PM College Webinar Participants’ Questions Show that Companies are Eager to Implement Competency … and Measure Its Impact

October 8, 2010 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Because I am already familiar with much of the content presented in our webinar series, it's the interactive portions of the program – the polls and questions from participants – that always hold the most interest for me. The questions posed by participants in last week's PM College webinar were n

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No Dropped Connections: A Great PMO Focuses on Communication

September 24, 2010 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

... which makes sense, since our third runner-up in the PMO of the Year competition is Seattle-area--based telecomm company T-Mobile USA. An offshoot of the international firm Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile USA established an enterprise PMO that sits at the highest organizational level: its director rep

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Good Governance!

September 21, 2010 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

At least one place in the world, that title is not an oxymoron. The Auckland, New Zealand City Council's Programme Management Office is second runner-up in the 2010 PMO of the Year competition. You can read all about them in the downloadable ebook posted here, or on SlideShare. But, just in brief:

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Re-Establishing Trust with Great Project Management

September 14, 2010 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Over the past decade, it has become increasingly common to hear business problems attributed to "a lack of trust." Trust between brand and consumer; between financial institutions and investors or depositors; between labor and management. It's been interesting to me to see a moral value become such

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A Solid Foundation Builds A Winning PMO

September 13, 2010 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Nearly a decade ago, I conducted an interview with the leader of what was, at the time, a unique PMO on the Center of Excellence model. We had looked around to find an organization that was a "best-practice" leader in the area of creating career paths for project managers. At the time, that organiza

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