read More »

A few weeks ago, one of the members of our PMO of the Year Group on LinkedIn asked a question that sparked a lively discussion with numerous group members chiming in. For those of you who aren't a member of this group (it's a subgroup of the PM Solutions group: join here if... Read More »

Ten years ago, PM Solutions' research division did a survey of companies performing project portfolio management (PPM). Fifty pioneering companies responded to the call, reporting details of an organizational practice that was just beginning to be widely talked about, if not widely used. What a difference a decade makes! Thanks to all those - nearly 500... Read More »

Big news: After seven years, the PMO of the Year Award, founded by the research division of PM Solutions, has officially become part of the PMI Awards program. Here's the official announcement: "PM Solutions and PMI have come to an agreement to transfer the PMO of the Year Award program to PMI for the 2013... Read More »

How are project managers perceived in your organization?  Cop, organizer, pest--or perhaps the person to blame when things go other than expected or desired?  It's easy to understand why people view Project Managers in these ways; they are the face of an event that is expected to bring about change.  And... Read More »

In a conversation with colleagues the other day, it was noted that in many companies where project portfolio management (PPM) has been established, there is still frustration and confusion regarding analysis and reporting. The flow of data collected by the software and the variety of reporting options can apparently be overwhelming. At the risk of... Read More »