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Showing 5 archived posts from: October 2011

Oct 28, 2011
That "Vision Thing": VSP's Got It!
Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin in Project & Program Management, Performance Measurement, Portfolio Management, Project Management Office (PMO), Strategy Execution | 0 Comments
VSP Vision Care® placed as first runner-up in the 2011 PMO of the Year competition, largely because they have shown themselves to be ahead of the curve in solving the "problems of success" and moving their program and portfolio practice to ever-higher levels of sophistication as the company grew.VSP provides vision benefits to more… Read More »
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Oct 26, 2011
A Bittersweet PMI Congress
Posted by Deborah Bigelow Crawford in Project & Program Management, Project Management Office (PMO) | 2 Comments
PMI's annual conference was different this year. As a long time member … my 21st consecutive symposium … there was an energy missing. That energy was Eric Jennet, one of PMI’s original founders. Eric died on Friday at the age of 86. He was a character … he called… Read More »
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Oct 23, 2011
PMI Congress Kicks Off Today!
Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin in Uncategorized | 2 Comments
The annual PMI Global Congress-North America opened this morning in Dallas, Texas. If you are there, stop by and visit our booth on the tradeshow floor, where Michele Stephano will be holding down the fort along with other PM Solutions and PM College folks. Our new book, An Inside Look at High-Performing PMOs should be… Read More »

Oct 21, 2011
California Government IT Moves Beyond Dreamin' to Measurable Performance
Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Interviewing the California Technology Agency's voluble and diverse team over the phone is something of a challenge, especially when they get excited. And they are justifiably excited about the Agency's recent honor as finalist in the PMO of the Year Award competition. Judges cited the state agency for excellence in creating a… Read More »

Oct 13, 2011
Nationwide Insurance: Centralized IT Project Management Scores Big
Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin in Culture & Change Management, Project Management Office (PMO) | 0 Comments
Sometimes you can have too much of a good thing.Nationwide Insurance's IT function found that, while a PMO can improve project delivery, ten or more PMOs scattered across the enterprise, with over 300 project managers all pursuing projects in different ways, led to inefficiencies.The improvements in enterprise IT service delivery realized over just… Read More »

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