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We had a terrific group of attendees for our live webinar that aired Thursday October 5, when PM Solutions’ VP Client Success Eric Foss and I covered the top findings from our 2023 research study, Project Management Skills for Value Delivery. (If you missed it, you can find the recording here.)As always during these events,… Read More »

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Next week, we’ll be launching our 2023 research study, Project Management Skills for Value Delivery. This study set out to renew the data we collected in our 2015 study, Project Manager Skills Benchmark. But as we looked at the questions and skills we previously asked about, we realized how much project management practice has changed. … Read More »

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Post-PMI Summit, I found myself re-doing a number of the slides for my upcoming Great IT Pro webinar on PMO Governance (join us Dec. 22). The chance to hear the thoughts of other project management experts and professionals in sessions that covered topics from Artificial Intelligence to futurism to resource management ... and the chance to… Read More »

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If you’ve followed this series so far (See Part 1 and Part 2 on the PM College blog), you’ll know that we’re looking at both sides of the Artificial Intelligence in project management debate. I’m not ready to sign on as an enthusiast, but there are some powerful arguments… Read More »

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A quarter-century of working at the interface between publishing and project management has shown me that, in at least one way, project management is a lot like editing: When it is done well, it's invisible.Perfect project delivery means ... nothing bad happened. To the outside observer (executives, for example, or users), it's like… Read More »

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Hot off the presses! PM Solutions Research has just released the results of our new State of the PMO 2022 study. If you've been following us for a while, you may know that The State of the PMO has been our flagship research, repeated biennially from 2008 through 2016. During that time, we tracked the development of… Read More »

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[Editor's Note: Continuing our series of responses to questions asked by our webinar attendees, please welcome our Agile SME Sydni Neptune to the fray! The recorded webinar can be viewed here.]Q: What are the areas of work that can have the greatest impact to moving forward with agile transformation and improving maturity? Of… Read More »

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On July 27, we aired our most recent webinar, Project Management Maturity Meets the Agile Environment (click to view the recording), which was based on our recently-released book, The Project Management Maturity Model, Fourth Edition. As always, we'll respond to questions that we did not have time to answer during the event here on our… Read More »

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In Jan. 2021, PM Solutions Research conducted a survey to determine what project management strategies companies had used during the pandemic to continue meeting goals, and how well those had worked, both within projects and for the organization as a whole.The most compelling finding was that organizations achieved better performance in 2020 than in previous years! … Read More »

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Each time we do a webinar, it is always frustrating to run out of time (and sometimes, out of answers!) before all the attendee questions can be responded to. Our July webinar covering the finding from The State of Project Management 2020 was no exception. I’ve sifted through the questions that went unanswered and… Read More »

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We've just published a new research brief that gathers onto one page some insights for organization leaders who want to get back to business, but do so wisely. Recognizing that every organization is facing an unprecedented need for agility in kicking off and delivering an array of new programs associated with how their employees… Read More »

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We live in interesting times. Although the new research study officially released today, The State of Project Management 2020, was conceived of and designed last fall--a seeming lifetime ago!--the issues it frames, and the solutions offered, could not be more timely.If your organization has struggled to realize the full benefits of a maturing project… Read More »

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When we created the survey questionnaire for The State of Project Management 2020, little did we realize what state we'd be in! Nevertheless, because project management is the thing that helps organizations rise to the occasion ... no matter how unprecedented that occasion may be ... we found helpful insights in the survey results. The full report… Read More »

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As someone who has worked primarily from a home office for approximately 30 years, I confess to being somewhat amazed at the number of headlines about whether or not companies can move to remote work to protect employees and the public during the pandemic that is now upon us. I suppose I have been taking for… Read More »

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Since PM Solutions was first established over a quarter-century ago, we have operated as a primarily virtual organization, using small administrative centers to support a large number of consultants, trainers and specialists in the field. This strategy was designed by our founders to help a small start-up access the best talent, wherever they might live.… Read More »

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Our co-presentation with Preferred Mutual at last November's PMO Symposium was so well-recieved that we decided to reprise it as a webinar. Join us on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 2 pm for a free (PDU available!) event as PM Solutions President Bruce Miller and Preferred Mutual's senior VP of Strategic Services, Michele Graham, discuss the 1… Read More »

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Our newest research survey, The State of Project Management 2020, closed on January 31 ... but if you were procrastinating, you are in luck. We've reopened the survey for just one week to allow those who missed the deadline to be part of this study, which seeks to develop a picture of the current state as well… Read More »

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Bloomberg.com kicked off 2020 by releasing a challenging list of the things business should be preparing for:A shift in political and economic power from West to East A sea-change in consumer habits, toward sustainability Humans outnumbered by connected devicesIt's mind-boggling to consider the role that project management will have to play in… Read More »

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The State of Project Management 2020: Trends and Practices for a New Decade. is designed to help us understand the issues surrounding various aspects of project management. The questions will provide updated data points for comparison to our previous studies on the PMO, PPM, strategy execution and agile/adaptive practice adoption. This will allow us to… Read More »

Posted by Carrie Capili in Benefits Realization, Culture & Change Management, Performance Measurement, Project Management Office (PMO), Project Management Research, Project Management Training | 2 Comments

We’re pleased to announce the publication of our latest white paper Organizational Change Management Adds Agility to Strategy.The paper combines insights from organizational change management (OCM) and project / program management to give organizations in edge in effectively executing organizational strategies. With guidance from out papers, you'll be able to:Execute projects… Read More »

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I had the opportunity yesterday to chat with those of our executive team who attended the 2019 PMO Symposium. Here's a recap of their top insights and takeaways from what they all agreed was "a very impressive conference," "the best I've ever attended," and "much more engaging" than previous years.CEO J. Kent Crawford… Read More »

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At the opening general session, The Project Economy – The Future of Work,  Bob Safian, Founder of The Flux Group and Former Editor of Fast Company, delievered a whirlwind look at the lessons of innovation, pros and cons of "The Project Economy" and a recap of PMI's 50 most influential projects of the last 50… Read More »

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Agility is required to navigate the halls of the PMI Global Conference: one moment I am being swept back into memories of my work for the PMI Publishing Division's North Carolina office 25 years ago (a chapter which is, sadly, missing from the PMI history book we all received in our conference packet, along with… Read More »

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Earth Day is almost here, but that was not the inspiration for this column.In fact, the topic of sustainability was far from my mind when I went looking through recent articles in my favorite business publications, seeking an Aha! to kick off this week's blog. I followed a link to the MIT Sloan… Read More »

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We’re excited to announce the publication of the Fifth Edition of the American Management Association Handbook of Project Management! Our own editor-in-chief, Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin, serves as co-editor, with PMI Fellow Paul C. Dinsmore, PMP, of this classic text.The AMA Handbook, now published by HarperCollins Leadership, provides a comprehensive view of the project… Read More »

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Yesterday was a mix of validating old ideas and being surprised by new insights.Conference breaks always afford the opportunity for some wonderful conversations, hearing what is going on in other organizations, and sometimes having my own experience or ideas validated. Case in point: I had to smile when one topic that surfaced was the… Read More »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin in Culture & Change Management, Human Capital, Portfolio Management | 4 Comments

Sometimes you have to get a little distance from familiar things to see them in perspective.I experienced this in September during a three-week break, out of the country, away from it all, and on a bit of an enforced “device fast” with no wifi or mobile data. In a brief airport interlude, 10… Read More »

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Hey, I know you are at the beach, but you should still take 15 minutes to add your voice to our current survey research.As organizations begin to grapple with bringing methodologies and practices, templates and tools, in line with the recent new edition of the PMBOK® Guide, wouldn't you like to know to… Read More »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin in Benefits Realization, Culture & Change Management, Project & Program Management, Human Capital, Project Management Office (PMO), Project Management Research, Resource Optimization, Strategy Execution | 0 Comments

Now, there’s a loaded question. But it is one we constantly strive to answer in our consulting practice; take a look at the “Results” sections of our client case studies, posted here, to get situation-specific answers.In addition to these industry- and organization-specific value datapoints, we just ran across some research… Read More »

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Have you ever sat down to work, looked at your list and opted to do the handful of easy tasks rather than tackle the most important item?Yeah, me too. In the same way that individuals mis-focus their energies at work, companies sometimes get bogged down in minutiae rather than addressing their biggest issues.A… Read More »