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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Expert Series 5: Project Manager Bandwidth

July 17, 2017 | by Victor L. Allen

Editor’s Note: This week we welcome back Vic Allen, director of project management,  DTE Energy, and co-author of Project Management for Experienced Project Managers, with the fifth in our “Expert Series” of blogs. You can read the whole series if you start here. A few years ago, one of my peers as

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PMO Webinar Attendees: You Asked, Kent Crawford Answers!

July 5, 2017 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

In our May webinar/panel discussion of The State of the PMO 2016, we had a number of questions submitted by participants that there was not enough time to answer. I caught up with Kent Crawford by phone to get his responses to some of the questions that centered around PMO implementation and process

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