PM Solutions is a project management firm helping organizations execute, govern, and measure their portfolios to improve business performance.
We invite you to view our collection of articles and writings below that provide insight into the practice and value of project management.
ARRA: Managing Recovery as a Portfolio of Projects
(1 pg./91 kb)
Lean Times Call for Project Management
(1 pg./89kb)
When There's No Time for Trivial Projects
(1 pg./90kb)
Accountability: Create the Competent Workforce These Times Demand
(1 pg./74 kb)
Project Portfolio Management
When There's No Time for Trivial Projects
(1 pg./90kb)
Project Portfolio Management Maturity
(5 pgs./124KB)
Project Portfolio Management is Your Friend
(Developer.com, February 2005)
Project Portfolio Management Benchmark Study
(6 pgs./150KB)
Project Portfolio Management and the Strategic Project Office
(2 pgs./46.5KB)
Portfolio Management: Linking Corporate Strategy to Project Priority and Selection
(6 pgs./247KB)
Want to Ensure Quality? Think Portfolio Management
(2 pgs./43.2KB)
Evaluate Your Project Management Office
(Computerworld, February 16, 2004)
How a Strategic Project Office Solves Business Problems
(4 pgs./62KB)
How to Start up and Roll out a Project Office
(7 pgs./87.9KB)
Improving Organizational Productivity with a Project Office
(6 pgs./88.4KB)
Keys to Success: Staffing an Enterprise-level Project Office
(3 pgs./311KB)
The Project Office Staff: Focus on Talent, First
(2 pgs./45.7KB)
13 Most Important IT Roles
(Baseline Magazine, April 14, 2010)
8 Ways to Save Your Next Project
(Baseline Magazine, December 17, 2007)
Competencies of IT Project Managers
(2 pgs./52.4KB)
If IT Projects Fail, What's to Blame?
(Optimize, March 2005)
What Makes a Good IT Project Manager: Five Keys for Success
(2 pgs./46.2KB)
Outside In: Outsourcing of Project Management Services
(PM Network, 4 pgs./256KB)
Pharmaceutical Organizations Discover PM Outsourcing
(Pharmaceutical Processing Magazine, 2 pgs./368KB)
Will Outsourcing Relationships Rule in the New Millenium
(2 pgs./44.6KB)
Working with Vendors
(6 pgs./66KB)
Can You Quantify the Value of Project Management in Your Organization?
(2 pgs./46.4KB)
Consultants Can Make a Difference
(Baseline Magazine, July/August 2010)
Measures of Project Management Performance & Value
(44 pgs. / 279 kb)
Play the Numbers Game...Create a Project Management Scorecard
(6pgs./65KB)
The Value of Project Management Training: A Benchmark of Current Business Practices
(5 pgs./60KB)
Value of Project Management in IT Organizations
(4 pgs./36KB)
Value of Project Management: Getting Executive Buy-In
(5 pgs./40KB)
Value of Project Management
(5 pgs./40KB)
Project Control Functions: A Benchmark of Current Business Practices
(3 pgs./48KB)
PM Apps on the Rise
(ProjectsAtWork, August 2011)
Challenges to the Virtual Organization
(2 pgs./44.3KB)
Change Management: A Team Effort
(2 pgs./47.3KB)
Collaboration Rules
(3 pgs./59.7KB)
Consultants Can Make a Difference
(Baseline Magazine, July/August 2010)
Creating & Sustaining a Project Management Culture
(2 pgs./47.1KB)
Crisis Management: Project Management's Role
(3 pgs./58.6KB)
Does Your Organization Have a Chief Project Officer?
(2 pgs./45.2KB)
High-Performance Project Teams: A Benchmark of Current Best Practices
(3 pgs./56KB)
Inside the Sarbox: The Future of Project Management
(Developer.com, Fall 2003)
"Project Management: The State of the Industry" Research Findings
(5 pgs./48KB)
Sweet Success: Combining Project Management and Business Development
(Project Manager Planet, September 2007)
The Functional to Matrix Transition
(4 pgs./63.5KB)
The Soft Side of Risk
(3 pgs./52KB)
Top Project Management Priorities of Fortune 500 Companies
(2 pgs./48KB)
A Practical Guide to Improving Project Management Maturity
(Projects@Work, December 2007)
Growing Up: Organizational Maturity Assessments Light the way to Optimized PM
(PM Network, 4 pgs./443KB)
Project Management Maturity
(3 pgs./160KB)
Excerpt: Agile Project Management
(January 2009/Consulting Magazine)
Communities of Practice in the Projectized Organization
(5 pgs./67.8KB)
Insurers Put New Products to the Test: PM Solutions' Project Management Community of Practice Methodology Solution
(Tech Decisions, April 2005; 1 pg./416KB)
Project Community of Practice
(3 pgs./54.7KB)
Technology and the Community of Practice
(4 pgs./275KB)
A Professional Development Worksheet
(1 pg./278KB)
Accountability: Create the Competent Workforce These Times Demand
(1 pg./74 kb)
Bridging Your Competency Gap: Take ownership of your professional development
(4 pgs./348KB)
Competency Assessment Programs Raise the Bar
(May 2003/Chief Learning Officer)
Power to the People: Creating an environment where project personnel can thrive
(October 2005/Chief Project Officer)
Project Management Competency Assessments & Development
(from PM College)
The Value of Project Management Training: A Benchmark of Current Business Practices
(5 pgs./60KB)
What Makes a Good Project Manager?
(2 pgs./46KB)
What is Competence?
(3 pgs./56.7KB)
What Makes a Good IT Project Manager: Five Keys for Success
(2 pgs./46.2KB)
8 Ways to Save Your Next Project
(Baseline Magazine, December 17, 2007)
Project Failures: Making News, Driving Change
(4 pgs./62.3KB)
Recover Projects from Failure... Before They Begin
(2 pgs./51.8KB)
Troubled Projects: Project Failure or Project Recovery
(3 pgs./44KB)
Beating the Odds: Lack of Clear Project Strategy is an Easy Trap for Insurance Carriers
(Tech Decisions, July 2007)
CPO's and the Bottom Line
(Chief Project Officer, August 2005)
Governance and the Chief Project Officer
(Chief Project Officer, March 2005)
Making Strategy Work
(Chief Project Officer, April 2005)
Strategy & Projects: A Benchmark of Current Best Practices
(3 pgs./48K)
