Showing 30 posts tagged with: "successful pmos"

Dec 2, 2022

This EPMO Has a Superpower: Intentionality

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

Thrill of the day here at the PMI Global Summit: seeing our former client Ontario Power Generation score in the Top Three in the PMI PMO of the Year Award. OPG's Director of Project Services, Tracy Leung, and her colleague Rania McLarty, Manager, Project Controls, shared their pride and enthusiasm about their PMO's… Read More »

Dec 2, 2022

The Future is Already Here for These PMOs

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

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 »

Oct 17, 2022

Will A.I. Kill the PMO? Part 3 in Our A.I. in PM Series

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

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 »

Sep 12, 2022

PMO Research Reveal: What You'll Learn in This Week's Webinar

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

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 »

Jun 23, 2022

The Enterprise PMO Delivers

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

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 »

May 17, 2022

The PMO at 20: New Research Findings Released

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

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 »

Feb 16, 2022

State of the PMO 2022: What's In It for Me?

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

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 »

Feb 1, 2022

PMO Study Participants Get It. Do You?

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

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 »

Jan 19, 2022

2022: What Is the State of Your PMO?

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

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 »

Apr 15, 2021

The SAFe PMO: Two Experts Respond

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 1 Comment

Two attendees to our Dec. 9, 2020 PMI Virtual Event that focused on the Agile PMO had specific questions about the use of the Scaled Agile Framework environment (SAFe®), so I pulled in two of our Agile SMEs for interviews. Here at last is an edited transcript of our conversation, held via Microsoft Teams in January 2021.… Read More »

Feb 1, 2021

Okay, My PMO is Agile. But Is It Mature?

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

Welcome to Part 2 of our three-part blog series exploring questions that were left unanswered at the end of my presentation during PMI's Dec. 9 virtual event (to read Part 1, click here.)Q: Is there a PMO maturity questionnaire and model that you would recommend and share?A: Yes … and no.There’s no… Read More »

Dec 1, 2020

Agility and the PMO: Findings from Our 2020 Research

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 1 Comment

Here's my entire pitch for why your organization needs to build in agility:2020.Need I say more?One of the chief ways that organizational agility can be improved is by putting an agile, enterprise-level PMO in charge of developing that agility. PMOs lead the way in introducing agile methods and mindset, providing training and… Read More »

Jul 8, 2020

Another Covid-Era Success Story: New Agile Maturity Model Unveiled

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 1 Comment

Last week, I shared the story of a new training program developed by PM College with the help of PPP (Payroll Protection Program) funding. I think the example of a business using these disaster relief funds to create new services for customers—services tailor-made for our present circumstances—while keeping employees on the… Read More »

Jun 2, 2020

Now What? Project Management Research Points the Way

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

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 »

May 11, 2020

Managing Project Managers Within and Outside the PMO

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The Who and Where of PMOsA 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.I thought I'd recap the back-and-forth and add some of my own thoughts.It all started here:… Read More »

Apr 30, 2020

Four Things to Do Right Now: Insights from New Research

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 2 Comments

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 »

Feb 14, 2020

Join Us on an Agile PMO Journey

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

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 »

Nov 13, 2019

The Execs Look Back @PMOSym: Top Takeaways

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

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 »

Nov 6, 2019

Blogging from the PMO Symposium: Ending on an Up Note

Posted by Matt Crawford | 0 Comments

Speaking of asking the right questions, in the session entitled “How PMOs can enable business & organizational agility," Joanna Vahlsing from Centro, began by posing the question of what fears we have about moving to a more agile organization.  Some of the audience responses were:Lack of timeliness Lack of trust Lack of… Read More »

Nov 5, 2019

A Quest for the Future of PM: Day Three @PMO Symposium

Posted by Matt Crawford | 0 Comments

Day 3 was fantastic; a blend of what's happening now in digital transformation and aerospace with how we can not just brace for the future but thrive in it. The first session I attended was "Preparing Project Managers for the Big 5 Digital Disruptors" by Jeff Freeman from Cisco. Urging project managers to invest in improving… Read More »

Nov 4, 2019

Day Two @PMOSym: Is This Day One? Innovation and the Project Economy

Posted by Matt Crawford | 0 Comments

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 »

Oct 7, 2019

The View from PMI50: Winds of Change

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

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 »

Mar 27, 2019

One Last Question: What About the Agile PMO?

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

(If you are wondering what happened to Part 2 of this series, check out Deborah Bigelow Crawford's responses to questions about training and coaching on the PM College blog here.)I've saved the best for last. One of our webinar attendees asked:Question: Please review more of the roles and responsibilities of the Agile… Read More »

Mar 8, 2019

Hey, Guys ... Listen Up

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

In honor of International Women's Day, I decided to look into something that's usually outside the scope of PM Solutions' research. One of the questions we never ask in our research studies is gender. After all, we are studying the effectiveness of practices, not the people who perform them. Even when we surveyed… Read More »

Dec 13, 2018

Interview with J. Kent Crawford

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

We enjoyed a series of thoughtful blogs about the PMO Symposium this year, thanks to my colleague Johanna Mickel, both here and on the PM College blog. To wrap up, I asked our CEO J. Kent Crawford to share his impressions of the PMO of the Year Award finalists. Kent has a long history with… Read More »

Dec 4, 2018

New Thought Leadership by PM Solutions Experts

Posted by Carrie Capili | 1 Comment

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 »

Nov 14, 2018

Positive Thoughts, Helpful Ideas

Posted by Johanna Mickel | 1 Comment

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 »

Nov 13, 2018

PMOs are Leading Change and More

Posted by Johanna Mickel | 1 Comment

Panel discussions at the PMO Symposium give me writer's cramp! It's hard to take notes fast enough, especially when confronted with an array of highly knowledgeable practitioners. The panelists were:Melissa Eckers, Accenture Brian Murphy, CapGemini Jan Musil, SAP Noel Smyth, JP MorganThe upshot?The PMO is evolving and changing; no longer… Read More »

Nov 12, 2018

Methodology Leads the Way

Posted by Johanna Mickel | 0 Comments

Hello from the PMO Symposium, where the theme, “Mastering Value Delivery,” feels so congruent with what we’ve been working on with clients recently. I loved the “beauty pageant” kickoff where the Session Preview gave multiple speakers a chance to pitch their sessions. The only problem: I can’t… Read More »

Oct 12, 2018

What He Said: Rules of Engagement, from the Mayo Clinic CRM PMO - The View from PMI Part 2

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin in Benefits Realization, Culture & Change Management, Human Capital, Strategy Execution | 0 Comments

My top feel-good session at this year’s PMI Global Conference was a case study of the Mayo Clinic’s PMO at their Center for Regenerative Medicine. Not only is the visionary work of the CRM inspiring, but I was impressed by the PMO leader, Wale Elegbede, PMP. When he said, “Leadership… Read More »

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