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The PMO: Worldwide ... and Global, Too
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
PMO Research Reveals Strengths, Challenges
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
Searching for Best-Practice Examples of Measures ... and Measurement Programs
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
Chaos! (Or Maybe Not)
Several months ago, a colleague asked me if I could clarify some of the buzz he'd heard about the Standish Group's CHAOS report statistics on IT project success and failure. This wasn't the first time I'd heard grousing - from both the research community and the IT community - about this set of stat
New Links Added to the Blogroll!
If you haven't perused some of the terrific sites we've linked to in our Blogroll (see the right column of this page, scroll down), you are missing out. Some of them provide helpful how-tos on skills for the project manager (Bright Hub, for example) while others serve as online communities with care