Ah, the Bad Old Days ...

June 18, 2010 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

We've just finished prepping the Second Edition of Kent's award-winning book, The Strategic Project Office, for press. (Look for it to be available this October.) The first edition came out in 2001, but was mostly written and edited in 2000, and it was a big job to incorporate the changes that have

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Why Is Resource Management So Hard?

June 9, 2010 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

If you missed Kent Crawford's webcast on Resource Management Challenges May 25th (like I did), you might want to listen to the recorded version available here. This isn't a new topic for us, but it was interesting to see, in our recent State of the PMO study, that even the most mature enterprise PMO

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The PMO: Worldwide ... and Global, Too

June 1, 2010 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Just got done crunching some stats on the entries to the PMO of the Year Award competition, and thought I'd share them with our readers. Of the 40 PMOS (a new record number of applicants) in the running this year, 12 are outside

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PMO Research Reveals Strengths, Challenges

May 20, 2010 | by J. Kent Crawford

It's gratifying when a trend you've been predicting ... and in some ways, leading and guiding ... becomes the norm. That's what has happened recently with the organizational clout and position of the PMO. Back in 2000, when I wrote The Strategic Project Office, the enterprise-level PMO that was acti

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Searching for Best-Practice Examples of Measures ... and Measurement Programs

May 18, 2010 | by Deborah Bigelow Crawford

In the Measuring Performance workshop that I teach for PMI, I am often asked for specific measures can be used to prove the value of the PMO to executives.  Of course, our own Value Measurement system includes a number of measures of this type, from numbers of projects completed in a certain time fr

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