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Project Management Research

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.

*Note: The Center for Business Practices (CBP) is now known as PM Solutions' Research


NEW! The State of the Project Management Office (PMO) 2012

The State of the PMO 2012 was designed to help us understand the nature of current PMO practices and discover trends that may point to solutions to today’s challenges. The PMO has become the central organizational structure for standardizing the practices of companies in the delivery of their projects.

PM Solutions Research surveyed a broad spectrum of companies to get a clearer understanding of the variety of factors that affect PMOs, including the following:

  • Do companies have PMOs? For how long? What’s their service span?
  • What functions are performed by PMOs?
  • How large are PMO staffs? How experienced?
  • Do PMOs provide training? If so, what types of training? And how much?
  • What challenges face PMOs?
  • What value does a PMO add?
  • What are organizations’ priorities for the upcoming year?

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The State of Project Management Training 2011

What is the value of project management training? How much project management training do organizations engage in? What training methods do organizations use? How effective is the training? What is the cost? And what are organizations trying to accomplish, exactly, by training their employees?

These and other issues are addressed in this benchmark of current project management training practices.

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Strategies for Project Recovery 2011

Whether a troubled project ultimately succeeds or fails depends on the effectiveness of the actions taken to recover the project. Before these actions can be taken, however, organizations need to be able to recognize problems and prepare to take appropriate corrective measures. PM Solutions has conducted this benchmark of current practices in recovering troubled projects to help identify the factors that may lead to the development of strategies for successful project recovery:

  • Can troubled projects be recovered, or are they doomed to fail?
  • What are the root causes of troubled projects?
  • What is their cost to organizations?
  • What do firms do, exactly, to successfully recover troubled projects?

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