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Don’t Be a “Fool with a Tool”: Lessons Learned from the EPPM Tool Trenches
PC-based project management software tools arrived on the scene in the early to mid-1980s; the first ones had crude graphics and reporting that was limited by today’s standards. The real value-add was the relational database network used to track a project schedule. For the first time, project manag
Improving Project Management Yields Business Benefits ... And We Can Prove It
Just released today, the 2014 Project Management Maturity and Value Benchmark study reprises one of PM Solutions' most oft-cited research surveys, this time after a gap of several years. The findings will be exciting -- though not unexpected -- to proponents of project management. First, let me ju
Value, and Corporate Values
Johanna Mickel’s blog about a presentation at the Gartner Symposium tied in neatly with a theme that Allen Young had been expanding upon earlier on this blog: that of how you measure the value of project management processes (and of the PMO). To recap, Johanna described Gartner analyst Donna Fitz
Managing Change, Realizing Value Take Center Stage at Gartner
I’m at the Gartner PPM and IT Governance Summit in National Harbor, MD, just outside Washington, DC and, looking back on the first day of keynotes and presentations, I recognize a familiar feeling: that it’s not so much that I heard anything new, as that Gartner analysts have a way of summarizing an
Establish PMO Value Metrics Without Delay!
This blog was updated in May 2025. One of the issues that surfaced in the newly-released State of the PMO 2014 research study was that PMOs have a public relations problem: they are delivering value (significant value: see the graphic from the study at right), but they have trouble communicating th