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Stay on the cutting-edge of critical management trends, organizational priorities, and business practice innovations. View the latest collection of PM Solutions' Research below and check back regularly for new reports.
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The Value of Project Management
Implementing a PMO, a project or portfolio management methodology, performance measures, a governance or risk management process, change management, Agile PM methods, or project or portfolio management software significantly benefits organizations. This research highlights the improvements organizations received by implementing project management improvement initiatives.
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Resource Management Challenges
In spite of a variety of published “best practices” guides and software solutions, resource management issues continue to plague program and project managers. This report confirms that not only are resource management issues a challenge; they are the number one challenge faced by project-centric organizations today.
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The State of the Project Management Office (PMO)
PMOs are becoming standard practice in most project-based organizations. This research uncovers a fascinating array of key findings on: PMO maturity; high-performing organizations vs. low-performing organizations; PMO size, scope, and complexity; PMO functions and services; PMO staffing and project managers; and PMO challenges and critical success factors.
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Project Control Functions
Organizations do not perform project control functions well. Managing issue, risk and change control processes are particularly troublesome. These conclusions are among the results of a survey designed to investigate best practices in the performance of project control functions in organizations.
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Project Management Maturity Benchmark
This research shows clearly that organizational and project management performance is linked to reaching higher levels of maturity and shows what distinguishes high-performing organizations from low-performing ones. Also, results from a similar survey conducted in 2001 were compared with the current results to see whether or not there has been improvement over time in project management maturity industry-wide and, if so, how much.
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Project Portfolio Management
Project Portfolio Management: A Benchmark of Current Business Practices is the first survey to provide benchmark data on a wide variety of portfolio management issues. The findings are helpful in gauging the value of project portfolio management and what practices, in general, are most effective.
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Project Portfolio Management Maturity Benchmark
These research results document the maturity level of organizations in six components of project portfolio management: portfolio governance, project opportunity assessment, project prioritization and selection, portfolio communications management, portfolio performance management, and portfolio resource management. The report documents PPM maturity in a way that organizations can use to perform a self-assessment and compare their maturity to this baseline survey.
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Strategy & Projects
High-performing organizations integrate strategy execution, portfolio, program, project, and performance management best practices more than other organizations. Conversely, low-performing organizations consistently underutilize these best practices.
Troubled Projects: Project Failure or Project Recovery
In this latest survey of senior project practitioners, PM Solutions' Research investigated the extent to which projects are troubled and recovered, the symptoms and root causes of the troubled projects, and the types of project recovery efforts and their outcomes.
