In May, as a follow-on to our State of Project Portfolio Management 2013 study, we hosted a webinar featuring the study results that drew our largest audience ever, and which elicited hundreds of questions from attendees. Of course, in the limited time available during the webinar, only a few of those questions could be addressed. But… Read More »

From participation to publicity, we've been gratified by the response to our new study, The State of Project Portfolio Management 2013. As I noted in an earlier post, we received almost 10 times the number of survey participants as a similar survey a decade ago; the webinar presenting the study results had a record attendance; and… Read More »

In today's keynote, "Are You Really Practicing Portfolio Management?" Gartner's Matt Light teamed up with PMI's Mark Langley  to cover trends and best practices in PPM. Some of the content, although coming from different research sources, echoed research we have recently released from PM Solutions Research, the State of PPM 2013 study.… Read More »

We had planned to showcase a profile of Verizon Wireless Marketing PMO last Thursday on International Project Management Day, but those plans were ... well, overcome by events. It’s doubtful that anyone on the east coast was reading project management blogs last week, anyway, even if they did have electricity. And the folks at… Read More »

Wow! Thanks to all those who participated in my session Sunday at the PMI Global Congress in Vancouver, BC. We held an informal focus group on the topic of measuring PMO capability (or maturity), where I debuted a model our research division has been working on this year. The model, which we are calling a… Read More »

Today and for the next several weeks, we will be profiling each of the PMO of the Year Award semifinalists … and of course, eventually revealing the winner and top three! Today, we look at a relatively young PMO organization that has quickly revolutionized the project and program culture and processes for one large nonprofit… Read More »

Drumroll, please.The PMO of the Year Award judges panel determined the top performers in our pool of applicants at the end of July after a three-week period of comparing and contrasting the entries on the nine dimensions of PMO performance cited in the award criteria: Demonstration of vision and business acumen in implementing new… Read More »

We are deep into the jungle of numbers here, with a record number of responses to our PMO research study (over 500), thanks to the participation of our media partner Gantthead. Call me a research nerd, but it's always exciting to see patterns begin to emerge from the chaos. It's early days yet -… Read More »