PMO of the Year Award Enters Countdown Phase

May 31, 2011 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

For those of our readers who are entering the PMO of the Year Award, May has been a busy time; we hope that last week's deadline extension (to June 10) has allowed you to polish your entry without giving up the holiday weekend. Please remember to check out the Linked In group for PMOY applicants, wh

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Baseline Briefing Features Our Project Recovery Research

April 30, 2011 | by J. Kent Crawford

It's always gratifying when respected publications take notice of the work we do to bring the trials and triumphs of project management (and project managers) to public attention. This past month, Baseline Magazine has featured our work more than once, and we wanted to point our readers' attention t

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"A Culture for Project Recovery"

April 18, 2011 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

There were so many great questions asked in the webinar on project recovery presented by Kent Crawford in March that he ran out of time to answer them all. The remaining questions - and recorded answers - are posted on our new Project Recovery Resource Center. As I listened to the questions and an

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Planning or Requirements?

March 31, 2011 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

What's the top reason projects fail? Participants in our webinar last week (you can download the materials here) overwhelmingly said "Planning!" (or I suppose, the lack thereof). But that wasn't the finding of our newest research study, Strategies for Project Recovery, which identified requirements

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Reevaluating "Success"

March 10, 2011 | by J. Kent Crawford

After you've spent a year working on a book, it's great to know people are reading it! We ran across a mention of the new Strategic Project Office, Second Edition on an excellent ZDNet blog by Michael Krigsman. He points out that project failure statistics are misleading and often, downright unhelpf

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