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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »