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Make the Commitment to Project Portfolio Management

Corporate strategy remains just a pipe-dream unless projects are initiated to move the company towards its strategic goals. Like players on a team, you must coordinate these projects with each other and with organizational realities… read more »

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The Business-Savvy Project Manager

The past decade has seen the convergence of two trends that drive the need for project and program managers to improve their business acumen: as organizations have become less hierarchical, they increasingly rely on projects… read more »

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Resource Management and the PMO

Proper management of the skills and schedules of the workforce is the essence of today’s knowledge-intensive enterprise. How can you obtain, structure, and analyze your resource management information? What proven practices will enable… read more »

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Creating a Change-Ready Organization

Creating a Change-Ready Organization discusses those aspects of project management that support the management of organizational change: stakeholder analysis to get buy-in and reduce resistance, communication planning to create a shared vision, and making measurement… read more »

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Establishing a Successful PMO

Newly updated with trends and statistics from The State of the PMO 2012, this white paper discusses the three "value themes" of the successful PMO implementation: recovering troubled projects, managing human capital, and executing strategy.   read more »

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Mastering Performance Measurement

Numbers can tell a powerful story. Is a project successful? Is a new process working? Is our investment in training paying off? To insure that your numbers tell the right story, you need to be… read more »

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Building Project Manager Competency Improves Business Outcomes

Training and development leaders in five global organizations were interviewed about their experiences with measuring the value of their project management training initiatives. The result? For those companies that had implemented even the most basic… read more »

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PMOs Move Toward Agility

A key finding from our State of the PMO 2012 research shows nearly one-third of PMOs now incorporate agile methodologies into their practice. For this white paper, we interviewed a number of these organizations about the… read more »

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PMO of the Year Award

The award salutes a PMO that has demonstrated excellence and innovation in developing and maturing an organizational structure to support the effective management of projects.

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