PMO Symposium Conference: Beyond Agile

November 7, 2017 | by Johanna Mickel

We are excited to be attending the PMO Symposium again this year! If you can't be in attendence, here are some quick thoughts from the first day's schedule of events. The CEO of PMI, Mark Langley gave a keynote that defined the theme of the conference. According to Langley, Organizational Agility (

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New Research Strongly Links PMO and PPM Processes to Strategic Execution

September 6, 2017 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

This blog was updated in May 2025. Although we have not released the formal research report yet, and the numbers are still being crunched, there are a couple things I found in reading through the raw data collected by our Strategy Execution Process Benchmark that I couldn't wait to share. Like the

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Self-Governance and PMO Governance: Agile Teams Need Both

August 9, 2017 | by Gary Alvord

Say you're a busy business owner with an urgent problem.  You are also blessed with some talented and high-performing people, and maybe access to some expert consultants, that you can throw together in a conference room on Tuesday and work until the problem is fixed — as long as it is fixed by Frida

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Expert Series 6: The Project Charter: Destination, Map and Key

July 26, 2017 | by Pam Toth

Editor's Note: We continue our Expert Series with another column from Owens Corning project management guru Pam Toth. Her sponsor's-eye view of project chartering shares her personal experience with this key aspect of project sucess. For me, leading a project without a charter is like driving in a

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Your Assignment for this Weekend: Benchmark Strategy Execution Processes

July 21, 2017 | by Carrie Capili

We’ve extended the deadline for our Strategy Execution Process Benchmark survey. If you haven’t already, please participate in the survey  ... and share it with your contacts and social media networks. A broad participation in this groundbreaking study will help the entire PM profession to make the

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