Showing 30 posts tagged with: "project management research"
Feb 22, 2024
PMaaS and Organizational Performance, Then and Now
One of the most gratifying things about working for the same organization for decades—something I’d never thought would be possible, but here I am, 24 years later—is that it gives you the ability to see trends and patterns that a shorter time-box would obscure.One of the things that has… Read More »
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Feb 7, 2024
(More) Changing Approaches to Project Management
Our 2024 research study is now live! Head over to The Adaptive Organization: A Benchmark of Changing Approaches to Project Management 2024 to contribute your viewpoints. This year’s study revisits our 2018 survey of how organizations are implementing agile and adaptive practices in project management—always a great way to see the trends in project… Read More »
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Jan 10, 2024
What We Mean When We Say PM as a Service
Today’s publication release from PM Solutions gives you a deep dive into the way we practice Project Management as a Service (PMaaS). Describing a timeline of the process and giving some background on the personnel we deploy, this paper above all focuses on the important concept of partnership as central to a PMaaS… Read More »
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Oct 31, 2023
Jazzed Up About Project Management and AI
During the first few days of last week's PMI Global Congress, I was inspired to jot down a few thoughts about my conference experience. Atlanta was definitely the largest number of attendees for a PMI event that I’ve attended. AI, as expected, is a big theme of the conference and lots… Read More »
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Oct 28, 2023
Superpowers. You've Got 'Em
I missed posting yesterday but it was the day of my presentation which--whew!--is over and went off without a hitch, apart from a bit of mic feedback. All these presentations from PMI are recorded and available to view online, starting next Monday thru some time in January. I am planning to "attend" all the… Read More »
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Oct 26, 2023
Putting People In Their Place
I'm blogging from the #PMIGlobalSummit in Atlanta for the next few days and so far, although I have about 24 years of PMI conferences under my belt, I have to say this is the best one ever. Last night, roving around the exhibit hall, just feeling the vibe I was struck by the reality that,… Read More »
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Oct 16, 2023
Value Delivery Skills Webinar Attendees Had Questions: Here Are Some Answers
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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Sep 28, 2023
Webinar Alert: Project Management Skills for Value Delivery Research Overview
Join me and PM Solutions VP, Client Success, Eric Foss--one of the key subject matter experts who contributed to our 2023 research study--to learn more about the value delivery skills that will make or break project management careers in the future.For Project Management Skills for Value Delivery we asked project management leaders and staff members… Read More »
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Aug 21, 2023
Seven Actions for the Adaptive Organization
In 2021, I looked at all the available research on how companies were thriving in spite of the pandemic--including our own, How We Thrived: Virtual Project Management Practices During the Pandemic and Beyond. The resulting white paper, Establishing the Adaptive Organization offered seven ways that organizations could use the learnings from a time of crisis to… Read More »
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Jun 29, 2023
PMO Staff vs PMO Leaders: Realism or Pessimism?
An interesting divide showed up between PMO leaders and PMO staff members in our most recent research, Project Management Skills for Value Delivery. Across the board, whether they are rating their organiation's level of skills, scoring its project success, or ranking skills by importance, PMO staff members are less cheerful about the state of… Read More »
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Apr 6, 2023
High Performers Value These Skills. Hint: They Aren’t What You Think
Last week, I presented a sneak preview of the results from our newest research study, Project Management Skills for Value Delivery, on the Great IT Pro platform. This report is still being finalized, and will be released to the public in a few weeks. Here’s a recap of what I shared with them. … Read More »
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Feb 22, 2023
Skills for Value Delivery: Your Input Needed (Through Feb. 24)
So, you missed the deadline to contribute your views to our 2023 Project Management Skills for Value Delivery? Never mind, missed deadlines are a part of life, right? (Though maybe a little embarrassing for project management pros and journalists!) Some of your fellow procrastinators reached out to us over the weekend, and we've reopened the… Read More »
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Jan 24, 2023
New Research Launch: Project Management Skills for Value Delivery
Several years ago we changed the timing of our research study launches to January, because this is the time of year when aspirations run high, both on the personal side (exercise daily!) and the organizational (transform our company!) This year's research topic feel especially apt: Project Management Skills for Value Delivery reflects the changing… Read More »
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Jan 17, 2023
Managing Projects…Or Delivering Value? Eric Foss’s Challenge to Project Managers
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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Dec 30, 2022
A Look Forward, With Hope and Confidence
Coming up on the end of 2022, I'm at last going to answer the remaining question asked by one of our webinar attendees (view the full recorded webinar here) after participating in our online presentation about The State of the PMO 2022. I've saved the best for last because it spurs some thoughts on the… Read More »
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Dec 14, 2022
Some Thoughts About Governance, PMOs and the Thinking Project Manager
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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Dec 2, 2022
The Future is Already Here for These PMOs
Yesterday during the opening keynote of the PMI Global Summit here in Las Vegas, the speaker, Amy Webb, a futurist and best-selling author, urged project managers to "move up the value chain."She's correct, of course, in thinking that project management experts deserve a seat at the strategic level of organizations. The signature capabilities… Read More »
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Nov 28, 2022
Agile or "agile"? That Is the Question
An eon ago -- in October just before everyone in my family came down with Covid--I promised two more installments of blogs covering the lingering questions from our research webinar,Q: I represent IT sector and I provide and implement Agile processes. Where is a border line between managerial processes and development processes in your… Read More »
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Oct 27, 2022
State of the PMO Research Webinar – Your Questions, Answered: Part 1
If you asked a question after our recent webinar examining the qualities of high-performing PMOs, the answer may be here! We had four questions that we did not have time to answer during the event: I’ll be responding to one about governmental agencies in the study today, and then one each week… Read More »
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Oct 17, 2022
Will A.I. Kill the PMO? Part 3 in Our A.I. in PM Series
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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Sep 12, 2022
PMO Research Reveal: What You'll Learn in This Week's Webinar
There are 100 pages of data in The State of the PMO 2022, so I could present about it every week for months without repeating myself. In this week's webinar (sign up here, this Thursday, Sept. 15 at 2 pm ET) PM Solutions' VP, Client Success Eric Foss and I will be hitting the high points. A sampler:… Read More »
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Aug 18, 2022
The Evolution of the Enterprise PMO: What Comes Next?
This week, we’ve been updating one of our key white papers, Evolving the Established PMO, adding the most up-to-date statistics from our new research, The State of the PMO 2022. At the same time, I came across a research paper on the role of Artificial Intelligence in project management that had some interesting points… Read More »
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Jul 13, 2022
Think Your Business Is Too Small for a PMO? Think Again.
One thing that makes a smaller organization more nimble, usually, is its size: there aren’t a lot of layers between decision makers and the boots on the ground.So it may seem counterintuitive to suggest that smaller organizations can derive value from adding more managerial infrastructure, but that’s the story we… Read More »
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Jun 23, 2022
The Enterprise PMO Delivers
Our newest research study, The State of the PMO 2022, compares and contrasts PMOs in participating organizations in a number of ways. One standout finding has been that PMOs that operate on the enterprise level outperform all others -- those established at the departmental level or business unit level-- on a majority of the key performance… Read More »
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Jun 8, 2022
PMOs: New Research Shows Benefits Outweigh Cost
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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May 17, 2022
The PMO at 20: New Research Findings Released
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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Feb 16, 2022
State of the PMO 2022: What's In It for Me?
If you're like me, when you get an invitation to fill out a survey, your first thought is: why should I bother with this? What will I get out of it?In the case of The State of the PMO 2022, the answer is pretty clear. This study, performed every other year through 2016, has provided… Read More »
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Feb 1, 2022
PMO Study Participants Get It. Do You?
It's a long journey, this working life of ours. Sometimes it's a slog through a jungle, or a desert. Along the way, many forks in the road. Sometimes you can see the way ahead, but a lot of the time, you're down in the weeds. What distinguishes the lost and desperate from… Read More »
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Jan 19, 2022
2022: What Is the State of Your PMO?
For ten years, through 2016, PM Solutions Research conducted a study on the roles, functions, and maturity of PMOs. Over the course of that decade, we saw the PMO grow from a rare departmental unit with limited powers, to a widespread organizational feature that gave project management--and project managers--visibility and clout. As the average age of… Read More »
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Nov 24, 2021
Increased Trust, Better Virtual Teaming, New Ways of Doing Business: Maybe 2020 Wasn’t All Bad
Webinars can be deadly dull at times, even if you’re interested in the subject. We try to avoid putting the audience to sleep by incorporating live polls in our presentation. In October, during the How We Thrived webinar (view the recording here if you missed it!), I was particularly interested in knowing how… Read More »
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